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Editor's Blog: Back to the future
Comment So earlier this week I found myself in east London, getting kitted out in very big boots and a hard hat to visit a part of the Northern Outfall Sewer, built in 1862-3 and one of the city's six main interceptory sewers. [24 Jul 2008]
HP and Microsoft Help Jim Beam Brands Distill and Manage Information Resources
White Paper The public knows Jim Beam Brands Company for its flagship Jim Beam bourbon brand. Overall, the company needed a more agile communications platform - one that would facilitate collaboration and provide real-time access to information today and in... [23 Jul 2008]
Credit crunch turns techies to second jobs
News Freelance services website PeoplePerHour.com says it currently has 3,500 people offering work in at least one IT-related category, with more than a third (35 per cent) also in full time employment - with this figure rising each month. [22 Jul 2008]
Photos: How to destroy your hard drive
Photo Of course, every security professional knows that it's also recommended practice to wipe your hard drive using one of these bad boys: a degausser. Disposing of computer hard drives in a secure and safe way has become a hot topic, especially after... [17 Jul 2008]
Exploring the Trade-Off Between Label Size and Stack Depth in MPLS Routing
White Paper Despite the fact that MPLS is becoming widespread on the Internet, one knows essentially very little about the performance one can achieve with it, and about the intrinsic trade-offs in its use of resources. [10 Jul 2008]
Load Balancing in Arbitrary Network Topologies With Stochastic Adversarial Input
White Paper The adversary knows the current and past load distribution in the network and can use this information to place the new tasks in the processors. A node can execute one job per step, and can also participate in one load balancing operation in which... [10 Jul 2008]
¿Dónde está el iPhone 3G?
Comment Everyone knows it's hard to get your hands on a 3G iPhone. That's why the chance to see one in Spain proved irresistible for Natasha Lomas. Lengthy because the roomful of journalists kept hoping one more question might just elicit an off-message... [01 Jul 2008]
iPhone 2.0 - the rumours and the reality
News But as consultancy Analysys Mason associate Mark Heath says, Apple knows how to keep its iPhone secrets fresh 'til D-Day: "People talk about having GPS capability in there, perhaps a slightly changed device to make it more suitable, more robust... [05 Jun 2008]
Component Testing With IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software
White Paper If one has ever attempted it, one knows that as beneficial as component testing can be in helping to find problems early, it can also be so costly and problematic that testers may wonder whether it's really worth the effort. [03 Jun 2008]
Introducing the SAS Code Analyzer
White Paper This is especially true if the application makes many passes through the same data sets, and one knows that those passes could potentially be run in parallel. If one is responsible for maintaining a large legacy SAS application, one is probably... [31 May 2008]
Microsoft Office System Webcast: Advanced Tips and Tricks: Customizing the Ribbon Using Office Open XML (Level 300)
White Paper If anyone knows the basics of editing the XML behind 2007 Office release documents, customizing the Ribbon is one of the easiest tasks to do. The presenter of this webcast looks at the basics of Ribbon customization, including how to create one's... [30 May 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.05.08
Round-Up As one reader pointed out: "Whoa, you technical guys are covering yourselves in glory here, aren't you? The next big tech event to be held at the Moscone Center is the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference, which kicks off at the start of June and... [16 May 2008]
RIM quiet on touchscreen BlackBerry rumours
News So who knows? He said: "We focus principally on the efficiency because you have a multi-variant scarcity equation: battery is limited, thermodynamics is a challenge, capacity of the network is a challenge, size is a challenge - I have but one belt... [14 May 2008]
3Com Solutions: Prescription for a Vital Network Health Check
White Paper No one knows their network better than they do, or has a bigger stake in the network's performance. IT managers build, maintain, and in many cases stake their reputations on the networks they support. [09 May 2008]
Introducing the Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), Part 1: Understand TOGAF and IT Architecture in Today's World - Connecting Business Needs With the Technology Infrastructure
White Paper When one is building an application for a very specific purpose - say, processing a charge to an account - one knows what one needs to do and how one needs to do it. One's architecture might be straightforward, even simple. [09 May 2008]
