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Cloud Computing to the Max

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

With cloud computing growing day by day, the limits are really looking indefinite to its reach and potential. Cloud computing has applications run from the cloud or a collective of computer systems linked such as the internet. The program never resides on one specific system but is rather juggled around in cyberspace used by who [...]

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Open Source for Mobiles on the Rise

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

The world has been hearing about open source for quite sometime and as usual most do not know them even if it has been staring them right at their nose. Most know of the selling term Android-Based phones well then they are most partly developed on open source but from the rest it is considered [...]

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Manycam webcam software

Tuesday, March 8th, 2011

Using a webcam is easier now compared to a few years ago because setting up a webcam is more intuitive and user friendly. But even with this kind of easy installation process there are still some things that need a little improvement, for example, webcam software. Usually, webcam manufacturers have their own proprietary software, which [...]

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What is SharePoint Health Analyzer?

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010

Want to quickly find and fix potential problems across all of the servers in your farm? Then don’t forget to take a look at SharePoint Health Analyzer. SharePoint Health Analyzer is a feature in SharePoint Server 2010 and SharePoint Foundation 2010 that allows administrators to schedule regular, automatic checks for potential configuration, performance, and usage [...]

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Open Source Information

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

Very swiftly, Wikipedia became the tail that swallowed the dog (Nupedia). In less than a month, it had 1,000 articles; by the end of its first year, it had 20,000; by the end of its second year, it had 100,000 articles in just the English edition. (By then it had begun to spawn foreign-language editions, [...]

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Open-Source is the Future

Friday, June 19th, 2009

The realm of closed systems developed in secrecy with closely guarded algorithms and software engineering may become a thing of the past as with the advent of more and more open-sourced systems being deployed across the internet. Cloud computing is set to be ruled by open-sourced applications, developed by big businesses to cater to commercial [...]

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Though people and businesses are benefiting from the many deployed open-sourced programs the world over, security still prevents most from shifting to their use as with big businesses. The many security issues that are inherent of open-systems due to the dispersal of development that may span the globe is quite alarming and without proper measures [...]

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GlassFish Gets Improvements

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

GlassFish, from Sun Microsystems has just received a much deserved upgrade loading it woth more advanced features adding to it’s already advanced features being one of the computing industry’s most downloaded and used application server. The open-source contains some of the most powerful collection of technologies to come out of the open source industry including [...]

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Mozilla has continued to grow in terms of the numbers of people who have shifted use of their browser, FireFox in place of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer due to one major difference, speed. IE has been known to have very large resource requirements and with the release of the newest version IE8 that is designed to [...]

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Vyatta Community Edition 5 (VC5) user rejoice! Based on the latest news Vyatta is adding intrusion preventors for SSL and VPN in VC5. Also included are features for URL filtering and Web caching. Open-source routing vendor Vyatta is adding SSL VPN, intrusion prevention, Web caching, URL filtering and other features in Vyatta Community Edition 5 [...]

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