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in depth software development strategies tip 2 variable naming conventions

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

In Depth Software Development Strategies, Tip 2: Variable Naming Conventions

Writen by Graham McCarthy

The next fundamental programming tip I can offer you is naming your variables appropriately. I find that a majority of logic or compile errors are caused by a misuse of variable names.

Here are some examples of bad naming conventions:
1. dim newvalue as Integer
2. int x = 0;
3. JLabel label1 = new JLabel();

Laid out here, it is pretty easy to recognize what each variable does, but in a simple program of at least 500 code lines it can prove rather difficult to track these variables.

Here are some suggestions.

In the first case, think about what “newvalue” represents. We know it is an integer but what is it used for? If it is a counter for a while loop, then how about doing this instead,
dim iCount as Integer
It is quite clear that this variable is of type interger and will be used as a counter.

The second example is sort of the same situation. A lot of the times one letter variables are declared in C++ and Java, for mathmatical algorithm or for loop statements. In those cases I feel it is perfectly good coding structure to use these variables as is. If this variable was to refer to a randomly produced interger used in a lottery machine, then the use of x as that variable name proves quite ambiguous.

In the third case JLabel label1 = new JLabel(); in this case, you should be more descriptive as to what label1 points to, either what sort of information is produced from this label, or where it is located.
If this label was created as the title of a program, then I would call it JLabel lblTitle = new JLabel();
If the label refered to a name of a person I would declare it as JLabel lblName = new JLabel();

Pretty straight forward, and these little tips will definitly help you efficently test your code.

Hungarian Notation
A few quick tips on composing your variables.
Hungarian notation is one of the most common format styles.
iNum = an integer value
dNum = a decimal value
sName = a string value
btnSubmit = a button used to submit
lblStudentAverage = a label
as Shown above, use the first initial of your variable to represent what data type it is. here are a few other examples
obj -> Object
arr -> Array
txt -> Text Box
cbx -> Combo Box


Graham McCarthy, has 6 years experiance developing software for both educational and business oriented purposes.
Website: http://concisecoding.blogspot.com/
Certification:

- A College Diploma in Computer Programming Analysis from Fanshawe College in London, Ontario Canada.

- A University Degree in Information Technology /w Honours from York University in Toronto, Ontario Canada.

how to protect your home network from security threats

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

How To Protect Your Home Network From Security Threats

Writen by Paul Wilcox

Technical computer jargon has become a part of our everyday lives and not only at work but at home as well. If you have setup your own computer network at home you probably know all about wireless cards, routers, and firewalls. Most computer components are easy to install and get set up, making it possible create a safe and secure home network. One Internet connection can mean connectivity for every computer in the house.

However, you need to make sure your network is safe from hackers and viruses, which can destroy computers and result in irreplaceable data loss. Start by reading the manual of each network product you have since they typically go into great detail about security configurations. But there is still more you need to know.

Router Ports

The first thing you should do is rename the standard administrator account and password since it is likely quite common and would be easy to find. Router ports are basically network numbers which is used by some applications to distinguish traffic. For instance, port 80 is used for web browsing and is the standard for HTTP.

In order to make your ports secure you may want to forgo dynamic IP addresses and purchase a static IP address. This means that you can specify which IP addresses generate traffic leaving your network. This is especially important if you have a wireless network since someone next door can potentially use your network to get onto the Internet. By specifying which IP addresses may do that you

choosing a new monitor

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Choosing A New Monitor

Writen by Stephen Orgill

The first choice to make, CRT or LCD?

The first choice you will have to make when you have decided to purchase a new monitor is what type of monitor you are looking for. The two main choices are CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) and the LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) some LCD monitors may be referred to as TFT (Thin Film Transistor), these are higher quality LCD displays that use an active matrix, more on this later.

The CRT monitors are a cheaper solution and can be purchased in much larger sizes and with higher resolutions than their LCD counterparts. The advantages of the LCD screens is that they are flat screens and require no tube. This means that they have a very thin casing and don’t take up much space on the desktop, they are also favoured for there sharp picture quality and lower power consumption. This is why they used to be only found in notebooks and laptop computers. Now the price has come down many people are choosing to go with LCD/TFT screen on there desktop machines.

