Montly archive for 2008-02

Less abbreviations, please.

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-02-29

I wish there was not as many abbreviations used in technology! I am pretty sure there is no field as cluttered by abbreviation mania! It appears everyone have got the impression that it is not cool enough if it is not abbreviated.

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Instant messaging collaboration

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-02-24

Tim Julien wrote an interesting piece about how proprietary instant messaging networks—such as AIM and Y!M—are experimenting with the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). If this works out, we can finally say bye bye to contact–network incompatibilities in messaging clients.

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Two×terabytes

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-02-19

I have bought a high capacity Western Digital – My Book Premium Ⅱ with two harddrives of one terabyte storage capacity each. I am using RAID mirroring so effective storage capacity is reduced to one terabyte.

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DB documentation

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-02-19

People always tell me that MySQL is better documented than PostgreSQL and that it will be ease to get community support for it. Well, I say different. Having studied everything from basics to more niche‐advanced stuff in both documentations; I must conclude that PostgreSQL is much better documented. Why do I need all this world famous MySQL‐community‐support for; when I get all the answers I could ever come up with right in the PostgreSQL documentation!?

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