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PlanetLab creates a more advanced sudo
Researchers at the PlanetLab global research network have developed a potential replacement for the widely used Unix sudo tool, called Vsys, that will offer administrators far greater control over what end users can and can't access.
By Joab Jackson | 21 June, 2011 09:27
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Cloud storage providers need sharper billing metrics
Purveyors of cloud storage services may be doing their customers, or themselves, a disservice by relying on imprecise metrics for billing, argued a researcher at a Usenix conference.
By Joab Jackson | 18 June, 2011 06:01
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'Dead media' never really die
The history of technological media is littered with platforms we no longer use. Often called "dead media," many of them actually live on in technologies that are widely used today, and can teach us much about how to design platforms for the future, according to New York University postdoctoral researcher Finn Brunton.
By Joab Jackson | 17 June, 2011 11:08
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MapReduce could be the server's newest friend
In the future, when an administrator does a server build, he or she may be adding a MapReduce library to the usual stack of server, database and middleware software.
By Joab Jackson | 17 June, 2011 03:38
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Want to stop cybercrime? Follow the money
Five dollars for control over 1,000 compromised email accounts. Eight dollars for a distributed denial-of-service attack that takes down a website for an hour. And just a buck to solve 1,000 captchas.
By Jon Brodkin | 16 June, 2011 06:49
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