SBA Goes to Court

A motion was filed in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (Case No.C044250SI), against the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) by the American Small Business League (ASBL).

Rebuilding failed Linux software RAID

Recently I had a hard drive fail. It was part of a Linux software RAID 1 (mirrored drives), so we lost no data, and just needed to replace hardware. However, the raid does requires rebuilding. A hardware array would usually automatically rebuild upon drive replacement, but this needed some help.

IBM’s Business in a Box

Furthering its leadership in the blade server market, IBM has introduced a new low-cost IBM eServer BladeCenter chassis and a unique set of "business-in-a-box" solutions to help lower the cost and speed the time it takes for a small to mid-sized business to purchase, deploy, and implement BladeCenter servers in an IT infrastructure.

Querying XML Data with XQuery

Let's face it, one of the primary tasks we, as Web developers, are faced with is querying data from some data store and allowing users to view and/or manipulate the information via a Web interface.