As readers can see, we’ve changed our “daily links” to twice-a-week Tuesday and Thursday links. This way we can provide a bit more commentary on each link instead of just listing them with little to no analysis. We invite our readers to give their opinions on this new format, and we’ll be looking to incorporate [...]
Archive | January, 2007
ID Software Developer Timothee Besset on Network Performance in Games
By Brian Boyko Back in November of 2006, (which seems like such a long time ago,) Network Performance Daily published a column by Carol Schiraldi about “why enterprise developers use Java and game programmers use C++.” We published this for a number of reasons – but the main one was that typically, enterprise developers are [...]
Proprietary MTP: an alternative to TCP?
By Brian Boyko If you spend some time poring through RFC documents (something I don’t recommend for the 99% of the population that is still sane) you’ll find tons of improvements, modifications, case-specific optimizations and alternatives to TCP, the workhorse of networking transport protocols since the 1970s. Seth Noble, President and Founder of Data Expedition, [...]
The IT Management Implications of the Strange Case of Julie Amero
By Brian Boyko If you’re working in IT, I’d like to ask you: With the increase in demands being placed on those responsible for enterprise networks, how will the Amero case open up threats to IT professionals – network engineers and IT managers? Will they now be held responsible for the “experience” of users? There’s [...]
The Strange Case of Ms. Julie Amero: Commentary by Detective Mark Lounsbury
Detective Mark Lounsbury is the crime prevention officer with the Norwich Police Department. He has served with the Norwich PD for 18 years – eight of them as a detective, and for the past seven years he has been the sole proprietor of the Norwich computer crime and cybercrime units, which deals with online sexual [...]
Daily Links: Deep Linking ruled copyright violation in Texas, DOPA II in U.S. Senate
Out-law.com: Texas court bans deep linking PBS: The Birth of DOPA Jr. More below the fold…
The Strange Case of Ms. Julie Amero: More information in the interlude
By Brian Boyko The article by Detective Lounsbury has been delayed while we double-check some information in the article, but it will be published tomorrow. In the meantime, we did some more research on some of the misconceptions of this case. We called up Steve DelGiorno, CEO of ComputerCOP software, which makes some of the [...]
Daily Links: Vista SP1 already in progress, battery breakthrough, USB adapter for phone-to-Skype, Vista memory requirements
apcmag.com: Vista Service Pack 1 is coming ZPEnergy: Battery Breakthrough Yahoo Finance (Press Release): TRENDnet’s USB Adapter connects regular phones to SKYPE Bink.nu: How much memory does Vista really need? More below the fold…
The Strange Case of Ms. Julie Amero: Commentary by Mr. Herb Horner
W. Herbert Horner has worked in computers since 1966. He was Systems Software Engineer for General Dynamics, Operating Systems Internalist for Sperry Univac, and he has diagnosed and corrected mainframe operating systems for the U.S. Armed Forces, NSA, IRS, and various commercial interests. He now operates his own consulting firm, Contemporary Computer Consultants, writes custom [...]
Daily Links: Enterprise Mashups, Apple charges for what you already own, Sun to use Intel chips
ZDNet: Enterprise mashups get ready for prime-time Daily Tech: Apple to Charge for Users for What They Already Purchased Houston Chronicle: Intel will partner with Sun Microsystems on server chips, source says More below the fold…
The Strange Case of Ms. Julie Amero: An Introduction
By Brian Boyko There is a great controversy on the Web right now over the fate of Connecticut schoolteacher Julie Amero. Ms. Amero has been convicted of “four counts of risk of injury to a minor, or imparing the morals of a child” and faces up to 40 years in prison in the state of [...]
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“BYOD” Inspires FUD in IT Managers
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4-Day Work Week? Heck yeah!
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The Illusion of ITIL and the Misunderstanding of IT Tools
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Much “To-Do” About Nothing
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Service Assurance Daily Weekly Reading List
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How to Play a Complete Game when Managing IT
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Ten years of pushing for Linux adoption in the workplace (and why I gave up.)
By Jim Sampson Around the mid-nineties, I worked for the Network Operating Systems support group in Dell – third level support for the enterprise server division. As an employee there, I was trying to use Linux on my laptop in Dell’s corporate environment. I purchased third-party provided connectors into Exchange, and ran Office-type applications as [...]