Microstar Laboratories has announced Dapserver 500 test, measurement, and control products, combining a five-slot PCI backplane and a 10-slot Eurocard cage in an industrial grade chassis.
This software, and the software running on Dap boards, protects your application from local or network-related delays
The new hardware products, the Dapserver 500 and Dapserver 500R models, each include a SATA hard drive.
Both models have front-panel handles Read the rest of this entry »
On March 7, 1992, a little-known Finnish software developer called Linus Torvalds issued version 0.13 of his open source operating system as version 0.95. It was a bold move, which took place (according to the
) because "Linux is very close to a reliable/stable system". By moving the numbering system from incrementing from zero, to awfully close to 1, he set the sights of those involved very much on the goal.
Few today would have any doubt that Read the rest of this entry »
NSW secondary school students could be issued with $56 million worth of Linux-based laptops as part of Kevin Rudd's digital education revolution.
The state wants government secondary school students to tote around computers built specifically for the education market.
Jim McAlpine, NSW Secondary Principals' Council president, said sellers could look at offering non-proprietary software for the laptops, such as Edubuntu, the education version of Read the rest of this entry »
TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Making music just got easier. A Japanese game maker has teamed up with the nation's leading cellphone network carrier to enable users to play an orchestra with their fingertips.
Game manufacturer Taito has created the "Chokkan Classic" software for NTT DoCoMo's i-mode Internet service that lets users to pick their instruments and the melody they want to play.
To activate the sounds, users must either rub or move a finger Read the rest of this entry »
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Open source backup and recovery independent software developer (ISV) Zmanda formally announced two new products tailored for Windows users.
Zmanda, of Sunnyvale, Calif. announced Zmanda Recovery Manager Enterprise Version 3.0 for MySQL and Zmanda Internet Backup (ZIB).
ZRM 3.0 is the first Windows edition of Zmanda’s recovery solution for MySQL. It offers hot Read the rest of this entry »
According to the Taneja Group, active archiving is an archiving approach
that leverages disk instead of tape-to-store archived data, keeping the
data on-line and searchable for e-discovery, governance and compliance,
business analysis, and other purposes. Some active archiving platforms,
such as GridBank, allow the integration of multiple media types,
including disk, optical, and tape, to enable tiering within Read the rest of this entry »
Why Buy The Cow When Can Get The Apps For Free?
The question to ask about Roxio Creator: Is it better than the separate single-purpose—and free—tools out there? Both Windows Vista and Mac OS X include pretty decent basic DVD authoring and burning tools. Ditto for music playing, organizing, and CD burning. Photo editing, too, is covered by Windows Live Gallery and iPhoto, and Picasa offers decent photo sharing, and
, as well as Photobucket's Read the rest of this entry »
Scammers are sending out phoney e-mails that claim to include critical Windows security alerts, Microsoft warned Monday.
The fake alerts describe themselves as part of a new "experimental private version of an update for all Microsoft Windows
OS users," Microsoft said in a
on the scam, posted Monday.
The e-mails then instruct the victim to download an attachment, which is actually a malicious Trojan Horse program known as
This software Read the rest of this entry »
European software company Mandriva has released the 2009 update to its flagship Linux distribution, Mandriva Linux.
Mandriva Linux 2009 claims to provide the most advanced and easy-to-use Linux operating system available and ships the "modern and cutting-edge" KDE 4.1 desktop environment and Linux kernel 2.6.27.
The Powerpack edition features an updated set of commercial applications, including audio and video codecs from Fluendo, image manipulation Read the rest of this entry »
Sometime on Tuesday, Microsoft will make Silverlight 2 available to the public. Solution providers who've been working with beta versions of Silverlight 2 believe it contains improvements that'll keep executives at Adobe Systems awake at night.
Silverlight, a subset of the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) system that powers Windows Vista, is Microsoft's attempt to trump Adobe's Flash technology by offering better-looking, more advanced display Read the rest of this entry »