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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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News to know: Vizio; Apple-Psystar; Buffett; Facebook status; Palm Pre; AT&T

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sean Portnoy: Vizio spills the beans on its Internet TV plans Sam Diaz: Court allows Apple-Psystar case to resume...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Facebook, Hewlett-Packard Co., Palm Inc., AT&T Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Data Centers, Software As A Service (SaaS), Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Emerging Technologies, Security, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-06-25

Global warming: predicting unpredictability

Global warming: predicting unpredictabilityWell...To say that soil moisture doesn't affect convection would be a lie... but it is a very small effect compared to the large-scale circulation. The primary driver of the rainy-season weather is the formation of semi-permanent pressure cells, such as the subtropical ridge across the Southeast...

Tags: Global Climate Change, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-06-24

Global warming: predicting unpredictability

A black swan is being brought to the weather patterns for tornado prone areas of the U.S. Extremes. But in some cases bad news drought could be followed by good weak tornado season. Fall drought should mean fewer tornadoes in the same area the following spring. And...

Tags: Tornado, Global Warming, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-24

Futurist pinpoints world's top ten long-term challenges

With the growth of unpredictability comes forecasts that are harder to believe. But good leaders plan for a wide range of scenarios that are based on trends we see today. In his recent commencement address to the 2009 graduating class at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Tory, NY,...

Tags: Schwartz, Leadership, Transportation, Manufacturing, Management, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-06-21

Infinite One-Time Pad 1.0.1.2 (Windows)

Infinite One-Time Pad is secure text encryption and decryption software. This is the perfect cryptographic software for protecting your communications. It implements the concept of the legendary One-Time Pad to produce a cipher text that is unbreakable. This software solves the problem of key distribution and random key generation. Instead...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Key, Hiddentools, Compression Information, Tools & Techniques, Security, Management

Software downloads 2009-03-05

Will Facebook 'infantilize' the human mind?

Social network sites risk infantilizing the 21st century mind, leaving it characterized by short attention spans, sensationalism, inability to empathize and a shaky sense of identity, according to a leading neuroscientist profiled in the Guardian UK. A professor of synaptic pharmacology at Lincoln college, Oxford says there...

Tags: Facebook, Identity, Social Networking Site, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-24

Samsung HKT450 Portable Bluetooth Speakerphone

Bluetooth speakerphones are getting more popular these days, as more states start to implement hands-free driving laws. They're mostly made for in-car use, like the BlueAnt Supertooth 3 and the Motorola Motorokr T505. However, there are several Bluetooth speakerphones that can be used outside the car as well, such as...

Tags: HKT450, speakerphone, Mute/Mode, phone, Mute/Mode button, Bluetooth Speakerphone, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Product reviews 2008-10-01

Numark iDJ2 Mixing Console for iPod

Photo gallery:Numark iDJ2When Numark unveiled the first iDJ iPod mixer in 2005, the half-baked product required two iPods, and lacked many essential features. After three years back at the drawing board, Numark's iDJ2 ($599 retail, $499 street) finally makes good on the promise of a professional iPod DJ mixer....

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, console, Numark iDJ2, Apple iPod

Product reviews 2008-09-05

Spongefork 3.3.4 (Mac)

Spongefork is a complete softsynth, sampler, live improvisation instrument, and soundfile processing application. The 2.* series has been completely rewritten to provide many new features and native Mac OS X support. SF's oscillators and interface are controllable via a unique XY based modulation controller, your computer keyboard, or by any...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Instrument, Spongefork, SF, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Keyboards, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2008-08-25

An Introduction to Real-Time Java Technology: Part 2, Garbage Collection and the Sun Java Real-Time System (Java RTS)

Because Garbage Collection GC is one of the largest sources of unpredictability in Java applications, a real-time Virtual Machine VM must find a way to prevent collection pauses from causing tasks to miss their deadlines. However, it should be noted that the RTSJ does not define real-time GC. There are...

Tags: Java, Sun Microsystems Inc., Garbage Collection, Java Technology, Sun Java

White papers 2008-07-01

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

Got Predictability?: Experiences With Fault-Tolerant Middleware

Unpredictability in COTS-based systems often manifests as occasional instances of uncontrollably-high response times. A particular category of COTS systems, Fault-Tolerant FT middleware, is used in critical enterprise and embedded applications where predictability is of paramount importance. This paper presents empirical data, from 7 different three-tier, FT-middleware applications, that shows strong...

Tags: Fault-tolerance, Carnegie-Mellon University

White papers 2007-12-18

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

Optimized Airport Security Infrastructure System (OASIS)

It has been suggested that the current security measures being implemented in airports around the country produce "Soft targets" in the form of lengthy queues. These soft targets heighten the risk of a terrorist attack within airport premises that could potentially have the same impact as destroying a commercial flight....

Tags: Airport Security, OASIS, Security Measure, Corporate Insurance, Homeland Security, Business Security, Security, Business Operations, Government

White papers 2007-04-09