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Rapid Review Microbiology and Immunology (Only CD ROM)

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»Book Publisher: Mosby (07 May, 2002)
»ISBN: 0323008402
»Book author: Ken S. Rosenthal, James S. Tan
»Amazon Rating: 5.0

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Date: 2006-05-01 Rating: 5
Review:

Simply the best microbiology review book

This book is great. It covers everything you need to know for step 1, while leaving out all you dont’ need to know. The questions are probably the best micro vignette questions out there, and helps reinforce what you learned from the book.
This book is much better than micro made ridiculously simple in terms of boards review. Its written in outline format so you can get through it much faster, and it includes an immunology section that has all you need to know for the immunology questions on the step.

The only thing I don’t like is the Rapid Review format. At times the outline format should be written in complete sentences (like the high-yield series) to avoid confusing statments/facts. For me, this seemed especially true in the immunology section, which can be confusing if you have a weak immuno background.

Other than that, this is a great review book. The only review book for micro in my opinion.

Date: 2006-04-22 Rating: 5
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Review of Microbiology and Immunology

Perfect for medical microbio class. I used Micro Made easy for class, and after reading this book to review for the boards I would definately recommend it over Micro made easy. The organization is better, it’s a shorter text, has an outline format, has excellent tables that while are not as detailed as the micro made easy book are a lot easier to read, and it has everything you need to know for class, which micro made easy does not.

Immuno section is a bit brief but it has all the essentials. I would also recommend reading Immunobiology by Janeway and Medical Microbiology by Murray. Both texts are outstanding and really help you appreciate the subjects.

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Essential Clinical Anatomy Point (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins) (Free E-Book)

2008-04-14T03:40:00.001-07:00

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Essential Clinical Anatomy, Third Edition presents the core anatomical concepts found in Clinically Oriented Anatomy, Fifth Edition in a concise, easy-to-read, and student-friendly format. This streamlined book is an excellent review for the larger text and an ideal primary text for health professions courses with brief coverage of anatomy. This edition features new full-color surface anatomy and bone photographs and new diagnostic images with corresponding line illustrations. A new design makes the book visually appealing and easier to navigate. Accompanying the book is an Online Student Resource Center, which includes interactive clinical cases, USMLE-style review questions, and interactive images with labels on/off, zoom, and hotspot label functionality.

Book Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (01 March, 2006)
ISBN: 078176274X
Book author: Keith L Moore, Anne MR Agur
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Gray's Anatomy: The Anatomical Basis of Clinical Practice (Free E-Book)

2008-04-14T03:34:00.002-07:00

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Not since it first published in 1858 has Gray's Anatomy introduced so much innovation to the world of anatomical references. A team of renowned clinicians, anatomists, and basic scientists have radically transformed this classic resource to incorporate all of the newest anatomical knowledge reorganized it by body region to parallel clinical practice and added many new surface anatomy, radiologic anatomy, and microanatomy images to complement the exquisite artwork that the book is known for. Although there are now many books called "Gray's Anatomy," only this 39th Edition carries on the true lineage of the original text. And, only this 39th Edition delivers so much pragmatic, clinically indispensable information. The result is, once again, the world's definitive source on human anatomy..

Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
Number Of Pages: 1600
Publication Date: 2004-11-24
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0443071683
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780443071683

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Understanding Anesthesia Equipment (Free E-Book)

2008-04-14T03:34:00.001-07:00

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The “Bible on Anesthesia Equipment” returns in a new Fifth Edition, and once again takes readers step-by-step through all the basic anesthesia equipment. This absolute leader in the field includes comprehensive references and detailed discussions on the scientific fundamentals of anesthesia equipment, its design, and its optimal use. This thoroughly updated edition includes new information on suction devices, the magnetic resonance imaging environment, temperature monitoring and control, double-lumen tubes, emergency room airway equipment, and many other topics. Readers will have access to an online quizbank at a companion Website.

Book Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (01 October, 2007)
ISBN: 0781776031
Book author: Jerry A Dorsch, Susan E Dorsch

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Anaesthesia Databook: A Perioperative and Peripartum Manual (Free E-Book)

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This is the third edition of a comprehensive book covering all aspects of perioperative and peripartum anaesthesia. Previous editions have been very well received (see reviews of the first two editions below) and this book builds on their success to be an essential purchase for all trainee and practising anaesthetists, as well as providing a valuable resource for other hospital and particularly theatre-based personnel such as surgeons, obstetricians, operating department practitioners, theatre nurses, midwives etc. The sections on medical disorders and anaesthestic problems, and on emergency conditions arising during anaesthesia or the immediate postoperative period have been expanded to include over 30 new entries and rare and unusual syndromes have been incorporated into these two main sections for ease of quick reference. The book also features a valuable list of abbreviations and a fully updated appendix containing useful addresses, telephone numbers and website details.

Book Publisher: Greenwich Medical Media (15 February, 2001)
ISBN: 1841100676
Book author: Rosemary Mason

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Sobotta Atlas of Human Anatomy, Version 1.5: 13th Edition in English (Free Software)

2008-04-14T03:33:00.001-07:00

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CD-ROM, in jewel case, presents all illustrations and tables from Sobotta Atlas of Human Anatomy, 13th edition, c2001. More than 1,500 illustrations and drawings from dissections, cross-sections, and classical relational anatomy. Covers the entire macroscopic anatomy of the human body. System requires: MS Windows 95, 98, NT4.0, 2000, or XP, 8MB RAM, 14MB free space.

Book Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (01 May, 2003)
ISBN: 0781740541
Book author: R. Putz, R. Pabst, Andreas H Weiglein

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Williams Textbook of Endocrinology (Free Ebook)

2008-04-14T03:31:00.001-07:00

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In your complex and dynamic field, it can be a struggle to continually integrate the latest scientific and clinical information into your everyday patient care. The 11th Edition of this beloved reference is the solution! Leading authorities provide just the right blend of scientific insight and clinical know-how to help you overcome any clinical challenge. A new full-color, extremely user-friendly format makes reference a snap. And, full-text online access lets you search the contents rapidly from any computer!

Book Publisher: Saunders (23 October, 2007)
ISBN: 1416029117
Book author: Henry M. Kronenberg, Shlomo Melmed, Kenneth S. Polonsky, P. Reed Larsen

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Sabiston Textbook of Surgery: Expert Consult: Online and Print (Textbook of Surgery)

2008-04-14T03:28:00.000-07:00

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This distinguished reference carries on a 70-year legacy as the world’s most thorough, useful, readable, and understandable text on the principles and techniques of surgery. Its peerless contributors deliver all the well-rounded, state-of-the-art knowledge you need to richly grasp the pathophysiology and optimal management of every surgical conditionso you can make the best clinical decisions, avoid complications, manage unusual situations, and achieve the best possible outcomes. It is an absolute requisite for the American Board of Surgery exam, and an indispensable source of guidance on overcoming the challenges that arise in everyday practice.As an Expert Consult title, this thoroughly updated 18th edition comes with access to the complete contents online, fully searchableenabling you to consult it rapidly from any computer with an Internet connection.

