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Internet buzz and The Oscars
The oscars and nominated directors, actresses, actors
and everybody else generate quiet a bit of buzz online.
What about each of The Oscars' nominated Best Pictures?
Can Internet Sentiment Analysis predict the winners?
Although just emerging, the explosion of consumer generated
media makes online buzz monitoring an increasingly viable
tool to take
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Look at Sarbanes-Oxley Like Brakes on a
Car
Sarbanes-Oxley implementation is like the brakes
on your car, says Phil Livingston, a CPA and corporate
audit committee chair. Good implementation, complete
with automated controls and continuous monitoring systems,
allows companies to quickly identify and correct weak
controls.
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Simple Perl server monitoring script with
notification via mail
This is a simple but nice server monitoring script
that only needs two dependencies: sendmail and fping.
It can monitor multiple servers at once and sends notifications
via individually assigned email address for each host.
You can also send notifications via SMS if your cellular
provider offers an email to SMS gateway. Check it out
and digg it up!
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Astream Wins "Best Streaming" Award at the
ISPAs
ISP industry judges and monitoring prove Astream
is the number one streaming provider.Astream today announced
the receipt of the prestigious ISPA (Internet Service
Providers Association) Award for "Best Streaming", beating
the competition in a process that started in October
2006.
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Three Trends to Watch at HIMSS
Security, management and monitoring, and availability
should be three major topics at this year's HIMSS conference
in New Orleans. Here's PC Blade Daily's take on the
issues.
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Google : a Paper On Failure Trends in a
Large Disk Drive Population
The Google engineers just published a paper on Failure
Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population. Based on a
study of 100,000 disk drives over 5 years they find
some interesting stuff. To quote from the abstract:
'Our analysis identifies several parameters from the
drive's self monitoring facility (SMART) that correlate
highly with failures. Despite
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No Defrag Progress Monitoring in Vista.
Apparently since XP defrag monitoring was inaccurate
and obtrusive, no Vista defrag progress monitoring.
Instead it runs unobtrusively as a low-level I/O and
CPU task when it can - and stops/slows soon after user
activity is detected.
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How To Prevent Errors on Your Credit Report
By monitoring your credit report you will save yourself
a lot of problems or unpleasant surprises when you have
to get that credit card or if you're considering buying
a home. You will also be aware of any potential problems
that may stop the credit grantor from approving you
for the credit you seek.
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Apple and Lithium: (Attractive) Network
Monitoring
While the iPhone and AppleTV and all the rest got
all the press at Macworld, there was one product that
was impressing the heck out of everyone in the networking/IT
space: the Lithium Network Monitoring Platform, from
LithiumCorp.
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North Korea Has Enough Plutonium for 4 to
8 Nuclear Warheads
Korea's nuclear warheads could potentially be mounted
on medium-range missiles, a Washington-based think tank
said.The amount of radioactive material in the communist
nation is key to monitoring its compliance with a Feb.13
agreement to disarm, under which the North is required
to declare all nuclear programs and material to international
inspector
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The Newest Google Labs Project!
One of the latest innovations to the Google Labs
is an unlisted product. Scouring over the web for what
seemed like hours, I was looking for the best site statistics
and monitoring available, at a great price (free). Google's
got it!
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A Car that Detects Intruders by Monitoring
Their Heart Rate
When in range, you'll always know the status of
your car. Locked or unlocked. Alarm activated or not.
If the alarm has been activated, the heart beat sensor
will also tell you if there is someone inside the car.
An innovative way to detect intruders, but why not just
have the alarm go off or lock the car to keep the intruder
out in the first place.
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iSlayer releases 9 system monitoring gadgets
for windows sidebar
iSlayer have released a set of 9 gadgets for windows
sidebar that let you monitor cpu usage, memory usage,
wireless signal strength and battery usage. All the
gadgets are free. Most of the gadgets are also available
for Yahoo Widget Engine (mac + pc) and dashboard (mac
only)
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It is Spreading! Monitoring Internet Activity
Proposed in Europe
Several countries in Europe are now proposing to
monitor various forms of Internet and phone communications,
this time in order to catch terrorists instead of child
pornographers, as was the case with the SAFETY Act proposed
by Lamar Smith and debated here at The Seminal.According
to the New York Times article...