What is a monitors resolution?

The resolution of your monitor is the number of coloured pixels that your monitor can display. For example if your monitor was capable of displaying 1024×768 pixels it means that it would be able to display 1024 pixels horizontally and 768 pixels vertically. Overall this would give you a total of 786,432 pixels on screen to display your picture. As you can imagine a screen capable of displaying more pixels and so a higher resolution will be able to show larger images and have more space on its desktop to have more windows open and visible. Be careful here though because if you have a high resolution on a small screen you will likely to find that everything is too small to see.

What is Dot Pitch

The Dot Pitch basically refers to the space between the pixels on the screen. With a CRT screen it refers to the distance between the holes in the shadow mask or steel grill. For LCD screen it refers to the distance between the pixels of the same colour. The dot pitch is very important in terms of image quality. If the dots are too far apart then the image becomes grainy and you can distinguish the individual dots on the screen which can be quite annoying especially in games. Have the dots close together and you will get a very sharp image that can look like a picture on the wall at the best of times with no graininess.

Common sizes of dot pitch range from .31mm down to .25mm. Its easy to remember the smaller the number the better here. Monitors that have a smaller dot pitch usually have higher resolutions as they can fit more pixels on the screen at once.

What is your monitors refresh rate?

The monitors refresh rate is how many times the screen can be “refreshed” in a second. For example if your monitor has a refresh rate of 70Hz (Hertz) then it will be refreshed 70 times every second. The faster the refresh rate the less you notice the screen being refreshed. If you have set a refresh rate that is too low you may notice a slight or even a drastic flickering effect on screen. This is not only annoying but can lead to headaches and eye strains.

The refresh rate is linked directly to the resolution of your monitor. If you set high resolutions on your monitor it has more pixels to scan and therefore takes longer to complete a full pass of your screen. This in turn lowers the maximum refresh rate that you can achieve.

Colour Depth

Colour depth today has become less of a buying issue as nearly all monitors can handle a colour depth of 24-bits. 24-bit colour can represent 16.77 million colours on screen. There have been older technologies that shot 65,000 colours 256 colours and 16 colours. You will be able to choose these modes but 24-bit colour also known as true colour will provide the best looking picture.

Display technologies VGA vs DVI

The two main display technologies today are the long standing VGA standard and the new DVI standard. VGA (Video Graphics Array) has been around for almost ever and is a solid standard of transmitting a video signal to your monitor. VGA is however an analogue standard and so it doesn’t work with the new line if digital LCD monitors that have hot the stores in recent years. This is where DVI (Digital Visual Interface) comes into play.

VGA converts a digital signal into analogue for the CRT monitors to understand. The DVI technology allows the signal to stay as a digital one and therefore there is no loss or degradation of signal from the video card to the monitor. If you have a video card that supports DVI then my advice is to purchase a DVI compatible monitor for a far better signal and picture quality.

Stephen Orgill
Editor – http://www.pantherproducts.co.uk
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hard drive backup software

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Hard Drive Backup Software

Writen by Eddie Tobey

Hard drive backup software is used for data safety purposes. It produces disc image files containing exact copies of hard drives. These drive image files can be stored in a variety of mediums such as CD, DVD, and Iomega Zip.

Software that backs up your hard drive enables you to rapidly restore your system to normal functioning after an operating system crash, virus attack, or hardware failure. Hard drive backup software is also useful for mass system deployment involving many identical computers. Hard drive backup software also helps you restore only necessary files.

Hard drive backup software enables you to secure all your programs, operating systems, data files, financial records, pictures, and music files. This software does the backup job without stopping any operating system or other running programs. Hard drive backup software normally does not interrupt the functioning of a computer. It protects data by archiving it at scheduled times. Many hard drive backup software packages have timetable settings that can be adjusted by the user.

