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What is XSL Apply-Imports

(Darla Ferrara) Definition: XSL:apply-imports is the counterpart to the ‘xsl:import’ element. Import allows you to combine two or more style sheets together.You create a master xsl page and import the style sheets you need for your XSLT code. Without the ‘apply-imports’ element, xsl:import does noth

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The Terms Overlap

The Terms Overlap As we’ve been considering Database Appliances a number of terms, techniques, problems and solutions continue to overlap. We see terms like Cloud, Appliance, Parallel Processing, Distributed data, Structured data, Big Data and distributed processing continue to appear with different implementations behind each. None of these terms are mutually exclusive as I see it. Different offerings take a […]

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Database Appliances

Database Appliances Yesterday as I started the discussion around Appliances. I found it difficult to characterize the concept of Appliance and the different vendors providing these resources. Generally you could say appliances form the foundation for a private cloud offering while reducing the cost of designing and maintaining the configuration due to some form of standardization. I don’t have a […]

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Adding user to sudoers

(Michael McLaughlin) Somebody asked why adding a user to the wheel group in Oracle Enterprise Linux didn’t enable them as a sudoer, as qualified in my earlier Fedora post. The reason is that you also need to modify the /etc/sudoers file to specify users allowed that privilege (and the file differs f