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Photos: Robots, lasers, action
Photo El-E's power and computation is all on board and runs Ubuntu Linux on a Mac Mini. You know the future has arrived when scientists bring together two staples of science fiction: lasers and robots. But rather than 50-tonne behemoths dealing death... [10 Apr 2008]
Power Allocation for Multi-Band OFDM UWB Communication Networks
White Paper Though extensive study on physical layer has been conducted, limited work exists in the literature on design of medium access control (MAC) layer protocols. This paper proposes an efficient low-complexity power allocation technique for clustered... [10 Apr 2008]
Enhancements of the IEEE 802.11, a MAC Protocol for Ad Hoc Network With History of Power Adjustment
White Paper This paper proposes a MAC protocol which improves disadvantages of the IEEE 802.11 DCF standard, like the blocking problem, scheduling concurrent transmissions (the hidden and exposed problem). The protocol also achieves better spatial reuse of the... [24 Mar 2008]
Gambling site brought to its knees by 'unstoppable' botnet
News Attackers disguised the build up of traffic from up to 30,000 PC and Apple Mac botnet computers during the attack by analysing and reproducing the browsing habits of the sites' typical users. If they can do that to us, a large gaming company, than... [06 Mar 2008]
Cheat Sheet: BBC iPlayer
Cheat Sheet The BBC has consistently said it wants to offer a multiplatform iPlayer and has already made the download version compatible with Vista with a Mac version promised by the end of 2008. P is for Power lines [05 Mar 2008]
Broadband switching still a tricky business
News To switch providers, subscribers need to obtain a Migration Authorisation Code (MAC) from their current broadband provider. They should receive the MAC address within five working days of the request according to the Ofcom guidelines but research... [15 Feb 2008]
Minority Report: MacBook Air - slim chance of success?
Comment In July 2000 Apple launched the G4 Cube, a ground-breaking desktop computer that sat between the Power Mac and iMac lines. Crucially, the Cube also squeezed itself in between the consumer iMac and the pro Power Mac. [06 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 18.01.08
Round-Up And so another Macworld has passed us by and Mac fans and news rooms are a-twitter with talk of the latest goodies to come off the Cupertino conveyor belt. The lack of a removable battery will bother some power users and pedants, but word from... [18 Jan 2008]
Augmented Split-TCP Over Wireless LANs
White Paper Using AS-TCP, a mobile host emulates TCP ACK packets using MAC ACK frames, instead of receiving real TCP ACK packets. Results show that AS-TCP achieves higher throughput, fairer resource allocation and, in power-saving mode, shorter delays. [26 Dec 2007]
Minority Report: 12 months that changed Apple
Comment In April, Apple was also forced to announce delays to the delivery of Leopard, its next iteration of the Mac OS X operating system. The MacBook and MacBook Pro models have been a mainstay in the company's Mac sales in recent years. [21 Dec 2007]
BBC's iPlayer comes to Macs and Linux
News A streaming version of the BBC's iPlayer online TV on-demand service has been launched for the Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. P is for Power lines The download version of iPlayer was only available for Windows XP when it was released in beta... [14 Dec 2007]
TCP Over CDMA2000 Networks: A Cross-Layer Measurement Study
White Paper This paper presents a detailed characterization of TCP behavior based on cross-layer measurement of transport, as well as RF and MAC layer parameters. Modern cellular channels in 3G networks incorporate sophisticated power control and dynamic rate... [06 Nov 2007]
Dear silicon.com... petty cash, Vista sales, swelling SMEs...
Comment Apple are wanting to attract Windows users to defect to the Mac. have people never considered the possibility of making a backup or do macs never get hit by lightning or power surges or knocked off desks or have coffee spilled on them or any of a... [01 Nov 2007]
Mac OS X Power Hound: The Dock
White Paper The Dock, a central and critical component of Mac OS X, combines several important operating-system functions into a single row of icons across one edge of the screen. It's a program launcher, a program switcher, a document-storage site, an... [25 Oct 2007]
Running Mac OS X Tiger: The Terminal and Shell
White Paper The Terminal application (/Applications/Utilities) is the portal to the internals of Mac OS X. And once the user knows how to use it, the Terminal becomes a tool so valuable that many power users keep it in their Dock or in the Finder's Sidebar for... [17 Oct 2007]
