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[.: Manageability :.] Manageability - Open Source Grid and Cluster Computing Frameworks ...: MapReduce divides applications into many small blocks of work. Darkstar allows developers to scale their applicaions without requiring the need to know distributed computing.

[Docstoc feed for: Technology] Grid and Cloud Computing: Architecture and Services: In this paper, we will examine the evolution of grid and cloud computing and their associated services. To do this effectively, we must discuss hosting infrastructures separately from services, attempt to clarify their definitions, and finally bring them back together for analysis.

[Forum] Willard McCarty: Who am I computing? | Forum: In Peter’s response to my original posting I am particularly interested from an historical perspective in the fact of feeling both left behind by progressive disciplines and overwhelmed by what we sometimes call knowledge (as he does) but more often information. Let me take the latter first, though I think the two are intimately related.

[CAIDA What's New] CAIDA : home : about : annualreports : 2005: Because a network telescope (also known as a blackhole, anInternet sink, or a darknet) does not contain any real computers,there is no reason that legitimate traffic would be monitored bythe network telescope. The network telescope collects traffic as aresult of a wide range of events, including misconfiguration (e.g.a human being mis-typing an IP address), malicious scanning ofaddress space by hackers looking for vulnerable targets,backscatter from random source denial-of-service attacks, and theautomated spread of malicious software called Internet worms.

[CircleID: Featured Blogs] DPI is Not a Four-Letter Word!: That way you get the satisfaction of being a technical purist, and Comcast's beliefs about your use of port 25 become irrelevant. Yes, it's a little annoying that you can't use port 25 even though it is a technically reasonable approach, but port 25 hasn't been the gold standard for mail submission in a decade or so, and a technical purist needs to keep up with the times.

[ReadWriteWeb] What's Next After Web 2.0: for $65/user/month for my Salesforce subscription, I can help a sales rep close 2 more deals). As a company, if I can put $1 in and either save or create $3, that is a huge benefit that I want to realize in both good and bad economic times.

[jessenoller.com] jessenoller.com - A short list of things I don't like about Python: I note that your feelings about Wiki solutions has appeared more than in one context during this debate: "And I hate wikis, it's impossible to find anything in them, information is spread all over the place, etc." Although the API documentation probably doesn't belong in a Wiki, there isn't anything better for getting people to contribute or for letting them go off and do something that the documentation maintainers didn't expect. Information about alternative solutions for accessing remote services, for example, is precisely the kind of thing Wikis work well at recording and presenting.

[Schneier on Security] Schneier on Security: Sony's DRM Rootkit: The Real Story: If you read Slashdot you would have found out that F-Secure KNEW ABOUT THE ROOTKIT A MONTH BEFORE THE NEWS GOT OUT TO THE REST OF US! Rather than respond immediately to protect our computers, they were in talks with Sony over the details of an NDA so that they could work out how to let their AV product play nice with the DRM software They're as much scum as the rest of the AV companies!

[O'Reilly Mac DevCenter Blog] Apple failing to understand open source - O'Reilly Mac DevCenter Blog: are thinking and feeling about Apple, you are setting up straw men left and right, you are forced to use the passive voice thanks to the lack of evidence, you are using things like MOAB that don’t have anything to do with Open Source as evidence of something or other, and you are making claims about Apple’s entire corporate well-being using such nebulous concepts as “goodwill” —

[The Health Care Blog] The Health Care Blog: Clinical Groupware: When Not-As-Good Is ...: "Multiple logistic regression analysis identified four features as independent predictors of improved clinical practice: automatic provision of decision support as part of clinician workflow (P less than 0.00001) provision of recommendations rather than just assessments (P = 0.0187), provision of decision support at the time and location of decision making (P = 0.0263), and computer based decision support (P = 0.0294). Of 32 systems possessing all four features, 30 (94%) significantly improved clinical practice.

[Red Sweater Blog] Red Sweater Blog - Apple Phones Home, Too: with backup in hand, and Dashboard VERY disabled, I just manually ripped out a number of elements mentioned in the first post by Cameron Hayne. I removed ”˜dashboardadvisoryd’ and the plist file is “com.apple.dashboard.advisory.fetch.plist” in the “/System/Library/LaunchDaemons” folder.

[Call Me Fishmeal.] Call Me Fishmeal.: Mac OS X Viruses: Put Up or Shut Up (part 1): Granted, OS X is probably vulnerable to lots of social-engineering type of hacks, where bad code came along with (or pretended to be) supposedly a good, desirable app, but I think you could walk away from an OS X machine with any email client running that runs natively without emulation and leave it all day, and send emails with every single virus known to man - and the machine wouldn't get "owned" or otherwise compromised.

[Schneier on Security] Schneier on Security: Economics and Information Security: Is Microsoft's Trusted Computing initiative a good idea, or just another way for the company to lock its customers into Windows, Media Player and Office? Any attempt to answer these questions becomes rapidly entangled with both information security and economic arguments.

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