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Fixing the unfairness of TCP congestion control: Bob Briscoe Chief researcher at the BT Network Research Centre is on a mission to tackle one of the biggest problems facing the Internet.Â He wants the world to know that TCP Transmission Control Protocol congestion control is fundamentally broken and he has a proposal for the IETF to fix...; Tags: Algorithm, Application, Bandwidth, Network, P2P, TCP, Bob Briscoe, Van Jacobson, Jacobson, AIMD, ECN, Tcp/Ip, Networking, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, George Ou; Blog posts 2008-03-24

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Vista SP1 rolls up 551 bug fixes: Vista SP1 rolls up 551 bug fixesAnd How Many Bugs Will It Create?Start the counting folks.You Forgot Two1 Uninstalls Windows Vista1 Reinstalls Windows XP ProfessionalAre you sure you have the real SP1??SJVN thinks MS is lying to you! http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Vista/Vista-SP1-RTMs-and-Lies/The RTM bits are not the real RTM bits!Seriously though; Thanks...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, SJVN, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1; Discussion threads 2008-02-11
Cellphones to monitor highway traffic: Cellphones to monitor highway trafficPrivacyI want to point out that producing strong privacy guarantees is one of the key research issues being investigated in this study. We understand that privacy is critical to the success of a system like this. –Quinn Jacobson / Nokia Research Center, Palo AltoYes, privacy is...; Tags: privacy, ID Number, monitor, cell phone; Discussion threads 2008-02-01
Carbon dioxide is natural so what's the problem?: Well, there's a publication coming from a Stanford scientist that says the problem is: CO2 can kill you. That explains why the E.P.A. is so anitpathetic to all those states trying to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The E.P.A. is about protecting the ENVIRONMENT, they could give a crap...; Tags: Carbon Dioxide, E.P.A., Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-01-23
EDraw Soft Diagrammer (exe): EDraw is a new UML diagram and software diagram drawing tool for software engineers and designers. Easy to draw uml model diagram, COM and OLE, data flow model diagram, Jacobson Use Case, SSADM Diagram, Nassi-Schneiderman diagrams, Booch OOD diagrams, ROOM Diagram, Yourdon and Coad diagrams and Shlaer-Mellor OOA diagrams, program...; Tags: EDraw, UML, Programming Languages, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development; Software downloads 2007-12-21

Oregon AG office to RIAA: 10 things we want to know about how you find file-sharing students: If you think the Recording Institute Association of America is going too far in its prosecution (or should that be persecution?) of college students who file-share from time to time, you'll love the news that Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers is adding meat to the University...; Tags: RIAA, File-sharing, Myers, Lindor, Peer To Peer (P2P), Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Russell Shaw; Blog posts 2007-11-30
Interconnecting wind farms: Wind power is one the world's fastest growing electric energy source, but as wind is intermittent, a single wind farm cannot deliver a steady amount of energy. This is why scientists at Stanford University want to connect wind farms to develop a cheaper and reliable power source. Interconnecting wind farms...; Tags: Turbine, Professor, Stanford University, Idea, Farm, Telecom & Utilities, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2007-11-23
More penny-wise, pound-foolishness: Just this morning I read another one of those "cheap computers for the classroom" stories in eSchool News. (See Low-cost school computing set to take off.) This time it's 400,000 thin clients for school children in Macedonia. Akin to the OLPC project, this one drops the wireless...; Tags: School, Computing, One Laptop Per Child Project, Marc Wagner; Blog posts 2007-09-19
Everything you've read about Vista DRM is wrong (Part 2): Windows Vista includes a new set of features that allow playback software to work with protected media. This DRM infrastructure is bitterly controversial, and it's given rise to an enormous amount of misinformation. No one has been more active or successful in spreading FUD and misinformation about this technology than...; Tags: Protection, Dell Computer Corp., Media Center PC, PC, Digital-rights Management, Driver, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Requirement, Reality, Aero, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Media Center PCs, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Ed Bott; Blog posts 2007-09-18
