The operating system is responsible for managing the hardware resources in a computer. It provides an abstract model of the computer system to user programs, giving the appearance that each program has full access to the CPU and the entire memory range. Programs that are run by the user cannot touch hardware without calling upon services provided by the operating system. In handling services th…
“We ultimately presented three marks that represented very different takes on research. Each had a compelling narrative linked directly to the strategy,” Kribbs explains. “Having this conceptual foundation in place helps our clients talk about the logo beyond aesthetics and gives any nonvisual stakeholders information to respond to. The logo that became the front-runner appears as if you …
“There are few areas of accounting that need improvement more than the accounting for business combinations. The current accounting literature allows two economically similar business combinations to be accounted for using different accounting methods that produce dramatically different financial results, which is confusing to investors.”
Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint (FS4SP) is Microsoft’s flagship enterprise search product and one of the most capable enterprise search platforms available. It provides a feature-rich alternative to the limited out-of-the-box search experience in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and can be extended to meet complex information retrieval requirements. If your organization is looking f…
Imagine a windowless room in a nondescript office building. Inoffensive tan carpet lines the floors, fluorescent lights hum softly overhead, and 20 seated Microsoft employees flank a rectangular folding table in the center of the room. On the table rests a Windows PC, and at its helm, a slack-jawed cipher punches blindly at the controls in a vain attempt to carry out a task requested by the tea…
When local area networks (LANs) first appeared in the business world, their primary functions were to share files and printers. These are still critical ap- plications for most business networks, but networks are able to provide many other functions as well. Virtually all business owners want to provide their users with access to the Internet and email, but they must be able to do so securely. …
Welcome to the Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services Resource Kit! This s a deta ed technical resource for pannng, deponent, and running Microsoft Remote Desktop Services (RDS) Because some features of RDS are brand new, this book s valuable both for those compete y new to RDS and those who have used Terminate Services (ts former name) n previous versions of Microsoft Wndows Within thi…
One of the main characteristics of project management is communication. Communication is importance amongst the project
Over fifteen years ago, Norm Kerth (author of Project Retrospectives: A Handbook for Team Reviews) asked me to lead are trospective for a team. He was acting as interim manager for the project which made him ineligible for the role of neutral facilitator - he knew he had opinions about the project and wanted to contribute them. We’d met through a mutual friend,and he had learned that I had ex…
Outsourcing Web Projects will teach you the fundamentals of finding, selecting, engaging, managing, and retaining an outsourcing firm that you can rely upon to serve your long-term business needs. Outsourcing and offshore development increase in popularity every day, and many would-be clients are overwhelmed by the huge numbers of companies, freelancers, moonlighters, nieces, nephews, off- shor…
Mobility is a hot topic these days. Regardless of industry or profession, there is a mobile application or ecosystem in development to serve it. The supply chain is no different. In fact, given its very manual and distributed nature, it is better suited to mobile application deployment than most business processes. For distribution and fulfillment services, where most of the activities take p…
Web 2.0 generally refers to a set of social, architectural, and design patterns resulting in the mass migration of business to the Internet as a platform. These patterns focus on the interaction models between communities, people, computers, and software. Human interactions are an important aspect of software architecture and, even more specifically, of the set of websites and web-based applica…
In order to remain competitive in today’s global marketplace, organizations must constantly improve customer service, reduce IT overhead, and increase efficiency—frequently with fewer resources than ever before. This may seem like an impossible feat, but the advent of UCaaS (Unified Communications as a Service) has enabled many IT departments to be viewed as business drivers rather than cos…
As discussed above, there are many types, sub-types, variants, and sub-variants reported in the literature about security attacks in MANETs. The efforts carried out by the research community to understand and solve the different attacks are remarkable. However, the absence of valid classifications from a practical perspective can be seen in the in existence of studies that try to extract commo…
With these words, John Finnis, while still in his late 30s, began his masterwork, Natural Law and Natural Rights—the book that would not only revive scholarly interest in the venerable, but deeply misunderstood, idea of natural law and natural rights, but also powerfully challenge dominant ways of thinking among philosophers of law and moral and political philosophers in the analytic traditio…