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Feline Friends (exe)

This screensaver features fine art cat paintings especially addressed to all the animal lovers. Feline Friends: Art by Val Stokes presents you the fine art of Val Stokes. Val Stokes is from New Zealand, is self taught and an extremely versatile artist who works in many mediums, oils, watercolour, pastel...

Tags: Art, Screensaver, Val Stokes

Software downloads 2007-11-29

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WindStation (exe)

WindStation is a software for the simulation of wind over complex topography. It is a Navier-Stokes solver incorporating the k-e turbulence model with wall functions. It takes as input readings at meteorloogical stations or a boundary layer profile Terrain elevation should be provided in a Ascii Arcview file format. Post...

Tags: Wall, EasyCFD, WindStation, Construction

Software downloads 2008-04-08

Load Balancing for the Numerical Solution of the Navier-Stokes Equations

This paper simulates the performance of a load balancing scheme. In particular, it studies the application of the Extrapolated DiFfusion EDF method for the efficient parallelization of a simple 'atmospheric' model, which involves the numerical solution of the steady state Navier-Stokes NS equations in the horizontal plane and random load...

Tags: Load Balancing, Equation, University Of Athens, Domain Decomposition Technique, Network Technology, Networking

White papers 2008-01-01

Blogger contends posting silly leaked law firm song is fair use

Over at Above The Law, David Lat provides irreverent coverage of the insular world of law firms and the judiciary. Today he posted a song produced by the Nixon Peabody law firm, forwarded by an unidentified tipster, that belongs in the bad business music hall of fame. ...

Tags: Song, Law Firm, YouTube Inc., DMCA, Blogger, Denise Howell

Blog posts 2007-08-25

Google's warehouse-size power problem

Google's warehouse-size power problemGoogle turned Iowa in the Horrors for electricity.And yes, horrors is misspelled to get past the censor bot.Google may not be able to curb their power appetite but they managed to turn Iowa in a state of *horrors* by making a deal where they pay no taxes...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Tom, tax, Google Inc., WinXP Pro Off, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-07-28

Virtual kayaking

According to Technology Review, researchers at Hokkaido University have developed a new way to create the feel of flowing water in two 3-D virtual-reality simulations, one for fishing and another for kayaking. Mimicking fluids is a difficult task using the complex Navier-Stokes equations. And these equations need to be running...

Tags: Computers &, Internet, Engineering &, Innovation, Leisure

Blog posts 2007-05-24

Mac hack challenge sparks (another tired) debate

Like an old grandfather clock, the controversy surrounding last months CanSecWest MacBook hijack contest just keeps on ticking, loud enough to stick in your ear but so monotonous and tiring that its near impossible to perk up and listen. Just as Apple was releasing a patch for the QuickTime flaw,...

Tags: Responsible disclosure, Punditocracy, Pen testing, Patch Watch, Oracle, Open source, Microsoft, McAfee, Hackers, Google, Firefox, Exploit code, Data theft, Cisco, Browsers, Botnets, Apple, Spyware and Adware, Viruses and Worms, Vulnerability research, Wi-Fi security, Windows Vista, Zero-day attacks

Blog posts 2007-05-08

News to know: Google in NYC; Flash vs. Java; Craigslist smut; Microsoft patches

Notable headlines: Donna Bogatin: Google challenges NYC software engineers. Ed Burnette: Is Flash better than Java? Jeremy Allison: Working for The Man? Advice to a young programmer. Ryan Stewart: Why Rich Internet Applications are important for the browser.New technology lets you read your voice mail.IBM adds low-wattage x86 servers.Engadget: Apples...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2007-04-06

Microsoft criticized for Open XML petition

Microsoft criticized for Open XML petitionMicrosoft criticized for Open XML petitionThis guy is not making any sense. He's upset that Microsoft is making a standard too. I thought free software was all about standards and competition and free choice and how its a good thing but now that...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Word, Word processors, Microsoft Office, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., petition, Open XML

Discussion threads 2007-04-05

Demystify the machine: Study basic design principles underlying modern microprocessors

If you think about it, a computer is no more than a calculating device that performs layer upon layer of seemingly miraculous sleights of hand in order to hide from the user the rapid flow of numbers inside the machine. But that mysterious process can be demystified. In...

