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10 Gigabit Ethernet On Its Way

David Adams 2005-06-27 Internet 27 Comments

The availability of 10 Gigabit ethernet will likely spell a major change for networking, as it becomes more widespread and cheaper. As one networking company CEO quoted in an eWeek article notes, "the new 10G fabric should allow for a seamless multiuse network incorporating storage, administrative and HPC communication needs, in comparison to having multiple networks as we do today."

NetFront 3.2-English Released

Eugenia Loli 2005-06-23 Internet 8 Comments

ACCESS's NetFront is a popular mobile browser for PDAs and phones. The English release of version 3.2 is now out, including support for WM2003SE, integrated Flash, Rapid Render technology that gradually renders the page, a new Java VM for applets, and some other features, but it still comes with no VGA support.

A Solution for Enterprise Faxing: Biscom FAXCOM Server

Guest post by Keith Burgess 2005-06-20 Internet 35 Comments

Tired of getting up from your desk to fax a document? Have you ever wondered why your company’s call center maintains wall-sized desks of fax machines? Employees at many large organizations are asking the same questions. Fortunately, so is Biscom, Inc. While there are a few companies providing enterprise fax solutions, Biscom, in this author’s opinion, stands out as the market leader.

WebKit now with open Bugzilla

Submitted by Jefferson letto Novo 2005-06-07 Internet 15 Comments

Apple opened the WebKit development in OpenDarwin, with a public bug/feature request database, and may give direct access to the repository for trusty (the ones with good patches record) contributors. Check-out the WebKit Open Source Site more.

New Wi-Fi standard takes the slow road

Eugenia Loli 2005-05-20 Internet 17 Comments

The process to establish the next-generation Wi-Fi standard, which promises to quadruple transmission speeds, has stalled as members of the working group developing the standard failed to pass the main proposal onto the next stage.

Xgrid and Cross Platform Grid Computing

Guest post by Stuart Bowness 2005-05-13 Internet 17 Comments

This paper will provide an overview of grid computing including its history, current development, terminology, and use. The scope of this project is geared towards the implementation of Apple's Xgrid technology in a university environment, or in a home environment for power users such as architects. Later in this paper we will implement an Xgrid, and will demonstrate its cross platform abilities, while exploring its revolutionary take on grid computing. Benchmarks of this grid will be done using light ray tracing software called Pov-Ray in combination with Architectural CAD software called Sketchup, and will produce a series of complex graphical scenes. Each computer on the grid will be responsible for rendering at least one scene, and rendering times will be recorded.

Stardock’s Multiplicity

Submitted by stumbler 2005-04-25 Internet 27 Comments

Stardock's newest application allows you to control multiple computers from one workstation. While it has some of the features of Win2VNC and Synergy2, the Pro version allows you to connect to an unlimited number of computers and "copy and paste" files between them. Review here.

OpenVPN 2.0 Released

Submitted by Ian Clancy 2005-04-20 Internet 7 Comments

OpenVPN, the versatile multi-platform SSL VPN has reached the 2.0 milestone. The new release features many improvements, most noteably it allows multiple clients to connect to a single OpenVPN server process over a single TCP or UDP port.

Writing really small TCP/IP stacks

Eugenia Loli 2005-04-19 Internet 11 Comments

Adam Dunkels, author of Contiki and the uIP embedded TCP/IP stack, held a talk at NUCCC 2005 this weekend about writing really small TCP/IP stacks and making them withstand slashdottings. Adam's various TCP/IP stacks have been both slashdotted and osnewsed several times. Nice quote from the talk: "Great hacks are the diamonds of computer science: 'Useless', yet priceless!".

Mobile Internet’s Uncertain Future

Eugenia Loli 2005-03-22 Internet 23 Comments

A mass market exists for the mobile Internet, but it will remain untapped until designers make simpler Web pages that can be viewed properly on handsets, a pioneer of the World Wide Web said. More editorials on the subjects here and here. This is a good opportunity to remind everyone that both OSNews.com and GnomeFiles.org support ~120 mobile HTML-capable devices automatically (no reason to enter special URLs) in addition to our WAP-only sites. About 2,000 readers visit daily OSNews with such devices (out of ~250,000 readers, on average, daily).

Matching High Availability with Server Load Balancing

Eugenia Loli 2005-03-15 Internet 3 Comments

Workload management is critically important for an on-demand business. IBM LoadLeveler is a job-management system that allows users to run more jobs in less time by matching the jobs' processing needs with the available resources. Maintaining maximum system uptime of the job management system is increasingly important.

BitTorrent 4.0.0 Released

Eugenia Loli 2005-03-08 Internet 42 Comments

BitTorrent 4.0.0 is released for Windows and Linux. The Mac OS X version is pending.

File Synchronization with Unison

Eugenia Loli 2005-03-03 Internet 27 Comments

Keeping directories in sync on multiple machines can be difficult. Running Unison is one way to make the task easier.

Make your Arch Linux a Bluetooth Access Point

Eugenia Loli 2005-02-27 Internet 13 Comments

Following my earlier article about creating a Bluetooth access point with your OS, here is my quick guide how to do just that with Arch Linux. You will need two Bluetooth-enabled devices to start with, and some patience as setting up Bluetooth is problematic on all OSes (each one with its own quirks).

StanaPhone: Skype’s big competitor?

Eugenia Loli 2005-02-26 Internet 38 Comments

StanaPhone is the first free telephone with real US phone numbers, and a Skype competitor.

Browser Speed Comparisons

Eugenia Loli 2005-02-11 Internet 64 Comments

Internet browser speed tests: Opera seems to be the fastest browser for Windows. Firefox is not faster than IE, except for scripting, but for standards support, security and features, it is a better choice.

High-Performance and High-Availability Clustering

Eugenia Loli 2005-02-01 Internet 5 Comments

This paper introduces basic clustering components and software tools that can be used to build a Linux cluster on IBM eServer OpenPower 710 by utilizing its 64-bit POWER5 architecture. This paper is intended as an introduction for someone interested in building a new Linux cluster running on OpenPower 710 servers or converting an existing cluster to OpenPower 710 servers.

Skype for Linux and Mac OS X

David Adams 2005-02-01 Internet 28 Comments

1.0 versions of Voice over IP application Skype have been released for Linux and OS X. They've been in Beta for several months. These versions seem to have feature parity with the Windows versions, and cross-platform communication is possible.

Howl 0.9.10 Released

Eugenia Loli 2005-01-29 Internet 11 Comments

Howl is a cross platform implementation of the Zeroconf zero configuration networking standard. It includes daemons and a client side SDK for registering, browsing, and resolving network services, and assigning link local IP addresses without a DHCP server. On Windows 2000/XP, it includes a sidebar in Internet Explorer that allows users to browse zeroconf-enabled Web and FTP servers. This release fixes a broken Makefile.am and a compilation error on FreeBSD. Elsewhere, Apple has recently released Technology Preview 3 of Rendezvous for Windows.

Build a push proxy gateway on Linux

Eugenia Loli 2005-01-25 Internet 8 Comments

A push mechanism is the delivery of unsolicited information to a mobile device. Learn how to set up a PPG on your own, configure the settings to your own taste, develop push content, and test it with a mobile handset simulator over a TCP/IP network on a LAN.