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Why Flash and Silverlight will save the web

Flash and Silverlight are viewed in some circles as undermining a free and open Internet. The truth, however, is that both technologies are part of the process by which we map out a problem domain sufficiently, laying the groundwork for standardization committees of the future. Deviation from standards,...

Tags: Web, W3C, Microsoft Silverlight, Technology, Paul Ellis, Standardization Committee, Problem Domain, Channel Management, Marketing, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-07-15

Flawed Symantec update cripples Chinese PCs

Flawed Symantec update cripples Chinese PCsBloatwareJust installing Symantec on your PC will Cripple it. Removed it from my machines at work years ago.Told ya so!Symantec *is* the malware, not the remover.Symantec is junkI stopped using Norton 2 years ago and have never looked back. Been using kaspersky ever since....

Tags: SECURITY, Cyberthreats, problem domain, Norton AV, Norton Co., Symantec Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-05-24

High Performance Direct-Iterative Hybrid Linear Solution Method for Large Scale Structural Analysis

In this paper, hybrid direct-iterative linear solution method is proposed to solve large-scale structural analysis problem. Direct solution method is common to finite element structural analysis, but it has some disadvantage compared with iterative method. Iterative method is quite good performance to solve large scale problem, so they can combine...

Tags: Method, High-performance, Analysis, Solution Method, Problem Domain

White papers 2007-05-05

Thoughts on standards

A lot of people are of the opinion that there should be only one standard for any particular problem domain. You hear that most often from people in the ODF camp (though that might be somewhat self-serving), but you even hear it to a certain extent from fans of HTML...

Tags: ODF, General, Economic Policy

Blog posts 2007-04-19

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Microsoft isn't the only one developing a hardware-accelerated browser

It is a dumb idea.WAIT! Firefox and Chrome teams are looking to do the same?What a brilliant idea!I smell a large scale patent war brewingThis will be one that catches everybody's attention, not just the people who work in the industry.I'd bet that Office goes hardware-rendered, tooI'd bet that Office...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, IE9, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer, hardware, Web browser

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

What if the search-index was run by a non-profit? GOOG founders once supported that idea

Soloution looking for a problemReread the tragedy of the commons. This is a bad idea. If different search companies have different businesses listed that will give rise to meta search engines that search the search engines and produce combined results in a single context.There is already a Firefox plugin...

Tags: SEARCH, search engine, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Let's get rid of usernames and passwords for good

RE: Let's get rid of usernames and passwords for goodIf you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology. -Bruce SchneierCommon sense & best practicesFirst off social networking sites are a DISASTER waiting to happen, private data into a...

Tags: password, security

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Apple's app approval revolt: Will it matter? Maybe

Once somebody matches the ease of the App store,Create a desktop application which makes it brain-dead simple to buy, install, arrange, and sync software and multimedia content with the Droid and it will take off like crazy. That's about the only thing the iPhone has over the Droid at this...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Digital music, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, developer

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Should search engines pay tribute to content?

Why?Why should Google have to pay "royalties" for showing people their way to content on the internet? Should Digg.com and Delicious.com have to do the same thing? If I put a link or links on my website, to say Foxnews.com, does that mean I should have to pay Murdoch royalties...

Tags: INTERNET, Web site development, Web technology, search engine, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

VeriSign sets timetable to fix DNS hole

VeriSign has said a significant outstanding internet security vulnerability will be closed by 2011, after delays caused by technical aspects of the implementation. VeriSign has said a significant outstanding internet security vulnerability will be closed by 2011, after delays caused by technical aspects of the implementation. ...

Tags: DNS, VeriSign Inc., Internet Security, Internet, Domain Names, Security, VeriSign, security, Tom Espiner

News items 2009-11-16

VisualRoute 2010 14.0a (Windows)

VisualRoute combines the tools traceroute, ping, reverse DNS, and Whois into a single graphical interface that analyzes Internet connections to quickly locate where outages or slowdowns occur. An IP location database identifies the geographical location of IP addresses and Web servers, showing the path of an Internet connection on a...

