How can you really get excited about something like, say, server log analysis?

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Think of a web server log, something that is examined by the data center staff on a regular basis to help diagnose problems.

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Technologies like Splunk were built to help IT staff search and summarize machine data, but with just a small amount of enhancement web server log data can track in real time the flow of customers through pages, the products that are going into shopping carts, and the rate of transactions.

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Or you can log on to a game server and try your luck against total strangers blasting Nazis or aliens, though it's more fun to "frag" a friend.

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It will be done on 20 dedicated state-of-the-art Illumina and Life Technologies instruments that CHOP and BGI have installed at the new Joint Genome Center there, and BGI bioinformaticians will log in to a CHOP server to analyze the data remotely from China.

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According to the Swiss security researcher who runs Abuse.ch, the use of free proxy services like Glype, Tor, and others have an option which allows administrators to log the traffic flowing through their proxy server on the Glype network.

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This usually means you don't want to have to launch the server and then each of the clients every time you log-in, reboot, or move a computer.

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Features include name-and-password log-in support, file and directory caching for quick access, firewall and proxy-server support, and UNIX file attribute support.

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The final layers of security include a pair of authentication certificates residing on the handsets, as well as requiring users to log-in with a password before they can use the SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) server.

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