| Index Listing & Synopsis of Archived Articles
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December 1999 |
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Q&A
Connection Conundrums
Matthew Huff
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The Top UNIX Moments of the Century
The Staff of Performance Computing
The world might seem to run on UNIX, but it wasn't always so. Readers opineon
the best moments of everyone's favorite OS. |
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Closing Out the Century
As this issue brings not only 1999, but also the millennium (at least
the popular concept of it), to a close, our tradition of using the December
issue to make our annual Outstanding Product Awards seems appropriately
retrospective.
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Micromuck
Ralph Barker
Since the day that Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson entered his finding of
fact in the Microsoft antitrust trial, I have, with some effort, resisted
the temptation to jump into the commentary crowd. |
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The Bright Side
Stan Kelly-Bootle
What bright side, I hear you cry? Well, there's . . . damn, I should
have made notes when I woke up at dawn today with a strange optimistic
glow. I had retired with a mug of unspiked cocoa (a soporific drink that
resolutely resists decent spikeage, although I'm open to readers' recipes)
and my favorite Finnish Trollope (Phineas, of course, but don't tell a
soul).
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Starry-Eyed StarOffice
Kevin Reichard
When Sun Microsystems took the bold step of acquiring StarOffice and
proclaiming it the future of Webcentric computing, I immediately told
friends in the industry that when we look back at the important computing
events of 1999, the StarOffice acquisition will have been the biggest
of the year, and in time, StarOffice could change the way we approach
computing on the World Wide Web.
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Load Balancing with DNS
William LeFebvre
A Web site's success can be measured by the amount of its traffic. Designers
hope people will return and their audience will grow.
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Figuring Phone-y Words
Randal Schwartz
Every day, we seem barraged with phone numbers that "spell" things,
like "please dial 1-ZZZ-HE-MUST-PAY to force your older brother to pay
for the call!" That's because since nearly day one of dial phone service
(back when it was really a dial), we've had these letters that go along
with each of the digits.
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TAPE TECHNOLOGY ROUNDUP
Review by Kristen Newton
New Cartridges for the Tape Backup Battle. The amount of data companies
must maintain is growing at incredibly rapid rates.
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WHAM's DRM and CDC
Review by Tim Parker
Collect real-time system data with few performance penalties.
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DVD-RAM Libraries from Luminex and Plasmon
Review by Ralph Barker
Driven by consumer-level mass-market DVD developments, are high-capacity
libraries right for your data center?
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