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Killing the killer app review
Reviews In the mid '90s, with most users' available Internet bandwidth limited, it made sense for massive reference databases to be distributed on CD. Mapping and route-finding are specialised reference services that require heavy computing resources to...
[October 25, 2005, 10:25]
Microsoft steers away from object orientation
News The problem with most distributed object technologies, said Box, is that programs require particular class files or .jar files (referring to Java), or .dll files (Microsoft's own dynamic linked libraries).
[January 27, 2004, 15:30]
Code-eating software battles it out in P2P arena
News A control panel built into the client gives real-time statistical feedback on how each creature is performing, and the distributed nature of the game means that a creature can continue to propagate and move around even when the machine it was...
[February 6, 2002, 17:46]
Industry connects to data centre standard
News He said that SML will be complementary to the Common Information Model (CIM) standard from the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) standards body. Computing industry heavyweights on Monday announced a plan to create a standardised way for...
[August 1, 2006, 10:20]
Google Wave: a First Look review
Reviews You probably wouldn't share a Wave-created document outside the flow of conversation without reformatting and editing it, but it's a good way to get started, or to get feedback from a geographically distributed team.
[September 23, 2009, 11:03]
Microsoft takes Web services to the home
News The Windows Network Connected Device Technology, the development kit that will be announced and distributed to conference attendees on Tuesday, includes tools and sample code to show hardware makers how to build Web services on devices, said Dave...
[May 4, 2004, 14:40]
Web attacks? The ISPs strike back!
News as victims of what are known as distributed Denial of Service attacks. Support programs that provide early training in security practices and appropriate use.should be integrated into general education about computing," Cross said.
[February 24, 2000, 9:03]
Ellison: Who needs fat clients?
News While Ellison held court with the press inside a Hilton hotel ballroom, Microsoft distributed what it called "million-dollar mugs" to Ellison keynote attendees just before Ellison took the stage. When asked about the viability of Microsoft's...
[November 14, 2000, 8:07]
'Fantastic' time to be a tech start-up
Blog It also became quickly apparent, glancing at the pre-printed slides that were distributed to delegates, that some of the presentations had been significantly altered quite soon before the event, so as to be more realistic/pessimistic.
[February 10, 2009, 16:02]
SCO suit won't stop Linux use, says OSDL
News Moglen bases this argument on the fact that both SCO and Novell have distributed Linux code under the General Public License (GPL), thereby granting licensees the ability to use, modify, copy and distribute Linux code freely, without having to...
[February 10, 2004, 15:45]
Markets fall in love with Linux
News For the most part, according to Forrester Research analyst Matthew Nordan, the servers are "commodity" machines, much like the ones distributed by many other suppliers. A separate consensus believes the Linux field is endlessly large and evolving...
[December 7, 1999, 13:21]
Government aims to pull women into tech jobs
News The posters, which will be distributed to 6,000 secondary schools in the UK, are designed to dispel the myth that science is the preserve of the highly intelligent male and seeks to emphasis the personal and social lives of successful women...
[November 19, 1998, 12:41]
Sun jumps to Linux 5.0
News The open-source licence under which Red Hat Linux is distributed allows any company such as Sun to take the software for free and make any modifications, but stipulates that these modifications must be made freely available under the same licence.
[August 13, 2002, 10:35]
Storage newcomers target niches
News The product is based on a file system that's distributed among a number of storage device modules and essentially knits them together to create a single pool of storage, according to the company. In a Linux cluster, a number of server computers...
[October 20, 2003, 11:25]
Microsoft to license SCO Group Unix rights
News A few months later, in an interview with CNET News.com, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates sought to warn corporate users about the GNU General Public License, which Linux is distributed under. In the past two years, Microsoft has repeatedly labelled...
[May 19, 2003, 7:33]
Photos: Intel's march of the Nanobots
News Made from a teflon body, this model has studs distributed around the sides where it can exert carefully controlled magnetic forces, and sensors around the rim at the top. As part of Intel's move towards what it call 'tera computing' — terahertz...
[September 26, 2006, 18:20]
Ten open-source tools worth trying
Comment Its features are impressive and include node listing, searches, outages, path outages, events, alarms, surveillance and distributed status. Enomaly offers cloud computing for any size of environment. Nuxeo is also offered in a cloud-computing...
[December 23, 2009, 11:37]
Patching up bad patches
News The manager can then detect if there are patches that need to be sent out to that machine because of the new software, even though the patches have already been distributed to the other networked computers.
[November 26, 2002, 11:38]
Towards Generic and Middleware-Independent Support for Replicated, Distributed Objects
White Papers Replication is a commonly used approach to increase the availability of distributed services, which is a non-functional requirement. Thus, replication is in principle independent of the application logic.
[January 16, 2009, 0:00]
An Integrated, Distributed Traffic Control Strategy for the Future Internet
White Papers Due to the lack of a general theoretical foundation, nowadays distributed traffic control mechanisms developed at the networking layer, transport layer, and overlay are largely disintegrated. First, it proposes a theoretical foundation for...
[May 25, 2007, 1:00]
