We are way into August already, how time passes by when you’ve got a million and one things to do. Unfortunately these things are keeping me away from my computer screen and you know what that means… less writing, less developing. More wasted moment and a pile of “wish I”s. Yeah so lets see what I have in store this issue.
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MariaDB, is the MySQL forked database Server that uses the Maria storage engine as the default transactional and non-transactional storage engine. The Maria storage engine is no longer called “Maria” but is now called “Aria”. Any future versions of MariaDB will now ship with the default storage engine named “Aria”.
Things have been a little quiet on Sobbayi tech labs blog… well at least for the past few days. I think I bit off more than I could chew. Well I have been up attending quite a few conferences and doing a bit of reading on something new I am working on. I have also been sifting through the blender 3D code for sometime now because I want to put in more time in my involvement in with blender 2.5 which is about to be released as BETA version.
Seacom has reported that their underwater cable which is supposed to provide broadband Internet to countries within East Africa is down. Though the service within Africa should be okay seeing they have a protected ring connecting Tanzania, Kenya, Mozambique and South Africa. It is mainly Traffic towards Europe and India that is affected.
Its been an interesting week for me, with a lot of stuff going on. Not going to talk about it much here seeing it’s obvious that this is not the right forum. Anyway. Apart from the side shows, I have been busy scouring through my latest project… not letting anything out of the bag just yet. Trying to find time out to keep up with my articles. Fixing a few patches in the “Bike Shop”. These are just a few things that had piled on my desk.
The word “Viable” in this case is relative. For hardcore Ubuntu and other Linux distro users, it is not beyond reach to envision a viable desktop in use with occasional visits to Google or the Ubuntu help pages. For Windows and Mac users, that will not make the cut. One thing for sure you have to admit Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 LTS is a step up from Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10.
Nokia Announced today that it has released QT 4.2.6 cross-platform application and UI framework. So what does this mean? Well for starters, a better platform than any previous versions before it. This will be interesting to download and use as it brings in much anticipated features such as the Smart installer for Symbian (BETA). There [...]
Nokia today announced that it will now be offering version 3.03 and higher of Ovi Maps free forever. This is a welcome move the Finnish based mobile phone maker has made. With an estimated 27 million users using their mobile handsets for GPS Navigation on both Walk-to and Drive-by navigation, this number would be expected [...]
It’s another Sunday evening, well actually its Monday morning right now. For those that know me you are probably thinking, well, that’s not so strange. On my part I have to say that personally I am thinking this is quite strange. I still got hours to burn and I am not writing a single line [...]
Sometimes I don’t like to talk about others products as we all know how each one of us can get carried away and say things we really shouldn’t have. Of course when one reads in a blog and takes note that the writer of the blog has slipped in a couple of words that does [...]