Book Publisher: Saunders (01 November, 2007)
ISBN: 141603675X
Book author: Courtney M. Townsend, R. Daniel Beauchamp, B. Mark Evers, Kenneth L. Mattox

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Essentials of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Free Ebook)

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by Walter R. Frontera (Author), Julie K. Silver (Author)

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A major, new work in physical medicine and rehabilitation that is both practical and authoritative, this text provides easily accessible information on the diagnosis and management of musculoskeletal disorders and other common conditions requiring rehabilitation. Each topic is presented in a concise, focused, and well-illustrated two-color format featuring a description of the condition, discussion of symptoms, examination findings, functional limitations and diagnostic testing, with a focus on procedures, rehab interventions, and treatment.

Publisher: Hanley & Belfus; 1 edition (December 17, 2001)
Language: English
Format: PDB
Size: 29.53 MB

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Atlas of Primary Care Procedures (Free E-book)

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Atlas of Primary Care Procedures is a comprehensive, hands-on resource on the medical procedures most commonly performed in an office setting. The text presents practitioners with step-by-step instructions for performing more than 70 procedures. More than 700 images fully illustrate each procedure. Plus, common pitfalls are discussed along with strategies to avoid them when performing certain procedures. Each chapter includes: ordering information for necessary materials or equipment, CPT codes, and average fees for each procedure.

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 1 edition (September 1, 2003)
Author: Thomas J. Zuber, E.J. Mayeaux
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0781739055
ISBN-13: 978-0781739054

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Kuby Immunology 5th Edition (Free E-Book)

2008-04-14T03:24:00.001-07:00

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Amherst College, MA. Immunology textbook for students. Previous edition, c1997, was titled Immunology, by Janis Kuby. Presents a current and comprehensive introduction to the principles and research in the field. Color highlighting and illustrations. DNLM: Immune System--immunology.

Publisher: W.H. Freeman & Company; 4th edition (January 15, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0716733315
ISBN-13: 978-0716733317

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Van De Graaff Human Anatomy (Free E-Book)

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Human Anatomy by Van De Graaff is designed for the one-semester human anatomy course. This course is usually offered at the freshman/sophomore level, is taught primarily in biology, physical education, or allied health departments, and is often a prerequisite for programs in occupational therapy, physical therapy, massage therapy, sports medicine, athletic training, chiropractic medicine, etc. This edition features new cadaver photos, expanded pedagogy, and more clinical coverage.

About the Author
Dr. Kent Van De Graaff is a well-known and highly-respected author. For McGraw-Hill, he has written the best selling human anatomy text and a top human A&P text. He received his Ph.D. from Northern Arizona University.

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math; 6 edition (July 25, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0072486651
ISBN-13: 978-0072486650

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ABC of Liver, Pancreas and Gall Bladder (ABC Series) (Free E-Book)

2008-04-14T03:20:00.000-07:00

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»Book Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited (01 May, 2001)
»ISBN: 0727915312
»Book author: I. J. Beckinghan
»Amazon Rating: 4.0

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A review of medical and surgical problems affecting the liver, pancreas and biliary system. This book provides the essential information for medical and nursing students, GPs and junior hospital doctors in general medical and surgical training. It provides algorhithms for diagnosing and treating common diseases (e.g. gallstones, hepatitis) as well as information for referring, and allowing informed discussion with patients regarding treatment and prognosis of rarer conditions such as malignancies and transplantation.

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Free Medical E-Book: Clinical Neuroanatomy (Clinical Neuroanatomy for Medical Students (Snell)

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Book Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (01 July, 2005)
ISBN: 0781759935
Book author: Richard S Snell
Amazon Rating: 2.5

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Now in its Sixth Edition, this popular text gives medical and allied health students a complete and clinically oriented introduction to neuroanatomy. Each chapter begins with clearly stated objectives, includes clinical cases, and ends with clinical notes, clinical problems, and review questions. More than 450 illustrations enhance the text. This edition’s illustrations have been reworked for greater visual appeal and more diagnostic images have been added. Selected illustrations from Haines’ Neuroanatomy: An Atlas of Structures, Sections, and Systems, Sixth Edition have been included. Coverage of neurophysiology has been expanded and updated. A bound-in CD-ROM contains 386 USMLE-style review questions with answers and explanations.

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Free Medical E-Book: Human Physiology: The Basis of Medicine

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Title: Human Physiology: The Basis of Medicine
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Author: Gillian Pocock, Christopher D. Richards
ISBN: 0198568789

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A sound understanding of physiology underpins good medical practice. This established textbook provides medical students and others in health-related disciplines with the essential information and learning tools necessary to understand human physiology. The book adopts a student-friendly style with an emphasis on clarity, explanation and understanding, complemented by full-colour illustrations. It has a hierarchical organisation, beginning with aspects of cell and tissue function before proceeding to a consideration of the communication systems of the body, including the endocrine and nervous systems. The heart of the text concerns the physiology of the main body systems. Throughout, the relevance to clinical practice is stressed. This revised edition contains new or revised material on osmolarity, osmotic pressure and tonicity; expanded treatment of epithelia; discussion of steroid and thyroid hormone receptors; iron absorption and its regulation by hepcidin; circadian rhythms and carbohydrate absorption in the small intestine. There are also new feature boxes on Alzheimer's disease, deep vein thrombosis, the Donnan effect, the stages of labour and the classification of heart failure, and new sections on autonomic failure, the renal handling of uric acid and multiple organ failure.

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Free Chemistry E-Book: Clinical Chemistry

2008-04-14T03:16:00.002-07:00

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»Book Publisher: Mosby (29 May, 2004)
»ISBN: 0723433283
»Book author: William J. Marshall, Stephen Bangert
»Amazon Rating: 4.0

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The new edition of this extremely successful text explores the clinical application of biochemistry. It explains what happens to the body’s chemistry when affected by disease…which laboratory tests are used in various clinical situations…and how to interpret the results. Over 100 actual patient case histories demonstrate how clinical chemistry relates to the practice of medicine. More than 100 crisp line drawingsrendered in full color for the first time in this 5th Editionmake concepts easy to understand. And, self-assessment exercises based on clinical vignettes enable readers to check their comprehension of the material.

