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TCP Congestion Control Over HSDPA: An Experimental Evaluation

December 7, 2012 12:00am PST

In this paper, the authors focus on the experimental evaluation of TCP over the High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA), an upgrade of UMTS that is getting worldwide deployment. Today, this is...

Provided by: PoliTap

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Driving forces behind Linux and open source growth

December 4, 2012 4:58am PST

Driving forces behind Linux and open source growth article root It's really an interesting time... When I first heard of Linux, it was because of a very insisting friend of mine that I met in a...

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Shim delivered to allow small Linux distros to boot

December 4, 2012 3:40am PST

Shim delivered to allow small Linux distros to boot article root Trust Is it really any different from trusting Microsoft. They aren't exactly known for being the center for secure computing...

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Driving forces behind Linux and open source growth

December 3, 2012 8:13am PST

Jack Wallen has been watching Linux and open source for well over a decade. In all the ebbs and flows of acceptance, he has never seen such wide-spread usage of the open source platform as now.

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Shim delivered to allow small Linux distros to boot

December 2, 2012 8:51pm PST

Small distributions receive booting option that avoids Microsoft's US$99 signing fee.

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Performance Analysis of MPI (mpi4py) on Diskless Cluster Environment in Ubuntu

December 1, 2012 12:00am PST

Now-a-days Cluster computing has become a crying need for the processing of large scale data. For computing large amount of data, which need huge execution time, the run time can be reduced using...

Provided by: International Journal of Computer Applications

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Software Development for Point to Point Communication Over IP Networks

December 1, 2012 12:00am PST

The main purpose of this project is to authenticate the data transmitted between two P2P (Point to Point) modules. This connection pertains to wireless data communication for IP networks using...

Provided by: International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering (IJETAE)

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Monitoring and Controlling Monorail Car's Using Linux Platform

December 1, 2012 12:00am PST

To meet the mountainous districts situation this paper introduces a monorail car's wireless control system used in orchard which is based on a web-based wireless communication technology on Linux...

Provided by: International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering (IJETAE)

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Does your OS matter?

November 30, 2012 12:00am PST

An overview of a comprehensive Solitaire Interglobal Ltd. (SIL) study demonstrates the significant value of the operating system. SIL examines the real-world impact on businesses that deploy IBM's...

Provided by: IBM

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IBM Enterprise Linux Server: Superior Virtualization

November 30, 2012 12:00am PST

IT executives operating or planning to operate a consolidated data center environment with virtualized Linux servers often view the x86 platform as the most cost-effective solution, based on the...

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IBM Enterprise Linux Server: Superior Virtualization

November 30, 2012 12:00am PST

IT executives operating or planning to operate a consolidated data center environment with virtualized Linux servers often view the x86 platform as the most cost-effective solution, based on the...

Provided by: IBM

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A Formal Model of a Virtual Filesystem Switch

November 28, 2012 12:00am PST

This paper presents a formal model that is part of the authors' effort to construct a verified file system for Flash memory. To modularize the verification they factor out generic aspects into a...

Provided by: University of Auckland Business School

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Automatic Verification of Message-Based Device Drivers

November 27, 2012 12:00am PST

The authors develop a practical solution to the problem of automatic verification of the interface between device drivers and the OS. Their solution relies on a combination of improved driver...

Provided by: University of New Orleans Fund

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Open source community up in arms over proprietary software for Ubuntu

November 26, 2012 7:33am PST

Open source community up in arms over proprietary software for Ubuntu article root Mistake? "if you want Linux to continue to stagnate on the desktop and business levels, go ahead and fight for...

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Proposal of Seamless IP Mobility Schemes: Network Traversal With Mobility (NTMobile)

November 21, 2012 12:00am PST

IP mobility is the technology that realizes a continuous communication even when communicating wireless nodes switch access networks. NTMobile (Network Traversal with Mobility) is a new type of IP...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers

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Use RedNotebook as your IT admin journal

November 20, 2012 1:24pm PST

RedNotebook is a modern journaling application that is available on Linux, Windows, and Mac. The tool's standout feature is that you can create your own templates.

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Portable desktop search: Make the most of DocFetcher

November 20, 2012 5:30am PST

Marco Fioretti shares tips for using the DocFetcher portable desktop search program.

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Ten things Linux and open source have to be thankful for

November 19, 2012 8:55am PST

Ten things Linux and open source have to be thankful for article root I understand most But I fail to see why number 3 has any benefit to Linux or Open Source in general. Ok, so Facebook uses...

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Ten things Linux and open source have to be thankful for

November 19, 2012 7:29am PST

Linux and open source has a lot to be thankful for. Jack Wallen takes a moment to highlight ten things this community should give thanks for. You might be surprised at what you read!

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