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- Hands-on review of the Logitech Squeezebox Boom
- Hands-on review of the Logitech Squeezebox BoomHey Sean, send it over to me when you are done and hurry up! ;)ntOS X sounds complicated[i]I needed to do this because Mac users need to create manually an exception for SqueezeCenter for OS X's built-in firewall.[/i]On Windows, it created this exception for...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-05
- Development environments: Microsoft vs. Open Source
- Development environments: Microsoft vs. Open SourcePerhaps if you read what you wroteYou say regarding Wintel:"you’ll find 2o FTEs an extremely conservative minimum just to keep the lights on."and then regarding Solaris:"you’re going to be paying about ten people, four of whom you don’t actually need every day"Your statement about doubling...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- MySQL Database Server (dmg)
- MySQL Database Server is designed for enterprise organizations delivering business critical database applications. It gives corporate developers, DBAs and ISVs an array of new enterprise features to make more productive developing, deploying, and managing industrial strength applications. If you need a GUI for MySQL Database, you can download - NAVICAT...
- Software downloads 2008-07-08
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframeumm, good pointI'll change it to electro-mechanical.Thanks!possible error?[i]It was the first successful system designed “from the ground up” to advance automated data processing by replacing the physical cards and associated electro-mechanical gear with purely digital processing and magnetic tape or disk storage,...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-13
- MySQL Database Server (msi)
- MySQL Database Server is designed for enterprise organizations delivering business critical database applications. It gives corporate developers, DBAs and ISVs an array of new enterprise features to make more productive developing, deploying, and managing industrial strength applications. If you need a GUI for MySQL Database, you can download - NAVICAT...
- Software downloads 2008-06-12
- AMD announces Puma laptop platform, Mobile Radeon 3800 GPU
- Located in the PC component capital of the world, Computex has become the tradeshow for chipsets, so it's no surprise AMD chose to announce its new mobile platform here in Taiwan today. (You can watch the press conference here.) Known by its code-name Puma, the platform itself doesn't have a...
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- Virtualizing onto mainframes: How to make it fit
- Virtualizing onto mainframes: How to make it fitOne day...I'm hoping virtualisation will be better by really virtualising an existing machine using the same hardware drivers etc. That way, if you're using the vitualisation for testing, you can just ghost the real machine with the virtual one once its working.Apparently,...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-04
- CDRWin (exe)
- CDRWin supports the recording of digital audio, CD-ROM (Mode 1), CD-ROM-XA (Mode 2), CD-I, mixed-mode, and multi-session discs. It features the Cue Sheet scripting language that gives you custom control over disc layout; a disc backup utility that preserves the exact layout of the original disc, including all subcode information;...
- Software downloads 2008-03-05
- Windows Server 2008's ode to open source
- Windows Server 2008 was released last Wednesday, the next generation in a product notable for its performance, stability and security.  It's predecessor, Windows Server 2003, experienced strong sales growth, accounting for over half of the operating systems pre-installed on all servers shipped. Many of its features, such as the ability to create UI-free...
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- Secunia: Skype, Java, QuickTime, PDF patches oh my; It's been an ugly 24 hours for Windows users
- The last 24 hours has been a patch barrage with Sun, Adobe, Apple and Skype all issuing patches. But what's notable is how these patches affect Windows users. According to statistics compiled via Secunia's PSI application the number of users that need to get patching is staggering....
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
- Alcohol 120% (exe)
- Alcohol 120% can handle the creation of 31 virtual CD and DVD-ROMs, letting users play discs without needing the physical disc. Users can copy CDs and DVDs to CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM, and DVD+RW discs. The reading speed of a virtual CD-ROM is 200x. It supports normal CD,...
- Software downloads 2008-01-31
- BatchSync FTP (zip)
- BatchSync FTP is a high-speed tool for automating remote server backups, file synchronization, mirroring, and replication over FTP. It is designed to be run unattended via scheduler, and extensive logging options and email notifications help remote monitoring. The scheduled sync tasks will run even when nobody is logged to the...
- Software downloads 2007-12-28
- InstantSync FTP (zip)
- InstantSync FTP is a desktop tool for high speed file synchronization, mirroring, replication, and remote backups over FTP. The underlying smart SyncDB file tracking technology guarantees that only new and changed files are transferred, making it perfect solution for Web site updates and remote server backups. The Sync Preview feature...
- Software downloads 2007-12-28
- BatchSync Secure FTPS/SFTP (zip)
- BatchSync is a secure tool for automating file synchronization, replication, mirroring, and backups. It utilizes standard FTP/SSL and FTPS over SSH protocols to ensure data safety and encrypts all data with strong encryption ciphers. It's designed to be run unattended via scheduler, with email notifications to help remote monitoring. The...
- Software downloads 2007-12-28
- InstantSync Secure FTPS/SFTP (zip)
- InstantSync Secure FTPS/SFTP is a secure desktop tool for high speed file synchronization, mirroring, replication, and remote server backups. It utilizes industry standard FTP/SSL and FTPS over SSH protocols to ensure data safety and encrypts all data with strong encryption ciphers. The sync preview feature allows you to see the...
- Software downloads 2007-12-28
- RapidQuery (exe)
- RapidQuery supports the following Databases: DB2, Firebird, Informix, Interbase, MySQL ,ODBC, OLEDB, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLBase, SQLServer, Sybase. To be specific DB2 is DB2 for mainframe (ZOS,MVS), Windows, Linux, Aix and Unix. The price of RapidQuery is $USD 125 which Radem-Soft believes is a reasonable price for the quality and the...
- Software downloads 2007-12-07
- ffmpegX (dmg)
- ffmpegX is a Mac OS X GUI to ffmpeg the hyper fast video and audio encoder (http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/). This GUI provides quick encoding to DivX, XviD, AVC/h.264, VCD, SVCD, CVD, DVD, 3GP, DV, MP4, MP4 for iPod, MP4 H264 for Sony PSP, FLV, MOV, mp2, mp3, AAC & AC3. MPEG-2 encoding...
- Software downloads 2007-11-19
- SMF Recording With MVS Logger
- Many z/OS customers have begun to suffer from an overload of data provided by the System Management Facility SMF. As the systems have grown ever faster and larger, doing more and more work generates more and more data from SMF used to measure, manage, and audit their z/OS environment. With...
- White papers 2007-11-08
- Starting the DMGR on a Different MVS Image
- The purpose of this paper is to explain how to start the WebSphere Application Server for z/OS V6 Deployment Manager on an MVS image different from the one on which it was originally built. The Deployment Manager is designed to support this, but it still requires some planning and effort...
- White papers 2007-11-01
- 2008 Scion xD
- Scion's marketing people like to refer to the new 2008 Scion xD as a "Little Deviant," portraying it as car for those who refuse to follow the crowd. The xD's exterior styling does break the mold of the rounder Scion xA that it replaces. Its large, facemask-like front end gives...
- Product reviews 2007-10-26
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