RSA 2008

This is very exciting, the RSA 2008 keynotes are online and in a very nice format since you can see the videos in either flash or wmv format with the presentation slides together synchronously but if you are just interested in the videos ... you got it too!

But that's not all, Mr. Steve Gibson at http://www.grc.com made a whole episode of his famous security podcast about RSA 2008 which he attended as a press member! get the mp3 version and the transcript of the episode at http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm.

Mr. Steve in his podcast recommended the following keynotes:

• Opening Ceremony - RSA® Conference 2008
• John Thompson of Symantec - Symantec Corporation
• Panel discussion - The Cryptographers Panel
• Jeff Hawkins - Founder Numenta
• Craig Mundie - Chief Research and Strategy Officer Microsoft Corporation
• Secretary Michael Chertoff - Department of Homeland Security

All the keynotes are available at this link: http://media.omediaweb.com/rsa2008/keynote_catalog.htm.

WAMP: what this host is doing in MYSQL user database?

WAMP stands for Windows, Apache, Mysql and PHP and it's - as you guessed - a bundle of the three last open source products that you install on Windows operating system so to have your Windows environment ready to start programming web applications, and there is more, WAMP in reality comes with more goodies such a phpMyAdmin the web front site to manage Mysql RDBMS, the cute context menu - it appears when you click the WAMP icon on the tray area- that gives you a quick and easy access to consoles, configuration files, the root of the site and so on.
I really like WAMP project! and people behind it should be thanked so "Thank you guys! you rule!".
But one thing I noticed -thus this post- is that the last version of WAMP available to download comes with the version 5.0.51a of MySQL, the a letter at the tail of the version numbers means it's an alpha version which explains the following weird thing, the user database which holds all the users of the RDBMS comes with a rather suspicious host, don't believe me? look at this!

What that host "production.mysql.com" is doing there? I don't know!

Hey, are you interested in videos teaching how to use MySQL RDBMS? if you are, just drop me a comment below and if I get just one request I will make some videos and upload them to youtube at www.youtube.com/youhakim. And WAMP rules nevertheless!