Microsoft Silverlight has progressed with big steps since the initial version only a few years ago. Today, Silverlight 4 is suitable for building even business applications. Read on to learn how you can use Silverlight 4 and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) RIA Services to build compelling applications.
You think netbooks are small and light? Check out Fujitsu's micro-mini: Coat-pocket-sized, 1.1 pounds, full PC functionality plus GPS. Is this $849 Windows 7 show-off a traveling exec's most irresistible gadget?
You think netbooks are small and light? Check out Fujitsu's micro-mini: Coat-pocket-sized, 1.1 pounds, full PC functionality plus GPS. Is this $849 Windows 7 show-off a traveling exec's most irresistible gadget?
Microsoft's Windows 7 appears to be helping the software giant win back some of the good will it lost over the past few years with the much-maligned Windows Vista.
<b>cmdln.org:</b> "Monitoring and analyzing performance is an important task for any sysadmin. Disk I/O bottlenecks can bring applications to a crawl. What is an IOP? Should I use SATA, SAS, or FC? How many spindles do I need?"
The Republican National Committee is leveraging open source VoIP tech for its election-cycle polling and organizing efforts, but the final results aren't open to the public.
<b>Linux Magazine:</b> "Sometimes you just have to get excited about what you can buy, hold in your hand, and use in your home machines. Let's look at some cool storage technology that the average desktop user can tackle."
An online service that lets you outsource your copywriting needs to professionals, a way to easily download popular software to your new PC and finally…an online exchange for gift cards.
China gets all the bad press but it turns out that Luxembourg, the Cayman Islands and a bunch of South American countries are actually the least discriminating when it comes to filtering malware.
The best smartphone for the enterprise, a category long dominated by Blackberry, now faces challenges by Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android.
<b>Datamation:</b> "While I firmly believe that Android will challenge in the enterprise soon, it's just not happening now. The security and configuration features that IT departments demand simply aren't ready yet."
<b>IT Wire:</b> "Announced earlier today, the 35th list of the top 500 supercomputers contains few surprises, just that Linux has almost total domination of the list."
<b>Database Journal:</b> "This post contains common different methods of functional partitioning and common considerations for database setup and capacity."
<b>Tech Source:</b> "We all know how it sucks to see error messages. If you have been using Windows all your life, you have probably seen lots of them already."
<b>LWN.net:</b> "DVD authoring can be a deceptively tricky business. Though it can take some time to convert source video to the proper MPEG format, the technical requirements for the various regions are standardized, so it is at least possible to configure the conversion tools and do it right, once and for all."