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Top 10 of VMWare topics
I just found this collection of top 10 lists on different VMWare topics by Eric Siebert. Specially, top 10 on VMWare networking has some really good reads.
Fortinet granted new patents for virtual routers
Fortinet® has been granted four new patents related to network virtualization and network security by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. These are U.S. Patent #7,333,430 – Systems and Methods for Passing Network Traffic Data – directed to efficiently processing network traffic data to facilitate policy enforcement, including content scanning, source/destination verification, virus scanning, ...
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What are “Soft” and “Hard” states ?
This question has been bugging me for a long time, and I’ve just read this short technical note which is by far the best piece on the distinction between these two types of states. “Hard-state” protocols mean that in the absence of some event to trigger a protocol response, the protocol’s state will remain unchanged ...
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European FP7 4WARD site is up
I just noticed that the European FP7 4WARD project site is now up and running. In short, 4WARD is a project in the European 7th Framework Program Call 1 and partly funded by EU. It belongs to Objective ICT-2007-1.1 “Network of the Future” and started January 2008, with a first phase of 2 Years. The ...
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eNVy formed !!!
Last Tuesday our on-going investigation on network virtualization has taken a formal shape after the formation of the eNVy project. For anyone interested, eNVy stands for NV or network virtualization, all credits to Fida. (I think at some point I thought about eNVious, but that’s just me being myself) Members of eNVy will be working ...
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WordPress 2.5.1 released
WordPress 2.5.1 have been released today with some major and minor fixes, as well as improvements. There is supposedly one security fix for a scary security hole completely unknown to the general people. But I am curious anyhow. Download it here; and for the newbies like me, upgrade instructions can be found here (basic), and ...
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Hello World !!!
This is my first post, ever !!! Just hoping that it won’t be the last one. Can’t say for sure though.