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Faulty update crashes ZoneAlarm firewall

Faulty update crashes ZoneAlarm firewallHmmmm Proves my plumbing rule"The issue affected only the commercial ZoneAlarm Pro and ZoneAlarm Security Suite, he added. The free ZoneAlarm firewall does not include the Program Advisor feature and was thus not affected, he said." The more you tinker with the plumbing the easier...

Tags: Firewalls, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Hardware firewall, Unpredictability, ZoneAlarm, firewall, Zone Labs Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-06-10

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Windows 7: Now a late 2009 deliverable (again)

Windows 7: Now a late 2009 deliverable againI don't care about it. I stick with VistaI don't care about it. I stick with VistaRE: Windows 7: Now a late 2009 deliverable againThat will be nothing new, just think - another operating system delivered in beta status, with millions of people...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Well Let, Microsoft Windows 7, deliverable, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-05-28

Twitter: An IT failures management perspective

Twitter, the well-known social messaging service, has finally acknowledged the depth and severity of technical problems causing downtime and disruption to users. While such candor is refreshing, it also offers a glimpse into the kinds of management issues that underlie virtually all IT failures. ...

Tags: Information Technology, Twitter, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-05-26

BU astronomer sings about black holes, does cutting edge research

REALITY ABUSE (Words & Music by A. Marscher ©2003) 1. We search for a description of reality that fits our macroscopic mentality Strip the world down to its finest scales, but that where normal logic fails Electrons with no individuality, photons with wave-particle duality ...

Tags: Particle, Hole, Music, Team Management, Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-05-21

Will you be having sex with a robot in five years' time?

Will you be having sex with a robot in five years' time?Very disturbing but legitimate topicI think we're far from "marriage" with robots since robots with true AI and not intelligence imitation are far from reality. All too often is a clever algorithm mislabeled as "AI". Having robots...

Tags: Robots, robot, blow-up doll, doll

Discussion threads 2008-01-02

IDC Report -- Increasing Business Performance: Using Virtualization for SAP Applications on IBM System p Servers

Can your SAP platform handle the unpredictability of business? This IDC white paper captures the experiences of six large companies running SAP applications using IBM System p virtualization. Through first-person interviews, you'll learn how they ensured their technology could meet workload needs in real time and...

Tags: Performance, SAP AG, Server, International Data Corp., IBM Corp., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage

White papers 2008-01-01

The real issue in the software patent fight

The real issue in the software patent fightThis is why the issue NEEDS to come before the Supreme Court ...The legal basis of Software Patents has never been tested before the Supreme Court. The reason for that is that heretofore all of the litigants in Software Patent cases have...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, software, software patent

Discussion threads 2007-10-15

MS-ManiC: Microsoft steps up its multicore work

Microsoft officials have been talking up, as of late, the need for some fundamental changes in software design and development to accommodate the shift to many cores on client systems. There are several Microsoft Research projects focusing on various aspects of the many-core challenge. The newest and seemingly most far-reaching...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Multi-core, Memory System, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-08-23

The Design and Implementation of an IP-Based Sensor Network for Intrusion Monitoring

This paper presents an experimental deployment of an IP-based wireless sensor network that is intended to operate as an intrusion monitoring system. This network is the first actual deployment of a fully IP-based wireless sensor network with small and computationally constrained sensor nodes. The intrusion monitoring system detects motion in...

Tags: Network, Monitoring, Sensor, IP, Intrusion, Wireless, Intrusion Monitoring System, Networking

White papers 2007-01-01

Web 2.0 Summit: IBM evolves vision of SOA and Web 2.0

Web 2.0 Summit: IBM evolves vision of SOA and Web 2.0Can SLATES overcome the need for a science?Your blogs are a learning experience. However, this one favors a direction (Enterprise 2.0) for the future enterprise. The stakes are high. The corporate email population is over 600 million. Collaboration is poor....

