Non-Profit Org Claims Rights In Library Catalog Data (Thursday 13th of November 2008 11:15:01 PM)
Lamona writes "The main source of the bibliographic records that are carried in library
databases is a non-profit confederacy called OCLC. Over the weekend OCLC 'leaked' its new
policy that claims contractual rights in the subsequent uses of the data, ...
(more)New Search Engine Takes "Dyve" Into the Dark Web (Wednesday 12th of November 2008 11:00:01 PM)
CWmike writes "DeepDyve has launched its free search engine that can be used to access
databases, scholarly journals, unstructured lore and other data sources in the self-named 'Deep
Web' or 'Dark Web,' where 1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing ...
(more)How Do You Deal With Sensitive Data? (Tuesday 29th of July 2008 05:15:01 AM)
Imus writes "Just wondering how most IT shops secure sentient data (customer records). Most
centrally managed databases seem to be monitored and maintained very well and IT workers know
when they are tampered with or when unauthorized access occurs. But ...
(more)FBI Fights Testing For False DNA Matches (Sunday 20th of July 2008 08:35:41 PM)
Statesman writes "The Los Angeles Times reports that an Arizona crime lab technician found two
felons with remarkably similar genetic profiles, so similar that they would ordinarily be
accepted in court as a match, but one felon was black and the other ...
(more)Code Quality In Open and Closed Source Kernels (Saturday 17th of May 2008 12:30:03 AM)
Diomidis Spinellis writes "Earlier today I presented at the 30th International deliberation on
os sociology a probe paper comparing the code quality of Linux, Windows (its experimentation
kernel distribution), OpenSolaris, and FreeBSD. For the comparison ...
(more)Head First SQL (Thursday 22nd of November 2007 11:00:04 AM)
Anita Kuno writes "On a Sunday, a fellow user-group member suggested I learn SQL. The next day,
an opportunity to review Head First SQL arrived in my email. Who was I to question? Prior to
opening the couriered package, I had no knowledge of SQL, ...
(more)Backing Up Laptops In a Small Business? (Tuesday 14th of August 2007 03:15:04 AM)
Bithmus writes "I have been tasked with finding a way for our company to handle our laptop
backups. We currently have nightly backups of our servers, but no backups of laptops. In our
entertainment we develop, implement, and sell another company's software; ...
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