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Photos: Google takes the wrapping off Chrome OS
Photo Although screen real estate is tight - especially given the presence of a clock and status icons to indicate wi-fi connections etc in the upper right - more than one browser can be open at a time even if others are... [23 Nov 2009]
Bletchley Park's World War Two codebreakers in their own words
News Teams worked around the clock in three eight-hour shifts that varied each week, which Osborne said meant "your sleep patterns were all over the clock". The work of the Bletchley Park codebreakers is... [05 Nov 2009]
Photos: Ubuntu unleashes the Karmic Koala
Photo To the left of the clock is an envelope that represents the internet communication programs. Want to know how Ubuntu 9.10 will look once installed? silicon.com sister site ZDNet Australia takes you through the install. [29 Oct 2009]
Mitigating Distributed Denial of Service Attacks in Multiparty Applications in the Presence of Clock Drifts
White Paper A weak point in network-based applications is that they commonly open some known communication port(s), making themselves targets for Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. Considering adversaries that can eavesdrop and launch directed DoS... [02 Oct 2009]
Colorcon Ensures IT Performance Across Global Operations With Enterprise Monitoring Solution
White Paper The challenge was to ensure round-the-clock availability of the company's database, middleware, and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications that support its worldwide operations and enable greater visibility into... [02 Oct 2009]
Victoria University of Wellington Cuts Costs, Minimizes Downtime With Active Support
White Paper One of the University's main goals was to provide staff with around-the-clock access to its central system so they could work at any time and from anywhere. Founded in 1897, Victoria University of Wellington in New... [01 Oct 2009]
Minority Report: The Snow Leopard Appreciation Society
Comment It had around 65,000 miles on the clock. Apple's latest OS doesn't aim to wow with a host of new features: it's the little things that count, says Seb Janacek A lot has been written about Snow Leopard since its release... [16 Sep 2009]
Windows ACPI Emulated Devices Table
White Paper Two example devices are the Real-Time Clock (RTC) and the ACPI Power Management (PM) timer, as implemented in some chipsets. Modern PC platforms often use devices that have known errata. In this case, the Windows family... [16 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.09.09
Round-Up Modern Warfare 2's position of must-have game of the year is not under threat, but it's still a great idea and beats the hell out of sitting with other office nobodies watching the clock on the wall click interminably... [11 Sep 2009]
Apple's Snow Leopard: Embracing the brave new multicore world
News For years, chipmakers such as Intel and AMD had steadily increased the clock rate of their processors, and programmers got accustomed to a performance boost with each new generation. Apple began shipping Snow Leopard on... [01 Sep 2009]
A 200-Mbps 2-Gbps Continuous-Rate Clock-and-Data-Recovery Circuit
White Paper To receive the data with different bit rates over a wide range without the harmonic-locking issue, two kinds of Clock-and-Data-Recovery (CDR) circuits existed in literature. With the aid of wave-length division... [29 Aug 2009]
A Wide-Tracking Range Clock and Data Recovery Circuit
White Paper SCALING of CMOS technology has progressed relentlessly for the past several decades and brought unprecedented benefits to digital Integrated Circuits (ICs). In order for the improvements of individual ICs to benefit the overall system,... [29 Aug 2009]
Verification of Bit-Error Rate in Bang-Bang Clock and Data Recovery Circuits
White Paper High speed serial data links are expected to transmit data at very high rates with very high fidelity. Today speeds approaching 10 Gb/s are becoming common with 40 Gb/s on the horizon. Typically, a maximum Bit-Error Rate (BER) of 10 -... [29 Aug 2009]
Dell Services Helps Frederick Memorial Hospital Upgrade Its Virtualization Environment to VMware VSphere 4 and Increase Performance by 40 Percent
White Paper The hospital is dedicated to providing the highest-quality healthcare around the clock, but with the number of servers in the data center growing, maintaining 24/7 uptime was becoming time-consuming and costly. [28 Aug 2009]
Wake up, brush teeth, log on: Most techies check email before 9am
News Around a quarter (26 per cent) of silicon.com readers said they open their email at 9am, leaving a more leisurely minority to clock on at 10am or 11am - six per cent and two per cent respectively. The traditional... [24 Aug 2009]
