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- Aerospace Firm Moves From Mainframe to Microsoft SQL Server, Saves Time and Money
- L-3 Vertex Aerospace has more than 11,000 staff at 300 locations around the world to service 3,500 aircraft, including 89 distinct types, primarily for the U.S. government. Bidding on new contracts requires drawing on millions of rows of accounting and inventory data, which had been stored on an IBM 3090...
- Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Corp., Aerospace, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, L-3 Vertex Aerospace, Mainframes, Databases, Enterprise Software, Servers, Hardware, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2008-05-01
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- IBM, Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat gang up on Vista
- The Linux computing crowd smells blood and wants to make a run at Microsoft's Vista operating system. Coinciding with LinuxWorld, IBM, Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat issued a joint statement promising "Microsoft free" desktops across the globe. I doubt it...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Novell Inc., Red Hat Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Linux, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Microsoft Windows, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Developers criticize Nvidia, other holdouts for hindering Linux desktop
- Developers criticize Nvidia, other holdouts for hindering Linux desktopInteresting[i]We have repeatedly found them to be detrimental to Linux users, businesses and the greater Linux ecosystem,” the letter stated. “Such modules negate the openness, stability, flexibility and maintainability of the Linux development model and shut their users off from the expertise...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Desktops, Linux desktop, Nvida, desktop, EXT, NVidia Corp., Linux, ATI Technologies Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- ElshayalSmart (zip)
- Current Features View and Edit 2D & 3D shape maps, GPS, add, delete, swap layers, layers properties, zoom in & out, pan, and identify, Selection, Data table, Query builder, Create network, Shortest path, Printing, Save Image, Save map, Save Layer, Move vertex and features, Snap vertex , Table Editing, Map...
- Tags: Raster, GPS, Document Management, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-06-23
- Shaper (exe)
- A 3D modelling, texturing and animation package developed by Inverse Software. It includes standard modeling tools such as translation, rotation and a variety of primitive creation functions. Has more advanced modeling tools such as vertex snapping and face extrusion. Skeletal animations can be created and edited using Shaper. Supports multiple...
- Tags: Animation, Modeling, Inverse Software, Track View, Research & Development, Business Operations
- Software downloads 2008-05-13
- UAVs will study Californian smog
- The California Energy Commission is funding a research effort named CAPPS, short for California AUAV Air Pollution Profiling Study. CAPPS will use autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles AUAVs to gather meteorological data as the aircraft fly through clouds over Southern California. The goal is to study smog and its consequences as...
- Tags: Southern California, Researcher, Pollution, Aircraft, Global Warming, UAV, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- Spin patrol: Curious timing on AOL's 'we're growing like gangbusters' announcement
- Spin patrol: Curious timing on AOL's 'we're growing like gangbusters' announcementYeah, a BIG surprise to me too!Esp. when you overhear last weekend conversations that they're 'hangin in there' at Sat. morning soccer games Moms will talk and talk in Ashburn... Leak, lose-lips or freedom of speech - whatever. Move...
- Tags: America Online Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-25
- Self-healing computers for NASA spacecraft
- As you can guess, hardwired computer systems are much faster than general-purpose ones because they are designed to do a single task. But when they fail, they need to be totally reconfigured. This can be just a costly problem in a lab on Earth, but it can be vital in...
- Tags: NASA, Patent, Unit, Hardware, FPGA, Computer, UA, UA Engineer, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- PhysX coming to GeForce 8/9 owners soon
- PhysX coming to GeForce 8/9 owners soonThis is my second time nVidia cost me; this time $220Adriver overwrite took out the RUN.DLL on my NEW! XP O/S with 150GB Hard drive. It all works fine with ATi Technologies; brfore and I guess when I need to fix it. Gasoline prices...
- Tags: NVidia Corp., GPU, Nvidia GeForce
- Discussion threads 2008-04-15
- A single-photon channel to space
- According to the Institute of Physics IOP, European researchers have successfully identified individual returning photons from space 'after firing and reflecting them off of a space satellite in orbit almost 1,500 kilometers above the earth.' This experiment could lead to a global quantum-encrypted communications network in the future. In other...
