Initially, DBAppender for Log4j was introduced in version 1.3 of Log4j, but this version was ABANDONED by Apache team. DBAppender is very useful when we want to send our log on a JNDI resource and not on standard JDBC or file. If you need just logging in a database for your application, then you should use JDBCAppender. If you want to log on a JNDI or Database Connection Pool the DBAppender is for you. In this post I will show you how to get, compile and quick test the DBAppender.

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In my experiments with databases I was constrained to tune the system together with the databases. A system what will run a database is quite different from any other server system, because databases put a lot of stress on the IO and especially on the disks (probably the file servers too). Hardware is not all you should tune your system as much as possible. In this post I will talk about Linux with Ext3 (is what I have right now), but on future I will test OpenSolaris with ZFS.

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We are living interesting times … MySQL was first purchased by SUN and now SUN was purchased by ORACLE. I don’t know what future will reserve for MySQL, but in this moment it seems MySQL is coming very very close to PostgreSQL. We are NOT talking about MySQL with MyISAM, we are talking about MySQL with InnoDB, because I’m directly interested in a set of properties what PostgreSQL already have them built-in and MySQL achieve them through InnoDB (and the new Maria Data plugin). This properties are Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability = ACID, in other words, very stable, good integrity and crash proof database. Why an ACID database? Sometimes we are more interested in ACID for our data than raw speed. For example do you keep your savings to a bank who is running a NON ACID database? I think you understand my concern.

Gpg is stands for Gnu Privacy Guard and is a free alternative to the PGP cryptographic software. GnuPG (or GPG) follows the RFC 4880 which is the standard specification of OpenPGP. The most important thing GPG is interoperable with PGP. GPG is build as a command line utility but also have several front-ends for KDE, Gnome and other Linux desktops, but also is directly integrated in other software like: Email Clients as Mozilla Thunderbird, Evolution, Kmail, Instant Messaging as PSI, Fire, Browsers as Mozilla Firefox etc.

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This days we shouldn’t trust in anything. The Internet is full of worms, trojans, viruses and they are spreading more and more. Even if you have a firewall is not enough. The best security for your computer is to have it unplugged from power and network … and even then you cannot be 100% about security of your stored data. So today we will talk about encryption under Linux. I will show you how to do it from console and from KDE Windows manager. We have several possibilities to encrypt …