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Lustre Networking

This paper provides information about Lustre networking LNET that can be used to plan cluster file system deployments for optimal performance and scalability. This paper reviews Lustre message passing, Lustre Network Drivers LNDs, and routing in Lustre networks and describe how these can be used to improve cluster storage management....

Tags: Paper, File System, Cluster File Systems, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2007-07-01

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Rich Internet application startup ideas Y Combinator wants to see

Y Combinator posted a list of a bunch of different startup ideas they'd like to see and fund. It's a sizable list with 30 different thoughts waiting for enthusiastic entrepreneurs to take a shot. But what struck me most about the list was how RIA-heavy it is. I as much...

Tags: Rich Internet Application, Rich Media, Site Builder, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-07-20

DIRECTV: Well HERE's Your Problem, Ma'am...

Shortly after I posted my diatribe on my problems with my DIRECTV HD receivers and the company's horrible customer service, I was contacted by Stuart Sweet, a moderator on a popular Satellite TV forums site, DBSTalk. Apparently, my post had created quite a stir  and I was asked to register...

Tags: Digital Video Recorder, DirecTV, Satellite, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-19

Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.

My mother and I chat a lot about different alternative energy options, mainly because she is lucky enough to live in Hawaii where solar hot water has been mandated for future construction. But one thing that has been ultra controversial on the Big Island has been wind power for the...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Wind Energy, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-19

Spam coming from free email providers increasing

After analyzing three weeks of spam data between June 13 to July 3, 2008, Roaring Penguin Software Inc. found evidence that spam originating from the top three free email providers (Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail) is increasing, with spammers in favor of abusing Gmail's privacy preserving feature of not including...

Tags: CAPTCHA, Google Gmail, Free Email Company, Anti-spam, Spammer, E-mail Company, IP, Service, Cyberthreats, Spam, E-mail Providers, E-mail, Phishing, Viruses And Worms, Security, Networking, Spam And Phishing, Internet, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-18

Romanian authorities arrest cybercrime suspects

Romanian authorities arrest cybercrime suspectsCatching criminals is only the first step... Until judiciary systems around the world make a good example of these guys, nothing good will come out of these arrests. To reduce cybercrime we need effective deterrents. Slapping big fines that these guys are never going to pay...

Tags: Construction, cybercrime suspect, Romanian, Nate

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

Windows "Workstation" 2008 better than Vista? OK then, show me the money!

Windows "Workstation" 2008 better than Vista? OK then, show me the money!dre` typo, i think"...nothing I would lie better than to..."It's the cost, Adrianlook at the difference in price.if i paid that much for a "desktop" OS, you can bet that I'd convince myself it was faster ;)The other thing...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Desktops, workstation, Vista x64, Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, desktop, server, Vist-___

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

Untrustworthy students: lighten your restrictions

Untrustworthy students: lighten your restrictionsProxies"By using a proxy, you can bypass any filtering software on the network"Only if they're incompetent. I work for a company that has hardware that a proxy wouldn't get around the rules, even if it's SSL.Your statement about proxies is wrong.If the university simply sets a...

Tags: INTERNET, Workforce management, Untrustworthy student, Untrustworthy

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

Obama calls for comprehensive cyber-security measures; looks for a national cyber ninja

Update: It would seem that Richard Stiennon agrees with me on the concept of a group of experts to advise, also on keeping away from spending ridiculous amounts of money. Cyber-terrorism... ah, what a fancy buzz word that is. Defined on Wikipedia as: "The premeditated use...

Tags: John McCain, Cybersecurity, Security, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-18

Immobile Apple

It's 11:33 a.m. Friday. Approximately 66 and a half hours since Apple Support acknowledged receipt of my request for help on syncing calendar and contact data from my iMac to the "cloud,'' i.e., MobileMe servers wherever they are. Re-request sent after 48 hours. Still...

Tags: Apple Inc., 3G, Desktops, Web Browsers, Recruitment & Selection, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Internet, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-07-18

Untrustworthy students: lighten your restrictions

You know the drill. You spend thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars on higher education at your college or university of choice. But when you go to use your Internet connection or a public computer on campus, you login and it's locked down so tight, you can barely...

Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, Network, IT Administrator, Operating System, Web Site, Computer, Productivity, Web Site Development, Networking, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-07-18

The potential fallout from Apple vs. Psystar

The potential fallout from Apple vs. Psystaranticompetitive argumentThe problem with the anticompetitive argument is that the company engaging in the activity has to command a substantial share of the overall market. Apple doesn't even have 8% of the market. Also, Psystar never even tried to license Apple's intellectual...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Psystar, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

Tough love: Linux needs more haters

Tough love: Linux needs more hatersGood article, JeremyI'm currently setting up our company network on Linux and will likely be bumping into some of those Samba issues. Complicated by having a mixed OS environment on the client side. Yeah, that's going to be fun. Nice that Google...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

Office 2008 vs. iWork vs. NeoOffice vs. OpenOffice

The more I use these, the more I really don't care for iWork. Sure, Keynote makes some darned pretty presentations, but NeoOffice and OpenOffice for the matter cuts the mustard quite handily. For real polish, you still can't beat Office 2007/2008, as much as I hate to admit...

Tags: Suite, Apple iWork, Office 2008, NeoOffice, X11, OpenOffice, Open Source, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-07-18

Tough love: Linux needs more haters

[The opinions expressed here are mine alone, and not those of Google, Inc. my current employer.] I've been spending far too much time reading a blog recently. Normally I dislike reading blogs, or as my friend from the IT News site "the Register" Andrew Orlowski calls them;...

Tags: Blog, LinuxHaters, LinuxHater, Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Blogging, Software, Internet, Jeremy Allison

Blog posts 2008-07-18

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

OneStep Installer (exe)

Encrypts and packs installation components into a single executable with or without password protection and installs the content with one click. Use it with the Visual Studio 6 Package and Deployment Wizard or with any other similar wizards. Output can be an executable or a zipped executable. Optionally e-mails the...

Tags: Executable, Redei

Software downloads 2008-07-18

SE-Explorer (exe)

SE-Explorer is a simple and powerful file manager for Windows with various built-in viewers. It's convenient dual-panel file browser with enhanced search function and tabbed interface. SE-Explorer allows you to view pictures in most popular image file format, binary files in hex, XML structure and RTF files, edit text with...

Tags: SE-SOFT.COM, SE-Explorer, Microsoft Windows, Search, XML, Operating Systems, Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2008-07-18

Pookanyoni (exe)

Customisable 4 level master linked database in a fixed layout for quick navigation. Includes naming Fields and Screens, defining field representation as text, lookup, or boolean. Set conditions for activity intervals, invoices with full or partial allocation ability, and to set expenses to either maintenance or capital for dpreciation calculation....

Tags: Allocation, Pookanyoni

Software downloads 2008-07-18

AD Stereo Changer (exe)

AD Stereo Changer is a sound program for creating additional stereo effect and playing an audio file in real time. It can move the sound source that is equally presented in both stereo channels and situated just in the middle of acoustic space to the left or right enhancing perception...

Tags: Audio, Advertisement, Adrosoft, AD Stereo Changer

Software downloads 2008-07-18