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Free Herbal Ebook, Learn The Essentials Of Herbal Medicines With…

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Principles of Mass Spectrometry Applied to Biomolecules

2008-04-14T03:14:00.000-07:00

an extensive compilation of articles by leading professionals, this reference explains the fundamental principles of mass spectrometry as they relate to the life sciences. Topics covered include spectroscopy, energetics and mechanisms of peptide fragmentation, electron capture dissociation, ion-ion and ion-molecule reactions, reaction dynamics, collisional activation, soft-landing, protein structure and interactions, thermochemistry, and more. The book empowers readers to develop new ways of using these techniques.

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Methods in Enzymology, Volume 391: Liposomes, Part E

2008-04-14T03:12:00.000-07:00

Liposomes are cellular structures made up of lipid molecules. Important as a cellular model in the study of basic biology, liposomes are also used in clinical applications such as drug delivery and virus studies. Liposomes Part E is a continuation of previous MIE Liposome volumes A, B, C and D.
* One of the most highly respected publications in the field of biochemistry since 1955
* Frequently consulted, and praised by researchers and reviewers alike
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Handbook of Preformulation: Chemical, Biological, and Botanical Drugs

2008-04-14T03:10:00.000-07:00

Preformulation studies are the physical, chemical, and biological studies needed to characterize a drug substance for enabling the proper design of a drug product, whereas the effectiveness of a drug product is determined during the formulation studies phase. Though the two disciplines overlap in practice, each is a significantly distinct phase of new drug development. Entirely focused on preformulation principles, this handbook provides detailed descriptions of preformulation methodologies, gives a state-of-the-art description of each technique, and lists the currently available tools useful in providing a comprehensive characterization of a new drug entity.

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ORA Quality Manual, January 2007

2008-04-14T03:09:00.001-07:00

The ORA Quality Manual contains the required policy elements to structure the Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA) Quality Management System (QMS). The anticipated audience for this manual includes those in the public, regulated industry, counterpart agencies, and FDA who wish to understand the ORA QMS. Use of this manual presumes some understanding of quality system principles and standards.

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Packaging Closures and Sealing Systems (Sheffield Packaging Technology)

2008-04-14T03:05:00.000-07:00

Packaging closures have undergone much evolution and development in recent years, and their functions have grown beyond simply allowing easy access and reclosing, This volume examines the technologies relevant to packaging closures and sealing systems. It features chapters contributed by top professionals in the packaging industry. To date, this is the only book dedicated to this important area. It is organized according to the various types of packagingmetal, glass, plastics, flexible, and composite containers. One chapter explores child resistant mechanisms, tamper evidence, and openability; the book also includes a chapter on quality assessment.

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The Troubleshooting and Maintenance Guide for Gas Chromatographers

2008-04-14T03:01:00.000-07:00

This fourth edition of the classic guide for every user of gas chromatographic instrumentation is now updated to include such new topics as fast GC using narrow, short columns, electronic pressure control, and basic aspects of quantitative gas chromatography.

The author shares his many years of experience in technical support for gas chromatography users, addressing the most common problems, questions and misconceptions in capillary gas chromatography. He structures and presents the material in a concise and practical manner, suitable even for the most inexperienced user without any detailed knowledge of chemistry or chromatography.

For lab technicians in chemistry, analytical, food, medicinal and environmental chemists, pharmaceutists.

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Nama : Arip
Lahir Tempat lahir : Borneo Island
Tempat tinggal : Lampung(waykanan), Yogyakarta
Alamat Tetap : ????
Alamat Sementara : Karang bendo CT 5, Jakal Km 5
Riwayat Hidup : 9 Bulan lebih di perut Ibu, sekarang di dunia, Next....?
Riwayat Sekolah :

TK pertiwi Bukit Kemuning, Lampung Utara
SD N 1 Bukit Kemuning, Lampung Utara
SMP N 1 Bukit kemuning, Lampung Utara
SMU N 1 Terbanggi Besar, Lampung Tengah
UII Architech 01 ... status D.O. ( ikut kuliah 10 kali doang...) enak aja... mengundurkan diri no masak D.O. gak keren amat
UGM Pharmacy 02.. (masih betah ampe sekarang)

Riwayat Tempat Tinggal :

Balita ampe umur 1 tahun di Kuala Kapuas, Center of borneo island
Umur 1-3 Tahun in Yogyakarta
Umur 3-5 Tahun in Terbanggi besar, Lampung tengah
Umur 5-14 Tahun in Bukit Kemuning, Lampung Utara
Umur 14-17 Tahun in Poncowati, Terbanggi besar, Lampung Tengah
Umur 17 ampe sekarang in Yogyakarta..
next.....?

Hobi : Kelayapan, Ngegame, Denger Musik, Download Film, Chatting, Streaming, Hakking, Traveling, Naik gunung...
Film Favorit : The day after tommorow. Smallville, Heroes, Supranatural, Naruto, The legend of Aang, banyak.... dah
Acara TV Favorit : 4 Mata, OB, Suami-suami takut istri,
Makanan Favorit : Sate Ayam, Cap Cay, Nasi tempe separo, Burjo, Chicken Steak Doeble
Minuman Favorit : Es doger, Dawet Ireng, Es buah, Es degan, Milk shake vanilla Spesial di W.S.

Lawu, 09 februari 2007

2008-02-13T22:21:00.000-08:00

ini adalah pendakian ke-2ku ke gunung lawu hanya dengan perlengkapan seadanya aku dan teman kosku yusri pergi ke lawu lewat jalur cemoro sewu. berhubung pernah naik lawu dan tau kondisi jalus serta dari pengalamanyang lau, akhirnya kami putuskan tuk membawa perlengkapan seadanya, makanan dan minuman secukupnya, pikirku toh diatas ada yang jualan (mbok yem)
saat tiba di terminal tawang mangu, sudah terlihat, puncak tertutup awan, maklum tidak mengetahui keadaan terbaru dari lawu, eh ternyata selama perjalanan menuju basecamp cemoro sewu kabut teramat tebal dan jarak pandang hanya sekitar 10 meteran, dengan harapantuh kabut gak sampai ke atas gunung, yah kami biasa-biasa saja. sesampainya di basecamp ternyata kabut semakin tebal, dan rintik hujan juga mulai terasa, hebusan angin yang menderu terkena pepohonan sangat terdengar mengerikan juga, tapi kami tetap menganggap hal itu biasa. setelah makan, istirahat dan bersiap2 menuju punjak, kami bertemu dan sempat berbincang dengan pendaki yang sudah turun gunung, mereka mengatakan diatas sudah 2 hari badai, hujan dan kabut tebal, kami masih saja ingin mencoba naik denganharapan bisa secepatnya sampai di pos 5, ternyata awal perjalanan sudah terasa menhirup udara sangat sulit, mungkin karena ada badai, bisa saja, trus kami memutuskan apapun yang terjadi kami putuskan setelah sampai pos 2.
setelah sampai pos 2 heheeh... kabut yang amat tebal dan suhu yang semakin dingin, hujan yang deras serta angin yang semakin kuat menyebabkan kami cukup lama berdiam di pos 2 tersebut, akhirnya setelah beberapa lama kami putuskan untuk turun dikarenakan temanku perlengkapannya amat sangat minimalis, hanya membawa jaket & jas hujan tidak membawa sleeping bag, erta kami juga tidak membawa tenda dan pemanas. akhirnya dari pada cari perkara mending turun hehehe

