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- Microsoft releases dev kit for Singularity, their 'concept OS'
- Microsoft has made a Research Development Kit RDK available for their 'concept OS,' dubbed Singularity. The new OS was written almost entirely in C#, giving it the benefits of managed code, including the ability to easily avoid buffer overruns, a major attack vector for viruses and worms. ...
- Tags: Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Singularity, Operating Systems, Software, Andy Moon
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Syser Debugger (zip)
- Syser is a 32-Bit X86 kernel-level debugger for windows NT OS family. (Full-graphical softice). It can trace all Windows OS instructions at anytime, also can work in VMWare and VirtualPC Supports color disassembly and (C/C++) source code debugging VC PDB format. Syser is a powerful tool for Windows NT driver...
- Tags: Operating System, Syser Software, Syser, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows NT, Software
- Software downloads 2008-04-28
- 10 things you can do when Windows XP won't boot
- When your computer hardware appears to power up okay, but the Windows XP operating system won't boot properly, you have to begin a troubleshooting expedition that includes getting into the operating system, determining the problem, and then fixing it. To help you get started on this expedition, here are 10...
- Tags: Disk, Boot.ini, Operating System, Backup, Windows XP CD, Redirect Parameter, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Greg Shultz
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- CopanMobile for Palm OS (prc)
- CopanMobile for Pocket PC is a very efficient and easy-to-use geomatics engineering tool for computing and managing plane survey coordinates. It does numerous coordinate geometry COGO calculations, processes and adjusts raw field survey data, computes and adjusts map traverse data, performs map checks, calculates curves, areas and perimeters, performs coordinate...
- Tags: Memory Card, Operating System, Palm Inc., Positioning, Survey, Underhill Geomatics, Pocket PC, Branding, Marketing Research, Palm OS, Memory, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Hardware, Marketing, Software, Semiconductors, Components
- Software downloads 2008-05-13
- New Operating System Helps Improve PC Management, Enhances Service Offerings
- EVERTEC, Inc., a subsidiary of Popular, Inc., provides IT and data processing services to clients in the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America through offices in Puerto Rico, Venezuela, El Salvador, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, and Guatemala. The company uses nearly 50 installation images to manage 14,000...
- Tags: User Productivity, PC, Operating System, PC-management, EVERTEC Inc., Desktops, Hardware
- Case studies
- Microsoft Technologies Help MySpace Stay Ahead of Skyrocketing Growth
- The numbers are astonishing: MySpace has the second-highest traffic of all sites on the Web, with an estimated 38 million unique visits per month. More than 65 million registered members use the site to connect with friends, listen to music, share pictures and video, and write in their blogs -...
- Tags: video, social networking, operating system, Microsoft Corp., network, desktop, Web, MySpace, blog
- Case studies
- Kitchen Fixture Manufacturer Boosts Efficiency and Security With New System
- IT executives at Scavolini, a leading manufacturer of kitchen fixtures in Italy, needed to replace the company's client operating system with one that could more easily address challenges of growth. They installed the Windows Vista operating system on computers equipped with Intel Core 2 Duo processors. Now, users are accessing...
- Tags: Security, Information Technology, Operating System, Manufacturer, Intel Core 2 Duo, Manufacturing, Processors, Operating Systems, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Software
- Case studies
- Symantec AntiVirus: The Foundation of a More Secure OS
- After January 30, 2007 all new PC's have Windows Vista installed. While Vista's new security features are a great step, the first flaws in the newest OS have already been detected. If the organization is ready to move to Vista, or is adopting a wait and see attitude, Symantec has...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Symantec AntiVirus, Antivirus, Operating System, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Security, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software
- Webcasts
- Getronics Workspace Services and PCs With Intel vPro Technology
- The primary service challenge is that IT service providers cannot necessarily manage, maintain, or update PCs if system power is off or the OS is not working properly. Instead, many typical IT tasks must currently be performed during business hours, when PCs are powered on and available for inventory, software...
- Tags: Security, Intel vPro, PC, Getronics, Operating System, Intel Corp., Os migration, Desktops, Operating Systems, It Operations, Hardware, Software
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- The Business of Serving Users With Unsupported Operating Systems
- An estimated 70 million users are still using licensed versions of Windows 98 and Windows ME Operating Systems OS. While the OS vendors can wait until such users upgrade or migrate to their OS, it provides an opportunity to engage with these users and help them enhance their computing experience....
