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Avoiding Last-Mile Challenges for Remote Workers

CIO Business Intelligence

But there’s one catch we often hear regarding productivity, and that is inconsistent Internet connections that downgrade the experience, particularly while conducting conference calls or sharing material from a home office. Best Practice 2: Internet service is an essential utility for key employees. cellular, air-gapped systems, etc.)

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8 big IT failures of 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

The outage was traced to a damaged database file; a contractor was working to correct a problem with the synchronization between live and backup databases and ended up corrupting both. And arise it did on January 24, when a Chicago employee failed to turn the backup server off at the appropriate time.

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Overview of how Apache Spark fits in the Apache Hadoop ecosystem

CTOvision

But now thanks to the contributions of a wide team of open source developers and leaders, the consensus is becoming clear (especially among enterprise CTOs), Spark is better as part of a more comprehensive framework. In the early days of Spark it was viewed as a bit of a competitor to the rest of the framework.

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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. s world of Internet services has become incredibly diverse. Managing databases has been a stumbling block for many of our customers, shifting their time away from developing innovative applications to the â??muckâ?? All Things Distributed. By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM.

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If your Cyberpunk 2077 save file becomes too big, it might get corrupted

The Verge

I can barely go anywhere on the internet without seeing yet another wild , hilarious , or downright odd bug from Cyberpunk 2077. It’s a buggy game, and developer CD Projekt Red has already released two hotfixes to try and shore up some of the problems. Image: CD Projekt Red.

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An 8-Step Guide to Digitization for Book Publishers

Kitaboo

Make the PDF searchable on the Internet: Once the book is scanned, the next step is to add index data. Keep a backup copy of the digital book: This is all the more important if you are using the destructive method of scanning which destroys your physical book. Adding metadata will make your digital book searchable on the Internet.

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DRM Protection: A Shield Against Unauthorized eBook Access

Kitaboo

eBooks are easily vulnerable to piracy due to their relatively small file sizes and shareable file formats, which enable their easy replication and distribution across the internet. Hacking and Circumvention As DRM protections are developed and bolstered over time, so are the techniques by which they can be manipulated and circumvented.

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