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SolarWinds Engineers Edition (zip)

New Engineers Toolset has over 45 Network Discovery, Monitoring and Management tools. Inventory your entire network with SONAR, use the performance monitor to measure bandwidth traffic, % utilization, CPU load, disk space & memory. Perform fault management with alerting & email notification. Also included: Full MIB browser, IP Address Management...

Tags: Disk, Memory, Monitoring, CPU, Tool, New Engineers Toolset, Productivity, E-mail, Networking, Online Communications

Software downloads 2006-03-06

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The weirdest computing disasters of 2008

Roasted laptops, panthers savaging memory sticks and angry fishermen throwing computers overboard top the list of the year's weirdest computing disasters. Roasted laptops, panthers savaging memory sticks and angry fishermen throwing computers overboard top the list of the year's weirdest computing disasters. The top 10...

Tags: Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, disaster recovery, laptops, Nick Heath silicon.com

News items 2008-12-04

Robots mimic razor clams

MIT researchers have developed a robot inspired by the razor clam. According to the engineers, this RoboClam could lead to a 'smart' anchor that burrows through the ocean floor to reposition itself and could even reverse. These small robots, which have the size of a cigarette lighter, could be used...

Tags: Clam, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Razor Clam, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Where to next for ERP et al? (part 1, SAP)

With a Gartner probability of 0.9, I guarantee that what follows is not how things will turn out. At least not exactly. Paul Greenberg's post casting the enterprise CRM runes for 2009 provides the perfect springboard for something I've been thinking about since the middle of the year. Where the...

Tags: SAP AG, ERP, Leo Apotheker, Paul Greenberg, Paul, Claus Heinrich, Wookey, Sales Strategy, Cloud Computing, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Force Management, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Sales, Marketing, Software, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-12-02

IT expert executed in Iran

Following Pakistan's recently introduced "Prevention of Electronic Crimes Ordinance 2008" according to which potential cyberterrorists would face the death penalty, a neighboring country, Iran, has recently executed an IT expert who confessed of being an Israeli spy for at least three years. After being recruited by Mossad during a business...

Tags: Information Technology, Equipment, Iran, Government, Productivity, Real Estate, E-mail, Business Operations, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-12-01

Supercomputers help design better golf balls

Researchers are using supercomputers to create new balls that will improve the game of avid golfers by flying farther. They've used the supercomputers at Arizona State University to simulate the physics of golf balls and to model how air flows around a ball in flight and to study how this...

Tags: Supercomputer, Flow, Arizona State University, Clinton Smith, Direct Numerical Simulation, Results, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-12-01

Microsoft puts more muscle behind its potential 'Kumo' search brand

Microsoft puts more muscle behind its potential 'Kumo' search brandWell, it is a good brand name for a cheap, tired, worn out search engine.Kuhmo is a brand of cheap tires that quickly wear out. The marketing guys at Microsoft are brilliant in finding brands to fit the products.Microsoft rename Microsoft...

Tags: Branding, Manufacturing, Microsoft Corp., brand, MS-search, Donnie, Google Inc., Balmer

Discussion threads 2008-12-01

MacBooks: World's greenest family of notebooks

Apple's latest Get A Mac television commercial proclaims the new MacBooks to be the "world's greenest family of notebooks." The ad touts the MacBook as completely recyclable and says that it uses a quarter of the amount of power of a single light bulb and has no mercury. ...

Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-11-25

From private jets to car pool? Detroit may be getting the message.

From private jets to car pool? Detroit may be getting the message.different kind of bailoutApparently, the Detroit Three are bailed themeselves out of their jets....There won't be three in two years. Chrysler can't survive alone. There'll be two US owned.RE: From private jets to car pool? Detroit may...

Tags: car, car pool, jet, private jet

Discussion threads 2008-11-24

The case for Scala

Programming languages are like screwdrivers for developers. One size does not fit all, so good programmers keep several in their tool belt. The problem is, new languages are coming out all the time and you've only got so much room on your belt and in your schedule to learn them....

