Abnormality or deviation. Pronounced "uh-nom-uh-lee," it is a favorite word among computer people when complex systems produce output that is inexplicable. See software conflict and anomaly detection.
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- Quantum 1.3.0 (Mac)
- You are the pilot of Quantum, an Omega-class fighter patrolling deep space. It's a lonely assignment. Suddenly, and predictably, you are caught in a sub-space anomaly and transported to the middle of a mysterious region of space with a black hole at its center and deadly asteroids drifting by. You'll...
- Software downloads 2009-11-13
- Open source needs successful champions
- Open Source powers the Internet period!Open_Source powers the ENTIRE Internet withrouters/switches/servers you name it like Microsoft sitting behind caching Linux distroname servers.Now you tell me what does it need now???It is the FUTURE of smart devices, appliancedriven infrastructure, just like VMware using a Linux derived kernel and it is #1...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- iWeb Valet 2.3.0 (Mac)
- Enhance iWeb pages, add new interactive widgets and upload only modified files to your server. Add many powerful widgets to your web pages, as clocks, site search engines, auto-redirecting, days remaining fields, calendars, scrolling texts, navigation menus, falling snow and much more. Personalize iWeb page titles...
- Software downloads 2009-10-29
- Calling all global cooling, how about a little help here?
- Don't shoot the messenger, you might not like it that the earth is getting hotter and that we need to do something about it, but, don't get mad at those reporting it.You probably don't like all of the photos of open water over the arctic either. Nor would you want...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-16
- Hey, deniers, is hotter oceans not part of global warming? Just another hoax?
- hmm...I'd like to see Christian come and spread his 'czarist' nonsense on this page >.>Thanks for pointing out the 1998 flaw by the way =)Another non-researched postYou make claims based solely upon a news report without actually researching the data.Try this and learn something:www.drroyspencer.com/2009/08 and read the article titled "Spurious...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-20
- IBM, Dell gain server share amid server sales carnage; HP share flat
- Socialism taking over...Yes, salary caps and no profit Obama is working...Is this an anomaly because of the recession?We are in the digital printing industry and print volumes are dropping at an alarming rate for the first time ever. Some including ZDNet have attributed this to the widespread use of...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-02
- Toshiba Satellite P505D-S8930
- Editors' note: This review is part of our 2009 Retail Laptop and Desktop Back-to-School roundup, covering specific fixed configurations of popular systems that can be found in retail stores.It's hard to believe that it's possible to get a laptop with an 18-inch screen for less than $550 and have it...
- Product reviews 2009-07-15
- In an economic downturn, prepaid mobile is big business
- Why pay $100 or more each month for a two-year cell phone contract when you can pay $50 and keep yourself off the hook? At least that's the thinking behind the latest ad campaign by Boost Mobile, a prepaid, or "no-contract," mobile service provider whose parent company...
- Blog posts 2009-07-09
- An Anomaly-Based Intrusion Detection Architecture to Secure Wireless Networks
- Ensuring that the appropriate level of security is available in wireless networks is absolutely essential. To aid in the defense and detection of potential threats, WLANs should employ security solutions that include an anomaly-based intrusion detection system ADS that identify wireless network intrusions by gathering and analyzing the data that...
- White papers 2009-07-08
- A Multi-Layered Approach to the Design of Intelligent Intrusion Detection and Prevention System (IIDPS)
- Ignoring security threats can have serious consequences; therefore host machines in network must continually be monitored for intrusions since they are the final endpoint of any network. As a result, this paper presents an Intelligent Intrusion Detection and Prevention System IIDPS, which monitors a single host system from three different...
- White papers 2009-05-21
- New Apple ads focus on support, TCO
- New Apple ads focus on support, TCOIt's a great ad because......anyone who HAS had to deal with telephone support has had EXACTLY that experience, and will relate to it. Those of us in the IT world who do most of our own support will chuckle or shake our heads;...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-13
- Open source shrugs at EU liability plans
- Open source shrugs at EU liability plansI've said it beforeFOSS companies should not worry.Having liabilities for the free speach makes no sense and would violate the constitution.Only propietary companies need to worry about it.RE: Open source shrugs at EU liability plansI agree with Dana; the current "exemption" by many software...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-13
- Five unanswered questions after Microsoft's Q3 earnings call
- Five unanswered questions after Microsoft's Q3 earnings callReally?The EC doesn't have Microsoft hating judges. It has Microsoft being found in violation of the EC rules/regulations repeatedly. Ergo, the judges have to bring the hammer down.Or would you rather that they didn't do anything when companies did "bad things?" Or is...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-23
- Study Says Social Media Not Useful to Close Sales. Duh.
- Jessica Tsai writes wonderfully as always at DestinationCRM about the results of a survey done by the Effectiveness Solutions Research ESR Group that tries to (and I really mean "tries to" not "succeeds at") look at effect of the use of new social media tools" on B2B sales. ...
- Blog posts 2009-04-08
- Google says that Atlantis is still missing
- Excitement was in the air when someone "found Atlantis" off the cost of Africa recently. According to Google, what looks suspiciously similar to under-water roads is simply an anomaly caused by the ships that collected the data. [image from Google Maps/Earth] ...
- Blog posts 2009-02-21
- Data Fusion and Cost Minimization for Intrusion Detection
- Statistical pattern recognition techniques have recently been shown to provide a finer balance between misdetections and false alarms than the more conventional intrusion detection approaches, namely misuse detection and anomaly detection. A variety of classical machine learning and pattern recognition algorithms has been applied to intrusion detection with varying levels...
- White papers 2009-01-26
- Detecting Pulsing Denial-of-Service Attacks With Nondeterministic Attack Intervals
- This paper addresses the important problem of detecting Pulsing Denial of Service PDoS attacks which send a sequence of attack pulses to reduce TCP throughput. Unlike previous works which focused on a restricted form of attacks, one considers a very broad class of attacks. In particular, the attack model admits...
- White papers 2009-01-21
- Rule-Based Anomaly Detection on IP Flows
- Rule-based packet classification is a powerful method for identifying traffic anomalies, with network security as a key application area. While popular systems like Snort are used in many network locations, comprehensive deployment across Tier-1 service provider networks is costly due to the need for high-speed monitors at many network ingress...
- White papers 2009-01-20
- Global warning: act now
- Global warning: act nowI don't think it's sth we can controlI'm not sure we even fully understand how all the elements work in the climate equation.31,000 Scientists say Hansen is full of ithttp://www.oism.org/pproject/RE: Global warning: act nowFunny how all their graphs stop at the year 2000, but don't show the...
- Discussion threads 2009-01-19
- A roadmap for the Twitter CSO
- The folks at Twitter had to deal with an attack from both phishers and hackers over the past few days. As someone who has been in their shoes many times before, I deeply sympathize with their team and I understand the amount of work that they need to do....
- Blog posts 2009-01-07
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