Tags: Microprocessor, Computer, Semiconductors, Productivity, Processors, Hardware, Components

Book chapters 2007-02-06

Christian video game stokes controversy in U.S.

Christian video game stokes controversy in U.S.oh myJust to play devil's advocate, pun intended, if this game featured the followers of Satan killing Christians, converting the faithful followers of God, and praying to the Devil there would be an explosion of Christian "complaining" over the subject matter. In similar fashion,...

Tags: Games, game, Christian Video Game, video game, video

Discussion threads 2006-12-12

Pa. high court says no right to view cellphone records

Does a newspaper have a right to view an elected representatives cellphone records when the phone bill is paid for by the public? No, the Pennslvania Supreme Court as ruled. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that the Herald-Standard and former reporter Paul Sunyak sued state Rep. Larry Roberts in...

Tags: Government technology, Open government, Larry Roberts, paper

Blog posts 2006-12-01

E-voting a fiasco?

Jon Stokes has a post-mortem of the election day e-voting problems, and though you wont read much about the problems - or see them - in the national media, Stokes writes, they were myriad. Its not anecdotal - Common Cause logged 16,000 calls on their hotline. Proof that mechanical...

Tags: Jon Stokes, e-voting

Blog posts 2006-11-14

Developing for SAS/SATA With the Intel IOP34x I/O Processor Family

This presentation presents family overview of Intel IOP348 I/O Processor, Intel IOP342 I/O Processor, and Intel IOC340 I/O Controller (formerly Sunrise Lake, Chevelon and Val Vista). The presentation presents usage models, product interoperability, and performance information and technical details.

Tags: Intel Corp., Performance Management, Processors, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Presentations 2006-09-21

IBM's continues to gorge itself on acquisitions

IBM has a kind of eating disorder. The company can't stop its acquisition binge. Today, IBM bought Internet Security Systems ISS for $1.3 billion, shortly after ingesting FileNet, MRO Software and Webify. Like Oracle, EMC and others, IBM is gorging on the smaller, but primary players in spaces...

Tags: IBM Corp.

Blog posts 2006-08-23

SmartMouse (exe)

Assign commands to mouse motions and turn it into a launcher. No menus, no shortcuts. Just make stokes with your mouse over desktop. Features include up to 300 motions to recognize, recognizes drawings on own window, as well as desktop motions, new SysDevSoftware R SmartMotion engine used. Easy training mode,...

Tags: Mouse, Motion, Mice, Desktops, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2006-03-03

MashupCamp stokes the Web app fire

After the camp rules were set, the various vendors pitched their APIs and then the sessions topics and time slots were allotted. This morning's session on monetization and business models for mashups and API revenue extraction attracted the most attendees so far.Eleanor Kruszewski of Yahoo Developer Network and Dave Nielsen...

Tags: API, mashup

Blog posts 2006-02-20

GPL 3.0 fight gets down to cases

The ultimate fight between free software and proprietary rights has begun, in the form of GPL Version 3.0.A story reprinted from Business Week the other day finally gets down to cases. The fight isn't really over the license. It's about whether content of any sort should be hidden, behind patents,...

Tags: Tellywood, GPL 3.0, GPL

Blog posts 2006-02-09

Simulation of Branching Blood Flows on Parallel Computers

This paper presents a fully parallel nonlinearly implicit algorithm for the numerical simulation of some branching blood flow problems, which require efficient and robust solver technologies in order to handle the high nonlinearity and the complex geometry. Parallel processing is necessary because of the large number of mesh points needed...

Tags: Blood, University Of Colorado, Computer, Productivity, Engineering

White papers 2005-12-26

Larry Rosen denies report he's turned against GPL license

Larry Rosen denies report he's turned against GPL licenseImagination[i]Do you think Ms. O Gara makes stuff up?[/i]That would imply imagination. I suspect that the real explanation for her reality disconnect is less flattering.Ms. OgaraIs doing what any good lawyer would do - attack a contract/license on small inconsistencies. Once...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Maureen O'Gara

Discussion threads 2005-03-21