A DDoS attack requires a network intruder to break into a host of internet connected machines and then direct data packets from those various sources to a computer in their millions. The software giant will re-introduce a feature in Windows XP...
The patents cover a data compression technique, a method of navigating among program menus that use options that are arranged in a graphical tree, a method for verifying that an electronic message was received and a method for monitoring computing...
It's very early days for these virtualisation packages, but if you don't have a software development kit or published interfaces, then essentially, you have no way for an Oracle - or Veritas or EMC or other partners - to tie in," Eunice said.
NERSC has a 412-computer Linux cluster called the Parallel Distributed Systems Facility. Livermore already announced a 962-machine Linux computer, and its 1,152-computer Multiprogrammatic Capability Cluster ranks seventh on the November 2003...
In addition, the majority of applications - widgets aside - do not auto-install and require an administrator password to proceed. So while a user could switch to root, it is only through a fairly obscure path and certainly not something that could...
Apple describes ways of ensuring that code can be limited to specific hardware, even in a world in which operating systems can be run simultaneously, in so-called virtual machines. Apple's patent application comes as the company prepares to offer...