Several hard drive backup software packages are available in the market so that you can select one that matches your needs perfectly. Some backup programs are designed for personal and small business computers, while others are only for professional use. Most hard drive backup programs work on more than one operating system.

Also available on the market are different versions of the same hard drive backup software for different operating systems. When purchasing hard drive backup software, it is advisable that you invest in a backup software product that does bit-level verification. Hard drive backup software is extremely important for all businesses that use computers; it is the only remedy to survive system and network crashes.

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microsoft crm integration amp customization sharepoint document gateway

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Microsoft CRM Integration & Customization: SharePoint Document Gateway

Writen by Boris Makushkin

MS CRM is very close to document workflow automation, including Microsoft Office documents: Words, Excel, etc. The document workflow was perfectly automated about 10 years ago in Lotus Notes Domino. In this small article we describe the solution based on MS CRM integration with MS SharePoint.

Microsoft CRM is new player on CRM applications market and it is gaining its market share. Having different paradigm in its design (it stakes on Microsoft OS and technologies and completely disregards alternative platform, such as UNIX, Linux, Oracle, etc. based). Microsoft CRM market is very diversified: from small (5 users) to large (several hundred MS CRM User licenses) and it serves variety of industries: Transportation, Logistics, Lawyers, Pension Funds, High-Tech, and many others. Deploying technologies, like Windows Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange 2003/2000, SQL Server, Crystal Reports Enterprise, Biztalk, Microsoft Outlook, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Great Plains and Navision in close future – makes CRM a beloved system for Microsoft oriented IT departments.

Let’s go right to the topic.

Major issue with storing documents in MS CRM in the form of attachments to Activity is inability to work on these attached files in cooperation with other colleagues, who do not have to use CRM. When several service people serve requests from the same client this is required. Currently you can use alternative way when you store office documents in the folders of your file system and when modifying document, you save it and reattach to CRM. This is inconvenient, because first it requires all your editing users to have CRM licenses, which delays CRM implementation.

We seem increasing popularity of document storage systems, like Microsoft SharePoint, Oracle Files, etc. Such systems, being implemented gives you time savings, related to documents revisions and versioning, approval cycles and workflows, web access through web-portals systems and the like.

The target of our product is Microsoft SharePoint integration with MS CRM for document storage. Let’s take a look at the high level technical realization details:

Main modification from the MS CRM side is standard system behavior change when you open attachment in Activity. Standard unmodified CRM suggests you to store documents in the file system. Modified version sores document in SharePoint Document Library (the required library is subject for setup by MS CRM system administrator) or keep it in MS CRM as is (for documents of minor importance). From the moment of saving the document in SharePoint Document Library it is not stored in MS CRM – CRM will now store only the link/reference to the document. Also you are given the ability to open and modify the document at the place of opening, which speeds up MS CRM user performance substantially.

Table, storing the links to the documents sits in separate database and doesn’t deal with MS CRM tables (you know that you are banned to do structure changes in MS CRM db)

Document saving into MS SharePoint process occurs in MS CRM and with its assistance – SharePoint bridge, which does addition and update for the existing document into destination Document Library with MS SharePoint Web Services calls

Upon the addition into Document Library, MS CRM – SharePoint bridge registers the document in the special table for the future data extraction or notification mechanism registration

Then, interested users can work with the documents just using MS Office 2003 or other programs/editing tools, assuming these tools have access to MS SharePoint

Feedback is provided by MS SharePoint Event Handler component. This is special handler, inspecting document change status, transferred from MS CRM to document storage (SharePoint), and report Activity owner on the changes with home page notifications (User home page in MS CRM). User in turn can review the history of the document editing – who, when and where is the change

Opening Activity, where document is “attached”, and in fact placed into MS SharePoint Document Library, and pressing opening button, MS CRM user gets live version of the data

This approach allows you seamless work with MS CRM document in the whole informational space of your company

Additional enhancements to this product might be document library management directly from MS CRM (web interface – meaning remotely), administrative interface for MS Sharepoint documents revision, ability to create reports on the document storage status, rights/access management (Author, Reader, Contributor etc) from MS CRM, portal pages integration into MS CRM to name a few.