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Bald eagle population booming thanks to
Alabama and Feds help
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to remove
the bird from the Endangered Species List in June, saying
the eagle only needs monitoring now that it has successfully
repopulated the lower 48 states. With more than 100
nesting pairs, Lake Guntersville, AL has become one
of the best places in the country for guaranteed sightings.
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Worlds Biggest Outhouse Test Slated for
Australia...
New Scientist reports that: - "The largest carbon
burial experiment in the world began in earnest on Thursday
when the drilling of a 2100-metre well began in the
Otway Basin, on the coast of southern Australia. The
project promised the most comprehensive monitoring for
leaks to date"...
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Daring DIY'er devises homegrown heart monitoring
device
Interested in making his own mark in biomedical
engineering, a crafty individual set out to build his
own electrocardiograph for nothing more than fun, but
rather than keeping his homegrown work all to himself,
he busted out a set of instructions in order for us
less inventive souls to replicate the process
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The Other Digital Rights Management
The ability to identify sonic elements of modern
recorded music is an important type of Digital Rights
Management. It is important for calculating performance
royalties, sync rights and monitoring moral rights and
parody rights. It is understandable that the industry
is focused on the immediate threat to its bottom line...
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Bald eagle population booming thanks to
Alabma and Feds help
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to remove
the bird from the Endangered Species List in June, saying
the eagle only needs monitoring now that it has successfully
repopulated the lower 48 states. With more than 100
nesting pairs, Lake Guntersville, AL has become one
of the best places in the country for guaranteed sightings.
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Who Is Monitoring Your Domain Searches?
It has happened to most of us: A perfect domain
name pops into your mind. A quick check at your favorite
domain registrar reveals that the domain is still available.
For some reason, you put off the actual registration
for a few days. And when you come back to finally register
the domain, it’s taken by someone else! In many cases,
this is ....
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Installation de Nagios sur Fedora
Voici les étapes à suivre pour installer
Nagios (le "bien connu" outil de monitoring réseau
"open-source") sur un serveur Fedora.
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StealthSurfer III Review
Web surfing is becoming quite a dangerous thing
to do. If you are at work you have to worry about them
monitoring you. If you are at home you have to worry
about people stealing your personal information.The
StealthSurfer III makes the claim that they can help
you remain anonymous at home or at work.
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Child Flu Deaths Have Schools Worried
Midway through the month when influenza typically
peaks, health officials were monitoring four hospitalized
Nebraska children, while three North Carolina schools
remained closed over widespread symptoms of the illness....350
students out sick Friday...
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Security bugs in Security conference site
I've been monitoring this blog for a while,he managed
to find multiple XSS vulnerabilities on a conference
website,I was planning on attending.The conference is
in Bangalore, called LegionSec & I was interested
in the tracks offered namely human impact & secure
coding,but now,Iam skipping it after seeing this blog
post.
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MON.ITOR.US Opens its Platform for Developers
The Monitis.org portal is designed to be a primary
destination for collaboration, advancement and innovation
in the systems management and monitoring area. MON.ITOR.US
opens the source code of its widgets which enables developers
to learn and enhance them collectively.
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PBS Documentary reports on government surveillance
of private e-mails
Fascinating documentary about recent evidence of
U.S. government access and review of personal electronic
mail. News about the alleged program came to light when
a former AT&T employee, Mark Klein, blew the whistle
on what he believes to be a large-scale installation
of secret Internet monitoring devices.
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Diggnation, Sponsorships and Freebies
Sponsorship really is a very tricky business. Every
time a corporate entity tries to sponsor a smaller entity,
the communities participating or monitoring either entity
will be up in arms. The problem is the somewhat incorrect
perception people have that if you are sponsoring someone
or give them a freebie...
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