I have read on Slashdot and afterwards on Red Hat’s News blog that the Swiss government has done a non-transparent deal and without a public bidding with Microsoft for a contract in value of $15M / year for software, hardware and support. Therefore, Red Hat and some other companies requested that the Swiss Federal Administration
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Before upgrading to Oracle APEX 3.1.2 from the Oracle APEX 2.1 that comes with Oracle Database 10g XE you should carefully read this page to know all the facts that you might loose and win. After that follow the next guide. The Oracle’s one has a minor problem.

vsFTPd is probably the most secure FTP daemon that exists for *nix operating systems and that is shipped with a number of Linux distributions as the default FTP server. Given the fact that its purpose is offering an FTP daemon implementation with regards to security, there are some limitations. One of these limitations includes the
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Because all this week I have been a steady bug fixer (both at home and at work), this comic really rocks given the circumstances: via XCKD.com

I wrote a small script that will help you install VMware Server 2.0.1 (build 156745) on Ubuntu 9.04 and later without any efforts. The install script needs a patch file for this VMWare Server version that is automatically downloaded from my server.

soapUI is a pretty useful web service testing tool that can help you generate a multitude of tests like load testing, functional testing, data consistency testing and many more. I have started using it for real two days ago when I needed to test some SOAP web services for work. The main issue that kept
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