Naik gunung

2008-02-11T23:22:00.000-08:00

Hobi memang susah untuk ditinggalkan, sejak pertama kali diajak naik gunung sama teman, akhirnya sekarang ketagihan hehehe... dimulai dari pada bualn agustus 06 teman2 berencanaeh naik slamet, penasaran dan diajak akhirnya ikut juga wah ternyata baru tau pendakian itu melelahkan, tapi enak juga meliahat hutan belantara yang masih rimbun serta suara angin yang menderu.

sejak dari slamet jadi ketagihan naik lagi, tidak lama setelah mendaki slamet, adik2 angkatandikampus ngajak naik gunung merbabu di magelang, yah tertarik juga, akhirnya ikut, walau hujan dan sempat nyasar karenasalah jalan akhirnya kami 30 orang sampai juga di camp istirahat di pos-2. melelahkan namun sampai juga kepuncaknya.
setelah itu 3 hari sebelum ramadhan tahun 2007 teman kos ngajak naik lawu dadakan dan menyenangkan juga karena disana jalurnya sudah ada jadi kemungkinan tuk tersesat kecil, tapi berhubung jalurnya yang terus menerus menanjak yah menguras tenaga juga.
tanggal 25 januari kembali diajak teman naik merbabu, pas kebetulan selesai seminar, ya mau aja ngilangin seteres. naik motor dari jogja, 9 februari diajak teman kos lagi naiklawu eh nasib pendakian pertamanya di lawu ada badai. akhirnya hanya sampai pos 2, nyali menciut menyaksikan ganasnya angin bertium, derasnya hujan, dingin yang menusuk tulang serta kabut yang menutup pandangan sampai 5 meter kedepan akhirnya kami memutuskan untuk turun ke basecamp. memang bukan nasib dan waktu yang tidak tepat untuk pendakian...

Lawu 2007 3 hari sebelum Ramadhan

2008-02-11T22:33:00.002-08:00

Ini merupakan pendakian ke-3 ku dan merupakan pendakian pertama digunung lawu. kami merencanakan pendakian hanya dalam waktu 3 hari, dari mengumpulkan informasi berkaitan tentang lawu sampai mencari info tentang biaya yang dihabiskan... hm... benar-benar waktu yang singkat, biasanya persiapan ku lakukan selama 2 minggu, tapi kali ini dikarenakan waktu yang singkat dan teman yang tiba-tiba ingin naik ke lawu, akhirnya segalanya dilakukan dengan cepat.

Pada hari H kami berangkat dari kos jam 06.00 pagi naik bus jalur 6 menuju kridosono dengan biaya Rp. 2000/orang, setelah itu bejalan kaki sekitar 5 menit ke stasiun lempuyangan mengejar kereta Prambanan Exspres 1. dengan biaya Rp. 7000/orang, jam 7 kurang kami berangkat menuju stasiun balapan solo sekitar jam 8 kami tiba disana, lalu berjalan kaki menuju terminal bis (lupa nama terminalnya) setelah itu menggunakan lbus langsung jaya dengan ongkos Rp. 7000/orang kami menuju terminal tawangmagu, perjalanan sekitar 2 jam lebih. setelah tiba diteminal tawangmangu, lalu dengan ongkos sebesar Rp. 5000/orang kamipun naik kendaraan menuju cemoro sewu.
Sekitar jam 12.00 siang, kami sampai di basecamp cemorosewu. tampak cuaca begitu cerahnya dan matahari bersinar sangat terik. akhirnya kami memutuskan untuk makan dan beristirahat sejenak. sekitar jam 13.30 kami bersiap untuk pendakian.
sebelum melakukan pendakian kami ber-2 akhirnya melakukan ritual awal seperti yang biasa dilakukan pendaki2 lain yang ingin berabgkat, tapi kami tidak hanya berdo'a, namun setelah berdo'a kami pun memakan coklat pertama dan meminum seteguk air untuk permulaan setelah itu kami pun berjalan menuju pos-1 yang berjarak sekitar 1,99 Km dari basecamp. diawal perjalanan nafas sudah terongoh2 karena selama perjalanan yang menanjak kami terlalu banyak bercanda belum sampai pos-1 sudah kehabisan nafas hehehe......

setelah sampi pos-1 kami langsung melanjutkan perjalanan ke pos-2 dengan jarak 2,0 Km dari pos-1 tanpa berhenti, maklum belum kenal medan jadi kami pikir yah medan yang dilalui sama saja gt, ternyata disini belum apa2, setelah melalui pos menuju pos 3 baru klenger dengan jalurnya terus-menerus berjalan menyusuri batu bersusun diping gir tebing, walau jaraknya ke pos-4 tidak terlalu jauh sekitar 0,7 km, tapi dikarenakan jalan yang terus menerus menanjak tenaga terkuras juga. akhirnya setelah disekitar tampak mulai gelap kamipun sampai di pos-4 dengan keadaan yang basah kuyup karena kringat dan perut yang sudah meronta-ronta minta diisi serta asam urat yang sudah terasa nyilu, akhirnya kami lanjtkan ke pos-5. disini kami menginap digubug mbok yem hehehe... terutama karena perut sudah demo jadi makan apa yang ada dari gorengan ampe mie n nasi juga, (rakus neh) maklum capek banget. setelah kenyang akhirnya kami tertidur dari jam 9 malam sampe jam 4 pagi baru bangun, maklum enak udaranya untuk tidur.. nah setelah itu kami bangun dan menuju puncak hargodumilah hehehe
yah seperti para pendaki lain kami dipuncak menikmati pemandangan sejenak trus melakukan ritual foto2 gt deh untuk kenang-kenangan, sekitar jam 8 kami pun bersiap turun dan menuju basecamp utuk pulang lagi kejogja. sampai di stasiun balapan jam 6, gara2 nunggu oplet kagak jelas akhirnya nyampe balapan solo magrib dah eh untung masih sempat ngejer pramex terakhir, mana musti nunggu lagi cos keretanya mogok, jadi sampe jam 7.30 baru dateng dah tuh kereta.