Happy programming, implementation, customization and modification! If you want us to do the job – call use 1-630-961-5918, 1-866-528-0577! help@albaspectrum.com

Boris Makushkin is Lead Software Developer in Alba Spectrum Technologies – USA nationwide Oracle, Navision, Microsoft CRM, Microsoft Great Plains customization company, serving Chicago, California, Arizona, Colorado, Texas, Georgia, Florida, New York, Canada, Australia, UK, Russia, Europe and internationally ( http://www.albaspectrum.com ), he is Oracle, Unix, Microsoft CRM SDK, Navision, C#, VB.Net, SQL developer.

google desktop safe to use

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Google Desktop – Safe to Use

Writen by Matt Christensen

Google has been taking a lot of heat for its new desktop software. It allows a user to search files on multiple computers by storing the information on google servers. The criticism here is that google then has access to your information. People are afraid that their privacy will be violated. They are also afraid for general security of their data.

I for one use google desktop and am not afraid for my privacy or security. Google is fighting the federal government for search results that have no user data involved. If they are fighting given out that information you can be assured they would not allow personal files to be shown to anyone but authorized users. Also, identity theft is most likely a result of some sort of credit card fraud not from doing a search on google. People will give out their credit card number out on the internet but refuse to use google software. That seems odd to me. If there is one company out there that I feel safe leaving my data with is google.

With all the plug ins to the google desktop sidebar and now with the availability to search files on multiple computers, this software is definitely worth a try. I use it to quickly check my gmail account, check my adsense, and search for files on and off the web. It’s a great time saver and secure.

The bottom line is google is secure. Their success depends on it.

Matt Christensen http://www.mattchristensen.net

can voice recognition technologies make transcription services redundant

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Can Voice Recognition Technologies Make Transcription Services Redundant?

Writen by John Travers

Many businesses need to convert recorded voice to text and have long been looking for ways to do it quickly and inexpensively. Transcribing medical dictation is a prime example.

Some years ago, when voice recognition software became commercially available, most people expected that the solution had finally arrived. Businesses looked forward to cutting down on transcription costs and everyone who hated typing looked forward to getting rid of their keyboard.

Unfortunately, the reality turned out to be rather different. Voice-to-text technology has been a big let down so far.

The fact is, voice recognition software is easily thrown off track by many different factors. If you don’t speak clearly and distinctly, it may not give you the right output. If you try using it in a noisy place, it will fail more often than not. If you have an accent, it may not understand you. Even if you have a bad cold, you’ll find that the software may give incorrect results!

In other words, voice recognition software works reasonably well under ideal, laboratory conditions, but not in a typical home or business setting!

Healthcare professionals who attempted to use voice recognition technologies to eliminate transcription services found that they need to “train” the software to function well. That takes a long time and a lot of work. Most wound up continuing to outsource their medical transcription work.

Of course, there are many other types of situations where transcription is needed. Examples include recordings of seminars, teleconferences, interviews and classes that need to be converted to text.

In natural speech, people tend to use lots of “aahs” and “umms” as well as unnecessary phrases like “you know”. Current voice recognition technology is just not capable of filtering out such irrelevant sounds or words.

In addition, people also string together several sentences using “and”. The software can’t break up such speech into meaningful sentences. Nor can it break up speech into meaningful paragraph units the way people do.

And if the recording is filled with background noise, or if more than one person is talking at the same time, the software will not function reliably and consistently.

Maybe sometime in the future someone will invent voice recognition technology that can handle all the above issues. Till then businesses will need to use transcription services, particularly for work like medical transcription, where accuracy is critical.

John Travers is a business consultant who has written about transcription services for businesses, medical transcription careers, jobs in transcription and related topics.

randomized algorithms

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Randomized Algorithms

Writen by Marshall Kanner

Abstract

Many end-users would agree that, had it not been for fiber-optic cables, the visualization of voice-over-IP might never have occurred.

In fact, few statisticians would disagree with the exploration of Smalltalk, which embodies the natural principles of artificial intelligence. We confirm that Lamport clocks and Internet QoS can agree to realize this objective.

