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Microsoft confirms Windows shuffle

Microsoft confirms Windows shuffleGiven the security problems, bugs, and the Linux threat, a smart move.But probably too little too late. They were busy trying to lock in customers and create every posible type of application and bolt it to the OS. That turned out to be a disaster and now...

Tags: Servers, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., server, tire, Wally, PHB, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Dilbert, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2003-12-15

Microsoft delivers rights management tool

Microsoft delivers rights management toolHoly Moley these new talkbacks suckWOW! 18 grand for an "external connector license." I don't see adoption rates for this skyrocketing anytime soon.We are deploying this..I have my top-Top-TOP MCSE's on this already, locking down everything. I also deleted our legal departments Wordperfect installation directory....

Tags: Word processors, Servers, WRMS, Microsoft Corp., information technology, PHB, rights-management

Discussion threads 2003-11-04

Additional Resources

My first day with Firefox 3

My first day with Firefox 3Add-onsSo what's the magic to getting your add-ons working again? Most of mine are disabled awaiting updates that have yet to arrive.A Pint of Guinness for Everyone on the Mozilla Team!Great Effort Mozilla Team!Aye! :)"be leery of new software"Come off it Dana, that's just...

Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, first day, FF3

Discussion threads 2008-06-18

Impact of Precedence Enabled Per Hop Behaviors on TCP Flows

In the Department of Defense's DoD Global Information Grid GIG transport network, packet handling must provide preferential transport to high Precedence traffic under all networking conditions, specifically conditions of resource scarcity, e.g., network overload conditions, while simultaneously satisfying packet scheduling required to meet application Quality of Service QoS needs. The...

Tags: QoS, Network, TCP, Johns Hopkins University

White papers 2007-05-16

Windows vs. Unix: the resolution

Windows vs. Unix: the resolutionThere is nothing new under the SunHuman nature and behavior is very complex, though not actually a microsoft guy, but you can not actually blame Microsoft for seizing all the oppurtunity available to it. If the writer has similar situation will he not utilize it? if...

Tags: Operating systems, Linux, Microsoft development tools, Programming languages, Microsoft Corp., Unix, marketing, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-03-22

AMPS - ANStool: Interoperability of Automated Tools for the Provisioning of QoS Services

Modern IP-based packet networks carry a number of varying services, and one of their crucial aspects is the implementation of Quality of Service QoS techniques. Packet networks that support QoS can accommodate simultaneously different traffic types, such as data, voice, and video, by handling time-critical traffic appropriately at congestion points....

Tags: Interoperability, QoS, Provisioning, Tool, University Of Patras, Packet Network, Networking

White papers 2007-01-31

Telecommuting, Telecomputing, Telework – why are you AT work today?

Telecommuting, Telecomputing, Telework – why are you AT work today?Same old, same oldFirst, a little historical accuracy. I coined the words 'telecommuting' and 'telework' in 1973, so telecommuting didn't suddenly spring onto the world stage in the 1990s. It had been growing for two decades before then. We quantitatively demonstrated...

Tags: telecommuting, home office

Discussion threads 2006-01-18

Google phishing scam promises a $400 windfall

Google phishing scam promises a $400 windfallUmmm..... how about "duh!"I can't imagine anyone actually biting on something like this. You would have to be an absolute sap. Stuff like this actually works?? Wow.Funny ...... that what gets these saps is the same thing getting them - greed...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, SECURITY, Google Inc., phishing, Google-bomb, Google phishing scam

Discussion threads 2005-11-08

Introduction to Differentiated Services (DiffServ) and HP-UX IPQoS

The Differentiated Services DiffServ or DS model classifies and, if needed, conditions traffic streams to conform to specified levels of service as defined by Service Level Agreements SLAs. A DS Domain is defined by a contiguous set of nodes provisioned with the same service policies and PHB definitions. The classification...

