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The One-Second War
Finding a lasting solution to the leap seconds problem has become increasingly urgent.
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Mobile Application Development: Web vs. Native
Web apps are cheaper to develop and deploy than native apps, but can they match the native user experience?
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Weapons of Mass Assignment
A Ruby on Rails app highlights some serious, yet easily avoided, security vulnerabilities.
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A Co-Relational Model of Data For Large Shared Data Banks
Contrary to popular belief, SQL and noSQL are really just two sides of the same coin.
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Successful Strategies For IPv6 Rollouts. Really.
Knowing where to begin is half the battle.
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Returning Control to the Programmer: SIMD Intrinsics For Virtual Machines
Exposing SIMD units within interpreted languages could simplify programs and unleash floods of untapped processor power.
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B.Y.O.C (1,342 Times and Counting)
Why can't we all use standard libraries for commonly needed algorithms?
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National Internet Defense - Small States on the Skirmish Line
Despite the global and borderless nature of the Internet's underlying protocols and driving philosophy, there are significant ways in which it remains substantively...
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Testable System Administration
As we progress into an information age, humans will need to work less like the machines they use and embrace...
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System Administration Soft Skills
How can system administrators reduce stress and conflict in the workplace?
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A Plea from Sysadmins to Software Vendors: 10 Do's and Don'ts
What can software vendors do to make the lives of system administrators a little easier?
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Finding Usability Bugs with Automated Tests
Ideally, all software should be easy to use and accessible for a wide range of people. However, software often falls short of these basic goals. We therefore need...
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Virtualization: Blessing or Curse?
Managing virtualization at a large scale is fraught with hidden challenges.
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Collaboration in System Administration
For sysadmins, solving problems usually involves collaborating with others. How can we make it more effective?
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The Theft of Business Innovation: An ACM-BCS Roundtable on Threats to Global Competitiveness
These days, cybercriminals are looking to steal more than just banking information.
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Sir, Please Step Away from the ASR-33!
To move forward with programming languages we must first break free from the tyranny of ASCII.
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Keeping Bits Safe: How Hard Can It Be?
As storage systems grow larger and larger, protecting their data for long-term storage is becoming ever more challenging.
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Thinking Clearly About Performance, Part 2
More important principles to keep in mind when designing high-performance software.
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Thinking Clearly About Performance, Part 1
Improving the performance of complex software is difficult, but understanding some fundamental principles can make it easier.
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