Tags: Internet Connection, Network, IP, Server, Whois, Microsoft Windows, Hop, Visualware, VisualRoute, IP Location Database, Internet, Web Servers, Networking, Network Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-15

VisualRoute 2009 Advanced 14.0a (Windows)

VisualRoute 2009 Advanced combines the tools traceroute, ping, and Whois into an easy-to-use graphical interface that analyzes Internet connectivity, identifying where bottlenecks or outages occur. The popular IP locator capability identifies the actual location of IP addresses - key information for investigating/reporting hackers and suspects. VisualRoute 2009 Advanced also provides...

Tags: IP, Whois, Microsoft Windows, Visualware, VisualRoute 2009 Advanced, IP Locator Capability, E-mail, Network Technology, Networking, Online Communications

Software downloads 2009-11-15

Microsoft probing Windows 7 zero-day hole

I hope Jeremy got some sleep last nightbecause he probably won't be getting much in the near future.first of many zillionsis there anything worse than being MS security programmer?poor bastards.YesYeah, being a mindless repetitive troll.yeah, being a poor Mac user. yeah, being a poor Mac user....

Tags: Wireless LANs, Firewalls, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, zero-day hole, Wi-Fi, Microsoft Windows, firewall

Discussion threads 2009-11-12

Microsoft whittles away at Oslo; now plans to fold it into SQL Server

Let's wait for PDC09 firstOk, it's a fact that the Oslo umbrella has little left of the glory it once had. On the other hand, the original plan would never have yielded a stable, full-featured product or a set of products in v1. If the new direction results in shipping...

Tags: Databases, Enterprise software, Servers, OK IT, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SQL Server, server

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

Which should a small business choose: Windows Home Server or Windows Server Foundation?

CompetitionThe $1000 Mac-Mini with Snow Leopard Server and no user-count limits may have inspired the outreach.That depends on your needs.WHS is a great solution for file sharing and/or client backups. It's backup feature is a strong selling point, IMO. It would be nice to see this extended to every version...

Tags: Backups, Servers, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Home Server, WHS, server, backup, small business, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

House bill calls for ISPs to block some fake financial sites

Good grief!Now the BIG LETHARGIC Gov is going to tell people what sites they can go to and tell ISP's to block them???GOOD GRIEF! It is out of control, 2010 is coming and these socialist will be sent back home... AHHHH the sound of 1984 is very much alive..and well...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Government, Internet Service Provider, fake financial site, financial

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

ICANN goes global, expands domains to characters beyond A-Z

RE:ICANN goes global, expands domains to characters beyond A-ZDoes this mean if we don't have that particular character set installed, we can't get to some URIs?Gov called, ICANN's execution date is postponed.This is merely ICANN's dying throws. Everyone heavily involved in the net knows that South Korea was months...

Tags: INTERNET, ICANN, Japanese Characters, A-Z

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

What the DoD now says about open source

I could just see a commander in the field ....having to wait for procurement to get a simple map through bids while his troops are getting shot up even though it is publicly available (oh wait, isn't that how the Chinese embassy got accidentally bombed?)Always use the best tool for...

Tags: Linux, UNIX, Operating systems, Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Spyware, adware & malware, U.S. Department of Defense, open source, OpenBSD, attack

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

iPhone app review: Mantis Bible Study

boo!if i wanted religion, i would have gone to my nearest parish. cmon zdnet, this is a business tech site, not jesus's facebookWhy is software excluded from'tech' just because it happens to be for religious purposes? Are you saying that software made by, dare I say it, religious people...

Tags: Bible

Discussion threads 2009-10-25

What Windows7 could mean for Linux

Success becomes a problemIf Win7 is as trouble-free as advertised, then there will be a mass-migration to it. This will make M$ great money in the short term. But once customers are there, they are less likely to EVER upgrade again! They are "happy" with XP now - save for...

Tags: SOAP, Content management, Groupware, Collaboration, Azure, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft SharePoint, Windows Communication Foundation, Microsofts, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-10-24