President-Elect Barack Obama, recently put a new video on Change.gov, the official Web site of the office of the President-Elect. In the video, Obama is seated in the office of the President-Elect, sitting in the chair of the President-Elect in front of the desk of the President-Elect. And if I had to guess, he’s probably [...]
Archive | December, 2008
Followup on Texas PI Law and other updates
Update: Texas PI Law Benjamin Wright, (an advisor to an electronic-discovery firm Messaging Architects) posted a comment to our coverage of the Texas law that requires companies which “investigate” computers (which could possibly mean PC repairmen, although that wasn’t the original intent of the law) to have investigative licenses – the “Texas PI law” for [...]
Plumber’s Crack: Breakin’ Your Network’s Back
By Chandra Hosek At one time or other, network engineers have channeled Rodney Dangerfield, and exclaimed, “I don’t get no respect.” It seems like the network is blamed first for most every IT issue. Does the perception of the network as just a set of dumb pipes – the plumbing of the IT world, as [...]
Tracking YouTube Traffic with NetFlow: How It’s Done
By David Oliver We did have the opportunity to do this blog post as a video recording and put it on YouTube, but we realized that, ironically, as the post is all about how companies use NetFlow to track YouTube, because YouTube can, in many cases, suck down bandwidth, it was probably best just to [...]
Latest Aberdeen Poll: Screwdriving with Butterknives
According to a report from Denise Dubie at Network World, Aberdeen Research polled more than 200 organizations between May and June 2008. Sixty percent of them said that they weren’t satisfied with the way their business critical apps were performing. The good news from all this is that you can take comfort because you are [...]
BitTorrent over UDP: End of the World or just End of the Beginning?
A column in The Register claims, amongst much wailing and gnashing of teeth, that implementation of BitTorrent-over-UDP (dubbed uTP) in the new alpha version of uTorrent, one of the official BitTorrent client applications, will end the Internet as we know it and completely congest the network. The title is “Bittorrent declares war on VoIP, gamers.” [...]
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