All Things Gibbs

All Things Gibbs This newsletter is sponsored by Citrix Solutions for Accelerating Applications Citrix can help your organization run HQ-fast. Learn how to make every application run faster. Click here to download today! Network World's All Things Gibbs Newsletter, 10/30/07 All Things Gibbs By Mark Gibbs Gearhead: Analyzing Deferred Procedure Calls Faithful readers will know I’m still on the hunt for what is causing Deferred Procedure Calls to drive wild swings in processor utilization on my Windows XP machine. I rebooted the box but the DPC utilization of around 40% returned for most of Tuesday and lasted through to Wednesday when it magically settled back down to around 2%. To read this week's Gearhead, click here. Improve App Performance with Web Acceleration Find out how to improve the delivery of Web applications to geographically dispersed users with Web acceleration tools. Learn, in this webcast, how to shop for these products and the best and worst applications to accelerate. View this Webcast now. Backspin: Look out! It’s FrankenSCO! This is a real Halloween story: A few weeks ago the Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) looked like a zombie. The company filed for Chapter 11 protection on Sept. 14, one month after a federal district court judge ruled that SCO wasn’t the owner of the Unix operating-system copyrights that the company had used as the basis for litigation and extortion. To read this week's Backspin, click here. Gibbsblog: The past 7 days Fixing the Small Time Spammers OK, here's a question: What do you do when an ostensibly professional company keeps spamming you and you have politely asked them to stop and they don't? When it appears that they simply can't be bothered to remove you from their list? Deaf Leopard Developers and the Wisdom of a Crowd of Users (That title amused me far more than it should have ... that's the kind of day I'm having). So, what was I going to write about? Oh yeah: I just read a review of Apple's OS X Leopard release and, well, 'disappointing' is how the new user interface sounds. Editor's note: Starting the week of Nov. 12, subscribers to the HTML version of this newsletter will notice some enhancements to the layout that will provide you with easier and clearer access to a wider range of resources at Network World. We hope you enjoy the enhancements and we thank you for reading Network World newsletters.

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Contact the author: Mark Gibbs is a consultant, author, journalist, and columnist and now blogger: Check out Gibbsblog. Gibbs not only pens (well, keyboards) this newsletter he also writes the weekly Backspin and Gearhead columns in Network World. We’ll spare you the rest of the bio but if you want to know more, go here This newsletter is sponsored by Citrix Solutions for Accelerating Applications Citrix can help your organization run HQ-fast. Learn how to make every application run faster. Click here to download today! BONUS FEATURE 90% of IT Managers are leaving their company at risk for a DNS ATTACK. Get the tools and resources you need to keep your DNS healthy and secure. Run a DNSreport on your domain today - 56 critical tests run in 8 seconds. Visit www.dnsreport.com to learn more. (apply coupon NWW2007NLA for a 25% membership discount) PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE You've got the technology snapshot of your choice delivered to your inbox each day. Extend your knowledge with a print subscription to the Network World newsweekly, Apply here today. International subscribers, click here. SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES To subscribe or unsubscribe to any Network World newsletter, change your e-mail address or contact us, click here. This message was sent to: networking.world@gmail.com. Please use this address when modifying your subscription. Advertising information: Write to Associate Publisher Online Susan Cardoza Network World, Inc., 118 Turnpike Road, Southborough, MA 01772 Copyright Network World, Inc., 2007