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Este no es un modo de evitar la piratería musical. Pero es una buena forma de ayudar a ver el problema de otro modo.

The Role of Linux in Grid Computing

Today, applications are developed to be geared toward a specific platform or hosting environment, for example Linux, Windows 2000, various UNIX flavors, mainframes, J2EE, Microsoft .NET and so on. Such computing tends to operate within a monolithic framework in which applications contend for resources as and when they’re made available for that single platform. For [...]

What’s different between grid computing and P2P, CORBA, cluster computing, and DCE?

Two major needs have dramatically increased the value of the concept of grid computing in the last few years. A lean economy has forced those with a limited IT budget to more fully utilize their existing computing assets and to become more flexible to respond to rapidly evolving markets by being able to intelligently allocate [...]

www.sco.com is a weapon of mass destruction

Much of the commentary on the SCO distributed denial of service scenario, including our own, has been based on the premise that SCO badly wants to keep their web site running. This may not be the case: unlike Microsoft, which has a real business to run and a real need to keep its web site [...]

Microsoft: Change to IE will block some Web URLs

Responding to a wave of online scams, Microsoft Corp. said it is fixing a flaw in its popular Internet Explorer browser that makes it easy to mask the real address of a Web page displayed on the browser. http://www.computerworld.com/developmenttopics/websitemgmt/story/0,10801,89544,00.html

European Parliament backs Galileo satellite program

The European Parliament gave its backing to the Galileo satellite program today, as the European commissioner for transport, Loyola de Palacio, prepares for a trip to Washington to discuss Europe’s geopositioning system ambitions with the Bush administration. http://www.computerworld.com/mobiletopics/mobile/story/0,10801,89543,00.html

Vital e-crime evidence often destroyed

Companies that fall victim to computer crime may be inadvertently destroying evidence in their efforts to find the perpetrators. http://www.vnunet.com/News/1152379

¿Vamos de Bluejacking?

Este fenómeno llego a nuestro país a finales del pasado verano y poco a poco ha ido ganando adeptos. Las concentraciones en centros comerciales, durante las pasadas navidades y en las actuales rebajas, han sido su prueba de fuego y centenares de personas han sido ya “victimas” de esta moda. ¿De que se trata? el [...]

Whatever happened to broadband by blimp?

Last year, York-based telecoms firm SkyLINC said it would build a network of base stations in balloons, tethered 1.5km high, as a platform for delivering broadband to rural communities. SkyLINC predicted it would launch services this month (January 2004). http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/22/35222.html

Intel to squeeze AMD with big notebook push

A REPORT ONtoday’s Digitimes said that five giant Taiwanese original design manufacturers (ODMs) have been recruited by Intel to promote a giant notebook distribution scheme. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13900