| Magazine |
SPS** |
Outline/Quotes |
| Database
Trends and Applications |
Joe McKendrick
Small Databases are Beautiful |
The
push is on from all directions -- to enable your enterprise with real-time
data access capabilities, while at the same time cutting administrative
costs to the bone. This creates an ideal scenario for embedded databases,
which are driven by an architectural philosophy long considered the
opposite of the mantra large relational vendors preach -- centralize,
centralize, centralize. The embedded world seeks to strike a balance
between decentralizing and centralizing, which are both essential to
productivity and growth. |
| D-Lib Program |
Thomas Baker,
Makx Dekkers
Identifying Metadata Elements with URIs
The CORES Resolution
|
... at a meeting organised by the CORES
Project (Information Society Technologies Programme, European Union),
several organisations regarded as maintenance authorities for metadata
elements achieved consensus on a resolution to assign Uniform Resource
Identifiers (URIs) to metadata elements as a useful first step towards the
development of mapping infrastructures and interoperability services. |
| DB2
Magazine |
Michael Dougherty Can
We Talk? |
The information age is on the verge of becoming
the inundation age. Separating the valuable information from the less
useful is one of the biggest challenges most workers face today. But they
shouldn't have to personally separate the wheat from the chaff. Instead,
tools should be able to filter irrelevant information and help users focus
on what's truly important. That's where collaboration technology comes
into play. |
| Data Management Review |
Claudia
Imhoff
Take
Two Terabytes and Call Me in the Morning |
Case study: "The pharmaceutical company
that has created and implemented a solid BI architecture, including a data
warehouse, operational data store and set of independent data marts, has
created a sustainable and maintainable environment that will serve the
company well into the next decade." |
| Datamation |
Sharon Gaudin False Positives: Spam's Casualty of War Costing Billions |
And while the spam continues to flood in
despite their best efforts, another problem is lurking in the shadows.
Legitimate email -- important email -- isn't getting in when it should.
Business propositions, partner contacts, resumes... they're all getting
swept away by the same tools that are filtering out the spam... |
| Design
& Publishing |
Photoshop
Tips & Tricks |
In The Design & Evaluating X-Rays with Photoshop.
Making Rings in Photoshop. All about Duotones. Harmonizing Photos with Color.
Blending mode helps harmonize photos. Photoshop Element's "Save for Web".
Helping a reader optimize car photos for AutoTrader dot com. You've got SPLAT,
if you can Photoshop it, then you can SPLAT it! How do you make rusty type?.
Joyce shows you how in Fireworks and Photoshop 6. Hex or Not to Hex: that is the question finding ways to generate hex codes in Photoshop 6.
Layer Blending Modes to the rescue the solution for perking up dull black and white art.
Perk up those dull photos the solution is isolation. Colorizing in Photoshop 6.0.
How to use Photoshop Noise in computer art and photo-retouching... |
| Digit
(UK) |
Paul Meller and Joris Evers
EC threatens to fine Microsoft |
The European Commission (EC) could fine
Microsoft up to 10 per cent of its global annual sales for monopoly
offences, it said Wednesday. Microsoft is still committing the monopoly
abuses it was first accused of in 1998, the EC said in a preliminary
ruling in its long-running antitrust case against the company. The
Commission has sent an updated statement of objections to Microsoft,
reiterating previous accusations that the software giant has leveraged its
dominance in the market for computer operating systems into the markets
for server systems and media-player software. |
| Dr. Dobb's Journal |
Michael
Swaine He
Can't Do That! |
He can't do that! That was the immediate, loud,
and angry reaction of many who read the recent announcement that, starting
January 2003, new Macs will not be able to boot OS 9. They will be
able to run OS 9 applications in Classic mode (for how long, one wonders),
but they won't be able to run OS 9 solo. |