Lawu 2007 3 hari sebelum Ramadhan

2008-02-11T22:33:00.000-08:00

My Profile Detail

2008-02-11T22:23:00.001-08:00

Nama : Arip

Tempat Tinggal : Yogyakarta, Lampung

Status : Mahasiswa

Email : agamag2002us@yahoo.com

Hobby : Nonton Film, Ndaki gunung, Jalan-jalan.

Polifarmasi Pada Pasien

2008-02-01T10:17:00.000-08:00

Polifarmasi berarti penggunaan banyak obat sekaligus oleh /pada seorang pasien, lebih dari yang dibutuhkan secara logis-rasional dihubungkan dengan diagnosis yang diperkirakan. istilah ini mengandung konotasi yang berlebihan, tidak diperlukan dan sebagian besar dapat dihilangkan tanpa mempengaruhi outcome penderita dalam hasil pengobatannya. Ia mengandung juga pengertian mubazir, sehingga biaya pengobatan menjadi tinggi, tanpa yustifikasi profesional. yang lebih penting lagi adalah bahwa diantara demikian banyak obat yang ditelanpasti akan terjadi interaksi antara obat yang satu dengan yang lainnya, bila interaksi yang dihasilkan menyebabkan efek dari obat2 tersebut meningkat maka mungkin saja menguntungkan, tapi bisa saja justru malah merugikan bila peningkatan efek melewati batas maksimumnya sehinnga pasien mengalami keracunan yang dapat bersifat serius dan sering menyebabkan hospitalisasi atau bahkan kematian.
Kejadian ini lebih sering terjadi pada pasien yang sudah berusia lanjut (LANSIA) yang umumnya penyakit yang diderita lebih dari satu penyakit. Penyakit utama yang biasanya diderita oleh LANSIA antara lain adalah hipertensi, gangguan fungsi ginjal dan hati, diabetes mellitus,gagal jantung dan infark serta gangguan ritme jantung. juga terdapat berbagai keadaan yang khas dan sering mengganggu lansia seperti gangguan fungsi kognitif, keseimbangan badan, pengelihatan dan pendengaran. semua keadaan ini menyebabkan LANSIA memperoleh pengobatan yang banyak jenisnya.
Bila semua obat memang jelas-jelas diperlukan & dibutuhkan dalam pengobatan serta sesuai dengan tujuan terapi yang diinginkan, maka hal ini tidak digolongkan sebagai polifarmasi, walaupun perbedaan antara pemakaian banyak obat secara bersamaan (multiple medications) dan polifarmasi tidak terlalu jelas batasannya. agaknya saat ini polifarmasi sudah diartikan pemakaian banyak jenis obat secara umum dan arti spesifik seperti yang sudah dijelaskan diatas sudah agak kabur. Bila dipersoalkan jumlah berapa dapat dianggap sebagai polifarmasi,, sulit disebutkan angka karena itu pengertian umum agak kurang baik karena tidak membedakan penggunaan lebih dari satu obat yang memang ditopang dengan bukti penelitian (hipertensi, diabetes, payah jantung) dan tidak dianggap 'redundant', walaupun interaksi dan efek samping masih merupakan issue, sehingga dalam arti asalnya terdapat unsur mubazir (tidak perlu dan merugikan) yang memang merupakan masalah yang ada, karena dalam multi patologi perlu dipakai lebih banyak obat (diperlukan dan ditopang evidence).
beberapa interaksi obat yang penting ialah: cerivastatin dengan gemfibrozil (rhabdomyolisis, kreatin-kinase meningkat) anathioprin dengan aluporinol (sifat sitotoksik anathioprin meningkat 3-4 kali), grapefruit juice (menghambat absorbsi karbamazepin, felodipin, dan simvastatin) St John's wort merangsang metabolisme warfarin, indinavir, dan cyclosporin; cisapride dengan makrolid, ketokonazol, kinidin atau grapefruit juice (torsade de pointes dan kematian mendadak), coumarin dengan antiplatelet (pendarahan), dan masih banyak lagi..
coppyright PSC rekayasa genetika team
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Tentang Saya

2008-02-01T09:45:00.000-08:00

Saya adalah seorang anak dari sebuah keluarga yang hidupnya biasa-biasa saja, tidak ada yang istimewa dengan keluarga saya. besar dai keluarga yang jarang menetap tinggal disuatu tempat membuat sulit untuk memiliki teman dekat. saat kuliah baru merasakan memiliki teman dekat.
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Riwayat pendidikan
SD Negeri 1 Bukit Kemuning Lampung Utara
SMP Negeri 1 Bukit Kemuning Lampung Utara
SMU Negeri 1 Terbanggi Besar Lampung Tengah
saat ini masih melanjutkan kuliah di Fakultas Farmasi Univ Gadjah Mada
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Nonton Film, Baca Komik Naruto, Avatar, Kungfu Komang, Ndaki Gunung

Polifarmasi Pada Usia Lanjut

2008-01-18T03:59:00.000-08:00

2008-01-02T15:33:00.000-08:00

Themes Creator Download for Sony Ericsson

You need modification for your SE?
in this page, you can download Themes Creator version 3.19
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Sony Ericsson Themes Creator description
You can make your phone look completely different from the rest
The "Themes Creator" is now official and supports all Sony Ericsson phones that support themes (except P900, of course).

Sony Ericsson Themes Creator is a software that helps you to personalize your mobile phone.

With a bit of work and creativity, you can make your phone look completely different from the rest, since you can change almost everything you see on the screen (except font face, some icons...).

By the way, there's still NO WAY to remove the operator logo.

Requirements:

· Mobile Phone Monitor is necessary for this program.

· 10 MB hard disk
· 128 MB system RAM
· 300 MHz CPU

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2008-01-02T15:16:00.000-08:00

Winamp Full 5.51 Final

Nullsoft Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity music player for Windows. Winamp supports MP3, CD, WMA, Audiosoft, Mjuice, MOD, WAV and other audio formats, custom appearances called skins and audio visualization and audio effect plug-ins. Download and enjoy it free of charge, free of guilt.

