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- A life destroyed: State employee acquitted of child porn charges
- Michael Fiola's life was destroyed by spammers who turned his computer into a child porn kiosk. The investigator for the Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents investigator fired for having kiddie porn on his PC. But, the Boston Globe reports, a computer forensic analysis revealed the machine was running out-of-date virus...
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- Dia (exe)
- Dia is open-source visual-editing software that can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams. It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML...
- Software downloads 2008-04-21
- Over WiFi at DIA, free speech is DOA
- Over WiFi at DIA, free speech is DOAGriping about... a loss of freedom and dissing the relatives of our troops in the same blog makes you a pinhead. Take your political leanings back to the Huffington Post where they belong.These same freedom fighter are at the front of organizing...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-07
- Over WiFi at DIA, free speech is DOA
- SI model Jessica Gomes, if you must know. Our own Maggie Reardon expands on a Denver Post story that notes the Denver International Airport has chosen to block Wi-Fi access to such sites as boingboing.net, the website of Vanity Fair magazine, and even the web link to...
- Blog posts 2008-03-07
- ISSCC 2008: Details on Intel Silverthorne
- ISSCC 2008: Details on Intel SilverthorneSize matters...2500 chips that are 25mm^2 on a 300mm Dia. wafer? How'd they do that? New math?Next processor for MacBook Air?Is it just me or does this processor seem like a very good candidate for a MacBook Air refresh? ;) :)- John MusbachTerrific processor for...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-04
- Allocating and Scheduling Hard Real-Time Tasks on a Parallel Processing Platform
- This paper addresses the issues of scheduling and allocation/configuration of a point-to-point parallel system, for safety-critical hard real-time systems. Three specific topics are considered: an analysable computational model that has sufficient expressive power whilst retaining flexibility for allocation; a scheduling approach that allows the worst case response times for each...
- White papers 2007-12-01
- CATALOGUE ONE ORACLE
- Le catalogue des Offres Technologiques Oracle dédiées aux PME-PMI.
- White papers 2007-09-05
- Le catalogue des références Oracle
- Le catalogue des Offres Technologiques Oracle dédiées aux PME-PMI.
- White papers 2007-09-05
- Los ejecutivos de desarrollo de aplicaciones deben aumentar su visibilidad para ser unos socios comerciales más fiables
- El presente estudio analiza los retos y las oportunidades que afrontan las organizaciones de desarrollo de aplicaciones desde el punto de vista de 417 ejecutivos de esta área. Después de muchos años de tratar la TI como un bien de consumo, e incluso como un centro de costes,...
- White papers 2007-07-02
- Circuitry (Cracking open a Maxtor hard drive)
- Circuitry Cracking open a Maxtor hard driveFunnyOf the 12 or so drives I have taken apart, I have never mangled the read/write heads.Image 19. ShellNot much to the shell? Sorry, wrong. The shell may in fact be the most difficult piece to manufacture in quantilties. Consider this,...
- Discussion threads 2007-04-27
- Rich Internet Applications and the software renaissance
- Rich Internet Applications and the software renaissanceDesktop Internet Applications vs. Rich Internet Applications DIAs vs RIAsNearly all the people in the Web business is talking about Rich Internet Applications RIAs or Rich Web Applications (if we follow W3C Rich Web Client proposal http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/) or even "X Internet".We have been working...
- Discussion threads 2007-03-27
- Feds out for hacker's blood
- Feds out for hacker's bloodAnd Big Brother reaches out againrequiring a DNA sample for hacking??? that's just database building.and unacceptable, IMOGubment shortsitedOur gubment goes to all this trouble to chase down these hackers, try them in our kangaroo court system, convict them, yadi yadi, yadi yadi, etc. Now,...
- Discussion threads 2007-01-18
- IBM gives chips a cooling rinse
- IBM gives chips a cooling rinseplasma not magmaif a chip got as hot as the surface of the sun, you'd have a mini nuclear fireball in your computer that would probably destroy your whole office.I find this awfully hard to buy..."IBM estimates that some chips may have energy densities equivalent...
- Discussion threads 2006-10-26
- Scary: Where did I put that?
- Our enterprising editor has asked all of blogging at ZDNet to contribute a post about something scary to celebrate the season. Disclosure: Halloween and Dia de los Muertos Day of the Dead, which is a big deal here in the desert Southwest, are the favorite holiday in my home. Given...
- Blog posts 2006-10-20
- Another hole in Blogger to worry about?
- Last week there was a suspicious post on Googles official blog saying they had cancelled their "Click-to-call" program -- it turns out that someone published the article without permission by exploiting a hole. Google says they fixed the problem with Blogger, but I guess that wasnt enough.Philipp Lenssen noticed...
- Blog posts 2006-10-17
- 3D Dia de los Muertos (exe)
- In the tradition of ancient Aztec rituals 3D skeletons and ghosts haunt a graveyard decorated with Mexican icons and brightly painted calaveras. Eerie bass and drums music rounds out the ghostly ambience. You can also play up to 10 MP3 music file of your own. Registered version never expires, and...
- Software downloads 2006-10-06
- Wikipedia still doesn't get it
- Nobody should be surprised that Wikipedia has been sued for defamation. (See School files defamation claim against Wikipedia.) What is remarkable is that it took so long. I first wrote about Wikipedia last March (Whats wrong with Wikipedia?). At that time, my complaint was that its...
- Blog posts 2006-07-28
- Computer Retailer Gets High-Tech Solutions and Savings With XO
- CompUSA, Inc. is one of the nation's leading retailers and resellers of technology products and services. CompUSA wanted to find a reliable carrier for the CompUSA data network, which includes headquarters and 240+ local retail stores. The challenge was to ensure that the network is compatible with the existing VoIP...
- Case studies 2006-07-06
- Why hasn't Linux made it mainstream on the desktop?
- Why hasn't Linux made it mainstream on the desktop?Because nobody owns itFor an OS that's been around as long as Linux has been - it's been around just about as long as Windows if I remember correctly - it's always languished as a desktop OS.I think it's because nobody owns...
- Discussion threads 2006-06-16
- Behind GE's clean-energy push
- Behind GE's clean-energy pushWhen GE Focuses...They can achieve just about anything they want. Having worked there in the Welch days, when GE gets out of it's own way it is a very impressive innovation machine. This article is the first good news I've read in a long time...
- Discussion threads 2006-01-27
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