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VirtualBox 3.0.4 released
In: VirtualBox
5 Aug 2009Yesterday, Sun released a slightly updated version of VirtualBox from the 3.0 series. This is a maintenance release and therefore there are no new major features, however a slew of fixes should improve stability in many situations.
The full changelog appears below:
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Preview: VirtualBox 3.0 Beta 1
In: VirtualBox
18 Jun 2009Sun has published a preview of VirtualBox 3.0, dubbed Beta 1. As typical, they consider this to be buggy and offer it with no express commitment to stability. Not that such warning would deter any self-respecting geek!
Just as VirtualBox 2.0 added a whole host of amazing new features, so too will VirtualBox spring forward, bringing it closer to feature parity with products like Parallels Desktop and VMWare Fusion. The major whiz-bang feature for VirtualBox 3.0 seems to revolve around improved 3D graphics support. Sun is claiming support for Direct3D 8/9 for Windows guests and OpenGL 2.0 for Window, Linux, and Solaris guests. In addition to these major features, the typical slew of bug fixes and minor enhancements have been added.
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HOWTO: Sync Google Calendar on iPhone OS 3.0
17 Jun 2009Update: I’ve added an additional section, “Multiple CalDAV Calendars” that details the extra steps required to synchronize more than one Google Calendar.
Update 2: I’d like to thank Elena for finding the address to add contact birthdays: https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/%23contacts@group.v.calendar.google.com/user
With iPhone OS 3.0, Apple introduced new functionality for calendar synchronization. No longer is this ability limited to Exchange and MobileMe; with CalDAV and ICS support, you can sync or subscribe to many calendars. This is a boon for those of us that use Exchange for work, as previously we were unable to sync any other personal calendars and instead, had to rely on a desktop program.
The two most prominent supporters of CalDAV for calendar bidirectional synchronization is Yahoo! and Google. Below, I’ll show you how to sync your main Google Calendar with CalDAV and also subscribe to additional calendars via ICS files.
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iPhone OS 3.0 Initial Impressions
In: iPhone
10 Jun 2009I’ve updated to iPhone OS 3.0 build 7a341, which is said to be Final/Gold Master and these are my initial impressions in short form.
Installation
- Performed full backup and sync in iTunes 8.2 before restoring 3.0 new firmware
- Update process is very smooth and doesn’t take too long
Springboard
- Some first-party icons have been refreshed. Messages, iPod, Phone now have a slight diagonal stripe pattern in the background.
- New Voice Memos App
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HOWTO: Connect to MySQL in SSIS
4 Jun 2009While Microsoft provided connectors for Oracle, Teradata, and SAP BI for SSIS 2008, there are many other database systems left out of the mix. Fortunately, SSIS is exceptionally flexible in connecting to various data sources and allows other vendors to provide native support. The MySQL team did just that with Connector/NET 6.0, their ADO.NET provider. This tool allows us to use the the ADO.NET connections in SQL Server Integration Services to easily connect to MySQL. This is a walk through on how to connect to MySQL with SSIS 2005 utilizing the Connector/NET 6.0 ADO.NET provider.
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- shiva ramani: good instruction. How to push data to MySQL from SQL 2005 [...]
- Winkey: I've created a linked server for mysql successfully, and also can do Insert, Select. But when I try [...]
- RaghuRam: Thanks a lot buddy it helped me to change the root password when I got the error trying to c [...]
- Taylor Gerring: If you're on a 64-bit OS, did you run the 32-bit version of ODBC applet? Run: odbcad32 [...]
- Taylor Gerring: If the issue is the guest sync'ing to the host, can't you just force time sync the host if you can't [...]