more on redhat db @ /. interesting comment, wrinkledshirt sez:

One word: “Branding”

Yes sir, we folks at Red Hat, known for the Red Hat Linux Distribution, RHCEs and enterprise-level solutions, are now packing with every forthcoming Red Hat distribution a Red Hat configured database solution for low- to middle-tier database needs. The RHDB will be specially customized for Red Hat systems, which are put out by Red Hat, the most prominent Linux distribution on the market today.

You laugh, because it seems obvious here, but I remember taking a look over at a Microsoft story on MSNBC, and found no less than 75 instances of Microsoft branding, using “Microsoft” or “MS” or “Windows”. And this was for one story, on one web page.

Any new avenue that Red Hat can use to drop its own name is an opportunity to solidify mindshare. Entering the database arena with a core product that won’t embarass them is a no-brainer. They’ve even got GTK+ experts in-house that can make the thing look pretty.

This could be a SERIOUS hit to MS Access and SQL server. And with Postgresql functionality built straight into php, the whole MS-IIS-ACCESS/SQLS-ASP combination can be easily matched in terms of quality, performance and reliability by Linux-Apache-RedhatDB-PHP combination, totally surpassed in terms of cost, and only lagging behind a little bit in the gui department. From a marketing standpoint, it makes the solution LOOK more cohesive (even if it isn’t), and that’s always been the selling point of going with an MS solution — smart move by RedHat. And with the GPL on their hands, we can trust them not to be sluggish and proprietary in terms of responding to the community’s needs — good move for us.

impreza gti vs bmw m5 – pretty funny.

hmm, red hat db = postgresql – interesting political stuff going on.

saw coldplay at the wiltern tonight. apparently a last minute addition to their tour. pete yorn, the opening act wasn’t bad. my friend rich dragged me out during the intermission to see tobey maguire at the bar. he’s slightly less pale and sickly looking in real life, heheh. rich had already gone up to shake his hand and wished him good luck on spiderman, but i decided to let tobey have his space and enjoy his drinks.

hmm, looking at his imdb profile… hard to believe that he’s only five years my senior… his filmography goes back ten years. anyway, getting sidetracked. um, that’s the fun in having a useless blog right? and being scatterbrained. and having way too many things going on at one time. and having 5 todo lists overrun w/ overdue stuff. crap i suck.

On Magazine.com — ON Magazine — Who You Gonna Call? – report on tech support quality of Apple, Compaq, Dell, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sony and Toshiba using brand new laptops w/ planted glitches.

oh interesting, no wonder my traffic spiked on the 13th. someone posted a link on memepool to this comic a friend sent to me. i should probably track down the original source, but it’s been too much of a bother.

with the amount of time i’ve been spending on the bus this past week, i’m really glad that i have my nex ii mp3 player. i’ve been using morpheus to get some music, since i lost almost all of my mp3s and i’m also too lazy to re-encode my cds, but that’s been working well. i then run dbpoweramp w/ file selector to do a simple convert to 96kbps wma’s for my nex. there are some niggling details that annoy me slightly – lack of autoresuming/bookmarking, and not being able to toggle shuffling without stopping and going through a menu, as well as stability problems when it runs low on juice (it doesn’t give a low bat warning, just poops out or locks up), but overall i’m pretty happy with how my portable music set up is right now. the diva player looks interesting though (internal memory + cf1 slot + wav playback/recording)

currently listening to: the crystal method (tweekend promo. good stuff), weezer (green album is rockin. but um, short), black eyed peas, craig david, lanemeyer, rem, ani, julianna theory, the get up kids

speakin of which, i was discussing w/ a friend a few weeks back about how it seemed like the whole up’n coming (i’m just not into it enough to know (or care?) what’s goin on at the ug level) altrock scene was like in this post-emo indie rock funk.

More than a Gigabuck: Estimating GNU/Linux’s Size

man, the bus sucks. and truesync sucks. and school sucks. and being tired and not having any time to do work, and all that sucks. really really really badly.

this put a smile on my face today though:

okay, that was my 10 minutes of fun surfing for today. i think my web addiction is on hold until i get my todo list straightened out.

hmm, so i’m back from my trip up north. most of it was spent kickin it w pals, eating, and attending a “very mellow event,” heheh. which it sorta was. definitely a better crowd than in la, although it was definitely strange with the amount of sunlight for half the party. this probably also accounted for the fact that the event didn’t seem very populated at all most of the time, and even towards the end when it got packed. hmm, i sort of want to write more, but i started one of my classes at smc (hmm, random people i chatted with: wassir, piran, avi… jessica? – yah, i gotta get working on that cms so i can separate my random babble and notetaking from stuff i actually want people to read, now that there are people who ) do read this. um, ok, that was a horribly awkward way to put it.

one of the highlights of the night was meeting ernie when blackeyedpeas came on, which was pretty cool, because i ended up meeting and talking a bit with a grip of his friends. also very nice were some conversations i had with some cool random nocal ravers which was great because i hadn’t really been meeting too many cool people in la recently. hmm.. random link. anyway, i’m sure that if i’m not too lazy i’ll do some editing tomorrow and get this to make more sense..

a friend sent me this one and it’s actually sorta funny, so up it goes: who is jack schitt?