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Cheat Sheet: Supercomputing
Cheat Sheet But the term supercomputing is rather fluid, with the supercomputers of today often becoming the common-or-garden computers of tomorrow. Supercomputing? Is that just a PC wearing a cape and its underpants over its keyboard? [20 Nov 2007]
Cheat Sheet: FTTx
Cheat Sheet We're talking about fibre in the broadband sense - as in fibre to the home (FTTH), fibre to the premises (FTTP), fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) or FTTx, the overarching term for any or all of these terms. [11 May 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Blade servers and PCs
Cheat Sheet That's not entirely wrong but the term 'blade' can also refer to a kind of tech that's becoming increasingly popular in enterprise IT. At a recent blade launch event, IDC analyst Jin-Chui Kim said the main problem he could see with blades is the... [24 Jan 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Six Sigma
Cheat Sheet It's a statistical term. Six Sigma? All Greek to me. Very funny. Why the six, why the sigma? You'll find 'sigma' in all manner of standard deviation calculations - or, for the less mathematical, the capital sigma is that sign in Excel that adds... [30 Nov 2006]
Cheat Sheet: The Computer Misuse Act
Cheat Sheet In addition, by extending the jail term to two years, hacking becomes an extraditable offence and that is very important when dealing with the global threat of cyber crime. The Computer Misuse Act. I think I can work out what that is. [29 Nov 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Open source licences
Cheat Sheet Open source licence' is a very general term which refers to a software licence that allows the licensee to change or distribute the source code to some degree without paying the person who created that software. [20 Nov 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Net neutrality
Cheat Sheet So where did the term come from? Right now it's hard to tell what impact this will have in Europe in the long term. An aggressive catfight about who should control the internet or at least the US portion of it is taking place in Washington. [16 Jun 2006]
Cheat Sheet: P2P lending with Zopa
Cheat Sheet Zopa stands for 'Zone of possible agreement' - a term from business theory which basically defines the overlap between the lowest price someone is prepared to accept for something, and the most that someone else is willing to pay for it. [18 Apr 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Grid computing
Cheat Sheet The term 'grid', coined by Dr Ian Foster, refers to the idea of electricity grids - the theory behind both computer grids and electric grids being that you get power whenever you need it, with power going in from any number of disparate sources. [05 Jan 2005]
Cheat Sheet: Smart phone operating systems
Cheat Sheet Most of the attention for the long term focuses on Symbian and Microsoft. My mobile has an operating system? Yes. I didn't realise that. How obvious your OS is depends on the type of phone you have. Most handsets have an OS sitting very much in the... [02 Nov 2004]
Cheat Sheet: Managed security services
Cheat Sheet Not through choice, but such staff have lost control of the daily fire-fighting and long term planning involved in security in these days of the blended threat and the attacks raining in from all sides. [24 Sep 2004]
Cheat Sheet: 3G - in all its flavours
Cheat Sheet The term 3G clearly implies a 1G and 2G. Those that use GSM now - which includes virtually all of Europe - see an upgrade path to 3G from their second-generation GSM networks to a type of 3G called W-CDMA, also synonymous with the term UMTS, which... [04 Aug 2004]
Cheat Sheet: Offshoring
Cheat Sheet Certainly in the short-term some call centre and IT jobs will be lost but the spectre of mass redundancies as work moves to India is a common misconception. Offshoring? That's to do with India isn't it? [11 May 2004]
Cheat Sheet: Microsoft's virus bounty
Cheat Sheet While in this instance it would be wrong to draw that assumption - as we know nothing of the informants - there are concerns that in the long term virus writers could profit from the initiative, by ratting on each other. [10 May 2004]
Cheat sheet: The mini iPod
Cheat Sheet The company has been the subject of morbid fascination in recent years as a perceived lack of innovation and falling sales for its computers led some to fear for its long-term future. It's the 'must have' item of 2004. [08 Apr 2004]
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