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Website Scaling, Part 2: The Metrics of Measuring

admin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000

Measuring Web scalability is a critical component of website scaling. The way you do this in a testing environment is, of course, called “load testing.” But what you might not know about load testing is how it relates to Little’s Law: “The average number of things in the system is the product of the average rate at which things leave the system and the average time each one spends in the system. (And if there is a gross flow balance of things entering and leaving, the exit rate is also the entry rate.)”

Hackers Turn Up Heat on Steam Gaming Platform

admin — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 19:36:44 +0000

Up to 35 million gamers with accounts on Steam, the multiplayer and digital games distribution platform developed by Valve, may be at risk following a breach of its database. Information in the database included usernames, passwords, data on members’ game purchases, and members’ email and billing addresses and encrypted credit card information, Valve said on Thursday. However, there’s no evidence that the hackers stole encrypted card numbers or information that could personally identify anyone, Valve claims.

Packrat Apps: GCStar Does It Your Way, Tellico Does It Pretty, Kabikaboo Does It Clean

admin — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 07:00:00 +0000

Desktop and laptop computers are great tools for organizing our worlds of things and ideas. The FOSS world of Linux applications offers perhaps more choices for cataloging and categorizing our collections than any other platform. This week’s Linux Picks focuses on applications to help you track your stuff. The software handles a variety of both material and intellectual collections. GCstar Collections Manager stores details on each item and can be tailored for additional information such as location or to whom you lent it.

Devon Smartens Up Its Personal Data Archivist

admin — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0000

After a year in beta testing, Devon Technologies has at last released version 2.0 of its popular personal information manager for the Mac, DevonThink, and its notes manager, DevonNotes. With the pressure these days on technology companies to move new products into the market faster than ever, a one-year beta period might be considered frustrating to some concerns, but not to Devon. “It gave us a lot of freedom,” the firm’s president, Eric Boehnisch-Volkmann, told MacNewsWorld. “It gave us time to refine things we wanted to add and to polish the UI,” he said.

FileMaker Pro Goes to 11

admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0000

Fans of relational databases will find a lot to smile about in the latest release of FileMaker Pro. The program, long a favorite of Mac users, simultaneously released last week a new version of the data crunching powerhouse for both OS X and Windows. “This is a pretty significant release in the sense that there’s a lot going on in it,” FileMaker Group Product Manager Rick Kalman told MacNewsWorld. Databases at FileMaker’s level of sophistication and muscle can be challenging for many information massagers.

The 5 Best-Kept SharePoint Management Secrets

admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:00:00 +0000

Microsoft SharePoint Server is an incredibly versatile tool for setting up portals and Web sites that facilitate communication and collaboration within a company, between companies, and with Internet users at large. This versatility and the ability of SharePoint to boost productivity has made it the fastest-growing product in the history of Microsoft. Many of the benefits associated with SharePoint are made possible by its tight integration with Microsoft Exchange, Internet Information Server, SQL Server and other complex Microsoft infrastructure products.

ParAccel’s Bid to Build a Better Data Cruncher

admin — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 08:00:00 +0000

Data mining is becoming a crowded field filled with software providers using similar strategies. Their basic goal is always the same. The analytics platforms are designed to slice and dice data to make sales trends and buying opportunities more evident. The firms that can deliver this product more accurately and more rapidly grow their reputations and entice new customers from lesser-producing competitors. Even when relative newcomers such as ParAccel introduce innovations, what they provide to their customers is essentially a better, faster way to dissect digital data.

Driver Magician 3.4

admin — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 11:22:46 +0000

Driver Magician offers a solution for device drivers backup, restoration, update and removal in Windows operating system. It identifies all the hardware in the system, extracts their associated drivers from the hard disk and backs them up to a location of your choice. Then when you format and reinstall/upgrade your operating system, you can restore all the saved drivers just as if you had the original driver diskettes in your hands. After one system reboot, your PC will be loaded and running with the required hardware drivers.

What’s more, Driver Magician has a built in database of the latest drivers with the ability to go to the Internet to receive the driver updates. It saves lots of time to find the correct drivers and mature drivers will obviously increase the performance of hardware. If there are unknown devices in your PC, Driver Magician helps you to detect them with its built in hardware identifier database. Version 3.4 includes unspecified updates.

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Kundli for Windows (Professional Edition) 4.51

admin — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:46:24 +0000

Kundli for Windows is an astrology software with following features are Windows compatibility, good presentation, most accurate calculations, screen preview, storage of horoscopes and modules for future, references, Y2K compatible, South/North Indian charting, Aynamsa N.C. Lahiri/K.P./B.V. Raman, latitude and longitude databases, time zones database, company name, address phone number, and background option.

Works only for the year 1993 to 1995.

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Cook’n Recipe Organizer 8.2

admin — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:30:17 +0000

Organize, print, and e-mail recipes with Cook’n Recipe Organizer. You can analyze a meal’s nutritional value, satisfy your dietary needs, and make grocery lists and menus. Popular titles include Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, Taste of Home, and low carb.

Version 8.2 expands print features such as print preview, a preloaded cookbook format and the ability to print pictures, and also has the ability to spell check recipes, reorganize chapters and many other extra features.

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WordWeb 5.52

admin — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:40:15 +0000

This thesaurus/dictionary can be used to look up words from almost any program. In addition to displaying sense definitions and synonyms, WordWeb can find sets of related words. The database has more than 150,000 root words and 120,000 synonym sets, many proper nouns, pronunciations, and usage tags. WordWeb works off line, but when online you can also quickly view Web references such as the Wikipedia encyclopedia. Version 5.52 has minor updates and compatibility fixes.

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Navicat (MySQL GUI) 8.0.28

admin — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:29:49 +0000

Navicat (MySQL GUI) version 8.x is a MySQL database management tool, which can convert XML, CSV, MS Excel, MS Access, and popular data formats to MySQL databases, eliminating time-consuming data entry and the errors that accompany it. Other useful major features include Import and Export wizard, Unicode support, HTTP/SSH Tunnel, Batch Job Scheduling, Data Synchronization, Data Transfer, Visual Query Builder, and Visual Report Builder. Navicat features importing data from ODBC and batch job scheduling.

Version 8.0.28 is a bug fixing release. It fixed open table shortcut issue.

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