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Plan 9 C Compilers
White Papers This paper describes the overall structure and function of the Plan 9 C compilers. Four of the compilers (MIPS 3000, SPARC, Intel 386, and Motorola 68020) are considered active and are used to compile current versions of Plan 9.
[February 10, 2004, 23:00]
Maintaining Files On Plan 9 With Mk
White Papers Mk's flexible rule specifications, implied dependency derivation, and parallel execution of maintenance actions are well-suited to the Plan 9 environment. Almost all Plan 9 maintenance procedures are automated using mk.
[February 10, 2004, 23:00]
Continuity Of Operations For State And Local Governments
White Papers The Federal Response Plan, which is a generalized disaster plan, mandated that the local government try to manage an incident. September 11, 2001 served as a wake up call to state and local governments that they needed to have more comprehensive...
[August 23, 2006, 0:00]
Businesses Unprepared For IT Disasters
News A third of businesses have no disaster recovery plan in place at all, according to a report produced for AT&T by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), while another third have a disaster recovery plan that has not been tested in the last year...
[May 17, 2005, 16:20]
Disaster Recovery: Hard Lessons From September 11
News Last September's events clearly illustrate why enterprises must plan for the unexpected and put processes in place to ensure that business continues in any possible scenario. The first part of the program, the disaster recovery plan, is put in...
[May 19, 2002, 21:51]
National Semi Closes Phone-chip Plant, Sheds 340 Jobs
News The Silicon Valley-based chipmaker also said the restructuring plan it announced in February is on track and expects the cost cutting to save about $30m (£18.25m) per quarter. The February restructuring plan called for streamlining costs by...
[May 21, 2003, 14:02]
Sun's Orion Pricing To Arrive Within Two Months
News Sun argues that the pricing plan is simpler and cheaper than alternatives from IBM and Microsoft, but the Sun Open Network Environment (Sun ONE) suite that makes up the bulk of Orion hasn't had the success of those competitors' offerings.
[April 30, 2003, 7:46]
Microsoft Eases Digital Media Licensing
News Windows Media 9 Series is key to Microsoft's plan. Now, it is front-and-center in Microsoft plan for "enabling digital media everywhere," according to Dave Farber, head of the Windows New Media Platforms Division.
[January 7, 2003, 8:43]
The Limbo Programming Language
White Papers Inferno and its accompanying virtual machine run either stand-alone on bare hardware or as an application under conventional operating systems like Unix, Windows 95, Windows NT, and Plan 9. Limbo is a programming language intended for applications...
[February 9, 2004, 23:00]
The Several Inferno Ports
White Papers Mk is described by the manual page mk(10.1) in Volume 1; a more tutorial discussion, including a summary of differences with Unix make, can be found in Maintaining Files on Plan 9 with Mk by Hume and Flandera, reprinted in this volume.
[February 10, 2004, 23:00]
Picasa 2.0: A First Look
Talkback If you use it make a back up of everything you have then plan on spending a day wishing you had not loaded Picasa2. Don't do it.Picasa2 crashed my system the second I pressed scan for photos. It took 9 hours to get back and lost many items for ever.
[January 27, 2005, 21:27]
Remote Database Administration For A Global Investment Company, USA
White Papers The customer is a global money management firm with over 60 years of investment experience, more than $400 billion in assets under management, over 2,600 institutional clients, and 12 million shareholders and retirement plan participants.
[August 18, 2004, 0:00]
Collegiate Case Study
White Papers This plan has many far reaching implications and opportunities. This paper discusses and provides information about homeland security steps taken in the U.S.after 9/11 incident. A new Bush directive calls for pulling together eight Cabinet...
[December 12, 2004, 23:00]
Learn The Basics Of Business Continuity Planning And Study For The CISSP Exam
White Papers This sample chapter, taken from CISSP Exam Cram 2, discusses the business continuity plan (BCP) process and how to preserve your business operations during a disruption. This sample chapter, taken from CISSP Exam Cram 2, discusses the steps that...
[May 25, 2006, 0:00]
Cybercare
White Papers A National response plan is being formulated which would integrate a number of emerging technologies that collectively became known as "cybercare". This article analyzes the threats from bioterrorism and other threats like the 9/11 attack and...
[January 20, 2005, 23:00]
Strohl Systems Group Case Study: Merrill Lynch
White Papers Within a few hours, they were able to go from an employee evacuation and accounting mode to a standard business recovery mode, prioritizing resumption as dictated by the continuity plan. Merrill Lynch's Director of Global Contingency Planning, was...
[August 23, 2006, 0:00]
Conservatives Defend Pentagon Surveillance Plan
News A Pentagon data-mining project to sift through corporate and government records and spot suspicious activity is necessary to thwart terrorism, two proponents of the plan said on Wednesday. The Total Information Awareness (TIA) project, being...
[April 3, 2003, 8:29]
Macromedia Pushes Subscription Plan
News Microsoft has tried to lock in customers for software upgrades in a similar way with a new multiyear licensing plan paid in annual installments. Macromedia on Monday will announce a new software-by-subscription programme along with an upgrade to...
[February 10, 2003, 8:13]
N+I: 3Com Fleshes Out LAN-building Plan
News Phase one of the XRN plan will allow two switches to link together with 48 gigabits per second (gbps) connections, explained Oddey. Network giant 3Com has released the first components of what it describes as its alternative way to build local area...
[May 10, 2002, 11:13]
Sun Releases Solaris-based Desktop Software
News Sun Microsystems has quietly released a version of its Java Desktop System software based on Solaris, a new step in the company's plan to try to transfer some of Linux's glory to its own operating system.
[October 14, 2004, 9:05]
