I recently had an 800GB Seagate FreeAgent drive crash on me using CentOS 4.0 and Oracle 10g. Until I saw this post I thought the problem was the NTFS-3G driver CentOS uses. I was unable to mount and format the drive under Linux so I had to plug it into a Windows XP box and [...]

The first quarter of 2008 has brought about 2 acquisitions, Sun acquiring MySQL and Oracle acquiring BEA, along with talk of a third, Microsoft acquiring Yahoo. I don’t really understand Sun’s need for MySQL, or MySQL’s need for Sun, but they’re both open source proponents so it seems like a good fit. There has been [...]