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BLK-CAT 2010-01-13 17:54:30
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Please Help Save MySQL
Hey, I hope you are all had a great Christmas and a fun New Years celebration. I know it's a little bit early to get serious on New Years Day, but this is important.
Please consider signing this petition to save MySQL. MySQL is a great piece of open source software which allows everyone to create database driven websites, from students wanting to learn about databases and database design, to large corporations and it does this for free.
Oracle wants to acquire MySQL, which could change all this.
From http://www.helpmysql.org/en/:
In April 2009, Oracle announced that it had agreed to acquire Sun. Since Sun had acquired MySQL the previous year, this would mean that Oracle, the market leader for closed source databases, would get to own MySQL, the most popular open source database.
If Oracle acquired MySQL on that basis, it would have as much control over MySQL as money can possibly buy over an open source project. In fact, for most open source projects (such as Linux or Apache) there isn't any comparable way for a competitor to buy even one tenth as much influence. But MySQL's success has always depended on the company behind it that develops, sells and promotes it. That company (initially MySQL AB, then Sun) has always owned the important intellectual property rights (IPRs), most notably the trademark, copyright and (so far only for defensive purposes) patents. It has used the IPRs to produce income and has reinvested a large part of those revenues in development, getting not only bigger but also better with time.
If those IPRs fall into the hands of MySQL's primary competitor, then MySQL immediately ceases to be an alternative to Oracle's own high-priced products. So far, customers had the choice to use MySQL in new projects instead of Oracle's products. Some large companies even migrated (switched) from Oracle to MySQL for existing software solutions. And every one could credibly threaten Oracle's salespeople with using MySQL unless a major discount was granted. If Oracle owns MySQL, it will only laugh when customers try this. Getting rid of this problem is easily worth one billion dollars a year to Oracle, if not more.
To read more please visit http://www.helpmysql.org/en/ or to sign the petition please go to http://www.helpmysql.org/en/petition.BLK-CAT 2010-01-01 15:16:23
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Buy a BLK-CAT Website Before Dec 09 and We Will Donate 5% to Cat' s Protection League
Purchase any web development or web design service from us before 31st of December 2009 and we will donate 5% of profits to the Cat's Protection League.
The Cat' s Protection League do vital work helping, rescuing and re-homing around 60,000 cats each year (including the BLK-CAT in the past!). On average they re-home one cat every two minutes.
They also help tens of thousands of cats each year through their assisted neutering and veterinary treatment programmes. This involves contributing to the costs of treating cats whose owners are in dire financial need.
We would like to help them continue their excellent work, so if your purchase any of our Electro-Products or services, Electro-Shop, Electro-Mail, Electro-Diary, Electro-Presence, bespoke website design, web development, web or print graphic design, animation, data entry and cleansing, we will donate 5% to the Cat' s Protection League.
The Cat' s Protection League in Exeter and the Axhayes Adoption Centre do out standing work, you can find out more about them here - http://www.axhayes-exeter-cpl.co.uk/.
You can find more about the Cat' s Protection League in general here http://www.cats.org.uk/
BLK-CAT 2009-08-22 19:32:08
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Why Our Home Page is Set to be Black by Default, Firefox Blackle Search Plugin Released
Displaying a dark web page uses considerably less energy than display a light or white web page. Apart from the fact we like black, it is important to be as conscientious with energy use online as you would be in your every day life.
Did you know:
"Performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate about the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle" or about 7g of CO2 per search" - Times Online Technology (Read the full article here).
How You can Minimize your Energy use Online
Heap Media have already recognised this problem and their solution is Blackle. Blackle is a Google custom search page, which has been re-styled by Heap Media to use a dark colour scheme. At the time of writing this post, it is estimated that Blackle has saved 1,348,343.994 Watt hours of electricity that would have normally been used on a normal white Google search page.
BLK-CAT thought this was a fantastic idea, so we have created this handy eco-friendly Blackle Firefox Plugin/Extension. This allows you to add Blackle to the list of search engines in the top right corner of Firefox, and search Blackle as easily as you would search Google.
You can get the Blackle Firefox Plugin created by BLK-CAT Website Development of Exeter here.
BLK-CAT 2009-07-20 00:41:11
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BLK-CAT has started a Blog
In here will be the latest news and updates from BLK-CAT. Also Internet, web development, and web design related news, local IT and business happenings in Exeter. Pretty much anything BLK-CAT thinks might be interesting!
You can also catch up with our news on Twitter, MySpace and Facebook.
Hope you enjoy the read.
BLK-CAT 2009-07-10 01:44:37
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