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- A sneak peek at the Pulse smart pen
- The digital pen company aims to succeed where others have failed. CNET News.com's Ina Fried gets a sneak peek at the Pulse smart pen from Livescribe CEO Jim Margraff.
- Tags: Peek, News.com, ina fried, livescribe, computer, pen, ink, paper, notebook
- Videos 2008-01-28
- Network Design paper: IS 280 - Data Communications Systems
- The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that one can design a simple household network and explain it on paper. The title of the paper shall be "Home Network Design for X" where X is replaced by the name of the person for whom the network is intended. Typically...
- Tags: Paper, Network, Network Design, Networking
- White papers 2007-10-29
- Everything you've read about Vista DRM is wrong (Part 3)
- This is the final installment in my series debunking Peter Gutmann's widely read and undeservedly cited paper on Vista content protection. (If you missed Part 1 and Part 2, go read them before you dive into this conclusion.) Today, I want to deal head-on with one of the most...
- Tags: Paper, HDMI, PC, Digital-rights Management, Output, NVidia Corp., Codec, Microsoft Windows Vista, Video, Microsoft Corp., Hardware, 1080p, Peter Gutmann, HD, Laptop Magazine, DVI, D-CINEMA, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2007-09-20
- Lustre Networking
- This paper provides information about Lustre networking LNET that can be used to plan cluster file system deployments for optimal performance and scalability. This paper reviews Lustre message passing, Lustre Network Drivers LNDs, and routing in Lustre networks and describe how these can be used to improve cluster storage management....
- Tags: Paper, File System, Cluster File Systems, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-07-01
- Hair Types (exe)
- Determining Your Hair Type Shampoo your hair properly before a day you undertake this test. Take a tissue paper and press it on the center of the head and behind the ears. If you find traces of oil on the tissue paper then your hair is oily or else dry....
- Tags: Paper
- Software downloads 2007-06-19
- Tabbing Through ODS
- This paper will describe the challenging question of aligning variables in ODS reporting and why and how with the aid of tabbing a control word in RTF the difficulty will be solved. Throughout the duration of this paper, ODS destination RTF is assumed unless otherwise indicated. Familiarity with proc report...
- Tags: Paper, SAS Institute, ODS
- White papers 2007-05-14
- Maximum Performance From XPS Documents
- This paper describes how to create and process XPS documents efficiently. This paper will help application and printer-driver developers understand some of the more common issues and avoid the problems that can be encountered when creating XPS documents so that users of their applications can have the best customer experience....
- Tags: Paper, Application, Performance, XML Paper Specification, XML, Performance Management, Productivity, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2007-04-04
- GoScan (zip)
- Are you still mailing your paper. Mailing your paper is slow, expensive insecure and it can be lost. Scan your paper and send it with GoScan. Enter the number of pages and press the big green GO button. Its that simple. Barcode capability provides smart indexing capability. Its that smart....
- Tags: Paper, GoScan, Scanners, Hardware, Peripherals
- Software downloads 2007-03-15
- Geographical Statistics and Characteristics of P2P Query Strings
- P2P file-sharing applications are quickly being adopted by a wider and more mainstream audience. There is much to be learned from keyword searches users perform in order to retrieve content from these networks. This paper presents a large-scale measurement study of search terms in the modern Gnutella network. This paper...
- Tags: Paper, Gnutella, Network, P2P, File-sharing, Peer To Peer (P2P), Networking, Internet
- White papers 2007-01-23
- Next step in e-voting: printers that don't jam
- The widespread use of e-voting machines yielded a backlash among voters. Most election officials have opted for system that include a paper audit trail, so voters can check that their votes were entered in the electronic machine as intended. But that solution is creating another low-tech glitch, AP reports...
- Tags: e-voting, Elections, Government technology, paper, printer, State &, Local Govt
- Blog posts 2006-12-21
- I, Robot wants his equal rights
- In what seems like a story lifted out of a science fiction novel, the British government has released a speculative paper warning that robots may one day demand their emancipation from humans, reports the Associated Press Robots may think for themselves and want to be treated as full-fledged citizens...
- Tags: Government technology, paper, robot
- Blog posts 2006-12-20
- Who wrote that scientific paper?
- If your best friends name is Bill Gates, you probably have some difficulties to find him online using a search engine. Too many results will point to you to the richest man on the planet. In the scientific world, things can be even worse. Imagine a guy named John Doe...
- Tags: Jian Huang
- Blog posts 2006-12-18
- Changes in e-voting afoot but who will foot the bill?
- With new federal guidelines on e-voting machines and widespread voter discontent, changes at the polling place are a sure thing for the 2008 Presidential election, The New York Times reports. "In the next two years I think well see the kinds of sweeping changes that people expected to see...
- Tags: Elections, State &, Local Govt, Government technology, paper
- Blog posts 2006-12-11
- Despite compromise, paperless e-voting machines are history
- On his blog Freedom to Tinker, Prof. Ed Felten praises the new standards approved by the Technical Guidelines Development Committee TGDC.. While disappointed that the panel didnt require the removal of paperless e-voting machines, Felten thinks that states will phase out all-electronic machines in favor to the "state of the...
- Tags: Ed Felten, Elections, Government technology, paper
- Blog posts 2006-12-08
- Politicos: MD will switch to paper audit systems in '08
- Maryland - one of the states that relied on 100% electronic voting machines - will likely move to a verifiable paper record for the 2008 presidential election, politicians predicted yesterday, according to the Baltimore Sun. State Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller, who was viewed as a main obstacle...
- Tags: Mike Miller, Aviel Rubin, paper
- Blog posts 2006-12-05
- Pa. high court says no right to view cellphone records
- Does a newspaper have a right to view an elected representatives cellphone records when the phone bill is paid for by the public? No, the Pennslvania Supreme Court as ruled. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that the Herald-Standard and former reporter Paul Sunyak sued state Rep. Larry Roberts in...
- Tags: Government technology, Open government, Larry Roberts, paper
- Blog posts 2006-12-01
- A Generic Application-Level Protocol Analyzer and Its Language
- The Shield project relied on application protocol analyzers to detect potential exploits of application vulnerabilities. This paper presents the design of a second-generation Generic Application-level Protocol Analyzer GAPA that encompasses a domain-specific language and the associated run-time. This paper designed GAPA to satisfy three important goals: safety, real-time analysis and...
- Tags: Paper, Analysis
- White papers 2006-11-30
- Optimal Scheduling for OFDMA Systems
- This paper considers a scheduling and resource allocation problem for the downlink of an OFDMA-based wireless network, where the channel estimation error is modeled by a self-noise term in the decoding process. During each time-slot this involves selecting a subset of users for transmission, determining the assignment of available subcarriers...
- Tags: Algorithm, Paper, Princeton University, OFDMA, Engineering
- White papers 2006-11-24
- Best Practices for IP Workload Distribution in an IBM zSeries Server Environment
- This white paper documents the results of an interoperability testing initiative. It should be noted that the implementation of any component illustrated in this paper neither constitutes nor represents the respective component's only possible implementation. It is beyond the scope of this paper to exhaustively document each component's full spectrum...
- Tags: Paper, IBM zSeries, Environment, IP, Best Practice, IBM Corp., Mainframes, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2006-11-20
- About those voting machines ...
- Writing in Forbes, security expert Bruce Schneier says electronic voting machines are flat-out "a grave threat to fair and accurate elections." Much of our election security is based on "security by competing interests." Every step, with the exception of voters completing their single anonymous ballots, is witnessed by someone...
- Tags: e-voting, security
- Blog posts 2006-11-13
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