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- Computer Simulation Speeds Specialist Composite Design
- RPC Technologies is a leading supplier of corrosion resistant, structural Fiber-Reinforced Plastic FRP fabrications; piping and ducting systems; acid-resistant, heavy-duty linings; and specialist composite products. The company's challenge was to meet delivery deadlines and performance targets to avoid financial penalties. Finite Element Analysis FEA is helping RPC meet these challenges...
- Tags: Siemens AG, Computer, RPC Technologies, Finite Element Analysis, RPC, Performance Management, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Case studies 2007-11-01
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- Should political postings stay or go? A survey.
- I've been blogging for ZD Net for several years, writing for ZD publications for almost 20 years. I've always found readers to be intelligent and thoughtful, which is why I continue to do this while doing other things as "work." My posting, A virus in your genes, think about that,...
- Tags: U.S., R&D, Discovery, Blog, Politics, Survey, Creationism, Rational Rants, Research & Development, Blogging, Business Operations, Internet, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Malware and spam attacks exploiting Picasa and ImageShack
- In the wake of the recent malvertising attacks where malicious flash ads were appearing at trusted web sites, evidence from multiple vendors and researchers indicates that spammers and malware authors have once again switched tactics, and are one again abusing legitimate services such as Google's Picasa and ImageShack. Whereas the...
- Tags: Technique, Spammer, Malware, Google Picasa, Attack, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Google's Top 10 Cloud Computing List
- Dontcha just love Top 10 lists? At the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco today, Matthew Glotzbach, who leads the Enterprise Products team at Google, offered a "Top 10 Things I Can Do in the Cloud That I Couldn't Do A Year Ago." No surprises that many of the tasks...
- Tags: Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Mobile, E-mail, Productivity, Web Browsers, Advertising & Promotion, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Internet, Marketing, Software, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- The power of standard protocols
- I've spent the past few months as the primary developer at a very small company. An important technology to this company is Instant Messaging, as it plays an essential part in our approach to unified messaging. This has meant that I have had to build, in-house, our...
- Tags: IM, Jabber, Protocol, XMPP, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Red Hat acquires Qumranet
- I just received a press release telling me that one of my clients, Qumranet, has been acquired by Red Hat.This was not entirely unexpected. Here's what the release said Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., Qumranet Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Access Virtualization for Mac OS X - Aqua Connect ACTS 3.0
- Aqua Connect is an exception. It focuses on providing access virtualization for users of Mac OS-based servers. (For those keeping track, the post, Aqua Connect Access Virtualization for Mac OS X, introduced the company back in December 2007.) This time, the good folks at Aqua Connect are in the process...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Access, Operating System, Environment, Unix, Aqua Connect, Apple Mac OS, Virtualization, Operating Systems, Apple Mac OS X, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Windows 7: Can Microsoft get boot time to under 15 seconds?
- Windows 7: Can Microsoft get boot time to under 15 seconds?Where has this been?Oh, hello, MS, is that you? Did you remember that little OS side-project that you've had going on for a couple decades now? I'm so glad to see a renewed interest, please stick around to...
- Tags: Operating systems, Boot-time, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- Xen engine 3.3 released
- On August 27th, the Xen engine version 3.3 was released on Xen.org, the site that houses the open source Xen project. In the words of the organization, "Xen 3.3 includes enhancements that further advance its position as a fast, scalable, secure virtualization engine for the industry's broadest range of server...
- Tags: Xen, Virtual Machine, Xen Client Initiative, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- PlateSpin Pledges Extended Support for Citrix XenSever Customers
- PlateSpin ULC, a Novell company, today reaffirmed its commitment to support Citrix XenServer across the PlateSpin product line. XenServer support is a key element of PlateSpin's multiplatform strategy, which aims to offer enterprises a unified suite of solutions for managing heterogeneous data center environments and making physical and virtual infrastructures...
