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Wide loads kept low

The HK-1 Hercules heavy cargo transport plane is one of the most famous and eccentric aircraft ever conceived, and it holds the record for the largest wingspan of any aircraft ever flown, meaning that by most layman measures, the Hercules is the biggest airplane ever built. Never heard of it?...

Tags: HK-1 Hercules, Jay Garmon, aircraft, Spruce Goose

Technical articles 2004-01-06

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Software Provider Moves From SCO UNIX to Windows, Doubles Rate of Business Growth

Spruce Computer Systems saw the need to update its UNIX-based building-supply business software. With help from DTR Business Systems, a Microsoft NXT Delivery Partner, Spruce migrated to Windows Server and the Microsoft .NET Framework. It's doubled the rate of signed contracts and added customers it couldn't reach with its UNIX...

Tags: SCO Group Inc., Microsoft Corp., SCO Unix, Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Operating Systems, Tools & Techniques, Software, Management

Case studies

SPRUCE: A System for Supporting Urgent High-Performance Computing

Modeling and simulation using high-performance computing are playing an increasingly important role in decision making and prediction. For time-critical emergency decision support applications, such as influenza modeling and severe weather prediction, late results may be useless. A specialized infrastructure is needed to provide computational resources quickly. This paper describes the...

Tags: High-performance Computing, University Of Chicago, High-performance, Decision Support, Computing, Modeling, Research & Development, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Leadership, Databases, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management

White papers 2006-10-06

The Watch Goose Letters ebook (exe)

ebook - The Watch Goose Letters - Read part of it free, pay to read the rest. Leithauser Research ebook reader included. Social and political commentary. From American women's rights through such far ranging topics as the American educational and medical systems, gun control, and what it means to ask...

Tags: E-books, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2007-11-19

Blue Cross Blue Shield Vermont Advances Security With Cisco Partner Blue Spruce Technologies

In order to comply with the federal government's HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act), Blue Cross Blue Shield BCBS of Vermont conducts regular reviews of its security infrastructure and hardware. As a result of its most recent review, the company planned to replace its security firewalls, but decided to...

Tags: Blue Cross Blue Shield, Partnership, Cisco Systems Inc., Security

Case studies

Leading Forest Products Company Streamlines Processes and Reduces Operational Costs

Tembec is a leading Canadian forest products company principally involved in the production of wood products, market pulp, and papers. One of Tembec's leading paper sites, Spruce Falls, was one of the first forestry producers to become certified to the ISO 14001 standard through external audits of its Environmental Management...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Tembec, Document Management, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, Groupware, Iso standards, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Quality, Business Operations

Case studies

Mid Life Crisis

I have 24 years working with computer hardware and software. I've owned my own consulting company for 8 years. I find myself needing a full time position in IT. Any advise on a direction to follow to spruce up my resume.Yeah I have a direction...

Tags: Outsourcing, mike@...

Discussion threads 2005-03-22

Images of Ireland Screensaver (zip)

Irish screensaver program with 10 beautiful views of Ireland. From Connemara, Co Galway, to County Westmeath get a bit 'o Ireland to spruce up your desktop today. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Ireland, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2007-11-20

Fever Frenzy (zip)

Take care of some of the strangest patients you'll ever meet in this fun twist on popular service style games. Cure patients with baboonic plague, bipolarbear disorder, mother goose bumps, 3rd degree sideburns and many more, each with their own personalities and voices. Watch them graphically transform as you cure...

Tags: Patient, Legacy Interactive

Software downloads 2008-06-20

Fever Frenzy: Under the Microscope (zip)

Take care of some of the strangest patients you'll ever meet in this fun twist on popular service style games. Cure patients with baboonic plague, bipolarbear disorder, mother goose bumps, 3rd degree sideburns and many more, each with their own personalities and voices. Watch them graphically transform as you cure...

