In object technology, to create an object of a specific class. See instance.
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- Future ERP
- Brian Sommer's provocative post that juxtaposes SAP's technology thinking around the 'old' and 'new' worlds provides insights into something SAP was talking about last year - the two speed world of ERP. At the back end there is still plenty to do, hardening applications, winkling out recurring bugs...
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- The irony of a cloud knocking out Amazon's EC2 cloud services
- The irony of a cloud knocking out Amazon's EC2 cloud servicesThe difference being[i]However, the same type of thing could happen to any data center whether it is your own or in the cloud.[/i]If your servers are down due to lightning, so are your PC's, I would imagine. The frustrating thing...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-11
- Adding the Easy Button to the Cloud With SnowFlock and MPI
- Cloud computing promises to provide researchers with the ability to perform parallel computations using large pools of Virtual Machines VMs, without facing the burden of owning or maintaining physical infrastructure. However, with ease of access to hundreds of VMs, comes also an increased management burden. Cloud users today must manually...
- White papers 2009-02-20
- Analysis of a Denial of Service Attack on TCP
- This paper analyzes a network-based denial of service attack for IP Internet Protocol based networks. It is popularly called SYN flooding. It works by an attacker sending many TCP Transmission Control Protocol connection requests with spoofed source addresses to a victim's machine. Each request causes the targeted host to instantiate...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- V# .NET Vector Geometry Library 1.3 (Windows)
- The V# vector geometry namespace for .NET provides more than 700 efficient and robust methods to solve complex 2D and 3D geometry tasks with a few lines of code. Very CAD-like, you easily instantiate geometric objects like points, lines, edges, planes, triangles, circles or ellipses in space. You may move,...
- Software downloads 2008-11-16
- Net bombarded by heaviest ever attacks this year
- Net bombarded by heaviest ever attacks this yearBingo - ! ntntBotnets = WindowsXP machines used by inexperienced people are the main backbone of botnets.Call me a zealot, but if everyone was using Linux - as user - this simply wouldn't be happening. The Linux platform is hostile to both the...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-12
- Google: Evil or just overworked?
- Google: Evil or just overworked?Evil.When a company...ANY company...has the size and reach of Google, sooner or later bad things will come out of it. Egos always get in the way.M$, the original AT&T, etc. And Apple is fast approaching the point of careless regard for its customers as well.neither Google...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-20
- Symantec says Microsoft Access ActiveX attacks to increase
- Symantec has reported that the Neosploit toolkit has been updated to include attack vectors for the recent Microsoft Access ActiveX vulnerability. Neosploit is a toolkit for sale on the market (price estimates fall between $1500-$3000) that seeks to automate and extend the capability of browser exploits. Symantec...
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Another bug your tools won't find and your WAF won't prevent
- First off, I want to apologize to our readers for not being here as much last week. I had a rough week involving a random ear infection and the loss of an aunt to cancer, so it was not a week where I was very concerned about computer security or...
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Pandora - TCP - COM Bridge 1.4 (Windows)
- Pandora is an Ethernet to RS-232 COM port bridge which allows a user to make an RS-232 COM port available to remote systems on the Ethernet. Pandora can instantiate itself on the host computer as a TCP socket server or client, so there is flexibility in how a remote client...
- Software downloads 2008-05-06
- Defeating the Same Origin Policy part 1
- The Same Origin Policy is one of the guiding principles that seek to protect our browsing experience. The Same Origin Policy was originally released with Netscape Navigator 2.0 and has been incorporated in one form or another in every major browser since. The concept has additionally been extended...
- Blog posts 2008-03-14
- Sun waits out Microsoft
- Sun waits out MicrosoftBinary Compatibility? To even suggest it is folly"I pushed the envelope, just for giggles, calling for binary compatibility between Java and .NET/DCOM/COM"This isn't useful and the mere suggestion brings back memories of the Object Request Broker ORB wars of years ago (CORBA R.I.P) and it doesn't solve...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-10
- Microsoft Patent App would add "trust system" to some cut-and-paste operations
- There's a newly published Microsoft Patent application that - at least the way I read it- seems to both alter and add significant options to the way in which cut-and-paste is performed between various Windows-compatible documents and utilities. That's not to say you...
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- From WiFi to WiMAX: Techniques for High-Level IP Reuse Across Different OFDM Protocols
- Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing OFDM has become the preferred modulation scheme for both broadband and high bitrate digital wireless protocols because of its spectral efficiency and robustness against multipath interference. Although the components and overall structure of different OFDM protocols are functionally similar, the characteristics of the environment for which a...
- White papers 2007-11-05
- Workday: Forget ERP, start over
- Ever since businesses first started using computers to automate their operations, they've had to compromise within the limitations of the technology. Each fresh generation of technology has brought some new freedoms, but never as much as its proponents originally hoped. And so every decade or two, the old generation is...
- Blog posts 2007-08-20
- On deck: Critical Windows, Office, IE patches
- On deck: Critical Windows, Office, IE patchesCool, good to see them on top of things.Like it or not, regardless of the OS and apps you use, patchs will always be with us.Wonder if they fixed this one."If you are running Windows Vista Sidebar Gadgets, they are subject to cross-site scripting...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-09
- Architecture in Practice, Part 4: Scenario 1 - Service Creation Options in a Real-World SOA Scenario
- View SOA within a software development lifecycle context using the IBM Service-Oriented Architecture SOA Foundation lifecycle. This installment in the Architecture in practice column focuses on the Service Creation scenario, the first of the SOA scenarios. Explore three main sources for services in SOA and the architectural patterns that provide...
- White papers 2007-07-10
- Microsoft Expression Blend Beta 2 available for download
- On a last quick run-through of the feeds before I head to bed I noticed that Eric Lam has posted that Beta 2 of Expression Blend is now available. According to Eric there are a few changes in this version: You can now instantiate resources from the Resources...
- Blog posts 2007-01-30
- Microsoft copies BlueJ, admits it, then patents it
- Michael Kölling is pretty ticked off right now. What would upset a mild mannered professor at the University of Kent? How about someone willfully using his work without attribution, and then filing for a patent on it that could prevent him from using it himself?Kölling is one of the creators...
- Blog posts 2007-01-29
- Authoring and Annotation of Web Pages in CREAM
- Richly interlinked, machine-understandable data constitute the basis for the Semantic Web. The paper provides a framework, CREAM, that allows for creation of metadata. While the annotation mode of CREAM allows to create metadata for existing web pages, the authoring mode lets authors create metadata - almost for free - while...
- White papers 2007-01-01
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