- Tags: PlateSpin Inc., Citrix Systems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Strategy, Hardware, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2008-09-03
- Project Monitor (exe)
- Designed for anyone working on a time-for-money basis, project monitor is an easy to use time-tracking and analysis application. If your livelihood depends upon accurately categorizing and recording your working day on the basis of client, project and activity, project monitor is sure to benefit you and your business. Record...
- Tags: Monitor, Analysis, Whistling Fish Software, Monitors & Displays, Productivity, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2008-09-03
- Google's Chrome browser: It's all about the ads and cookie files stupid!
- For all the talk about Google's Chrome browser and whether it's a Web operating system, platform for applications and future Microsoft killer it's quite possible that folks are overthinking the search giant's intentions. Perhaps Google's browser is really about protecting its ad backside. Sure, Google's browser Techmeme--designed...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Cookie, Chrome, Google Chrome, Lindsay, Web Browsers, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- FAA outage due to 'fix-on-fail' policy
- FAA outage due to 'fix-on-fail' policyThis is a surprise???Is anyone surprised that the government holds itself to a lower standard than anyone it regulates? Congress routinely exempts itself from laws that everyone else has to follow. Can you imagine the airlines being allowed to use such a policy on aircraft?...
- Tags: Government, Manufacturing, Aerospace & Defense, Recruitment & Selection, Forcast, FAA
- Discussion threads 2008-09-02
- Could Google's Chrome be death blow to Firefox?
- No doubt, Google's forthcoming open source browser -- known as Chrome -- is going to challenge other open source browsers, most notably Firefox. It could be a devastating blow to Firefox, which has amassed and taken roughly 18 percent of browser market share away from Internet Explorer in a short...
- Tags: Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox, Web Application, Web Browser, Mozilla Corp., Chrome, V8 Javascript Virtual Machine, Web Browsers, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Internet, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- Chemspread PRO (exe)
- Free Java Applet is a chemistry spreadsheet calculator - balances virtually any chemical equation and follows up with stoichiometry calculations as well as equillibruim calculations. Percentage mass, titrations, ideal and non-ideal gases. Knows the periodic table and computes molecular weight of all entries. Partial pressures and Van der Waal equation....
- Tags: Equation, Spreadsheet, ChemistryCalculator.com, Productivity, Java, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2008-09-02
- Golf Stats Pro (exe)
- Golf Stats Pro is the new statistical analysis software application from Erebus Software, for recording your golf scores, analysing your game, and tracking your progress as a golfer. Golf Stats Pro provides you, the golfer, with plenty of useful features designed to help you analyse your game to identify your...
- Tags: Statistical Analysis, Erebus Software, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-09-02
- StatusHQ - Microblogging for the enterprise?
- Dennis Howlett published a great piece on StatusHQ, a microblogging service that has positioned itself to be a more grown-up version of Twitter, that claims it can be used specifically for business communications. While Howlett points out some of the service's merits (i.e. a less restrictive character...
- Tags: Twitter, Tool, Productivity, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-09-01
- NetApplications Aug 08 data - Big gains for Firefox and iPhone
- It's the first of the month again, and that means that NetApplications data for the previous month is available for analysis. This time round there are some interesting trends to note. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Mozilla Firefox, Market Share, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Linux, Software, Internet, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-09-01
- Another view: WOA vs. SOA debate a distraction?
- Another view: WOA vs. SOA debate a distraction?WOA vs. ROA vs. SOARealistically, people have been using using RESTful services as part of SOA initiatives even if they didn't realize it for a few years already. You could even make the argument that Resource Oriented Architecture is going to subsume SOA,...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, WSOA, WOA, SOA
- Discussion threads 2008-08-31
- Face Recognition Based on Statistical Moments (zip)
- Face Recognition Based on Statistical Moments - Matlab source code. Moment based feature descriptors have evolved into a powerful tool for image analysis applications. Geometric moments present a low computational cost, but are highly sensitive to noise. We have developed a simple and efficient technique for face recognition that combines:...
- Tags: Moment, Face Recognition, Luigi Rosa
- Software downloads 2008-08-31
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