Tags: Patient, Legacy Interactive

Software downloads 2008-08-22

Excel for Palm OS

Please IF anyone has any information it would be helpful I have searched many sites and contacted many manufacturers, but have not been able to find a spreadsheet program that supports HYPERLINKS and or JPEG's. I find it strange that Documents to Go supports this functionality, but Sheets to Go...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Operating systems, operating system, yaz929699@..., Microsoft Excel, Palm Inc., Palm OS

Discussion threads 2007-06-07

Christmas Pictures Screensaver (exe)

Merry Christmas. Deck your desktop with images that convey the spirit of the season. The collection of colorful Christmas images includes: Santa, natty spruce, toys, embellishment, home baking and cakes, gifts. It is available 40 miraculous images. Saver is set to automatically fit them to your own screen size. The...

Tags: Screensaver, Altix Soft, Image, Saver

Software downloads 2006-02-28

Do Any Palm spreadsheets support JPEGS or Hyperlinks

Hello, Please IF anyone has any information it would be helpful I have searched many sites and contacted many manufacturers, but have not been able to find a spreadsheet program that supports HYPERLINKS and or JPEG's. I find it strange that Documents to Go supports this functionality, but Sheets to...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Palm Inc., yaz929699@..., JPEG, spreadsheet

Discussion threads 2007-06-03

Halloween 3D (exe)

No? Well, this might change your mind. Goose bumps will appear the minute you enter this screen saver's spookily moonlit estate, and see the ominous looking house appear through the fog. Those knotted old trees with their leaves rustling in the wind, wasn't there just a shadow between them? ...

Tags: 3D, Screensaver

Software downloads 2007-06-28

Can you name the headquarters of these tech giants?

Check out this photo gallery (http://techrepublic.com.com/2300-1035-6028427.html) of aerial images from above the headquarters of 10 of the biggest players in the technology industry. Then, post your guesses on which ones are which. Please use this format: 1 - Company A2 - Company Betc.!!!! or iiiiStrange hunch, Company D seems to...

Tags: Company, D, Dell Computer Corp., guess, Jason Hiner, off-topic, photos, tech giants, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-01-19

Agatha Christie: Peril at End House (exe)

Agatha Christie is back with another seek-and-find challenge for Hercule Poirot! Set on the beautiful Cornish coast, there has always been an air of evil at End House, and with three attempts on Nick Buckley's life in as many days, it's up to the famous Poirot to unravel the mystery...

Tags: Agatha Christie

Software downloads 2007-12-19

Estimating Available Bandwidth Using Multiple Overloading Streams

Available bandwidth measurement is essential to applications running on the best-effort Internet. This paper proposes an available bandwidth measurement technique named MoSeab. The idea behind MoSeab is a direct probing technique based on a statistical model for network data transmissions. Differing from the other direct probing techniques, MoSeab does not...

Tags: Technique, Bandwidth, Network, Bandwidth Measurement, MoSeab, Productivity, Internet, Networking

White papers 2006-03-08

Liven up your Web pages with HTML style sheets

Does your Web site need a little excitement? Spruce up your dull Web pages with HTML style sheets. Use these quick and easy tips, and you'll have a great looking Web page in no time.If you read my previous article on beating the hyperlink blues, then you have already begun...

Tags: Web, Jason Smith, style sheet, text-decoration

Technical articles 2000-08-29

What's good for the goose isn't necessarily good for the gander

What's good for the goose isn't necessarily good for the ganderWhile Westerners said that Muslims were overreacting about cartoon depictions of Muhammud, Australia's PM John Howard and Foreign Minister Alexander Downer have taken great offence at a cartoon in an Indonesian Newspaper depicting them as fornicating dingoes.Do I detect a...

Tags: gander, goose

Discussion threads 2006-03-30

Fever Frenzy (zip)

Take the role of one of the two game characters, try to cure the patients and fight back the virus at the same time through a series of minigames. The game brings the service genre to you in an unique pack of funny twisted diseases like the Baboonic plague, Bipolarbear...

Tags: Game, Patient, Hospital, Healthcare

Software downloads 2007-11-14