Category: Computer

A recent Internet2 experiment by scientists at the California Institute of Technology and CERN transferred data at a rate of 6.63 gigabits per second — the first test to break the 100-petabit meter per second mark.  The team hopes to have greater speeds in place by 2007, when CERN’s Large Hadron Collider goes online. More…What’s…

As Steve Streitmatter, director of IT services at FedEx Services, recently explained it to me, the 2 and 10 refer to years.  Vendors would often have you believe that a certain technology is going to be a big deal within two years, but it usually takes 10 years for a technology to blossom.  But when…

BOINC’d by Aliens: Reader Greg A. warns that users running the SETI@home screen saver may be vulnerable to alien invasions. The SETI project, which uses the spare clock-cycles of 4.7 million machines to search the heavens for intelligent life, recently switched to a client based on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (or BOINC…

Cisco says that even though the source code for its internal secret operating system was stolen, it’s nothing for you to worry about.  Considering that this is coming from a company that had hard-wired passwords in some of its hardware, and who was licensing an insecure “authentication” scheme to other vendors, I would start worrying…

In every CTO’s mind, an overarching Big Problem drives his or her higher quest for technical excellence beyond the mundane business of getting day-to-day things done in IT.  The Big Problem is not necessarily the one that keeps you up at night — it’s the one you think about while you’re sitting by the pool…