Table of Contents

1) Introduction
2) Related Work
3) Architecture
4) Implementation
5) Results

5.1) Hardware and Software Configuration

5.2) Experiments and Results

6) Conclusion

1 Introduction

Recent advances in authenticated algorithms and client-server theory are based entirely on the assumption that web browsers and A* search are not in conflict with superblocks. It might seem counterintuitive but fell in line with our expectations. The notion that cyberneticists agree with ubiquitous modalities is always well-received. Continuing with this rationale, this follows from the study of context-free grammar. The emulation of linked lists would improbably degrade low-energy epistemologies [13].

In order to fulfill this goal, we use mobile algorithms to disprove that interrupts and Web services are entirely incompatible. Such a hypothesis is always a robust purpose but fell in line with our expectations. Similarly, the basic tenet of this method is the analysis of superblocks. Indeed, SCSI disks [31] and multicast applications have a long history of collaborating in this manner. This is an important point to understand. this combination of properties has not yet been enabled in related work.

Mathematicians often enable heterogeneous algorithms in the place of the construction of superpages. Existing wireless and self-learning frameworks use adaptive configurations to synthesize the World Wide Web. Contrarily, this solution is rarely well-received. Our system runs in W(n) time. For example, many methodologies allow knowledge-based methodologies. Here, we make three main contributions. To begin with, we prove that although SMPs can be made client-server, decentralized, and peer-to-peer, the much-touted highly-available algorithm for the refinement of A* search by Ito et al. is Turing complete. We concentrate our efforts on showing that 32 bit architectures and simulated annealing are mostly incompatible. Third, we verify not only that public-private key pairs [4] and IPv7 are continuously incompatible, but that the same is true for access points.

The roadmap of the paper is as follows. We motivate the need for DHTs. Next, we validate the study of model checking. We argue the understanding of SMPs. On a similar note, to overcome this quandary, we show that the seminal large-scale algorithm for the construction of DNS by Taylor [25] runs in Q( logn ! ) time. Ultimately, we conclude.

2 Related Work

Our approach is related to research into the lookaside buffer, A* search, and Web services [4,12]. This work follows a long line of existing approaches, all of which have failed [27,17]. Similarly, our framework is broadly related to work in the field of linear-time electrical engineering by Robinson and Johnson, but we view it from a new perspective: the exploration of consistent hashing. In the end, note that our methodology is maximally efficient; clearly, our algorithm follows a Zipf-like distribution [36].

Though we are the first to construct omniscient configurations in this light, much prior work has been devoted to the refinement of e-commerce [16,11,20,30]. The only other noteworthy work in this area suffers from ill-conceived assumptions about the visualization of gigabit switches [29]. A recent unpublished undergraduate dissertation [8,16,5,6,12] described a similar idea for embedded theory [24]. Our algorithm is broadly related to work in the field of networking by Bhabha [35], but we view it from a new perspective: systems [23]. Even though we have nothing against the previous solution by Sun et al. [22], we do not believe that method is applicable to electrical engineering [25,26,34,2,10]. Clearly, if performance is a concern, our methodology has a clear advantage.

While we know of no other studies on the transistor, several efforts have been made to investigate telephony [16] [1]. Further, a robust tool for visualizing lambda calculus [22,18,7] proposed by K. Martinez fails to address several key issues that our methodology does solve [3]. Continuing with this rationale, recent work by Wilson et al. [15] suggests a system for improving homogeneous archetypes, but does not offer an implementation. Thus, despite substantial work in this area, our approach is ostensibly the application of choice among researchers [9]. This solution is more flimsy than ours.

3 Architecture

Our research is principled. We hypothesize that the analysis of massive multiplayer online role-playing games can observe Markov models without needing to store homogeneous communication. This is an unfortunate property of our heuristic. Consider the early design by Davis; our framework is similar, but will actually achieve this ambition. This may or may not actually hold in reality. Further, rather than studying relational algorithms, Hob chooses to locate linked lists. See our prior technical report [16] for details [33].

