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Book Reviews

Monday, March 24, 2003

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The Suite Strategy of Konquering the Desktop: "Those who have not tracked the progress of the Linux desktop lately may be surprised to find it is much more feature-rich than it was six months or a year ago. And both the KDE and GNOME desktop environments have "revved" recently, with a wide range of improvements and new applications. Will this be enough to lure desktop users to Linux?" [osOpinion]

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Caltech's FAST Protocol Speeds Up Internet: "Caltech computer scientists have developed a new data transfer protocol for the Internet fast enough to download a full-length DVD movie in less than five seconds. [...] Rapid and reliable data transport, at speeds of 1 to 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps in the future, is a key enabler of the global collaborations in physics and other fields. The ability to analyze and share many terabyte-scale data collections, accessed and transported in minutes, on the fly, rather than over hours or days as is the current practice, is at the heart of the process of search and discovery for new scientific knowledge. Caltech's FAST protocol shows that the high degree of transparency and performance of networks, assumed implicitly by Grid systems, can be achieved in practice."

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War ends Dixie Chicks' reign: "As traffic to online news sites continues to soar, war has overtaken sex and Britney in the search engine popularity stakes." [Google Technology News]

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Microsoft gets knuckles rapped over security: "Microsoft has received a sharp rap on the knuckles from the Advertising Standards Authority in South Africa after an ad it ran was ruled to be misleading." [Google Technology News]