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Vidosystem G.729 Acm Codec Driver (exe)

Vidosystem offers implementations of G.729A audio codec. The implementation is in acm driver of windows. Fully compatible with Windows RTC protocol SIP Protocol.G.729 is well known as best codec ever. G.729 will give best audio quality over voip. Based on renowned Code Excited Linear Prediction CELP coding model, G.729 is...

Tags: Implementation, Codec, ACM, G.729, G.729A, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2006-08-29

ISMS Implementation Guide

This paper can serve as a guideline for the implementation of ISMS practices using BS7799 / ISO 27001 standards. To give an insight and help those who are implementing this for the first time and for those who will be coordinating with external consultants for ISMS implementations in their organizations....

Tags: Audit, GNU, Free Software Foundation, Implementation, UNIX, Open Source, Financial Accounting, Operating Systems, Software, Finance

White papers 2006-07-01

IPNET: IPv4/IPv6 Dual-Mode TCP/IP Stack

Many of the Internet protocols have traditionally only been available to workstation-class computers without any resource constraints. Interpeak now introduces IPNET, a full featured IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack, specifically designed to be used in modern embedded real time systems. Interpeak IPNET supports IPv6, which extends the current IP protocol specification in a...

Tags: Implementation, IP, IPNET IPv6 Implementation, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Networking, Network Technology, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

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Using Read-Copy-Update Techniques for System V IPC in the Linux 2.5 Kernel

Read-Copy Update RCU allows lock-free read-only access to data structures that are concurrently modified on SMP systems. Despite the concurrent modifications, read-only access requires neither locks nor atomic instructions, and can often be written as if the data were unchanging, in a "CS 101" style. RCU is typically applied to...

Tags: Implementation, Kernel, IBM Corp., RCU, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software

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Exploring the Performance of the Myrinet PC-Cluster on Linux

Both the Infiniband and the Virtual Interface Architecture VIA aim at providing effective cluster communication. However, the specification of the former does not define APIs. It contains an abstract description of the protocol verbs. The dependence of an implementation on the various features of the hardware, firmware, and software are...

Tags: Performance, Implementation, Specification, Virtual Interface Architecture, InfiniBand, Linux, Performance Management, Networking, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management

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Google Chrome vulnerabilities starting to pile up

Security vulnerabilities in the new Google Chrome browser is beginning to pile up. Following our coverage of the carpet bombing combo threat and denial-of-service crashes, several readers have sent pointers to Chrome exploit code floating around the Web: First up is an automatic file...

Tags: Google Inc., Vulnerability, Web Browser, Google Chrome, ModSecurity, Web Browsers, Security, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Microsoft exec rebuts hypervisor security claims

Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley has answered claims that the company's hypervisor software could be maliciously replaced on PCs without administrators knowing. SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA--Senior Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley has used the vendor's TechEd conference in Sydney to rebut claims by a Polish researcher that Microsoft's hypervisor software could...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Hardware, Liam Tung ZDNet Australia, rootkit, hypervisor, Joanna Rutkowska, security

News items 2008-09-05

Dell repair adventure, conclusion

Well, our hero's story had a happy ending. The service tech came out to my office and replaced both the motherboard and the screen on my Dell laptop. After than magic was performed, the system booted up and ran just as it did before. I appreciate the help provided by...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Supplier, Digital Equipment Corp., Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-09-05

News to know: Windows 7; Patch preview; Office 2.0; Dell

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Critical WMP, MS Office bugs on Patch Tuesday swat list Dancho Danchev:Malware and spam attacks exploiting Picasa and ImageShack Mary Jo Foley:...

Tags: Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Comcast Corp., Microsoft Corp., Office 2.0, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-05

21% of CIOs expect their security budgets to increase

21% of Forrester survey respondents expect to increase their IT security budgets in 2009, while nearly three-quarters of those surveyed expect no cutbacks in their security spending. Only 6% of respondents anticipate having to cut their security budget 2009 despite the current economic uncertainty. Security makes up 10% of overall...

Tags: Information Technology, Security, AM

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Cablevision blankets Long Island with Wi-Fi

Cablevision Systems, one of the biggest cable providers in the New York City metro area, announced that it's completed the first stage of a massive Wi-Fi network project called Optimum WiFi that will eventually cover the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut tri-state area. The company says that its wireless networking equipment now...

Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Microsoft finally earns a passing grade (barely) for WGA

Microsoft launched its Windows Genuine Advantage WGA anti-piracy program in early summer 2006. Its first year was, to put it charitably, a disaster. An epic fail. A big fat F on the year's report card. Things didn't get much better in 2007, either, as a server failure and other outages...

Tags: Report, Activation, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Microsoft Windows Vista, Product Key, Microsoft Corp., Forum, Product ID Number, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Is Microsoft is putting Windows 7 on a diet?

As part of Microsoft's mission to insure that Windows 7 and Windows Live Wave 3 are joined at the hip, Microsoft is exorcising features that used to be part of Windows from the operating system by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-09-04

SocialCast: enterprise Twitter/FriendFeed mashup

SocialCast has revamped its group comms service, given it a facelift, aligned itself more closely to consumery apps like Twitter and FriendFeed and then given it an enterprise twist. As far as I am aware, this is the first enterprise facing application that has gotten close...

Tags: Enterprise, Mashup, SocialCast, Pricing, Sales Force Management, Branding, Wiki, Marketing Research, Marketing, Sales, Online Communications, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Critical WMP, MS Office bugs on Patch Tuesday swat list

Microsoft today announced plans to ship four security bulletins next Tuesday (September 9, 2008) to cover worm holes affecting Windows users. All four bulletins in September's Patch Tuesday will be rated "critical," Microsoft's highest severity rating.  A "critical" rating is used to rate a vulnerability that can...

Tags: Windows Media, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-09-04

The power of standard protocols

I've spent the past few months as the primary developer at a very small company. An important technology to this company is Instant Messaging, as it plays an essential part in our approach to unified messaging. This has meant that I have had to build, in-house, our...

Tags: IM, Jabber, Protocol, XMPP, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Wireless Access: What Price Speed

Is Verizon missing a trick in its trench warfare with Cablevision? Or has the maverick cable operator found an Achilles heel in the telephone operator's methods of providing TV, phone and particularly Internet access to customers in the New York area – and possibly nationwide? One...

Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., Broadband, Wireless Access, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Broadband Internet, Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-09-04

First 'Fiji' Media Center systems start rolling out

As Microsoft watchers may recall, Microsoft's gag order on "Fiji" Windows Media Center TV Pack was slated to officially end this week, concurrent with the CEDIA Expo show. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Media Center PC, Media, Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Corp., Fiji, Media Center PCs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Red Hat acquires Qumranet

I just received a press release telling me that one of my clients, Qumranet, has been acquired by Red Hat.This was not entirely unexpected. Here's what the release said Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced...

Tags: Red Hat Inc., Qumranet Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Analyst: Google Chrome 'SOA ready'

There's been plenty of excellent commentary about Google's new Chrome browser provided by my colleagues here in the ZDNet community, so I'm not going to go into any nitty-gritty here. But to look at it from an enterprise perspective, Chrome may help lay the groundwork for a...

Tags: Google Inc., Client-server, SOA, Web Browser, Computing, Dave Linthicum, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Web Browsers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-09-04