Tags: Function, Method, Functional Programming, Language, Scala, Seq, List, Scala System, HQ9+, env:Env, David J. Biesack, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-11-24

Sun reseller contacts

Sun reseller contactsSun and C=There are some very eerie parallels between Sun marketing and Commodore's in the 80's. The Commodore Amiga was a superior computer by far in the late 80's. US Ham radio operators were the first major group to adopt it, as it fit their needs perfectly. They...

Tags: Sales strategy, Marketing research, UNIX, Operating systems, Sun Microsystems Inc., marketing

Discussion threads 2008-11-24

Science, research and the politics of grantmanship

Seems that science is like every other human endeavor. It's highly political. A study done among scientists asking for money from the National Institute of Health shows blunt political caluclation can alter both the language of the grant application...and the actual subject of the study being...

Tags: Scientist, Strategy, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-21

Supply Chain Optimization Solution Sets New Benchmarks on SQL Server 2008

As part of its quest for continuous product improvement, Manhattan Associates tested its ILS 2008 integrated logistics solution running on Microsoft SQL Server 2008. The testing, which its engineers performed at the Microsoft SQL Server test labs in Redmond, Washington, found that the combination of ILS 2008 and SQL Server...

Tags: Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Corp., Supply Chain, Databases, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2008-11-21

How Apple gained the upper hand on Microsoft

How Apple gained the upper hand on MicrosoftAnd, MS should eliminate the "Home Basic", Home Premium", etc, and justdeliver one version that works and has everything. The sleazy marketing tricks to try and squeeze every last penny out of customers just hurt MS in the long run and create confusion.Apple...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, upper hand, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-11-20

A 1.4-gigapixel camera to detect asteroids

MIT engineers have developed silicon chips that will be at the heart of a telescope installed on Haleakala mountain, Maui, Hawaii, which will begin operation next month. The system, called Pan-STARRS for Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System, is being developed at the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy....

Tags: Asteroid, Camera, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Semiconductors, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille, Earth, Pixel, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Image, Chip, Pan-STARRS

Blog posts 2008-11-20

Simplified wireless networking (A deep dive into Windows 7)

Simplified wireless networking (A deep dive into Windows 7)Congratulations!You've won today's best SSID award: bottnet!:)RE: Simplified wireless networking (A deep dive into Windows 7)Microsoft Engineers told me back in 1994 that the mission was to go to some kind of subscription format if possible and if not they will...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Wi-Fi, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, wireless networking, Microsoft Windows Vista, wireless, Microsoft Windows, network, operating system, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-11-18

iPhone vs. Android development: Day 1

iPhone vs. Android development: Day 1Development environment requirementsDoes Apple give you the freedom to choose the OS you use to develop for the iPhone? Are you forced to use this Xcode application you wrote about or can you choose your favorite code editor?Does Google give you the freedom to choose...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Java development tools, Operating systems, Linux, Apple Mac OS, OPEN SOURCE, Apple iPhone, Day 1, Eclipse, Apple Xcode

Discussion threads 2008-11-17

What's driving women out of computer science?

What's driving women out of computer science?Apples and orangesYou start by comparing "all engineering disciplines" from 1984 to present, then look at current trends in CS.This totally misrepresents the fact that [b]current[/b] female enrollment in the other disciplines is also falling.Either compare CS in 1984 to CS today along with...

Tags: Gender and diversity, computer, women, computer science

Discussion threads 2008-11-17

How Intel's Nehalem will benefit AMD

How Intel's Nehalem will benefit AMDinteresting Paul...I hope you are right. I'd like to see AMD coming back to life. I personally don't care too much if Intel stays ahead of Intel. What I would like is that AMD becomes able to offer a good price/value product. Until now, AMD...

Tags: Desktops, Processors, benefit, Xenon, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Intel Nehalem, desktop

Discussion threads 2008-11-17

Engineering, tech 'suddenly sexy' for college grads

Engineering, tech 'suddenly sexy' for college gradsWe need more tech typesGood, let's get some investment back into technology and education. Far better than giving out badly thought out loans.Let's just hope that these students make better scientists, dealing with actual facts, than they did as business types making up...

Tags: Financial accounting, financial

Discussion threads 2008-11-15