NetFlash: Consortium builds super firewall to stop DDoS

Consortium builds super firewall to stop DDoS

Computer researchers in Europe are developing a prototype architecture for halting distributed denial-of-service attacks, where a barrage of traffic is directed at a Web site or server to shut it down. Click here for more.

The life and death of Microsoft’s software

As certain as Microsoft is working on new software, its old software is being retired, leaving users to sometimes plan as carefully for decommissioning aging technology as they do for rolling out what’s new. Here’s what’s falling off the support bandwagon and how enterprise users are planning to cope.

Intel to introduce dual-core Itanium – finally

Just weeks after rolling out significant updates to its low-end Xeon processor, Intel is expected to focus on the high end with the long-awaited release of a dual-core version of Itanium, code-named Montecito. Click here for more.

See what’s on your flash drive

Always wondering what’s stored on that handy USB flash drive? The EZVue Vista drive from Royal makes it easy to find out with its LCD display showing all of your files and folders stored on the device. Keith Shaw explores in this week’s Cool Tools video. Watch now.

Buzzblog: Metcalfe’s Law is really, really wrong… still

Say what you will about Metcalfe’s Law, but this much we know for certain: It hasn’t gotten any better in the past year-and-a-half. Even Bob Metcalfe would agree. Click here for Paul McNamara’s full blog.

Today on Layer 8, where we ask “Is it 5 o’clock yet?”:

The Error Message of the Week; feds will e-mail you in case of disaster; behind Space Shuttle astronaut wake-up music; and ‘imitation iPod’ takes over radio; all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.

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