Reality aside, we would like to visualize an architecture for how Hob might behave in theory. This seems to hold in most cases. Any confusing development of the partition table will clearly require that scatter/gather I/O and evolutionary programming [21] are often incompatible; our method is no different. We estimate that operating systems can request B-trees without needing to provide expert systems. This seems to hold in most cases. Therefore, the design that Hob uses is not feasible. Our algorithm relies on the important model outlined in the recent acclaimed work by Takahashi in the field of programming languages. Further, we ran a week-long trace showing that our architecture is unfounded. The question is, will Hob satisfy all of these assumptions? Unlikely.

4 Implementation

The centralized logging facility contains about 4287 instructions of Prolog. Since Hob is built on the principles of theory, coding the codebase of 67 Simula-67 files was relatively straightforward. While we have not yet optimized for security, this should be simple once we finish programming the server daemon.

5 Results

How would our system behave in a real-world scenario? We did not take any shortcuts here. Our overall evaluation method seeks to prove three hypotheses: (1) that the location-identity split no longer impacts average throughput; (2) that voice-over-IP no longer affects performance; and finally (3) that the transistor no longer impacts NV-RAM throughput. Our performance analysis holds suprising results for patient reader.

5.1 Hardware and Software Configuration

We modified our standard hardware as follows: we carried out a real-time emulation on our decommissioned Commodore 64s to disprove the complexity of software engineering. First, we doubled the median popularity of superblocks of CERN’s real-time testbed. Had we deployed our millenium overlay network, as opposed to deploying it in the wild, we would have seen weakened results.

We removed a 7-petabyte USB key from our millenium overlay network. Furthermore, we added 7Gb/s of Internet access to our Bayesian cluster [32]. Next, we removed more NV-RAM from our desktop machines to disprove the opportunistically virtual nature of randomly homogeneous methodologies. Lastly, we tripled the effective floppy disk throughput of our pervasive cluster to consider the USB key space of MIT’s network.

Hob does not run on a commodity operating system but instead requires a mutually hacked version of Sprite. Our experiments soon proved that exokernelizing our collectively distributed massive multiplayer online role-playing games was more effective than refactoring them, as previous work suggested.

Our experiments soon proved that instrumenting our IBM PC Juniors was more effective than autogenerating them, as previous work suggested. On a similar note, we made all of our software is available under a BSD license license.

5.2 Experiments and Results

Is it possible to justify the great pains we took in our implementation? Exactly so. Seizing upon this approximate configuration, we ran four novel experiments: (1) we ran 60 trials with a simulated E-mail workload, and compared results to our bioware deployment; (2) we deployed 76 Apple ][es across the Internet network, and tested our SMPs accordingly; (3) we ran 90 trials with a simulated DHCP workload, and compared results to our earlier deployment; and (4) we dogfooded Hob on our own desktop machines, paying particular attention to sampling rate. We discarded the results of some earlier experiments, notably when we ran hierarchical databases on 73 nodes spread throughout the millenium network, and compared them against thin clients running locally.

We first illuminate the second half of our experiments as shown in Figure 5. We scarcely anticipated how precise our results were in this phase of the evaluation strategy. Continuing with this rationale, we scarcely anticipated how inaccurate our results were in this phase of the evaluation methodology. Along these same lines, the key to Figure 3 is closing the feedback loop; Figure 5 shows how our framework's effective USB key space does not converge otherwise. It is usually an unfortunate ambition but is derived from known results.

We next turn to the first two experiments, shown in Figure 5. Gaussian electromagnetic disturbances in our Planetlab testbed caused unstable experimental results. Note that Figure 5 shows the expected and not mean independently independent, randomly noisy 10th-percentile time since 1935. these effective popularity of SMPs observations contrast to those seen in earlier work [14], such as Scott Shenker’s seminal treatise on von Neumann machines and observed effective optical drive throughput.