Tags: HP-UX, Hewlett-Packard Co., Node, DS Domain, Service Level Management, UNIX, Networking, Operating Systems, Servers, It Operations, It service Management, Software, Hardware

White papers 2005-11-01

Testers get hands on Microsoft antivirus service

Testers get hands on Microsoft antivirus serviceNow Microsoft will burn down forests to drum up businessNothing like the fox guarding..isn't it funny how it always winds up that way in the end?Testers get hands on Microsoft antivirus serviceMicrosoft taking that proactive approach to PC security once again. Thats what...

Tags: SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft antivirus service, antivirus

Discussion threads 2005-07-20

Europe rejects patent proposal

Europe rejects patent proposalGreat News!Chalk one up for the people and freedom.The proposed patent scheme is a tool to create innovation/competition destroying monopolies.Of course it's never over. The companies who support this will never stop trying to force through their agenda.Man, this is great. And almost unanimous.We won't see this...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Corp., patent, software, patent protection, democracy, job

Discussion threads 2005-07-06

Will computing flow like electricity?

Will computing flow like electricity?Is there a single example where grid is used?A recent study of major pharmaceuticals has shown almost no interest in grid. Everyone keeps blaming culture, but ignore the technical difficulties of grid. On an economic front, does it make sense to save a million...

Tags: grid

Discussion threads 2005-06-17

Where should security live?

Where should security live?Human trustLast year NASA and others computers were hacked by a teen in Sweden. This was done though a gateway. Cisco routers in fact. Code was also posted on a Russian web site. The question is "Who" forgot to release/patch the software on...

Tags: security

Discussion threads 2005-05-20

Microsoft gunning for Adobe's PDF format?

Microsoft gunning for Adobe's PDF format?The important thing about MetroIs that it will be arriving after the Consent Decree expires.We heard this story 15 years ago with TrueType & PostScript® fontsGee, haven't we been down this road before, when Apple & MS created TrueType outline typefaces to circumvent Adobe's PostScript®...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Adobe PDF, TrueType

Discussion threads 2005-05-03

Some (vague) analyst advice for an OS switch

Some vague analyst advice for an OS switchEncouraging signWhen main line "analyst" firms are taking a neutral bias on Linux then you can safely assume Linux was the right move two years ago. Analysts aren't paid for taking chances, they're paid for telling PHB's what they want to hear....

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, ROI/TCO, operating system, Linux

Discussion threads 2005-04-01

Fact and fiction in the Microsoft-SCO relationship

Fact and fiction in the Microsoft-SCO relationshipInteresting article..Seeing as SCO has changed their lawsuit claims more times than I have changed underpants it is quite interesting that a company that is so strong in their case is protecting their income from the law sharks.I found the article very interesting as...

Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, e-mail, BayStar, SCO Group Inc., Microsoft Corp., RBC, Goldfarb

Discussion threads 2004-11-15

Expert: Online extortion growing more common

Expert: Online extortion growing more commonBad Code"Applications breaking after patching is the operating system vendor's fault," he said." Bullcrap! There can be JUST as much crappy programming in applications as are in the OS (M$ blurs that distinction). If app writers don't write to the standard interfaces, then crap happens...

Tags: Operating systems, SECURITY, operating system

Discussion threads 2004-10-08

Wanted: Simple home security

Wanted: Simple home securityPEBKACProblem Exists Between Keyboard And ChairAs long as little Johnnie can launch that bad URL or detach from an email that he shouldn't detach from the security service is gonna be useless.At the very least every broadband user should have a cable/dsl router between the modem and...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Routers & switches, Network technology, Mozilla/Firefox, NAT firewall router, security, Linux, router, AlphaShield, Internet Service Provider

Discussion threads 2004-10-06

AT&T looks into closing its Windows

AT&T looks into closing its WindowsInteresting.....I guess we have 2 wait and see how much the transition will cost and the costs of retraining tens of thousands users who have been using Windows for years. Or could this be way to leverage MS to lower prices. I think so.Not too...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Now-What, GUESS IT, AT&T Corp., Apple Macintosh, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2004-10-05

Plugging the Linux holes

Plugging the Linux holesLinux still a way to go.I hope Linux gains enough traction to give windows a lot of competition, it will be good for everybody including those like me who are likely to be stuck with Windows.Why am I stuck with Windows1) Drivers I have a Kodak webcam...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2004-04-30