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- YBridge (exe)
- YBridge allows securely access your home PC from outside your home or while traveling. Map your home drive on the work PC. Watch from work how your babysitter is taking care of your child. Securely exchange files and other data with friends. Achieve better throughput using built-in compression mechanism. Take...
- Tags: mechanism, pc, asuns, ybridge, desktops, hardware
- Software downloads 2008-07-03
- Pika Bot (exe)
- Pika Bot is a Yahoo! Messenger Protocol based client that can automatically respond to various events corresponding to the Yahoo! Messenger session. What sets Pika Bot apart is the CEVT mechanism which allows virtually any operation on the protocol to be automated. CEVT mechanism includes Conditions, Effects, and Triggers which...
- Tags: mechanism, yahoo! inc., bot, pika bot, cevt mechanism
- Software downloads 2008-01-28
- Office 2003 SP3 and CorelDraw .CDR files
- [UPDATE 01/05/08 09:20am - David LeBlanc has some more information on his blog about this issue. Here are some Highlights: "Attack surface reduction is something we [Microsoft] spend a lot of energy on – the canonical example is IIS 5.0 vs. IIS 6.0. IIS 5.0 had enabled everything...
- Tags: corel coreldraw, mechanism, format, microsoft office 2003, microsoft corp., microsoft office, office suites, software, adrian kingsley-hughes
- Blog posts 2008-01-05
- A Window-Based Flow Control Mechanism Based on TCP Vegas With Explicit Congestion Notification
- A window-based flow control mechanism is a sort of feedback-based congestion control mechanisms, and has been widely used in TCP/IP networks. Recently proposed TCP Vegas is another version of the TCP mechanism and has potential to achieve much better performance than current TCP Tahoe and Reno. This paper focuses on...
- Tags: mechanism, window, tcp, tcp/ip, construction, networking
- White papers 2007-11-16
- A Control Theoretical Approach to a Window-Based Flow Control Mechanism With Explicit Congestion Notification
- A window-based flow control mechanism is a sort of feedback-based congestion control mechanisms, and has been widely used in current TCP/IP networks. Recently proposed TCP Vegas is another version of the TCP mechanism and has potential to achieve much better performance than current TCP Tahoe and Reno. However, it has...
- Tags: mechanism, window, tcp, tcp/ip, networking
- White papers 2007-11-16
- What's really broken with Windows Update - Trust
- On Friday I posted briefly about yet another potential problem with Windows Update my ZDNet blogging colleague Mary Jo Foley covered the issue in greater detail here and here. Initial investigations of PCs at the PC Doc HQ have turned up no leads but I have discovered something else that...
- Tags: microsoft windows update, mechanism, problem, microsoft corp., microsoft windows, patches, operating systems, security administration, software, security, adrian kingsley-hughes
- Blog posts 2007-10-15
- A Load Balancing Mechanism With Verification
- This paper investigates the problem of designing load balancing mechanisms with verification for heterogeneous distributed systems. It derives a compensation and bonus type mechanism that solves the load balancing problem in distributed systems in which computers are characterized by linear latency functions. The paper proves that this mechanism is truthful...
- Tags: mechanism, load balancing, network technology, networking
- White papers 2007-09-11
- A Truthful Mechanism for Fair Load Balancing in Distributed Systems
- This paper considers the problem of designing load balancing protocols in distributed systems where the participants (e.g. computers, users) are capable of manipulating the load allocation algorithm in their own interest. Using techniques from mechanism design theory a mechanism for fair load balancing is designed in heterogeneous distributed systems. It...
- Tags: mechanism, load balancing, distributed system, network technology, networking
- White papers 2007-09-11
- Borg Clock (widget)
- This is an analog clock in which you can see the movement of an internal escapement mechanism. The movement looks like the Tourbillon mechanism. This clock wastes CPU power. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: movement, mechanism, processors, semiconductors, hardware, components
- Software downloads 2007-07-31
- Optimal Efficiency Guarantees for Network Design Mechanisms
- A cost-sharing problem is defined by a set of players vying to receive some good or service, and a cost function describing the cost incurred by the auctioneer as a function of the set of winners. A cost-sharing mechanism is a protocol that decides which players win the auction and...
- Tags: mechanism, network, player, problem, network design, network administration, networking
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Modified TCP Congestion Control Algorithm for Throughput Enhancement in Wired-Cum-Wireless Networks
- The key idea proposed in this paper is to determine the Optimal Congestion Window for a TCP Sender in a particular network scenario that corresponds to the fair share of that connection and keep this congestion window a constant to a point where the fair share in the network has...