Features:
* Basic controls: play, pause, stop, forward song, previous song, select new song
* Built-in spectrum analyzer and oscilloscope
* Track info: author, title, bitrate, sample rate, time, etc.
* Additional controls: position slider, balance, volume, equalizer, playlist, shuffle and repeat
* Can run in unobtrusive windowshade mode.
* All windows dock seamlessly.
* Drag and drop playlist editing
* Create and save new playlists or load a previous playlist.
* Edit song information via ID3 tag editor.
* Sort by title and filename or randomize.
* Playlist displays current song duration and complete playlist duration for easy dubbing.
* Playlist can run without the main window, and includes mini-controls, time display, and visualization.
* Ten band graphic equalizer and built-in pre-amplifier
* Create and save new pre-amplifier and equalizer settings or load previous setttings.
* Create and save song-specific pre-amplifier and equalizer settings.
* Get up to the minute in information on Winamp.
* Browse Winamp´s Plugin and Skin collection to customize your copy of Winamp.
* Support for .wsz files in your skin directory as well as .zip files
* Bookmark playlists and SHOUTcast streams

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2008-01-02T15:13:00.000-08:00

Daemon Tools v4.11.1

Daemon-Tools is an advanced application for multiprotection emulation. It is further development of Generic Safedisc emulator and incorporates all its features. This program allows running Backup Copies of SafeDisc (C-Dilla), Securom or Laserlock protected games. Also included is a Virtual DVDROM drive (V386 STEALTH DVDROM) enabling you to use your CD images as if they were already burned to CD! DAEMON Tools works under Windows9x/ME/NT/2000/XP with all types of CD/DVDROM drives (IDE/SCSI) and supports nearly any CD protection.
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2008-01-02T14:55:00.000-08:00

Google Web Accelerator 0.2.66.84 (Internet Software)

Google Web Accelerator is an application that uses the power of Google´s global computer network to make Web pages load faster. It is easy to use; all you have to do is download and install it, and from then on many Web pages will automatically load faster than before. Google Web Accelerator is currently optimized to speed up web page loading for broadband connections.

Google Web Accelerator uses various strategies to make your web pages load faster, including: Storing copies of frequently looked at pages to make them quickly accessible; Downloading only the updates if a web page has changed slightly since you last viewed it; Prefetching certain pages onto your computer in advance; Compressing data before sending it to your computer.

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2008-01-02T14:50:00.000-08:00

Google Desktop Search 3.0 (Free Desktop Utility)

You have lots of information on your computer. But do you know where it is? Google Desktop Search can help you find web pages you´ve previously seen, email you´ve sent or received, IM chats, and files on your computer.

Google Desktop Search finds:

* Outlook / Outlook Express
* Word
* AOL Instant Messenger
* Excel
* Internet Explorer
* PowerPoint
* Text
* Web History
* View web pages you´ve seen, even when you´re not online

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2008-01-02T14:45:00.000-08:00

Google Toolbar for IE 4.0.629.4924 Beta (Free Toolbar)

Improve your web browsing experience by ta king the power of Google with you anywhere on the web. By downloading the FREE Google Toolbar, you will be able to search the web using Google´s award-winning technology from any web site.

In addition, the Google Toolbar is loaded with the following features:

* Pop-up Blocker: Prevents annoying popup ads from appearing over, under, and next to websites you visit
* Highlight: highlighting search terms on the page you are visiting helps you easily locate the specific parts of the page that interest you
* Search Site: Search for information just within the pages of the website you are visiting
* BlogThis!: With the press of a button you can create a weblog (blog) post pointing to the web page you´re visiting

Easy to install. You can choose to uninstall it at any time.

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2008-01-02T14:24:00.000-08:00

TreePad download

TreePad SAFE 7.4.1
Download Version 7.10.0
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TreePad X Enterprise
384Gb, single-user
(zip or exe file, 3.6 Mb)Download Version 7.10.0
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TreePad X Enterprise
12 Gb, single-user
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(zip file, 1600 Kb)
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2008-01-02T14:04:00.000-08:00

Q&A: Symantec, McAfee CEOs have differing views on security landscape
Thompson, DeWalt discuss strategic directions
January 02, 2008 (InfoWorld) -- In early December, InfoWorld sat down with Symantec Corp. CEO John Thompson and David DeWalt, chief executive of McAfee Inc., and asked them about the strategic direction of their companies and where they see different aspects of the IT security market heading in 2008 and beyond.

Each of the interviews took its own course, but we made an effort to ask the two executives about many of the same issues.

What follows are a sampling of each CEO's comments on issues related to the rise of data protection, consolidation in the security market and competitive issues between the two industry leaders and their many rivals.
Over the past year in particular, we've seen a relative sea change in the security market as customers have shifted their focus toward data protection versus more-traditional methods of defending endpoints and network assets. How has this forced a strategic change in direction for your companies -- in particular as smaller vendors in sectors including data-leakage prevention (DLP) make claims that they are better suited to deal with this shift?Thompson: The reality is that we have had great insight about what information was flowing around in an organization for years. The fact that we were doing virus protection was interesting, but what was more interesting was depth and breadth of intelligence network around the world, which has been telling us about where viruses and worms are coming from, what hacker attacks are occurring, where spam is originating and what keywords people are using to bypass filters

There's a great deal of insight that's associated with that intelligence network that Symantec has that should make this shift toward information-based security easier for us than any smaller company that doesn't have that breadth.

Furthermore, customers have the expectation that we and others who have been trusted providers for them will evolve as their needs evolve. Certainly, that's been the case in the more traditional security technologies. If [you] look at what AV [antivirus] technology does today versus what it did five years ago, it is light-years different.

We should use the metaphor of the evolution of the past to apply to the problems of the future, and we've certainly evolved our business over the last 10 years to be very different in terms of its focus and our ability to solve problems for customers that 10 years ago probably didn't exist.DeWalt: Actually, I see it as a huge advantage to being a big company. Managing data and data security is a pretty strategic thing for corporations, when I think about who they would trust as an adviser in these situations. With either a start-up [that] may be dedicated to only [DLP], or someone with a thousand people in support, you get a level of service related to companies like Symantec and McAfee that isn't there with the others. We're already running in most large corporations on the endpoint.
Adding another endpoint agent from a small company versus going with McAfee isn't as attractive to these customers. We offer cost optimization, centralized management and other benefits that you can't get from smaller companies.

The reality in the security world today is that we are seeing more cost-optimization requirements. So, how do you look at a company like us that has AV, antispyware, HIPS [host intrusion protection] and NAC [network access control], and how will you add DLP and encryption as an agent, versus adding someone else's products? We look to acquire the best of breed to do that -- to make sure that we have the best technology to fit into our suite -- and offer centralized management with single-agent control to every desktop.

That's the big company game we play, and you have to recognize that turning the ship isn't necessarily about building a technology from scratch. Data security meeting endpoint security, meeting perimeter security is an important component of why people would trust a larger vendor.

