Apple's Thunderbolt Display doesn't play nice with Mini DisplayPort

Ars Technica » Infinite Loop

Apple has now begun shipping the 27" Thunderbolt Display that the companyunveiled in July, and you can plug the 2560x1440 pixel display—which includes a complement of USB, FireWire, Ethernet, and Thunderbolt ports of its own—into any MacBook Pro,…

16 September 2011

SELECT UNION Results INTO OUTFILE

MySQL Performance Blog

Here’s a quick tip I know some of us has overlooked at some point. When doing SELECT … UNION SELECT, where do you put the the INTO OUTFILE clause? On the first SELECT, on the last or somewhere else? The manual has the answer here, to quote: Only the last…

15 September 2011

Dashboard Doesn't Lock (Feature or Security Issue?)

MacOSXHints.com

I have three external monitors hooked up to my MacBook Pro. One is connected via the Mini DisplayPort, and two are connected via the USB port using a Kensington USB to Display adapter. When the OSX Dashboard is open, it opens on all three monitors. My…

15 September 2011

Using MySQL as a Queue, and Free Percona Live Tickets

MySQL Performance Blog

This week’s TGIF give-away contest is a day early, and it’s a guest post over on the Engine Yard blog: 5 subtle ways you’re using MySQL as a queue, and why it’ll bite you. Go there to read the full post, and watch @engineyard’s Twitter feed for the chance…

15 September 2011

Time, technology and leaping seconds

The Official Google Blog

Hey—we've moved. Visit The Keyword for all the latest news and stories from Google Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture Google’s Site Reliability team is responsible for keeping Google’s services and data centers…

15 September 2011

TestFlight offers new SDK, adds feedback and enterprise support

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

We've covered TestFlight before, and I recently started using it to test a top secret app for AOL*. If you're a developer who wants to reduce the friction of testing beta apps for iOS, you absolutely must check it out. It makes beta distribution of your…

14 September 2011

360iDev: Lessons from the design of Postage

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Developer Chris Parrish hosted a talk this week here at 360iDev in Denver looking back on the development of Postage, RogueSheep's Apple Design Award-winning virtual postcard designer and sharing app for the iPhone. He walked the developers in the crowd…

14 September 2011

VMware Fusion 4 levels up for Lion virtualization

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Winter turns to spring, night to dawn... and the two 800 lb. gorillas of the Mac virtualization market trade updates once again. A fortnight ago it was Parallels 7 hitting with a new release, and today we note the debut of VMware Fusion 4. The new version…

14 September 2011