Pronounced "Q." A temporary holding place for data. See queuing, message queue and print queue.
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- Inside India's CAPTCHA solving economy
- No CAPTCHA can survive a human that's receiving financial incentives for solving it, and with an army of low-waged human CAPTCHA solvers officially in the business of "data processing" while earning a mere $2 for solving a thousand CAPTCHA's, I'm already starting to see evidence of consolidation between India's major...
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Renting a car: it'll cost you to save on gas
- Renting a car: it'll cost you to save on gasJust drive a low emission car insteadInstead of trying to join the queue for a Hybrid, just choose a low emission car from the normal range.A Honda Fit or other small rentals will give up to 50mpg, and have A/C which...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Red Hat (belatedly) confirms security breach
- Red Hat belatedly confirms security breachthis is the evidence that open source linux security sucks!this is the evidence that open source linux security sucks!RE: Red Hat belatedly confirms security breachLOL!! What have I been saying all along? That linux is NOT secure and is NOT suitable for any purpose....
- Discussion threads 2008-08-22
- T-Mobile 3G news heats up with HTC Dream and Samsung T919 rumors
- T-Mobile 3G news heats up with HTC Dream and Samsung T919 rumorsSamsung Omnia falls below expectationsA personal view for those who are looking into Samsung Omnia. PLS RE-CONSIDER!!Bought my phone for less than a mth, and had been to Samsung service centre thrice! 1st software glitch, then hardware crashed. Their...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-21
- LobbyCentral Service Center (zip)
- Create a sustain customer relationships. Queue waiting customers and alert service staff. Improve customer relationships through time management. LobbyCentral Service Center provides the tools to organize your service lobby without using pen and paper. Customers are placed into electronic waiting queues and service staff are notified when a new customer...
- Software downloads 2008-08-13
- JMS SMTP Bridge (zip)
- JMS SMTP Bridge is a simple Java based bridge that can be configured to listen to a JMS queue and send the messages to a list of recipients via SMTP protocol. The bridge consists of three EJBs, namely: JmsMessageReceiver, which is a MDB that listens for JMS messages; Jms2SmtpTransformerBean, a...
- Software downloads 2008-08-07
- Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Linux
- Is 20th century conventional Winchester multi-platter, multi-head random-access disk technology too quaint for you? Want to run your PC or server on storage devices that consume far less energy than the traditional alternatives? Want a portable or mobile storage unit that will never fail due to G-forces or "crashing?". Looking...
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Nakido Flag (exe)
- Nakido Flag is an upload manager for you to upload multiple files to Nakido file hosting, a free web-based file hosting service allows you to share files in any size in blogs, emails, forums, IM, Facebook, MySpace. Nakido Flag provides the following features: unlimited storage and number of files, no...
- Software downloads 2008-07-24
- iPhone 3G sold out nationwide; 4 week wait
- iPhone 3G sold out nationwide; 4 week waitAT&T?Thanks for the link. Does AT&T still has inventory? On a store by store basis?RE: iPhone 3G sold out nationwide; 4 week waitI placed a special order last week. I wonder if this is going to delay that. I was really...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- FacePresence (zip)
- A software to check the presence of employees. Different with other presence machine, FacePresence uses face recognition technology with the highest recognition accuracy. The checking process is very fast therefore no need for a queue. 5 employees, no presence reports, and low accuracy. Version 1 has identification process within seconds...
- Software downloads 2008-07-15
- Did Woz cut the line for his iPhone 3G?
- A News.com post by Greg Sandoval alleges that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak may have cut the line to get his iPhone 3G at the Apple Store in Westfield Valley Fair Mall in San Jose. In fact, according to Doug and Patrice Broussard, Woz actually never waited in...
- Blog posts 2008-07-13
- iPhone 3G: Initial reaction (updated 2x)
- iPhone 3G: Initial reaction (updated 2x)I'm hearing the activation process is a total disasterCNN is reporting that all users are being told to go home to complete the activation. I can't even fathom what type of problem would make activation work at someone's home and not an Apple or AT&T...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-11
- No lines here: O2 delivering iPhone 3G in UK via courier
- No lines here: O2 delivering iPhone 3G in UK via courierNo lines but ..Despite being significantly upgraded to cope with the load the web site on which you ordered the phone could not deal with the demand.The line (or queue in the UK!) may have been a better option ..
- Discussion threads 2008-07-08
- Hyperic CloudStatus
- Back in May, I posted my take on Cloud computing. Since that time, I've spoken to quite a number of suppliers who are focused on supporting cloud computing, managing cloud computing, and even using cloud computing as a way to provide either a desktop or a server experience without the...
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Notebook SSDs REDUCE battery life at 50x the cost
- Tom's Hardware is reporting test results that show that costly notebook flash drives actually use MORE power than hard drives - shrinking battery life by up to an hour. How could this be? The test Testing 4 SSDs against a 7200 RPM 2.5" drive on a...
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- SolarWinds Exchange Monitor (zip)
- SolarWinds free Exchange Monitor delivers a clever desktop dashboard that continuously monitors Microsoft Exchange to deliver real-time insight into Exchange services, mail queue sizes, and host server health. With Exchange Monitor at your fingertips, youll be able to track Exchange health at-a-glance and ensure this mission-critical app never fails your...
- Software downloads 2008-07-02
- SmartParts SP8PRT
- We've reviewed other digital photo frames in the past, but this is the first one we've seen from SmartParts and certainly the first one we've seen to include a built-in dye-sublimation printer. It's an interesting concept, but $300 is a lot to spend on what is essentially a digital photo...
- Product reviews 2008-06-13
- Continental's TSA Airport Security is decidedly Un-CLEAR
- As some of you may know, my job as a systems architect for one of the world's largest systems integration firms requires that I do a large amount of travel. Typically, I'm away from home about four days out of the week. Naturally, this results in going through a lot...
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- iPod touch 2.0 anyone?
- It's almost a certainty that Steve Jobs will announce the next-generation iPhone at the WWDC today. But in the midst of all the iPhone 2.0 speculation and rumors, we seem to have overlooked other Apple products due for a revamp - such as the iPod touch. I...
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- nbClipboard (exe)
- Add stack, queue and simple text transformations to the Windows clipboard when using the clipboard's keyboard shortcuts. As well as storing successive clipboard items in either a queue or a stack nbClipboard can perform search/replace operations on the clipboard data and can automatically convert the text to either upper or...
- Software downloads 2008-06-04
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