DLP is obviously an area where both companies have made significant investments over the past year, with Symantec's acquisition of Vontu and McAfee's acquisitions of Onigma and Safeboot. Could you describe your strategies around DLP and why it has become such an important element of data security?

Thompson: The first thing we have to ask ourselves is if this is a problem that customers would like for us to help them solve. If so, is there a technology already in place in the market that has already garnered the hearts and minds of its users? Clearly, that was the case for Vontu, which was unquestionably the market-leading solution for DLP.

Our view is, if this is a problem that customers would look to Symantec to help them solve, why not see if we can acquire the best technology to be able to do that?

The question of DLP as a stand-alone platform or as a feature will be answered in how customers want to solve the problem. If customers are willing to dedicate resources to the problem as an isolated area of activity, that probably functions as a stand-alone product.

However, if they view that solving that problem is a part of another business process, then it would behoove us to make that feature part of a broader suite.

DLP over time might become part of a broader digital rights management strategy for an organization. Now, that's a big theme that goes well beyond what Vontu does today, but if you believe that the currency of business today is as much about information as it is about cash, having a clear understanding of where digital content is and who has rights and privileges to use it is a very important topic for a lot of companies today.

DeWalt: McAfee and Symantec have clearly addressed DLP in very different ways.

We see DLP having two important problem-solving areas: intellectual property protection, and the management and monitoring of information loss via endpoints.

We believe that most DLP events occur through insiders, through endpoint devices. Not people e-mailing out the source code, but copying it onto a USB drive and walking out with it. Is it more practical to e-mail the source code over the network or copy it to a 60GB drive in a matter of second?If you look at where the problem is, you'll see that the protection of intellectual property is the most important issue and that secondly, it's about compliance [with] data-privacy reporting components.

With Safeboot, encryption is already proven as a strong approach for data privacy and breach management, and it is best served when the customer can prove no loss of data when they lose a mobile device, that they have no need to report that incident.

If you can address those two problems, you can address the bulk of the issues on the marketplace. It will be up to customers to determine which approach they think is better: a network-oriented appliance tool, as with Vontu, or protection at the endpoint, which is where we have invested.

What we have compared to Vontu is apples to hubcaps, literally entirely different technologies. Vontu is primarily a network gateway appliance that is matching rules. There's no host to classify content, but [there is] primarily an appliance to look and monitor for data loss.

That's a totally different thing than Safeboot, which is whole-disk encryption for mobile devices. Symantec has no encryption technology in its entire portfolio, so the technologies are not even in the same hemisphere. Symantec bet that monitoring network traffic is the future. We bet that doing it at the endpoint is more of a safe, compliant way to address this.

Our philosophy is protecting all the endpoints, including all types of mobile devices, and every access point through those endpoints, including removable storage. That's where our DLP strategy will be centered, and we feel the growth of Safeboot proves that we're making the right bet.

Symantec could be right too -- maybe we're both right -- because it's not like Vontu is doing poorly either.

Your smaller rivals, and some industry analysts, like to say that large companies such as Symantec and McAfee do not innovate, that they only acquire innovation through mergers and acquisitions. How does that strike you, and why do you think they are wrong?

Thompson: I think people might argue inappropriately that the sustaining innovation mission that any company with a large base of users has is forgotten about. We already have the 2008 versions of our products in marketplace. Is there any innovation in there at all? We certainly think so.

There is a very important mission that we cannot overlook, and that is we have a bunch of customers who have an enormous amount of expectation of us being able to continue to deliver new features, functions and capabilities for them that will migrate seamlessly from what they do today to what their needs might be tomorrow.

We spend 15% of our revenue on research and development not because we want to spend it, but because we have to maintain some stream of innovation in order to be able to serve the needs of our existing customers.

If you look inside the company, our Symantec Research Labs facility has delivered incredible innovative capabilities such as generic exploit blocking, or the ability to see vulnerabilities and create a signature to block an attack before the attack occurs. That's all about innovation. The fact that we are an acquisitive company means that we are open to people who have fresh ideas or a new view of the world.
The security world has evolved so rapidly over the last five years that if we were stuck in a paradigm that said we will only deal with ideas that emanate from inside the company, we would be unable to serve the needs of our customers at all. The best way for a company that competes in all the segments of the market where we compete is to use strength of our balance sheet, cash and income statement to continue to evolve.

Consider all that in backdrop of the idea that the whole software industry is consolidating around us. You cannot ignore the broader macro-trend going on in the industry itself.

There are fewer software companies today than there were a year ago; one year ago, there were fewer than five years ago; and five years forward, there will be fewer than there are today. The question is, Can you evolve a process that is relevant for your customers and relevant for your company as you think about targets that you bring into the company over time?

DeWalt: It's a myth that companies our size don't innovate. Many products are being made almost 100% in-house. Lots of the work in our new consumer technologies was an organic exercise, as with ePolicy Orchestrator. We didn't acquire anything to build that product, and if there's one product strategic to this company, EPO is that, and the list goes on.

But we also have to use the balance sheet and acquisitions because we can. It gives us the opportunity to grow. Maybe that looks externally like we don't have to innovate, but we're really doing both and making sure that we augment the strategy. It is a combination, and we have to be good at balancing both things. Companies like McAfee have gotten mature because they're good at development and acquisition.

Part of that is at blended-shore development. We're moving sustained engineering and quality assurance to offshore locations like India and China. Innovation is coming from Beaverton, Ore.; Santa Clara, Calif.; and elsewhere where core development and Avert Labs sit.

Those people don't want to do sustaining engineering on Windows 95, so we have to innovate that way so people who want to be working on the newest thing can do that.

In reality, the core of this company is focused on nothing but innovation. We do the other stuff in low-cost locations, and if we didn't do that, we would probably die.

Over the past several years, we've seen many major IT providers, including Microsoft, Cisco, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and EMC, make investments in acquiring security technologies and building their own security products. How has this shift toward the integration of security into the operating system, network and computer hardware, software, and storage changed how you will direct your own companies?Thompson: The reality is that what customers are trying to do in terms of managing access to applications and the ability to share information across the enterprise, both internal and extended, makes it incumbent upon all of us to recognize that securing that content is very important.

Many of the companies you referenced started their lives thinking that security was something that slowed down the machine, network access or their sales. They finally came to the realization that security is an enabler and not an inhibitor and that they must embrace it one way or another.

The real question becomes, Where do customers think logically about security elements? If you look at what has evolved at Symantec, we have said that it's natural that some security technologies will live and reside in the network.

Networks have become fast enough, deep packet inspection technologies have become good enough, and we assume that as time goes on more of that will occur. And the logical place for companies to do that is with the people providing network equipment, but that's only one place where you have to protect the stream of content; another is where the users interact at a desktop or server, or where it is being managed at the gateway or applications level.

