Introduction and overview of directives.

Article explaining the terminology of banner exchanges.

Overview of trademark protection for country code domain names marketed as alternatives to top level domains.

Paul Alexandru Chirita, Wolfgang Nejdl, Raluca Paiu, Christian Kohlschütter. L3S and University of Hannover, Germany. Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval. The paper discusses how ODP metadata can …

Jian-Tao Sun, Dou Shen, HuaJun Zeng, Qiang Yang, Yuchang Lu, Zheng Chen. The 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference. The authors propose two adapted summarization methods that take advantage of the relationships discovered from clickthrough data. For those pages not cover…

Article about how businesses can advertise without spamming.

Very short tutorial.

A Napster-like network might be able to stem the tide of spam mail messages flooding the internet.

This article is the first of a series on the Network Time Protocol (NTP). NTP allows synchronizing clocks on different network nodes, which is critical in today's networked world. This first article provides an overview of why time synchronization is important and introduces…

This article addresses the time skew issues for the Sun Fire 12K/F15K server and explains how the system controllers and domains can be configured as NTP clients to external servers. A sample configuration is also provided. This article is targeted to the intermediate level of ex…

HTML version of the book.

Provides information about how IP masquerading (NAT) works.

Best current practices document describing ways to improve TCP performance over satellite links.

Proposed standard that decreases reliance on the retransmission timer.

Paper by Steven M. Bellovin. Published in the Proceedings of the Fifth Usenix UNIX Security Symposium, Salt Lake City, UT, June, 1995. [PDF]

Configuring and deploying Sink Hole Routers, which are the network equivalent of a honey pot.

Indian scientists design a computer specially for the poor. [Asiaweek.com]

Collection of open source tools for scientific computation: binaries, source, documentation and instructions for installing Fortran, MPI, OpenMP, Cactus, Globus and similar packages.…

Article by Juha Haataja with source code examples in C and Fortran.

Streaming video over an Intranet is a lot easier and more bandwidth friendly than most system administrators imagine.