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Your Mobile Website Sucks

Forrester IT

This is part two in a series on Reinventing the Web to Win the Mobile Moment. Here's part one, a Drunk History Of Mobile Strategy. For 20 years we have optimized the web as a big billboard broadcasting everything about a company. Marketing owns the public site, and cares more about acquisition than utility. Product teams own the private sites and are faced with an ever-escalating array of digital touchpoints.

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A New Day Has Dawned at the FCC- Here's Hoping for Long Overdue Sanity on "WiFi Jamming" Fines

IT Toolbox

If you do Wi-Fi at any level for a living, you’ve no doubt at least heard of the FCC’s massive fines over the last few years levied against hotels and conference centers that used capabilities provided by their WLAN vendors to try to limit the use of personal hotspots within the facilities’ coverage areas.

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Admin of anonymous, Tor-friendly email service has electronics seized at US border

Network World

If you don’t live in the US and run an anonymous, Tor-friendly email service – such as one used by 4chan and 8chan – sadly, it’s a pretty decent bet that you would experience some drama when entering the US. At least that was the case for Vincent Canfield as he was detained by US Customs and Border Protection and had all of his electronics seized by the agency.

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Servers and Services on the Network Part 4

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What will go down in history as a blip on the technological radar is faxing. One of my historical design criteria was that each person with a LAN workstation should have access to fax services.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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CIOs as “Chief Idea & Innovation Officer”: Five Principles for Idea Evaluation and Management

Future of CIO

Building a set of principles and having the depth and breadth of understanding about the digital ecosystem would help connect nonlinear dots for improving innovation success. Innovation is the only way businesses can build differentiated advantages in face of fierce competitions in the digital era. From the business perspective, innovation is the mechanism through which you grow and evolve something to something great - higher value-add or ever breakthrough, or something new or better based on a

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Servers and Services on the Network Part 5

IT Toolbox

Email was probably one of the largest drivers of LAN and connectivity in an organization. Mail servers are somewhat akin to fax servers in that electronic mail systems are usually built on a client/server model. Moreover, most also use a store and forward system for distributing mail.

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IP Fragmentation & Reassembly

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Fragmentation occurs after IP has routed a datagram and is about to deposit it on the queue associated with a given network interface. IP compares the datagram length to the network MTU to determine whether fragmentation is needed.

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Servers and Services on the Network

IT Toolbox

Today, with the availability of high-performance servers and the requirements for client/server computing, the distinction is becoming less important, and the need for having a server with sufficient resources to do significant additional processing is increasing at a rapid rate. Moving these services to cloud-based systems has also made the resourcing of these services almost unlimited.

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Servers and Services on the Network Part 2

IT Toolbox

Several developments took place that allowed us to reply affirmatively to the question of cost-effectiveness. First, it is now widely accepted that LAN-based services, such as faxing and email, can cut costs for providing these or analogous services.

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Servers and Services on the Network Part 3

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LAN Access from Remote Locations Not too many years ago, it was common to read statements to the effect that we had seen the last of serial (RS-232) communications, either with direct connections or through modems.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Mainframe DBAs - Team and Data Management

IT Toolbox

Many database administrators (DBAs) function as a team supporting multiple corporate applications on a variety of hardware platforms using several database management systems (DBMSs). Managers struggle with priorities and must juggle user requirements and deadlines against staff availability and expertise. Here is one way to manage DBA tasks based on the makeup of the team.

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The Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2017 - user survey findings

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The Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2017 is now available for download from here ? and it?s FREE. Each new Yearbook is always greeted with enthusiasm by mainframers everywhere because it is such a unique source of information. And each year, many people find the results of the user survey especially interesting.

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Fans of the Shark Tank

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Computerworld's Sharky

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