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Oracle has acquired Innobase Oy for an undisclosed sum of money!

Innobase is the company that provide the InnoDB storage engine in MySQL. InnoDB feature include high concurrency, row-level locking, transactions and etc in MySQL. InnoDB come with dual licence, if you violate the GPL licence you would want to pay for the licence other wise it’s free.

Since Innobase has been acquired by Oracle, i’m thinking :-

1. how’s the next release of MySQL would be. Will the InnoDB still be bundle together with MySQL?
2. What action company need to take in order to maintain their current system which running MySQL?
3. Will this affect the MySQL market share in the market?
4. What’s MySQL next move?

Tom Ferris has discovered a weakness in Firefox, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The weakness is caused due to an error in the handling of overly large
size attributes in the "Iframe" tag. This can be exploited to crash a
vulnerable browser via a specially crafted "Iframe" tag on a malicious
web site.

The weakness has been confirmed in version 1.0.7 on Fedora Core 4 (Linux). Other versions and platforms may also be affected.

Solution:
Do not browse untrusted websites.
The weakness has been fixed in version 1.5 beta 2.
Use 1.5 beta 2 at your own risk!

Source: Secunia

Few weeks ago, dad keep on nagging me for not renew my old IC to the new one. I really dun feel good about tat. Then last week saturday, i took a leave and went to renew my IC to MyCard at Maju Junction. Hey! there is a new University right beside the Maju Junction and it’s University Kuala Lumpur. but i never heard of it before.

I reach the office about 8.50am and i got a number 3142. According to the prediction board, my number will be called around 9am ~ 10:30am. So i just take a seat and do my work there (I know it’s going to be very boring time so i brought my laptop with me). After being waited for 1.5 hour. It’s my turn now, go to the counter, take my finger print and take picture. Tat’s it.

Now I’m eligible for the Myvi lucky draw, wish me luck ya 🙂