- Tags: Operating System, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software
- White papers
- TechNet Webcast: Technical Overview of Windows Server "Longhorn" (Part 1 of 2) (Level 300)
- The presenter of this webcast takes a look at the new Windows Server code name "Longhorn" operating system. The presenter describes how this product is in the beta phase, with many of the final features and components present and functional. He examines some of the new core operating system features...
- Tags: Webcast, Microsoft Windows Server, Operating System, Microsoft Longhorn, Microsoft TechNet, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Servers, Digital Media, Software, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts
- Framework for Testing the Fault-Tolerance of Systems Including OS and Network Aspects
- This paper presents an extensible framework for testing the behavior of networked machines running the Linux operating system in the presence of faults. The framework allows injecting a variety of faults, such as faults in the computing core or peripheral devices of a machine or faults in the network connecting...
- Tags: Fault-tolerance, Network, Operating System, Framework, Linux, Operating Systems, Open Source, UNIX, Software
- White papers
- China Central Television (CCTV) Increases Efficiency of Animation Production With Intel Platforms Running Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating System (OS)
- Animation as an art form has been in China since the 1920s. A large population, including some 200 million teenagers, is still fascinated with animated content. To satisfy these audience demands, the Animation Department of China Central TeleVision CCTV, the national television station of the People's Republic of China, produces...
- Tags: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, China, Linux, Red Hat Inc., Operating System, Animation, TV, Intel Corp., Intel Architecture
- Case studies
- Deep Into Munich's Linux F/OSS Migration: Projekt LiMux Has Embraced Linux and OS Development for Up to 80% of the City's Desktops
- The city of Munich got more media attention than respect after it decided on a migration to Linux and open source software on the desktop. After a careful and deliberately open movement towards deciding its IT future, Munich was slammed in the media, then became a target for Microsoft negotiators...
- Tags: Desktop, Operating System, Munich, Migration, International Data Group, Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software
- Case studies
- Intel Hardware Running Linux Operating Systems Provides a Premier Entertainment Experience
- Going to a Karaoke Lounge KTV is one of the most popular modes of entertainment in China. In order to be profitable, a KTV business must be able to support a large volume of customers with a stable solution that is cost-effective and easy to maintain. Faced with this challenge,...
- Tags: Operating System, Intel Hardware, Entertainment, Intel Corp., Linux, Operating Systems, Processors, Advertising & Promotion, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Marketing
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- Bank of Communications (BOCOM) Powers Up Transactional Processing on Intel Platforms Running SUSE Linux OS
- Technology is vital in the daily business operations of any modern bank, and like many banks in China, the Bank of Communications BOCOM relies on front-end servers to manage numerous terminals in its branches. BOCOM wanted to take advantage of new information systems available on the market because its mounting...
- Tags: Bank, Operating System, Technology, SuSE Linux, Intel Corp., SuSE, Financial Services, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software
- Case studies
- TechNet Webcast: Application Virtualization and Software Streaming Within Systems Management Server (Level 300)
- It has been said that desktop virtualization is the future of the corporate personal computer. The viewer of this webcast will learn how application virtualization and software streaming within Microsoft Systems Management Server can accelerate application and operating system deployments, eliminate application conflicts by enabling the user to run any...
- Tags: Application, Webcast, Operating System, Server, Microsoft Systems Management Server, Microsoft TechNet, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Hardware, Storage, Software
- Webcasts
- Container-Based Operating System Virtualization: A Scalable, High-Performance Alternative to Hypervisors
- Hypervisors, popularized by Xen and VMware, are quickly becoming commodity. They are appropriate for many usage scenarios, but there are scenarios that require system virtualization with high degrees of both isolation and efficiency. Examples include HPC clusters, the Grid, hosting centers, and PlanetLab. The authors present an alternative to hypervisors...
- Tags: Container, Hypervisor, Operating System, High-performance, Virtualization, Hardware
- White papers
- A Performance Comparison of Linux and a Lightweight Kernel
- This paper compares running the Linux operating system on the compute nodes of ASCI Red hardware to running a specialized, highly-optimized LightWeight Kernel LWK operating system. The authors have ported Linux to the compute and service nodes of the ASCI Red supercomputer, and have run several benchmarks. The paper presents...
- Tags: Performance, Operating System, Kernel, Linux, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software
- White papers
- Virtualization for High-Performance Computing
- The specific demands of High-Performance Computing HPC often mismatch the assumptions and algorithms provided by legacy Operating Systems OS for common workload mixes. While feature- and application-rich OSes allow for flexible and low-cost hardware configurations, rapid development, and flexible testing and debugging, the mismatch comes at the cost of -...
- Tags: Operating System, High-performance Computing, High-performance, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage
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