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Share one keyboard and mouse with multiple machines without a KVM

September 21, 2012 10:42am PDT

The Synergy open source application allows you to share a keyboard and mouse between Windows, Mac, and Linux computers and saves you the cost of a KVM.

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Dune: Safe User-level Access to Privileged CPU Features

September 21, 2012 12:00am PDT

Dune is a system that provides applications with direct but safe access to hardware features such as ring protection, page tables, and tagged TLBs, while preserving the existing OS interfaces for...

Provided by: Stanford Technology Ventures Program

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SymDrive: Testing Drivers without Devices

September 21, 2012 12:00am PDT

Device drivers are critical to operating-system reliability, yet are difficult to test and debug. They run in kernel mode, which prohibits the use of many runtime program-analysis tools available...

Provided by: University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

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Go Beyond SCOM Monitoring Capabilities with Foglight for SQL Server

September 20, 2012 12:00am PDT

Systems Center Operations Manager (SCOM) allows you to manage and monitor Windows and Linux systems within an Active Directory farm. SCOM is great at telling you whether your server is healthy or...

Provided by: Quest Software, now a part of Dell

Discussion Threads

Enable the mounting of ext2/3 file systems on a Windows machine

September 17, 2012 10:58pm PDT

Enable the mounting of ext2/3 file systems on a Windows machine article root Thanks Jack Thanks for the "heads up". :) ext2/3 on Winblows Thanx Jack, I havent tried it yet but when I have to use...

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Blog Post

Webtop 3.0 opens more doors for Google

September 17, 2012 12:28pm PDT

Donovan Colbert takes a look at some of the changes with Webtop 3.0. Find out why he thinks Webtop 3.0 will open more doors for Google in the enterprise.

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Lucky Scheduling for Energy-Efficient Heterogeneous Multi-Core Systems

September 17, 2012 12:00am PDT

Heterogeneous multi-core processors with big/high-performance and small/low-power cores have been proposed as an alternative design to improve energy efficiency over traditional homogeneous...

Provided by: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

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A Proposed Approach for Storage Throughput Improvement in Android Phones

September 14, 2012 12:00am PDT

Today most smart phones use eMMC and SD card as storage devices. Storage performance improvement is one of the most important studies in the mobile phone industry today. Performance of many key...

Provided by: National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli

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Is Linux Kernel Oops Useful or Not?

September 11, 2012 12:00am PDT

Linux kernel oops is invoked when the kernel detects an erroneous state inside itself. It kills an offending process and allows Linux to continue its operation under a compromised reliability. The...

Provided by: Keio University

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Automatic OS Kernel TCB Reduction by Leveraging Compile-Time Configurability

September 10, 2012 12:00am PDT

The Linux kernel can be a threat to the dependability of systems because of its sheer size. A simple approach to produce smaller kernels is to manually configure the Linux kernel. However, the...

Provided by: Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg

Q&A

branding company taking IT decisions

September 6, 2012 5:05am PDT

branding company taking IT decisions Hi We are into real estate company recently we have gone for branding, the branding agency are working with us, I works IT Head and myslef linux administraror...

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Realization of Network Bypass Protecting Instrument Based on ARM-Linux

September 5, 2012 12:00am PDT

With the control mode of value-added network services equipment changing from bypass intervention to serial control, in order to minimize the security problems which are caused by the failure of...

Provided by: Scientific Research

Discussion Threads

With the rise of the Linux desktop, will viruses follow?

September 4, 2012 8:20am PDT

With the rise of the Linux desktop, will viruses follow? article root linux and virus I've used windows since it first appeared thru Win95, now Win7 and there is always the risk of virus attacks...

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With the rise of the Linux desktop, will viruses follow?

September 4, 2012 6:51am PDT

The Linux desktop is growing in popularity and many believe a growth in viruses will follow. Jack Wallen thinks that logic is flawed and explains why.

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Linux Based Implementation of MACSec Key Agreement (MKA)

September 1, 2012 12:00am PDT

IEEE 802.1AE and IEEE 802.1AF are two IEEE 802.1X standards providing security to the data link layer. The IEEE 802.1AE is the IEEE MAC Security standard (also known as MACSec), it defines data...

Provided by: International Journal of Engineering Research and Development (IJERD)

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Remote Computer Access Through Android Mobiles

September 1, 2012 12:00am PDT

In this paper, the authors will present the process to access the computers with the help of android mobile phones. This process is based on VNC (virtual network computing) technique. So to work...

Provided by: International Journal of Computer Science Issues

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A Hardware Time Manager Implementation for the Xenomai Real-Time Kernel of Embedded Linux

August 31, 2012 12:00am PDT

Nowadays, the use of embedded operating systems in different embedded projects is subject to a tremendous growth. Embedded Linux is becoming one of those most popular EOSs due to its modularity,...

Provided by: Université du Sud - Toulon - Var

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Scalability Analysis of a Media Aware Network Element

August 31, 2012 12:00am PDT

An architecture based on new concepts of Content Aware Networking (CAN) and Network Aware Applications (NAA) is proposed in FP7 ALICANTE research project as a better support for multimedia flows...

Provided by: EURASIP

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Suse enterprise linux to Novell Open Enterprise Server

August 29, 2012 10:45am PDT

Suse enterprise linux to Novell Open Enterprise Server Hi We have Suse Enterprise linux 11 with sp2 functioning as samba domain controller with ldap as password backend. By seeing the features of...

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