Asterisk-IM Features

Asterisk-IM offers powerful integration between Jabber/XMPP and the Asterisk phone system. The current features for the module are listed below. Note that client screenshots are taken with several example applications -- the Asterisk-IM module is server-side so will work with any client that implements its protocol.
Integrated Presence

Your presence is automatically updated when you're on the phone. Discover which of your contacts is on the phone with a glance at your roster.

Integrates IM and Telephony. Neat. I think.

Jive Software: Asterisk-IM Features

Windows Gaim

Grab the latest Windows build (v1.5.0), or if you already have GTK v2.6.9 rev a installed grab Windows Gaim without GTK .

For the latest Windows Gaim specific changes, see ChangeLog.win32. It includes information on GTK changes/fixes affecting Windows Gaim.

Windows Gaim users/developers are encouraged to congregate in #wingaim on irc.freenode.net.

NOTE: Those who currently use HOME and LANG environmental variables to set Gaim's settings path and language, will need to use GAIMHOME and GAIMLANG as of version 1.1.0.

GAIM for windows users.

Windows Gaim - Gaim

This book is a reviewer's delight: a resource that is not only well done but an unexpected treatment of a mainstream topic. Charts, graphs, maps, diagrams, and tables are ubiquitous in society as tools for communicating information visually, but this is the first publication that provides an in-depth treatment of their practical application. Every page has a half-dozen or more illustrations, and the page size of 8.5-by-11 inches makes for good legibility. The reference is highly recommended.

This looks like a great reference for those designing UIs and Information Graphics.

Amazon.com: Books: Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference : Visual Tools for Analyzing, Managing, and Communicating

she noticed that many people had attached two or three monitors to their computers. They placed their applications on different screens - the e-mail far off on the right side, a Web browser on the left and their main work project right in the middle - so that each application was "glanceable." When the ding on their e-mail program went off, they could quickly peek over at their in-boxes to see what had arrived.

The workers swore that this arrangement made them feel calmer. But did more screen area actually help with cognition? To find out, Czerwinski's team conducted another experiment. The researchers took 15 volunteers, sat each one in front of a regular-size 15-inch monitor and had them complete a variety of tasks designed to challenge their powers of concentration - like a Web search, some cutting and pasting and memorizing a seven-digit phone number. Then the volunteers repeated these same tasks, this time using a computer with a massive 42-inch screen, as big as a plasma TV.

The results? On the bigger screen, people completed the tasks at least 10 percent more quickly - and some as much as 44 percent more quickly. They were also more likely to remember the seven-digit number, which showed that the multitasking was clearly less taxing on their brains. Some of the volunteers were so enthralled with the huge screen that they begged to take it home. In two decades of research, Czerwinski had never seen a single tweak to a computer system so significantly improve a user's productivity. The clearer your screen, she found, the calmer your mind.

Meet the Life Hackers

A Comic Book Introduction to ZPL

The following "comic" book was distributed for the first time at Supercomputing 2003 in Phoenix, Arizona. It introduces many of the constructs in ZPL but, unlike its name suggests, is not funny. It covers many advanced features of the language which may be inappropriate for the average beginning parallel programmer.

Not that I GET this... but I still think its cool.

ZPL Comic Book

Kerrighed descriptionDownloadKerrighed is a Single System Image operating system for clusters. Kerrighed offers the view of a unique SMP machine on top of a cluster of standard PCs.

The goals of Kerrighed are high performance of applications, high availability of the cluster, efficient resources management, high customizability of the operating system and ease of use.

Kerrighed is implemented as an extension to Linux operating system (a set of Linux modules and a small patch to the kernel).

Here are some key features of "Kerrighed":
Customizable Cluster Wide Process Scheduler.

� Processes and threads are automatically scheduled over the cluster nodes to balance the CPU load using the Kerrighed default scheduling algorithm. However, Kerrighed offers a toolkit to easily write customized schedulers hot-loadable through kernel modules.

Cluster Wide Shared Memory.

� Threads and System V memory segments can operate through the whole cluster, just like on an SMP machine.

High Performance Stream Migration Mechanism.

� Processes using streams (socket, pipe, fifo, char device, etc) can be migrated with no penalty on communication performance after migration.

Distributed File System.

� A unique file name space is seen over the whole cluster. All cluster disks are merged in an unique virtual disk in a customizable RAID-like fashion.

Process Checkpointing.

� Processes can be checkpointed and restarted on any cluster node.

Full Posix Thread Interface.

� The full Posix Thread interface can operate with threads spread over cluster nodes.

Cluster Wide Unix Process Interface.

� All traditional UNIX process management commands (top, ps, kill, etc) operate cluster wide. Moreover, process identifiers (pid) are unique cluster wide.

Customizable Single System Image Features.

� Single system image features (shared memory, global scheduler, migrable streams, etc) can be enabled or desabled on a per process basis.

Looks like an SMP OSCAR... comes with Laser Beans.

Kerrighed 1.0.1 for Linux - Kerrighed is a single system image for clusters. - Softpedia

QODBC is a fully functional ODBC driver for reading and writing QuickBooks 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 accounting data files by using standard SQL queries. It requires an ODBC compliant front-end application such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, Visual Basic, PowerBuilder or Delphi. Once installed, it will allow these applications to read and write QuickBooks Accounting files in the same fashion as other file formats installed on your computer. Using the official QuickBooks SDK interface, we are able to offer our customers total compatibility with all QuickBooks file formats.

SQL teh quickbooks.

QODBC Driver for QuickBooks - Main Product Page

The Domain Name System or DNS is a system that stores information about hostnames and domain names in a type of distributed database on networks, such as the Internet. Of the many types of information that can be stored, most importantly it provides a physical location (IP address) for each domain name, and lists the mail exchange servers accepting e-mail for each domain.

The DNS provides a vital service on the Internet as it allows the transmission of technical information in a user-friendly way. While computers and network hardware work with IP addresses to perform tasks such as addressing and routing, humans generally find it easier to work with hostnames and domain names (such as www.example.com) in URLs and e-mail addresses. The DNS therefore mediates between the needs and preferences of humans and of software.

Brushing up on DNS

Domain Name System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This tutorial will cover the installation of DNS on a Windows 2003 system. By reading through this tutorial you will learn about caveats that need to be noted when installing one of the most important services on a Windows network.

Remember

Installing DNS On Windows 2003

Pop quiz: Which language boasts faster raw allocation performance, the Java language, or C/C ? The answer may surprise you -- allocation in modern JVMs is far faster than the best performing malloc implementations. The common code path for new Object() in HotSpot 1.4.2 and later is approximately 10 machine instructions (data provided by Sun; see Resources), whereas the best performing malloc implementations in C require on average between 60 and 100 instructions per call (Detlefs, et. al.; see Resources). And allocation performance is not a trivial component of overall performance -- benchmarks show that many real-world C and C programs, such as Perl and Ghostscript, spend 20 to 30 percent of their total execution time in malloc and free -- far more than the allocation and garbage collection overhead of a healthy Java application (Zorn; see Resources).

Java theory and practice: Urban performance legends, revisited