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Sun Microsystems ( yup, the company who owns JAVA) plans to acquire MySQL AB. You’ll find it in their website and blog.

This came much to the surprise of the MySQL community - users, developers, members, partners, employees, et. al. - considering MySQL is one of the best free OpenSource software & application in the industry today. A mixture of various feelings from excitement, worry, uncertainty, proud, to anxiety stirs...

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Directory browsing could put your website in trouble. A malicious user with even a simple knowledge in security hacking (yes, there are lots of hacking tutorials 101 out there in the net) can wreck havoc in your site leaving you pulling your hair out.

This simple tips will allow you to disable directory browsing. Please note that this only works in Apache web servers. Apache web server allow directory browsing by default. It’s always good to disable directory browsing in security aspect. To disable directory browsing in apache web server you need to edit the httpd.conf or .htaccess

Disable...

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Last night i attended the Google Developers Night at the SGV Hall, ACCEED Training Center in Makati City.  Our proud two Pinoy Google Engineers, Jay and Franklin, discussed the latest open source technologies Google has stored for us -  Google gadgets, Open Social, Android and Summer of Codes.

So what is new? Even before Microsoft bashfully announced the release of their new Operating System dubbed “Longhorn”, now the MS Windows Vista, IT experts already knew how vulnerable this OS will be. Thanks to Microsoft ala “Taiwan’s” reputation… produce more never mind the quality.

Below is the article of Marius Oiaga, Technology News Editor of Softpedia.com:

Microsoft has applauded Windows Vista as the most secure Windows operating system on the market. The Redmond company even went as far as to say that Vista far outweighs...

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