Tags: Channel management, Strategy, IBM Corp., vision, replication technology, SOA, Web 2.0, USD, Web, collaboration, knowledge, information technology

Discussion threads 2006-11-13

Privacy, politics, and technology

My other favourite lunatic fringe site, the dailykos, has spent a lot of time and effort puffing a book by David H. Holtzman called "Privacy Lost: How Technology Is Endangering Your Privacy," offered for non-profit sale to educators via josseybass.com. The book itself, seems to raise...

Tags: Internet

Blog posts 2006-10-27

Office 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, and other numerological mysteries

Andrew McAfee, an associate professor at the Harvard Business School, is studying the effects of wikis, blogs, tag and predictive markets (which he calls Enterprise 2.0) on enterprises. He outlined some of his findings and definition Office 2.0 in a presentation at the Office 2.0 conference this morning."This is just...

Tags: McAfee Inc., Enterprise 2.0, Microsoft Office, Office 2.0

Blog posts 2006-10-11

Cisco Unified Communications Brings Special Effects to Vancouver Film Studios

Vancouver Film Studios, Canada's premier film and television product facility which has serviced many major motion pictures faces the varying challenges of a fluctuating economy, competition and general unpredictability head-on, constantly evolving the way the company does business in order to remain relevant in a fiercely competitive market. The company...

Tags: Unified Communications, Cisco Systems Inc.

Case studies 2006-09-13

Is MS Office patching scheme under siege?

Is MS Office patching scheme under siege?A side point...You could also say, they need to test more...A sign of the timesMS Office, like Windows itself, is so common and popular that it is inevitable that this sort of thing happens. Sad, but true.http://opendomain.blogspot.com/A true Black-Hat won't disclose anythingThere was an...

Tags: Patches, Microsoft Corp., flaw, security, Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2006-07-19

WebSphere Application Server Version 6.1: Advancing SOA for Greater Business Flexibility

Business flexibility refers to the ability to manage market volatility and unpredictability more effectively through the creation of flexible business models, processes, and infrastructures. By enabling businesses to cope with constant change, these flexible structures afford competitive advantage and drive business value. Increased business flexibility enables organizations to become "On...

Tags: IBM WebSphere, Application Server, Business Flexibility, Server, SOA, IBM WebSphere Application Server, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Middleware, Enterprise Software, Web Services, Software

White papers 2006-04-01

Turf Battles (exe)

Turf Battles offers fast-paced and rich PvP and PvE Player vs Environment in MMORPG. As the name implies, Turf Battles's PvP centers around the turfs, areas that can be owned by tribes. A turf can produce unique gems and items that are available almost entirely only in that turf. A...

Tags: Monster, Turf Battles, Modems, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2006-02-06

Hardware Today: Natural Disaster Survival Guide

It is doubtful many of the vehicles in the record-breaking traffic streaming out of New Orleans and Houston were evacuating servers from disaster. Savvy enterprises had already transferred data to a remote Disaster Recovery DR site to avoid losing it in power outages or flooding from the storms. At the...

Tags: Jupitermedia Corp., Hardware, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Data Management

White papers 2005-10-10

Using Game Theory to Analyze Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

The application of mathematical analysis to the study of wireless ad hoc networks has met with limited success due to the complexity of mobility and traffic models, the dynamic topology, and the unpredictability of link quality that characterize such networks. The ability to model individual, independent decision makers whose actions...

Tags: Virginia Tech, Theory, Network, Games, Wi-Fi, Networking, Wireless, Personal Technology

White papers 2005-08-29

On the death of SOAP

In a series of posts, Carlos Peres declares SOAP comatose, but notofficially dead and then adds a fewnails to the coffin. Says Carlos:Today, half a year since my prediction of the rise of REST and the fall ofSOAP, denial has been now replaced with panic. The RESTful approach has...

Tags: SoaP

Blog posts 2005-03-25

On the death of SOAP

In a series of posts, Carlos Peres declares SOAP comatose, but notofficially dead and then adds a fewnails to the coffin. Says Carlos:Today, half a year since my prediction of the rise of REST and the fall ofSOAP, denial has been now replaced with panic. The RESTful approach has...

Tags: SoaP

Blog posts 2005-03-25