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- End-to-End Inference of Loss Nature in a Hybrid Wired/Wireless Environment
- In a hybrid wired/wireless environment, an effective classification technique that identifies the type of a packet loss, i.e., a loss due to wireless link errors or a loss due to congestion, is needed to help a TCP connection take congestion control actions only on congestion-induced losses. The classification technique is...
- Tags: Intuition, Loss, Classification Technique, Productivity, Wi-Fi, Tcp/Ip, Wireless, Networking
- White papers 2007-01-01
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- MPS-Sudoku 2008 (msi)
- Create and play Sudoku puzzles with 1-, 2-, 3- and 5-grids, or enter puzzles from newspapers and magazines and play on-screen. MPS-Sudoku is not a toy, it's a tool to help you learn to play more effectively. Our superb Assistant feature enables you to learn how to solve Sudoku, rather...
- Tags: Puzzle, LearnToUseComputers, MPS-Sudoku, Productivity, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-07-22
- MB Name Compatibility (exe)
- MB Name Compatibility is a form of divination technique that gives the compatibility between names of two people. You can use this method to know how well you get along with your partner. This form of name compatibility is based on an ancient form of numerology. Numerology believes that each...
- Tags: Compatibility, Form, MysticBoard, MB Name Compatibility, Numerology, Productivity
- Software downloads 2008-07-22
- Toward the end of the dentist drill?
- If you're as afraid as I am when you enter your dentist's office, I have some excellent news. The London-based Society of Chemical Industry reports that UK researchers have developed a new technology that spots tooth decay almost as soon as it's begun. This new technology is based on Raman...
- Tags: Technique, Tooth, Researcher, Dentist, Raman, Festy, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- iCrash: Buggy apps tarnish iPhone 2.0 appeal
- Installation problems, buggy applications, lack of trial versions, and a mediocre selection have dampened initial enthusiasm for Apple's brand new iPhone App Store. Not counting punishing server load when the store debuted last week, some users like me have encountered a series of obstacles to get apps...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, App, Engineering, Digital Music, Personal Technology, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeGood PostIn those days i was the Manager of Technical Services and Computer Operations and remember not too fondly the innumerable meetings, courses, seminars required to implement changes. The technique "Structured or Top-down programming" was used to insure data integrity when program...
- Tags: Mainframes, Servers, mainframe, Y2K, IS-department, data-processing, IBM mainframe, business rule, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- Tahiti: Microsoft's ultimate many-core destination
- Tahiti: Microsoft's ultimate many-core destinationmulticoreinfo.comCheck out http://multicoreinfo.com for multicore related news and programming resources.Tired of CoresI'm tired of the core nonsense. How about we use the existing cores more effectively?Anyone stick a scratched CD/DVD into a Vista machine and enjoy the explorer freeze-up while some blocking i/o is going on?...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Tahiti, multi-core, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-15
- Vertica brings higher speeds to ad hoc queries
- Vertica brings higher speeds to ad hoc queriesSybase Lawsuit Against VerticaSybase has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Vertica. Sybase's patent on the "organization of the columnar structure to support decision support systems" is 10 years old and is in force until 2018. The lawsuit was filed in...
- Tags: Databases, Tools & Techniques, Vertica, Sybase Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-10
- Senate, Web ad titans joust over behavioral targeting
- A U.S. Senate panel on Wednesday picked apart behavioral Web advertising as executives from the likes of Google, NebuAd and Facebook touted their privacy controls and even went as far as noting that ads are good for you. The hearing before the Senate Committee on Senate Committee...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, Advertisement, Privacy, Internet Service Provider, Behavioral Targeting, Service Provider, U.S. Senate, Online Advertising, Internet Service, NebuAd, Privacy Law, Tom, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Google shares more of its secret sauce: Protocol buffers
- It's a common problem in computer science: how do you get data from one part of your program to another part? What if the two parts were written by different people, at different times, in different languages, on different machines? Search giant Google has to deal with this issue all...
- Tags: Google Inc., RPC, XML, Programming Languages, Storage, Networking, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development, Hardware, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Anyone bothering to teach 35mm photography classes anymore?
