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- A definition (layout, blueprint, design) of hardware or software. See specs and functional specification.
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- Get ready for the Energy Star 5.0 barrage: Let the testing begin
- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star 5.0 specification officially goes into effect on July 1, so steel yourselves for a flood of activity proclaiming support for the new standard. Some of the products you'll hear about, like a bunch of notebooks, desktops and monitors from Lenovo, have actually...
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- Dell follows HP in certifying servers against new Energy Star server spec
- There hasn't been all that information released so far by the major hardware OEMs about how their server technology stands up against version 1 of an Energy Star specification for servers that was adopted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA a bit more than a month ago. HP was...
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- Bookdog 5.3.3 (Mac)
- Bookdog is the complete bookmarks manager for your Mac. Bookdog manages the bookmarks you have in Camino del.icio.us Firefox 1.5-2 Firefox 3 Google Bookmarks OmniWeb Opera Netscape Safari Shiira 2.0 or later Managing bookmarks includes: Sorting to your specifications Keeping them sorted, by its built-in...
- Software downloads 2009-06-14
- Me too! ZigBee low-power spec also gets nod from health alliance
- Turns out that Bluetooth isn't the only low-power network specification to be approved by the Continua Health Alliance. The group has also approved ZigBee Health Care for use as a low-power LAN standard. The technology will be used for sensor and control applications in homes, recreation centers and across healthcare...
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- SATA Revision 3.0 paves way for 6Gb/s devices
- The Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO) has released the new Serial ATA Revision 3.0 specification. This new specification opens the way up for devices to transfer a whopping 6Gb/s ... in theory at least. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2009-05-28
- Requirement Scribe 1.1 (Mac)
- As a provider of professional services, you can find yourself writing a lot of requirement specification documents. They can take hours or days to compose and most share common components as many jobs are similar with only slight variation. Wouldn't you rather use a solution that simplifies the process and...
- Software downloads 2009-04-12
- Cooling Strategies for IT Wiring Closets and Small Rooms
- Cooling for IT wiring closets is rarely planned and typically only implemented after failures or overheating occur. An appropriate specification for cooling IT wiring closets should assure compatibility with anticipated loads, provide unambiguous instruction for design and installation of cooling equipment, prevent oversizing, maximize electrical efficiency, and be flexible enough...
- White papers 2009-04-08
- CablePro 5.3 (Windows)
- CablePro is an interactive software application designed to aid voice and data cabling professionals in documenting or writing detailed cabling specifications. CablePro is the ideal tool to transcribe mechanical/electrical or architectural/engineering drawings, blueprints, and graphical representation of cable requirements. In addition, CablePro can aid in producing a written 'cabling specification'...
- Software downloads 2009-01-12
- Experiences With Specification-Based Intrusion Detection
- Specification-based intrusion detection, where manually specified program behavioral specifications are used as a basis to detect attacks, have been proposed as a promising alternative that combine the strengths of misuse detection accurate detection of known attacks and anomaly detection ability to detect novel attacks. However, the question of whether this...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- SPECT Imaging
- The client had aggressive timelines and was looking for a vendor with the right set of skills to help it meet DICOM and Interfile compliance standards. Blue Star Infotech BSI with its prior expertise on this subject was well-equipped to handle this. One of the main challenges in this project...
- Case studies 2008-11-20
- CmUML - A UML Based Framework for Formal Specification of Concurrent, Reactive Systems
- Complex software systems possess concurrent and reactive behaviors requiring precise specifications prior to development. Lamport's transition axiom method is a formal specification method which combines axiomatic and operational approaches. On the other hand Unified Modeling Language UML, a de facto industry standard visual language, lacks suitable constructs and semantics regarding...
- White papers 2008-11-01
- SAT - Specification Analysis Tool 1.2 (Windows)
- The need for good specifications has been apparent for over 2 decades. Until now the process of writing good specification text has been manually intensive with reviews lasting days or weeks. SAT is a revolutionary tool to help you develop clean useful specifications with clear, complete, consistent, and testable requirements....
- Software downloads 2008-10-23
- Extending WS-Agreement for Dynamic Negotiation of Service Level Agreements
- Services in commercial or scientific environments often need to be delivered at guaranteed service level. This becomes even more important, if composition of services is required. WS-Agreement is a proposed recommendation of the Open Grid Forum OGF defining a language and a protocol to create SLAs. As the current version...
- White papers 2008-08-29
- An Introduction to Real-Time Java Technology: Part 1, the Real-Time Specification for Java (JSR 1)
- Real-time computing is often associated with high speed, but this is only one part of the picture. At its core, real-time computing is about predictability - the knowledge that the system will always perform within the required time frame. The deadlines involved need not be very short - though they...
- White papers 2008-07-01
- Intel: Enough with the whining; We're not holding back USB 3.0
- Has there ever been a technology specification that didn't have some drama involved? Intel is trying to remove a little drama from USB 3.0, which will be a faster version of previous generations. As a quick refresher. USB 3.0 is the newfangled spec for USB connections. It's...
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- Operation-State Modeling: The Busy Developer's Guide to Writing Service Specifications
- An operation-state model describes a service interface consistently and in detail. Whether a service implementation conforms with an operation-state model is objectively verifiable. A service specification with an operation-state model is better than one without. The problems that plague a prose specification (inconsistency, incoherency, subjectivity, and vagueness) ultimately lead to...
- White papers 2008-06-10
- Cause-Effect Graphs for Test Models Based on UML and OCL
- The primary goal of testing is to detect as many faults of a System Under Test SUT as possible. For that, the behaviour of the SUT is compared to a behaviour specification. In model-based testing, such specifications are models (e.g. instances of the UML). For automatic test generation, models can...
- White papers 2008-05-29
- Service Oriented Architecture to Manage Units of Learning Based on the IMS LD Specification
- A learning design describes the method that enables learners to achieve learning objectives after carrying out a set of activities using the resources of an environment. Among the current proposals, the IMS Learning Design IMS LD (IMS Consortium, 2003) specification has emerged as the de facto standard that facilitates the...
- White papers 2008-05-16
- Adobe Open Screen Project
- Adobe is making a couple of big announcements today that relate to our openness and the openness of the Flash Player. Starting today, there will be no restrictions on the use of the SWF specification or the FLV and F4V specifications that make up video in Flash. Previously, in order...
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- Uncle Hextor 1 (Windows)
- Uncle Hextor is a hex editor which allows files larger than available RAM to be edited. It also has features which support reverse engineering binary files. Unknown files are annotated with a markup editor, and the description is saved to an XML specification. Other programs that can read the XML...
- Software downloads 2008-04-10
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