See distributed computing.
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- EyeSoft 2.3.5 (Windows)
- EyeSoft is a network video surveillance software application for recording IP cameras, megapixel network cameras, and USB Web cams. Supports over 400+ multi-vendor IP camera models as well as most USB Web cams, analogue capture cards, and live IPTV streams. Allows you to build powerful surveillance applications with easy to...
- Software downloads 2009-11-26
- Is it time to go quad-core?
- Quad core, Chris?You have told us over and over that all you need is Google. You don't need a real OS, real apps, or any processing power to speak of. All you need is a browser, preferably Chrome. Why on Earth would you need a quad core...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- Is your culture getting in the way of your IT success?
- Many enterprise IT investments lead to healthy debates about the best architectural or application approaches - but often forgotten is the culture of an organization itself. Commentary - While any planned enterprise IT investment leads to healthy debates about the best architectural or application approaches, too often left out...
- News items 2009-11-23
- Learn to use Git version control for added flexibility
- Vincent Danen introduces Git, a distributed version control system that gains extra flexibility from being free of a central server, like Subversion or CVS. Here are some of the features that set it apart.
- Download resources 2009-11-19
- Mercurial 1.4 (Windows)
- Mercurial is a distributed revision control system. It is fast, scalable, and portable. It provides similar features to tools like CVS and Subversion, but is fully distributed, so you can use it anywhere: on a disconnected laptop, in a geographically dispersed team, or inside a corporate network.
- Software downloads 2009-11-16
- Spring Design sues Barnes & Noble over Alex, Nook
- I kind of want to see barnes and noble win this one...The whole concept of a sliding image preview isn't exactly revolutionary, and it does look decidedly different from the bulky, 2003-esque block interface of the alex.On a personal note, I think the alex looks like some children's toy out...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-03
- NFS Manager 3.3 (Mac)
- NFS Manager is a graphical user interface to control all built-in NFS features of Mac OS X. It can manage a whole network of Mac OS X computers to setup a distributed NFS file system via a few simple mouse clicks. NFS Network File System is the industry standard for...
- Software downloads 2009-11-02
- VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting [V4]
- View Available Dates and LocationsThis advanced, lab-intensive course focuses on providing system administrators with the advanced knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully troubleshoot the VMware® vSphere™ virtual infrastructure. In this course, you will spend most of the time diagnosing and rectifying configuration problems created on VMware ESX™/ESXi hosts and VMware...
- Training 2009-11-01
- Friday Challenge: What can your OS do that mine can't?
- My OS can break 5% global desktop market share!Sorry Mac and Linux! :PBetter/Larger Hardware/Software SelectionMy operating system Windows has a better and larger library of available applications, and a larger ecosystem of supported hardware.Why do you insist in behaving as an idiot?Hope what they're paying you is enough to compensate...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-30
- EvriChart: A Linux Success Story
- Tony Maro, CIO of EvriChart, a hospital records management and archiving business, successfully migrated his company's Windows-based line of business document management extranet application and his employees' 40-odd Windows-based desktops to a 100 percent Linux-based server and desktop infrastructure. Jason Perlow interviews Tony Maro, CIO...
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- How long until Windows 7 market share beats Mac OS X Leopard/Snow Leopard?
- RE: How long until Windows 7 market share beats Mac OS X Leopard/Snow Leopard?snow leopard is 10.6 the figures don't even mention that!!!???!Years if you look at adoption ratesBased on percent of existing users. RE: How long until Windows 7 market share beats Mac OS X Leopard/Snow Leopard?One week.RE: How...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- "Most, if not all" Sidekick data recovered
- Well this is going to be interesting...So they had a catastrophic screw up and it looks like they worked their tales off to get it fixed.So that got a big black eye but at the same time it looks like they got it fixed. Whoever fixed this just got...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- In the aftermath of the T-Mobile Chernobyl
- Lazy people.Thats all I can think. Who, in their right mind, would entrust valuable data to >> someone elses system
- Discussion threads 2009-10-12
- Clouds vs. Appliances
- I still prefer DistributedWhen you set up the Namespace "properly" a sysadmin can handle both client and server machines - i.e. No gurus vs. grunts. With the same configuration on all machines, it is easy to bring machines up in short order. Client maintenance consists of 1) Reboot and then...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-10
- Are you a mobile broadband hog? Should that be your problem?
- Well, if I am a light user, I DO NOT want to pay for the hogs that drive upcosts for the carriers. I want a dirt cheap plan, that will immediately throttle me if I start hogging, or, possibly give me the option to pay more if I want to...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-07
- Microsoft makes changes to browser ballot screen; user testing to commence
- Microsoft is trying to play games again.The selection screen is reasonable except for the screed under the IE8 browser indicating that it is "better faster safer easier". First of all, "better faster safer and easier" than what ? IE6 ? Firefox ? Safari ?...If the...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-07
- Driving Enterprise Software Financial & Business Value
- While my day job is very much designing social business design with my colleagues at the Dachis Group, today we're announcing a loose federation of experts we've named 'enterprise advocates'. The intent, as outlined on the site, is to be advocates for the...
- Blog posts 2009-10-06
- openSUSE 11.2 M8: What a Fine Lookin' Lizard
- Ubuntu's Karmic Koala isn't the only hot Linux beta floating around. On October 1, the openSUSE project released Milestone 8 of openSUSE 11.2, which is slated for general release in November, just in time for the holiday season. Milestone 8 will precede two release candidates to be also released...
- Blog posts 2009-10-04
- DVDStyler 1.7.4 (Windows)
- DVDStyler is a crossplatform DVD Authoring System. It is free software distributed under GNU General Public License GPL. Features: you can drag and drop MPEG files directly; you can import image file for background; you can create NTSC/PAL menus; you can place text and images anywhere on the menu screen...
- Software downloads 2009-10-04
- Thin Client Questions - some reader replies
- Let's not forget about NX...... or about X in general, a gui that was designed from the outset to be networkable, and that over 9600b modems.Thanks for reminding me of MIT's Athena ProjectI worked at Digital Equipment Corporation during the time that MIT was working with IBM and Digital to...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-02
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