- Anyone bothering to teach 35mm photography classes anymore?Overall Cost and ValueIn my experience, digital photography was not vastly less money outlay than 35mm. I paid enough up front to amount to what I would have paid for 35mm including processing in the next 10 years. However, once I had made...
- Tags: Digital cameras, Digital photography, PRODUCTIVITY, Photgraphy, photography
- Discussion threads 2008-07-08
- IT Dojo: Control users' temporary Internet files and browser history
- In this IT Dojo video, Bill Detwiler shows you a simple monitoring solution that uses Windows Server 2003 Group Policy.Before watching the video, you should realize this tip isn't right for every situation. This method uses Windows XP and Internet Explorer's local browsing history. To view the history files, you...
- Tags: Information Technology, Temporary Internet File, Monitoring, Web Browser, Web Browsers, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, it dojo, security, internet, internet explorer, microsoft windows xp, ie
- Videos 2008-07-07
- Your computer as your singing coach
- Israeli researchers have developed an electronic ear to coach vibrato technique. Until now, the quality of a vibrato -- the pulsating change of pitch in a singer's voice -- could only be judged by voice experts. Now, a Tel Aviv University research team 'has successfully managed to train a computer...
- Tags: Researcher, Quality, Teacher, Computer, TAU, Productivity, Team Management, Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-05
- Getaway day: How to secure your laptop for holiday travel
- Getaway day: How to secure your laptop for holiday travelNot for Vista Home Premium!Why not tell people that this does NOT WORK encryption radio button grayed out in Vista Home Premium - only suckers who paid for M$ for the Ultimate or business/enterprise editions!RE: Getaway day: How to secure your...
- Tags: Notebooks, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), laptop computer, holiday travel, TrueCrypt, Getaway day, Getaway
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- Tiller Beauchamp on the Recon 2008 conference
- Guest Editorial by Tiller Beauchamp Earlier this month I had the opportunity to present RE:Trace at the Recon conference, a reverse engineering conference held every other year in Montreal, Canada. The conference consisted of three days of training and three days of talks in a single track. Topics...
- Tags: Reverse Engineering, Kernel, Conference, Novell NetWare, LDAP, Operating Systems, Servers, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Why computers fail
- Why computers failA good UPS...will decrease failure rates tremendously. I use Belkin AVR UPS's and the only systems I've had go down in the last year were ones installed by my predecessor without UPS's. There is no doubt in my mind that bad power is a PC's worst enemy....
- Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Tools & Techniques, PRODUCTIVITY, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, chip, failure rate, hardware, software, United Parcel Service of America Inc., redundancy, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- Lasers detecting explosives from 20 meters away
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory ORNL researchers have developed a super-sensitive explosives detector which uses a laser and a device that converts reflected light into sound. Interestingly, the technique they've used is based on earlier works of Alexander Graham Bell in the late 1880s. In their experiments, the researchers used three...
- Tags: Technique, Detection, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Laser, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
- Security researchers hack the London underground train for free ride
- A group of Dutch security researchers were able to clone the "smartcards" that commuters use to pay fares in the London Underground system, allowing the group to ride for free. This is an interesting attack vector that I actually talked to Adam Laurie about when I was at Black Hat Amsterdam. ...
- Tags: Card, Smart Card, Researcher, London, Smart Cards, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- ProxMox: The high-performance virtualization server for the rest of us
- What sounds like a cross between a Ferengi mating practice and an OREO cookie clone, but is actually the latest and greatest in Open Source turnkey virtualization servers? It's the ProxMox Virtual Environment, a new open source project that has been flying under the hypervisor radar, but may pose a...
- Tags: High-performance, OpenVZ, Server, VMware Inc., Virtual Machine, VM, ProxMox VE, Virtual Machine Setup, Virtualization, Linux, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Open Source, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software, Storage, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Magnetic resonance imaging in color?
- Magnetic resonance imaging MRI is a technology widely used in medical applications. But so far, all the images of what is inside our bodies produced by MRI are just black and white. Now, a U.S. research team is developing injectable micromagnets which could bring color to MRI pictures. The researchers...
- Tags: Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Spacer Element, Device Concept, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
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