More Adventures in Cooling The Koolance Exos liquid-cooling system sounds too good to be true—and it is. Mon, 12 Jan 2004
Taking Netdisk For a Ride Ximeta's NetDisk offers a portable hard drive with both a USB 2.0 port and a 100 Mbps Ethernet port, and is recognized as a Network Attached Storage (NAS) drive, but getting the network access to work can be more hassle than it's worth. Mon, 15 Dec 2003
Full of Sound and Fury Andy's seen his share of snake oil in the quest for a cool, quiet CPU. Here's a few products and techniques that actually work. Mon, 29 Sep 2003
The Wal-Mart Lindows PC and Red Hat 8 In the wake of the SQL Slammer worm, frustration with Microsoft products is driving many to consider Linux alternatives. Microtel, Wal-Mart, and Lindows are happy to help. Mon, 24 Feb 2003
The Windows Media Center PC Is it worth considering a Media Center PC in place of a home entertainment system? Mon, 20 Jan 2003
Easier Said Than Done Andy reviews speech recognition tools from SoundMAX and Andrea Electronics. Mon, 14 Apr 2003
Taking Netdisk For a Ride Ximeta's NetDisk offers a portable hard drive with both a USB 2.0 port and a 100 Mbps Ethernet port, and is recognized as a Network Attached Storage (NAS) drive, but getting the network access to work can be more hassle than it's worth. Mon, 15 Dec 2003
More Adventures in Cooling The Koolance Exos liquid-cooling system sounds too good to be true—and it is. Mon, 12 Jan 2004
What Zope Did Wrong (and How It's Being Fixed) Dr. Dobb's talks with Lennart Regebro about the many things that
Zope 2 did right and did wrong. Lennart has also been one of the driving
forces behind Five, the integration of Zope 3 technologies into Zope 2.
Ubuntu and the Software Around It Dr. Dobb's interviews Ubuntu's Gerry Carr about the Linux-based Ubuntu
operating sytem and the application lifecycle tools -- such as the
recently released Launchpad -- that surround it.
In this volume of Best of BYTE, we explore the emergence of some heuristic algorithms. Although we have only scratched the surface of this intriguing subject, we hope we've suggested the potential of the synthesis of heuristics and algorithms.