- Tags: Earth, Satellite, Knowledge Management, Network Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Networking, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-03-29
- Images: Xcor rockets private space flights
- Xcor Aerospace unveiled designs for a rocket that will let ordinary people experience weightlessness on a suborbital flight. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Flight, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-03-28
- Diamonds are jet engines' best friends
- You certainly know that birds are enemies of jet engine turbine blades. But these jet engines have another nasty foe: sand. Even if the turbine blades are protected with thin layers of thermal barrier coatings TBCs, they operate at very high temperatures. When a sand storm hits a blade, grains...
- Tags: Turbine, Glass, Ohio State University, Aluminum, Telecom & Utilities, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- Arthur C. Clarke: All These Worlds Are Yours
- For every person, there are personalities who's influence and life's work that can shape one's imagination and destiny. For some people, they are world leaders, musicians, poets, and philosophers. For me, the Grand Masters of Science Fiction float to the very top of that august group – and...
- Tags: Work, Computer, Productivity, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-03-19
- Aerospace Fastener Group Upgrades System, Watches Scalability and Productivity Soar
- LFC has a sister company that generates invoices for both companies. Information was being driven back and forth between the companies, and this was not a long-term solution. In addition, the company's shop order and inventory systems were based on an MS-DOS platform and were not scalable. Finally, the company's...
- Tags: Scalability, Microsoft Corp., Aerospace, LFC, LFC Industries, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Aerospace & Defense, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Manufacturing, Hardware
- Case studies 2008-03-12
- Alien Arena 2008 (exe)
- Alien Arena 2008 is a multiplayer online deathmatch game based on the GPL id source code. Powered by version 7.0 of the CRX engine, this game features incredibly smooth and fast game play with next-generation engine features such as shaders, real-time per-pixel and per-vertex lighting and shadows, lensflares, light bloom,...
- Tags: COR Entertainment, Alien Arena 2008, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-03-11
- ActiveSolid (exe)
- ActiveSolid is a fast, compact, and powerful dual mode 3D modeling, 3D dimensioning and view mark-up application and ActiveX plugin. The entire application including its user interface can be embedded inside Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer. It features an intuitive GUI, import/export plug-in architecture (with import/export plug-ins downloadable from ActiveSolid's...
- Tags: 3D, 2D, Plug-in, J & L Associates, ActiveSolid
- Software downloads 2008-03-11
- Air+Force%3A+No%21+Stop%21+Blogs+bad%21
- Air+Force%3A+No%21+Stop%21+Blogs+bad%21Not just security...Just as at a corporation where the company owns the computer, not you; in the military, the US Government owns the machine, the network its hooked up to,and everything els about it. As such the government has the right to restrict how those systems are used -...
- Tags: Blogging, blog, security, government
- Discussion threads 2008-02-29
- Japanese satellite shows US reliance on private sector is hot air
- I listened into the beginning of today's FCC hearing on Comcast's "network management" practices and I heard a lot about the importance of business models that allows operators to recoup their investments. Commissioner Robert McDowell said something along these lines: If companies can't repay their investors they won't build out...
- Tags: Japan, Wired Inc., Network, Satellite, Kizuna, Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-02-25
- Chinese spies arrested. What's the back story?
- In the underground world of spy vs spy one always has to question revelations about major spy incidents. Yesterday the FBI announced that they had arrested three men in New Orleans on spying charges and, oh by the way, another man, 72 years old who worked for Boeing up until...
- Tags: China, Bulgaria, Government, Federal Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- Birds give a lesson to plane designers
- You all know that most species of animals can fly -- but not humans. There are more than a million species of flying insects, but do you know that among the 13,000 warm-blood vertebrate species which include birds and mammals, about 10,000 of them are able to fly (9,000 birds...
- Tags: Bird, Aircraft, Aerospace, Reynolds, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
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