1797 Thomas Jefferson presents a paper on the Megalonyx to the American Philosophical Society. It will be published as “A Memoir on the Discovery of Certain Bones of a Quadruped of the Clawed Kind in the Western Parts of Virginia,” Transactions of American Philosophical Society 4:255-256...

1646 The very first patent in the the New World (America) is issued by the General Court of Massachusetts to Joseph Jenkes, to protect his scyth mill engine from competition. The patent is granted for fourteen years. The patent comes four years before the first US corporate charter, which will also ...

Day 0 It was a tiring day. I had to get up early to catch a morning flight to Hyderabad and it took about an hour from Shamshabad Airport to reach the place [although it it felt like its about the same distance as what Hyderbad is from Bangalore ] where I was put up (Novotel Hotels) along side Hyder...

Much has been made online of Cisco's rumored plans to enter new data center markets. It's easy to dismiss all of this as just one large enterprise IT vendor poaching on another's turf. But, to many of us, there's much more here than initially meets the eye ... The Facts Now, I can...

I've been around UNIX and UNIX-Like operating systems for more years than I want to count. I've installed Linux on some rather odd machines, even got Mandrake 7 to load on an IBM Thinkpad without any difficulty. NEVER did I EVER have as much trouble as I did with this last and first go-round since t...

Astaro Rolls Out Version 7 of its Award-Winning Security Gateway UTM Product. Offers email encryption, SSL VPN, enterprise level clustering, and more. BURLINGTON, Mass., (January 23, 2007) – Further strengthening its leadership position in perimeter security and Unified Threat Management (UTM)...

  Servers are the backbone of enterprise computing today, most websites for example run on either Apache or IIS and will be running on a server of some description. Perhaps because of servers ubiquity it is easy to become complacent about them especially as they are rarely seen but understanding wh...

He was jewellery showrooms about to turn his attention from the yacht and focus on half a dozen uniformed security guards standing on the dock, when a door opened and a woman stepped out onto jewellery showrooms the deck. There was a moment of silence, not borne by shock but more from jewellery show...

I get asked all sorts of interesting questions, some of which sound easy to answer, but turn out to be a bit more difficult to do so once you dig into them. As an example, I was asked to provide a quick, not-too-technical answer to the key differences between grid, scale-out, clustered and scale-up ...

The recent IDEAS newsletter summarized some prognostications made by IDEAS analysts for the coming year (see PDF). In the current economic climate, it initially appeared hard to avoid a gloomy outlook. The ability for organizations to make major investments in new technology could be dampened in the...