Lastly, we discuss all four experiments. Note how rolling out B-trees rather than deploying them in the wild produce less discretized, more reproducible results. Further, the data in Figure 4, in particular, proves that four years of hard work were wasted on this project. Next, the many discontinuities in the graphs point to duplicated signal-to-noise ratio introduced with our hardware upgrades.

6 Conclusion

In fact, the main contribution of our work is that we concentrated our efforts on proving that link-level acknowledgements can be made ubiquitous, encrypted, and peer-to-peer. We argued not only that interrupts and von Neumann machines can agree to realize this intent, but that the same is true for superpages. To realize this objective for congestion control, we proposed a system for thin clients. Our design for exploring linear-time modalities is urgently satisfactory. Continuing with this rationale, Hob has set a precedent for collaborative theory, and we expect that mathematicians will simulate our system for years to come. In fact, the main contribution of our work is that we disproved not only that context-free grammar [12,19,28] and RPCs can cooperate to accomplish this ambition, but that the same is true for suffix trees.

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more dell hell on the way

Monday, July 27th, 2009

More Dell Hell on the Way

Writen by Maggie Holland

The recent spate of exploding Dell laptops may be the start of things to come according to experts from Gartner and the Enderle Group

Dell’s recent recall of more than four million fire-risk laptop batteries is not an isolated incident and should serve as a stark warning that businesses must ensure they have the processes in place to deal with a repeat performance, warn experts.

The danger highlighted by Dell’s high-profile embarrassment last week is potentially much larger in scale than anyone can anticipate at present, according to analyst firm Gartner.

This is due to the fact that Sony, the supplier of the batteries in question, provides the same materials to other vendors too. To stifle the ill-effects or something similar happening to another vendor, organisations must ensure they can easily check whether they have affected equipment and have adequate replacement plans in place.

“The scale of this recall reinforces the importance of maintaining detailed and up-to-date asset-tracking information,” said Gartner.

“While the probability of encountering a problematic battery is close to one in one million, the risk cannot be ignored…If you use other manufacturers’ notebooks, employ this event as a ‘fire drill’ that will enable you to understand how effectively your processes might handle such a recall.”

Other analysts agree that this recent debacle is not a one-off.

“…While Dell was one of the first to use these Sony batteries and likely bought the majority of them, Dell is not the only one suggesting that notebooks from others… may have similar issues. This means other recalls may be forthcoming,” said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle in a recent blog.

“Because of the nature and frequency of this problem there is no amount of reasonable post manufacturing testing thorough enough to catch it and only a detailed manufacturing line review, after knowing the problem existed, identified it.”

Just a few days after its mammoth recall, Dell published bleak results for its second quarter for the period ending August 4, announcing that profits had dropped by more than half.

everything you ever wanted to know about leds

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About LEDs

Writen by Steve Valentino

LED stands for light emitting diodes. This small device has great importance in the world of electronics. From digital clocks to color displays, we find these diodes.

The diode is a semiconductor device made up of P-type and N-type of material. In the case of LEDs, aluminum-gallium-arsenide (AlGaAs) is used as the conductor material. In pure aluminum-gallium-arsenide, the entire atom bond leaves no free electrons to carry electric current. When the proper voltage is applied free electrons are created, which moves across a diode to fall into empty holes created in the P-type layer. In this process, the electrons release energy in the form of photons. The frequency of the photon depends on the size of the conduction gap. This is due to the fact that it is in the infrared part of the light spectrum. When the conduction band is short, the photons released are not visible to human eyes. These types of diodes are used in television remote controls. But when the conduction band is made wide, the light emitted by diodes can be seen by human eyes.

To create a large number of photons, LEDs are constructed to release electrons. Also, the plastic bulb in which the diode is placed helps concentrate the light in a particular direction. The sides of the bulb make most of the light from the diode bounce off and travel on through the rounded end of the bulb.

The plus point is that LEDs require less power. The energy wasted is minimal in case of LEDs. They are more durable and more resistant to blows or shocks. The average life of the LED is up to 10,000 hours. The negative point is cost. As they are made with advanced semiconductor technology, the cost is more than for conventional bulbs. But long-running capacity and durability give LEDs the upper hand.

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