MR. ROWE: — if I'm not correct. There is a recognition that SAS was not — and SAS control in terms of functional change management was turned over to GSA, the Gaming Standards Association by IGT a number of years ago, and GSA solicited input from its 70 constituent members to get the latest functionality built into that.
And then IGT has supported that initiative in terms of building a new functionality that's been asked for by industry at large into the versions of SAS that are running today.
It was a recognition by both GSA and IGT that SAS was the DOS equivalent of the operating system, and that there needed to be a new protocol written in simpler language, which is XML, extensible markup leverage, and does come from the IT world of PCs, and both GSA have BOB which is the XMO version of SAS, and IGT has just announced a product they're calling SuperSAS, which is a similar protocol in its structure as well as its language, being XML. So it's great that the 70 people that belong to GSA and IGT have agreed that XML is a good thing. So we're excited about that.
But as we were talking about earlier, the gestation period in the market penetration of these is slow. These things don't get adopted quickly unless there's a great business pull, like ticket-in ticket-out, and there's not a single compelling, catalytic event that's going to cause BOB or SuperSAS to just permeate the entire industry.
If you think about the normal rate of turnover, depreciation over five years, it takes roughly five to seven years to turn the entire slot inventory probably in North America given available capital, given movement in technology, a five-year flat line depression.

Discussion of Gaming Protocols

ntroductionIf you are about to undertake a major project using SWT, I suggest you think very carefully before doing so. Compared to its obvious competitor Swing, SWT is very lacking in functionality, support and community development experience. Little wonder that there is not a lot of detailed information to be found from people who are using SWT in anger to create serious applications. There is a certain amount of fan-boy stuff, written by people in the first blush of initial enthusiasm, convinced that everything is "cool" and "awesome", but very little from people who had been through a significant implementation effort extending over months or years. The closest one can get to finding "veteran" users was on the eclipse.org.swt newsgroup1. In surveying opinions on SWT from the development community, I have found that people's enthusiasm for SWT is inversely proportional to the amount of experience they have had with it.

Trashes SWT

Hacknot - SWT - So What?

About InterMapper Do you ever have network problems but can’t see what’s happening? With InterMapper, you’ll get a graphical view of your routers, servers, workstations and other equipment. You won’t spend weeks or months setting up the maps, either. The auto-discovery and map-arrangement tools let you install and get running in an hour or two.

InterMapper uses pings, SNMP, and Web, SMTP, and dozens of built-in server probes to keep tabs on the critical parts of your network, and let you know when there’s a failure. When InterMapper detects a problem, it sends notifications to one or more responsible individuals. These sounds, emails, pages and text messages can be delayed or repeated to establish escalation schedules.

Oh yes, XServe will be mine.

InterMapper - Networking & Security

Desktop Manager is my own pet project to implement a (hopefully) easy to
use virtual desktop manager for OS X. I've put it up here in the hope that
it will be useful to others. Simply run the app and a pager
should appear in the status bar and on the desktop.

Finally I've got back my X11 6 window switcher. Command 1-6 switches between then, and shift-command-arrow moves windows to adjacent desktops.

And the cube rotation transitions between windows looks like those XGL vids from Novell. I am pleased.

Desktop Manager for OS X

Welcome to Netvibes!This is your personalized page, you can now modify everything: move modules, resfwerffwrfwrfrwadd new RSS/ATOM feeds, change the parameters for each module, etc. Your modifications are saved in real-time and you'll find your page when you get back on Netvibes.com. If you want to be able to access your page from any computer, you can sign in (at the top right) with your email and a password.The content is available from the "add content" button at the top left of this page.Feel free to check the Netvibes blog to stay tuned about new features on the site.

Bestest AJAX teh evar.

Net Vibes

The Bastille Hardening program "locks down" an operating system, proactively configuring the system for increased security and decreasing its susceptibility to compromise. Bastille can also assess a system's current state of hardening, granularly reporting on each of the security settings with which it works.

Bastille currently supports the Red Hat (Fedora Core, Enterprise, and Numbered/Classic), SUSE, Debian, Gentoo, and Mandrake distributions, along with HP-UX and Mac OS X. Bastille's focuses on letting the system's user/administrator choose exactly how to harden the operating system. In its default hardening mode, it interactively asks the user questions, explains the topics of those questions, and builds a policy based on the user's answers. It then applies the policy to the system. In its assessment mode, it builds a report intended to teach the user about available security settings as well as inform the user as to which settings have been tightened.

BASTILLE-LINUX

Novell AppArmor is a Linux application security framework included
with SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server that provides mandatory access control for programs, protecting
against the exploitation of software flaws and compromised systems.�AppArmor
includes everything you need to provide effective containment for programs
(including those that run as root) to thwart attempted exploits and
even zero-day attacks. AppArmor offers an advanced toolset that largely
automates the development of per-program application security so that
no new expertise is required. Best of all, AppArmor provides all this
at zero-cost software licensing.

Novell leads the AppArmor open source project, providing resources,
technology direction and core development. Novell stands behind this
technology with enterprise-grade support and services.

NOVELL: Novell AppArmor

"Open Source Tripwire� software is a security and data integrity tool useful for monitoring and alerting on specific file change(s) on a range of systems. The project is based on code originally contributed by Tripwire, Inc. in 2000."

SourceForge.net: Open Source Tripwire�

But let's take a step back The best Web Office products of 2006 and consider what will be the primary elements of an Office Suite for the Web — and who among the big or small companies is currently providing the best examples. Here I review some of the contenders for collaborative Office tools. Indeed a number of the products I mention below may well be acquisition targets this year for Microsoft, Google, or Yahoo.

» Web Office Suite: best of breed products | Web 2.0 Explorer | ZDNet.com

The Architecture of FYI Visual
FYI Visual™ capitalizes on existing infrastructures—the
core host systems and data gathering tools of the organization. The relevant
data that drives business processes and management decision-making are pulled
from the host data sources and processed by the FYI Visual Engine to generate
a graphic representation.

FYI Corporation: Data Visualization for Business Intelligence