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- UPGRAID: Usage-Base StriPe ReplicatinG RAID
- Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks RAID is the standard for large scale, fault-tolerant storage solutions. The various RAID levels combine space and/or performance optimization to meet the needs of the user. This paper introduces UPGRAID, which can be seen as a new RAID level built upon RAID5. The idea behind...
- Tags: Florida International University, RAID, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-08-09
- Anatomy of an International Exchange Point: Distributed Network Monitoring Using MonALISA and NetFlow
- This paper presents a distributed network monitoring system, which exploits MonALISA Monitoring Agents in A Large Integrated Services Architecture, a distributed web service delivery infrastructure designed to collect and process the network monitoring information. The paper augments the capability of MonALISA with FlowTools, the popular NetFlow data analysis toolset. The...
- Tags: Florida International University, Network, Distributed Network, Network Monitoring, Network Administration, Networking
- White papers 2007-02-02
- On Security in TCP/IP Over Wireless Network
- The Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) is combination of different protocols at various layers. TCP/IP is the basic communication language or protocol of the Internet and private networks either an intranet or an extranet. TCP interfaces between the application layer and the network layer. It is a connection oriented, reliable...
- Tags: Security, Florida International University, Network, Protocol, IP, Wireless Network, Wireless, Tcp/Ip, Networking, Network Technology
- White papers 2006-06-22
- Efficient Native Storage Systems for Semi-Structured Data
- Semi-structured data is becoming commonplace with examples such as XML, Bioinformatics suffix-trees, scientific computing data, and even generic directory-file hierarchies. Such semi-structured data must be stored on mass storage devices for persistence as well as cost-efficiency. Current approaches, which map semi-structured data to relational databases or simply use flat files,...
- Tags: Florida International University, Disk Drive, Storage Device, Storage System, Semi-Structured Data, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware
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- Mobile Service Clouds: A Self-Managing Infrastructure for Autonomic Mobile Computing Services
- The paper introduces Service Clouds, a distributed infrastructure designed to facilitate rapid prototyping and deployment of autonomic communication services. This paper proposes a model that extends Service Clouds to the wireless edge of the Internet. This model, called Mobile Service Clouds, enables dynamic instantiation, composition, configuration, and reconfiguration of services...
- Tags: Florida International University, Mobile, Mobile Computing, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Wireless, Marketing, Hardware
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- ROFLthing 2008
- Have you ever been to an internet culture conference? Earlier this year, Harvard senior Tim Hwang threw one in Cambridge, Mass., and it was a massive success. This time, Hwang wanted to have a smaller get together in San Francisco to chat about memes. Welcome to ROFLthing...
- Tags: Humor, Rickroll, Chuck Norris, Internet, Strategy, Management, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- JavaScript 2.0: Why Give Programmers Crutches?
- [Guest Comment from Shane Steinert-Threlkeld] A new spec on which JavaScript 2.0 will be based , should be finalized by the end of the fall. Yet most of the proposed changes do close to nothing to actually improve the language. A lot of...
- Tags: JavaScript, Programmer, JavaScript 2.0, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Inside India's CAPTCHA solving economy
- No CAPTCHA can survive a human that's receiving financial incentives for solving it, and with an army of low-waged human CAPTCHA solvers officially in the business of "data processing" while earning a mere $2 for solving a thousand CAPTCHA's, I'm already starting to see evidence of consolidation between India's major...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- My father, the casemodder
- I love hearing about these wacky aesthetic computer modifications that people do. While a lot of them definitely have the "cool" factor, most aren't exactly useful or practical. But when I heard about one particular "casemod" from one of my readers, I was intrigued. It just so happened that this...
- Tags: Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Comcast's Web limits: Saving bandwidth or stifling innovation?
- The first computer I ever bought had a whopping six-gigabyte hard drive inside - far more storage capacity than anyone might have ever dreamed of using some ten years ago. Back then, no one was really downloading music or uploading digital photos, let alone streaming video or placing VoIP phone...
- Tags: Innovation, Web, Bandwidth, Comcast Corp., Internet, Storage, Telecommunications, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- The depressing future of the Internet
- A brief overview of how the Internet came about: some years ago, some military boffs thought it'd be awesome if computers could talk to each other, so the US could nuke the hell out of other countries without actually being near there. A smart professor from England then came up...
- Tags: Security, IPv6, Computer, Flaw, IPv6 Adoption, Internet, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- 62% of salaried Americans happy with their medical and retirement benefits
- When asked whether this is a bad time to find a quality job, 65% of Americans said it was, matching the level of the 2001 recession, according to Rutgers University’s John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development. With unemployment at 5.7%, the highest level since 2004, and weekly unemployment claims...
- Tags: Credit Card, Benefit, Worker, Sales Channel, Sales, AM
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- EIC Podcast: Apple-Psystar; Cisco vs. Microsoft; DNC; Dell
- On this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk about that ongoing Apple-Psystar legal showdown, Cisco and Microsoft's collision course, the Democratic National Convention and Dell's plans for the cloud. On Wednesday Psystar--that little Mac clone maker in Florida--sued Apple for antitrust violations. The big question:...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., PostPath, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- The Gammima Strain
- Photo: NASA Is the International Space Station just another bot in a botnet? Are criminal hackers tapping away in some dark warehouse now in control of critical command-and-control systems on board? No, that would make a good Michael Crichton novel, though. It seems some...
- Tags: NASA, Password, Board, Laptop Computer, Virus, SpaceRef, Cyberthreats, Corporate Governance, Viruses And Worms, Security, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- A way to assign copyright globally
- The FLA mainly takes the burden of worrying about international copyright law out of the programmer's hands and places it in the hands of people who care about such things. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Project, KDE, Fiduciary License Agreement, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- News to know: Psystar vs. Apple; WGA; Linux under attack; FAA failure
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: News.com: Psystar responds to Apple suit, will countersue Sam Diaz: Does Psystar have a legit argument in Apple countersuit? Psystar countersues Apple, alleges anticompetitive business practices...
- Tags: FAA, Google Inc., Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Attack, Psystar, Linux, Bluetooth, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Open Source, UNIX, Software, Wireless, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Malware detected at the International Space Station
- Malware detected at the International Space StationBetter use Linux next timeI'm amazed that anything M$ is allowed into space. It's totally insane. What next - avionics powered by Windows? That's one flight I won't be going on :DRE: Malware detected at the International Space StationNorton Anti-virus updates on a daily...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Linux, Operating systems, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Microsoft Windows, malware, International Space Station, ISS, NASA, worm
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- Malware detected at the International Space Station
- Malware is reaching new heights, and going into Space through a removable media carrying the W32.Gammima.AG password stealing malware to the International Space Station. According to SpaceRef.com : "W32.Gammima.AG worm is a level 0 gaming virus intended to gather personal information. Virus was never a threat to any of...
- Tags: Software, Space Station, NASA, Antivirus, Malware, Laptop Computer, Virus, Cyberthreats, Notebooks, Viruses And Worms, Security, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Renting a car: it'll cost you to save on gas
- The priciest rental car? It's a hybrid, of course. Expensive and in short supply as travellers try to cur down on gas use. Not only is there a waiting list to BUY a hybrid car in many parts of the U.S. It is equally difficult to...
- Tags: Car, California, New York, Hybrid, Florida, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Expanding internationally
- Eric Presley, CTO of CareerBuilder discusses the company's international expansion and support for more than fourteen different languages all on one platform. by Andrew Mager
- Tags: CareerBuilder, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
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