Wednesday, May 04, 2005

You're ice cold at a hot spot: 7 reasons why - page 2 | CNET News.com

You're ice cold at a hot spot: 7 reasons why - page 2 | CNET News.com: " if you have joined a closed network, you'll see an IP address beginning with 169.254"

U.S. military security defeated by copy and paste | CNET News.com

U.S. military security defeated by copy and paste | CNET News.com: "According to a report by the Associated Press, a representative of Adobe Systems, owner of the PDF format, has suggested that whoever attempted to censor the report did so by placing black rectangles over the text in question, rather than deleting the text.)
The technique used would indeed have protected the data if the document were being read online or printed. However, by an attacker selecting the blacked-out text and using the copy and paste functions, he or she could easily reproduce the document in its entirety on any word-processing application."

Software as a Service Seen Sprouting Legs

Software as a Service Seen Sprouting Legs: "software as a service (SaaS), in which applications are piped over the Internet at a customer's behest, has snowballed in popularity. "

Monday, May 02, 2005

Intel's "Intel Around Us" Strategy [Fool.com: Commentary] May 2, 2005

Intel's "Intel Around Us" Strategy [Fool.com: Commentary] May 2, 2005: "Intel could now see a path down to the 5-nanometer range."

Inside Sun Labs - the best and the 'bots | The Register

Inside Sun Labs - the best and the 'bots | The Register: "Inside Sun Labs "

Bloglines | My Feeds

Bloglines | My Feeds: "Here's an example. The first thing that FogBugz Setup does when you run it is to test that all kinds of prerequisites are installed, like IIS and MDAC and VBScript. In order to develop and test that code, I need virtual machines that are missing the prerequisites, so I can test all the code paths."

Thursday, April 28, 2005

It's Show-Me Time for Siebel

It's Show-Me Time for Siebel: "It's Show-Me Time for Siebel
While the software maker pledged to revive slumping profits, increasingly restless investors heard few specifics about how this would occur "

Wednesday, April 27, 2005

New Scientist Whatever happened to machines that think? - Features

New Scientist Whatever happened to machines that think? - Features: "In the next few months, after being patiently nurtured for 22 years, an artificial brain called Cyc (pronounced 'psych') will be put online for the world to interact with"

New Sun priorities could speed Niagara servers | CNET News.com

New Sun priorities could speed Niagara servers | CNET News.com: "Niagara has been due to arrive in systems in 2006, but Ingram said customers have prototype systems today and an earlier shipment date is possible. 'The latest will be early 2006 that we introduce the products,' he said. 'It's coming in better than any other processor we've ever produced.' "

Tuesday, April 26, 2005

SAP - SAP and Microsoft Announce First Joint Product Designed to Revolutionize How Information Workers Access Enterprise Applications

SAP - SAP and Microsoft Announce First Joint Product Designed to Revolutionize How Information Workers Access Enterprise Applications: "As part of this expanded partnership, SAP and Microsoft have agreed to each resell the complete solution, meaning SAP will resell Microsoft Office and Microsoft will resell licenses to SAP�s business process platform, which will deliver ready-to-run business processes accessible as enterprise services. Available in 2006, the business process platform will serve as the foundation for the creation and deployment of composite applications such as �Mendocino.�"

SAP readies new business-monitoring programs | CNET News.com

SAP readies new business-monitoring programs | CNET News.com: "The programs, called SAP Analytics, will monitor activities as diverse as tax collection, factory utilization and retail staffing,"

My Way News

My Way News: "Mendocino' is designed to integrate SAP processes, such as time management, budget monitoring, travel and expense management, directly into Microsoft Office."

Thursday, April 21, 2005

Techworld.com - IBM's X366 Xeon server has no L3 cache but is faster. How come?

Techworld.com - IBM's X366 Xeon server has no L3 cache but is faster. How come?: "At design time, there was a maniacal focus on latency reduction. When you can cut the time it takes it gets from one point to the next you can increase performance, so chipset latency has been cut by two and half times -- down from 265 nanoseconds to 108 nanoseconds"

Friday, April 15, 2005

Wired News: Linux Distribution Tames Chaos

Wired News: Linux Distribution Tames Chaos: "Chaos, a Linux distribution developed by Australian Ian Latter, harnesses the unused processing power of networked PCs, creating a distributed supercomputer that can crack passwords at lightning speed"

Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Technology@Intel Magazine - Intel� I/O Acceleration Technology

Technology@Intel Magazine - Intel� I/O Acceleration Technology: "Intel� I/O Acceleration Technology Improves Network Performance, Reliability and Efficiently"