Seeing as how I have started working solely with Oracle 10g at work, I have moved away from monitoring changes to the MySQL database and now watch changes coming from the Oracle camp. One of the biggest issues that the developers and my company face is moving all our code from an antiquated scripting language over to PHP. PHP and Oracle has a decent agreement when it comes to handling database transacations, but it's nothing to write home about. The PHP lacks any form of good database... [more]

Bellsouth is no longer requiring their DSL customers to pay for that annoying, expensive, and useless land-line telephone. It has only taken them roughly six years to figure out that their clients hated paying for that joker. I remember back in college, I amazingly forgot to pay a phone/DSL bill. I rarely, if ever, used the telephone, but noticed one day that I could no longer make calls on it. Even though the phone line was not working, the DSL was. This amazed me, of... [more]

Being a huge ATI fanboy, I recently sold my 1 year old ATI x1900XT's that I was running in Crossfire mode. Unfortuntately, I was less than impressed with Crossfire. I had numerous issue with switching in and out of it, getting games to load, and many graphics defects once I did get it loaded up. I decided that It was a waste of power, heat, and noise to have both of the 1900's running in my gaming machine. I did a lot... [more]