- Tags: algorithm, mechanism, network, tcp, tcp/ip, networking
- White papers 2006-10-08
- Multicast in 802.11 WLANs: An Experimental Study
- While the deployment of WiFi networks continues to grow at an explosive rate, the multicast multimedia delivery service on WiFi compliant devices is still in its early stage of development. The real culprit is the IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol, and in particular, the absence of feedback mechanism when multicast is...
- Tags: multimedia, 802.11 wireless lan, ieee 802.11, mechanism, association for computing machinery, culprit, wireless lans, wi-fi, wireless, performance management, leadership, human resources, workforce management, management
- White papers 2006-10-06
- Yudoku (zip)
- Yudoku lets you create, solve, and print Sudoku and the five grid Gattai-5 Samurai puzzles. Yudoku is a powerful program, which is easy to play. It's an ideal tool on the road to mastering the world of Sudoku. Version 1.02 improves creation mechanism.
- Tags: mechanism, road, yudoku, productivity
- Software downloads 2006-03-30
- Speculative TCP Connection Admission Using Connection Migration in Cluster-Based Servers
- This paper presents speculative TCP connection admission, a mechanism for improving sub-optimal request distribution decisions in cluster-based servers. Overloaded server nodes in the cluster speculatively accept incoming requests only to offload them to less-loaded nodes. Speculative admission uses connection endpoint migration, a technique that allows server-side connection endpoints to be...
- Tags: mechanism, migration, tcp, connection admission, tcp/ip, servers, networking, hardware
- White papers 2006-03-15
- Babel: A Version Management System for the Java Programming Language
- For the deployment of large software systems powerful mechanisms for module and version management are essential. For both areas, the popular Java programming language, however, provides only limited support. Module management is supported by means of Java's package and jar le mechanisms which is mostly a packaging mechanism that just...
- Tags: mechanism, package, programming language, module management, programming languages, java, software development, software/web development
- White papers 2006-01-18
- Modeling, Simulation, and Emulation of QoS Oriented Transport Mechanisms
- The design and development process of communication protocols and real-time systems and particularly transport protocol mechanisms requires adequate methodology and efficient instrumental support. In this paper, an extensible and QoS-oriented development framework integrating design and simulation with UML Unified Modeling Language, and implementation and evaluation with emulation is introduced. An...
- Tags: emulation, qos, mechanism, modeling, nicta, uml, programming languages, research & development, ooa/ood/oop, software development, software/web development, business operations
- White papers 2005-10-27
- Gathering Evidence: Use of Visual Security Cues in Web Browsers
- Web browsers support secure online transactions, and provide visual feedback mechanisms to inform the user about security. These mechanisms have had little evaluation to determine how easily they are noticed and how effectively they are used. This paper describes a preliminary study conducted to determine which elements are noted, which...
- Tags: security, mechanism, web browser, web browsers, internet
- White papers 2005-09-19
- A Benchmark Suite for Behavior-Based Security Mechanisms
- This paper presents a benchmark suite for evaluating behavior-based security mechanisms. Behavior-based mechanisms are used to protect computer systems from intrusion and detect malicious code embedded in legitimate applications. They complement signature-based mechanisms (e.g., anti-virus products) by tackling zero-day attacks that have no signatures extracted yet, as well as polymorphous...
- Tags: mechanism, suite, northeastern university, evaluation framework, security, viruses and worms
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Implementation and Performance Analysis of Active Queue Management Mechanisms
- This paper describes Active Queue Management AQM mechanisms that are employed in the Internet Protocol IP routers. The paper addresses the functionality and implementation of AQM blocks in IP routers. It also describes the benefits of the AQM mechanisms and justifies the need for their implementation. Simulation results illustrate the...
- Tags: mechanism, performance, simon fraser university, routers & switches, network technology, networking
- White papers 2005-08-12
- GRUBER: A Grid Resource Usage SLA Broker
- Resource sharing within grid collaborations usually implies specific sharing mechanisms at participating sites. Challenging policy issues can arise in such scenarios that integrate participants and resources spanning multiple physical institutions. Resource owners may wish to grant to one or more Virtual Organizations VOs the right to use certain resources subject...
- Tags: sla, mechanism, springer science+business media, service level management, it operations, it service management
- White papers 2005-07-15
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