F**k China: Seems like the F-word is more popular than China on the blogosphere. According to a Scansafes Monthly Global Threat Report for March 2007: "Up to 80 percent of blogs contain potentially offensive content, which can range from adult language to pornographic images, and about 6 percent of blogs host malware."It...; Tags: Uncategorized; Blog posts 2007-04-25
The Effect of Reverse Traffic on the Performance of New TCP Congestion Control Algorithms: Several new TCP congestion control algorithms have been proposed to speed up the TCP over very fast networks. All these algorithms propose their own modifications of the increasing/decreasing phases of classic Reno/NewReno TCP. On the other hand, all of them preserve the self-clocking mechanism, which is a fundamental part of...; Tags: Algorithm, Performance, Congestion, TCP, Tcp/Ip, Networking; White papers 2007-01-01
Convert stored data into business intelligence: Implement online analytical processing (OLAP) with Microsoft Analysis Services: A data warehouse is a general structure for storing the data needed for good business intelligence BI, but data in a warehouse is of little use until it is converted into the information that decision makers need. The solution is online analytical processing OLAP, one of the best technologies for...; Tags: Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Solution, OLAP, Microsoft Press, Microsoft Corp., Analysis, Data Mining, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; Book chapters 2006-09-27
Australian Cargo: David Jacobsons blog describes a report prepared by Booz Allen Hamilton, analyzing problems in the Australian Integrated Cargo System. The system is intended to track goods coming into Australia by either air or sea. A variety of implementation problems with system resulted in traffic congestion and escalating costs, and the...; Tags: Project management, Project failures, Government projects; Blog posts 2006-07-17
Alignment and its Discontents: David Jacobson makes reference to a Harvard Business School excerpt from a book titled Alignment: Using the Balanced Scorecard to Create Corporate Synergies. As David points out, the article says:Following are the eight alignment checkpoints for corporate, business units, and support units of a typical multi-business organization to hit during...; Tags: Project strategy; Blog posts 2006-04-25
Santa Cruz/vSkype execs to Skype: we love Skype and if there are bugs let's fix them: In a post I made here earlier today entitled Skype: New third-party Skype video plug-in may be flawed, I described the concerns that at least one Skype exec has about reports that the in-beta, vskype video add-on for Skype may be sending unwanted messages to people on user's contact lists....; Tags: Skype Technologies S.A.; Blog posts 2005-06-17
Sybase releases free database for Linux: Sybase releases free database for LinuxA Joke?"Customers are looking for a way of getting a free database. They are not that interested in being able to view source code," he said.I don't know how a database as limited as this is going to lower anyone's cost. The 5...; Tags: Databases, Storage, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, SQL Server Express, Symantec Backup Exec, database, Microsoft Data Engine, David Jacobson, Linux, Sybase Inc., Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise, free database, Microsoft SQL Server; Discussion threads 2004-09-09
Sybase masquerades trial offering as 'freely deployable' database: Sybase masquerades trial offering as 'freely deployable' databaseSybase gave their hand ...Now .. Berlind wants the leg too. :)lol. people will never ever be satisfied until you are squeezed dry.now what have you given to the community?Incorrect interpretation>> Sybase notes that modified code must be shared with the rest of...; Tags: E-mail servers, Groupware, Databases, Enterprise software, Free Software Foundation, IBM Lotus Notes, Sybase Inc., University of California, IBM Corp., open source, PostgreSQL, server, database; Discussion threads 2004-09-08
Diagramming and Modeling with Visio IT tools: Visio Professional 5.0 and Visio Enterprise 5.0 give IT professionals two distinct tiers of functionality to design and document enterprise-level software applications. Like every Visio product, both adhere to the standard Windows interface, commands, and features; both offer an automated, intuitive approach to drawing; and both integrate smoothly with Microsoft...; Tags: Software, Microsoft Visio, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Tool, Modeling, UML, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Tools & Techniques, Programming Languages, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Management, Web Development; White papers