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Inline Bandwidth Measurements: Implementation Difficulties And Their Solutions
White Papers This paper has proposed the concept of inline network measurement, which involves the concept of "Plugging" an active bandwidth measurement into an active TCP connection. Mechanisms using this method have the advantage of requiring no extra traffic...
[December 21, 2007, 0:01]
Windows Cursor Patch Creates Difficulties
News Installing Microsoft's Tuesday patch for a "critical" Windows vulnerability is causing trouble for some users. Microsoft broke with its monthly patch cycle on Tuesday to repair a bug in the way Windows handles animated cursors.
[April 5, 2007, 9:45]
DNA Database Difficulties
Blog This morning the BBC is reporting on the issue of building a nationwide database to store double-helix data on all of us. Those ministers against the proposal seem to be keen to sit on the ethical issue more heavily than the technical issue don't...
[February 23, 2008, 11:20]
Coping In Difficult Negotiations
White Papers However experienced you are at handling negotiations, you'll occasionally run into difficulties. The number of potential difficulties is legion, but the most common ones fall into two categories: difficult people and difficult situations.
[June 2, 2006, 10:35]
Employers Target Pensioners To Fill Skills Gaps
News UK businesses are actively targeting older workers in order to address recruitment difficulties and fill skills gaps, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development's (CIPD) annual recruitment survey.
[June 12, 2006, 15:30]
Wikipedia Knocked Off The Web
News Online encyclopaedia Wikipedia was unavailable for some of Wednesday due to technical difficulties with its servers. The Wikimedia Foundation servers are currently experiencing technical difficulties," said the message.
[April 19, 2006, 17:30]
Microsoft Office Excel 2003 And Microsoft Excel 2002: Performance Considerations For OLAP PivotTables
White Papers Microsoft has received reports about performance difficulties in using Excel PivotTables with Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services. The Microsoft Office development team is aware of the difficulties with OnLine Analytical Processing (OLAP...
[September 14, 2006, 3:19]
UK Farmers Still Suffering From Government IT Woes
News The Rural Payments Agency still has plenty to do to resolve the IT difficulties it experienced in implementing the EU Single Payment Scheme. The progress report, published on Wednesday, states that the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) had been plagued...
[December 13, 2007, 10:26]
Linux Companies Part Ways
News After three months of operating as a single company, Turbolinux and Linuxcare have called off their merger because of difficulties joining the companies' finances and operations. Thomas acknowledged its difficulties expanding its influence...
[May 2, 2001, 8:08]
HMRC Site Goes Down, MPs Can't File Tax Returns
Blog On the day of the deadline for people to file their self assesment tax returns, the HMRC website experienced severe technical difficulties, for six hours. When I rang up HMRC, they insisted that 104,000 people had actually managed to file their tax...
[January 31, 2008, 16:52]
Unbundling Timetable Too Slow Say Experts
News Oftel is giving BT until July 2001 to offer up its copper loop to other operators, citing "technical difficulties" for what it described as a "delay". Jones is also sceptical about the "technical difficulties" cited by Oftel.
[December 1, 1999, 8:52]
New Mozilla Name Rises From Ashes
News The original name "Phoenix" encountered trademark difficulties, so Mozilla renamed it "Firebird," sometimes considered a synonym for the self-immolating, immortal bird. With Firefox, Mozilla hopes to put its trademark difficulties behind it.
[February 10, 2004, 7:30]
DRM Troubles Drive Ex-Microsoft Employee To Linux
News Johansson — a former senior program manager for security policy at Microsoft who moved to Amazon.com in September last year — wrote in his blog on Monday that he may drop Windows Media Center for LinuxMCE after experiencing difficulties resolving...
[September 26, 2007, 9:45]
'Windows Only' Dell Draws Fire From Linux Community
News Dell now only supplies PCs with Windows, citing "technical difficulties" as preventing it from offering any other OS. Despite the companies' protests, Kirsten Ludvigsen operating systems analyst with IDC research in Denmark, said it is unlikely...
[August 17, 1999, 10:08]
EU To Launch Europe-wide Public Services Portal
News The EU is moving ahead with the portal despite earlier reports acknowledging the difficulties with the initiative. A report at the end of last year said: "Behind the political will, it should be noted that there are huge practical difficulties...
[June 10, 2004, 12:55]
Microsoft Stands Firm In The 'great Linux Debate'
Talkback The other side touts the difficulties of working with different distributions. Novell clearly lost the network market to Microsoft and is now desperately holding onto IT pros need to reinvent themselves after the fall of the dot-com hoopla they so...
[May 11, 2004, 7:10]
Cyrix Production Problems Hurt National
News The production difficulties originate with a new version of the company's integrated MediaGX processor that it hoped to be shipping in volume by now. The difficulties have already lead to lost business.
[February 3, 1998, 9:44]
BT And Oftel Argue Over Unbundling Timetable
News Citing "technical difficulties" as the reason why unbundling would take so long, the spokesman was unable to offer any detail on what these difficulties were. Confusion reigned Tuesday as BT and Oftel attempted to justify the timetable for...
[November 10, 1999, 9:16]
Convergence Can Be A Marriage Of Inconvenience
News HomeChoice has had technical difficulties of its own, however, according to Moss and other customers. Despite the difficulties both Moss and Einon find HomeChoice an attractive package. BT's rollout of ADSL has hit a number of technical snags, but...
[December 15, 2000, 5:30]
The Queen Gets The Dot-com Blues
News Managing director of Getmapping.com, Tristram Cary, acknowledges that the company has also had difficulties meeting targets. He says there have been technical difficulties with building the geographical database and that bad weather has delayed the...
[October 21, 2000, 7:19]