We're getting out of the network side, so why compete with Cisco and Juniper and Alcatel? Why don't we partner with them and license our technologies to them because we'd like to have the scanners we have in place to become more ubiquitous, not less so? Let's move to where the user is interacting with the application or where the application is managing the digital content. And while the competition there is no less fierce, it certainly is a place where we have real strengths that we think are worthy of us doubling down.

There's also the issue of heterogeneity. Whereas someone like Microsoft is only focused on Windows, our largest customers still run mainframes, Unix, and have interests with Linux in the applications sphere. We have to address the real-world heterogeneous technologies in use within our customers, while these companies are focused on securing their own technologies.

DeWalt: One word describes our differentiation from these companies: heterogeneity.

Large companies want freedom of choice of any platform with any OS [operating system] with any technology. They don't want to get locked down with Oracle, EMC or Microsoft, which only support their own releases with their security products.

How many people have moved to Vista so far? Would you trust your security requirements to a single vendor? Microsoft can tell you they will throw in security capabilities, so there's a battle between big vendors doing pieces of the stack versus pure-plays.

This goes back to conversations of best-of-breed small vendors versus best-of-breed large vendors, and it is turning into best-of-breed security versus gigantic companies with some security in their strategy.

We bet that the cross-platform approach wins out. To support all is better than just supporting one vendor, whether for storage, the OS or routers. Cisco is not exactly supporting Juniper anymore.

Our goal with heterogeneity is to create freedom of choice for customers to leverage, and we don't think that many of them want to get locked into one vendor.

2008-01-02T13:57:00.000-08:00

Q&A: Microsoft's new multicore-computing guru speaks out

November 26, 2007 (Network World) -- Supercomputing expert Dan Reed, who saw the birth of the Web browser at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is joining Microsoft Research as director of scalable and multicore computing.

This serious college basketball fan is tearing himself away from the hoops heartland surrounding North Carolina's Research Triangle to lead Microsoft's efforts in multicore technology and next-generation data centers. "I watched Mosaic come up out of the ground, and I watched my students go off to start-ups, and I promised myself that if the surf was up again that I was going to grab my board and get in the water," Reed told Network World's John Fontana, during a chat about Reed's move from academia and what he says could be a coming revolution that rivals the development of the Web.

What drew you to Microsoft? There are very few places in the world that have the combination of world-class research capability and the market influence and the resources to be game-changing players in a period where there is this much ferment with multicore and large data centers.

The other more broad question is, "Why industry after having spent a life in academia?" And the answer is that the problems of this ilk [multicore, large data centers], the opportunities to profoundly influence their decision, is actually much larger right now in the industry space than it is in the academic space.

What are the unique challenges multicore computing presents to a software development company such as Microsoft? We have hit the power and clock-frequency wall, so large-scale multicore is coming. To continue to ride the performance advantages from that parallelism on chips, we have to rethink how we develop software. How we develop code that runs in parallel and uses those processors has implications for a whole new set of developments but also for the existing software base. So for a software company like Microsoft, it is about developing new applications that take advantage of that parallelism, because there is a whole new set of application opportunities.

What's your plan of attack? I will be doing two things. My position is in MSR, and some of the issues associated with that are research-related. But many of them are deeply product-related. So I will not only be engaging people on the research side, but I will also be working with the product groups and also working with Microsoft's external partners, like chip vendors, because this is not just a software issue; it is a hardware issue as well.

So for a set of ongoing projects that I expect to follow, Microsoft has several activities under way. If you saw recently, the plan is to start shifting the tool set to something called F#, the functional language based on the common runtime system, which is one of the early products to allow us to exploit the on-chip parallelism.
There are other things like transactional memory. One of the things that is true about this problem is there isn't a single silver bullet.

Microsoft Research Director Rick Rashid told me last year that technology transfer is a "full-contact sport." Do you plan to play? Absolutely, that is what I have done my entire professional life. The process of taking ideas and pushing them out into the marketplace is something that I have done for a long time. Intel has shipped product based on software that I developed as a researcher in academia.

You said in your blog that scalable and multicore computing are among the most interesting technical problems in computing. Can you, in layman's terms, tell us why? There are two questions there. One is the scalable and one is the multiple cores. This is probably a once-in-20-year opportunity to rethink some fundamental things about the way we design processors and the way that we support software.

The other piece is the rise of large-scale data centers and cloud computing's software as a service. The scope and scale of these data centers is beyond anything we have conceived of building before. This aggregation of information and the ability to deliver computing in response to remote requests is the biggest thing that is happening since the Web.

So, you put these two things together and we are about to realize the infrastructure to support the computing equivalent of the electronic power grid. When I was at Illinois, I saw the Web browser Mosaic born, and as I look at this space happen -- multicore, Web 2.0, data centers -- that same sort of confluence of excitement and opportunity is there.

For users who know nothing about this technology, where will they experience its benefits? They are going to see performance go into warp drive. And not just on the desktop, but mobile devices, because you can deliver high performance at low power and obviously that is a big issue in the mobile space. Some of the technologies that rely on vision and speech recognition and nontraditional interfaces beyond keyboard and mouse. Those kinds of interfaces need the kind of power that multicore will deliver.

How will you divide your time between research and product? I will divide my time between three things. It is a logical division rather than a division between research and product. The group of things to work on are minicore, large-core multicore systems, a clean-sheet look at next-generation data centers, so soup-to-nuts from chip-level issues up through system integration [and the] software stack to support some of these next-generation apps.

The second is large-scale environment, thermal and power management to go with what you do if you want to build a 200,000-square-foot, 50-megawatt data center. The third thing that I will be doing is to finish work on national science, technology and information policy. I have done a lot of that over the last few years on the President's Council of Advisors for Science and Technology, and I am also chair of the umbrella organization that represents all of the academic and industrial research labs in computing in North America.

2008-01-02T13:32:00.000-08:00

Vista SP1 Release Candidate targets performance, reliability, security
The anticipated death of the Kill Switch, though, isn't part of this RC
December 06, 2007 (Computerworld) -- The just-released Windows Vista SP1 Release Candidate (RC), like the previous beta, does more to improve the internal plumbing of Windows Vista than it does to make any major changes to the interface. SP1 RC targets performance, reliability and security, leaving the operating system's features and functionality largely intact, with the exception of allowing users to substitute an alternate search tool for the one built into Vista, and removing the Search link from the Start menu
When the final version of SP1 (currently slated for next year) is released, the big news will be the death of the so-called Kill Switch, which Microsoft prefers to call "reduced functionality mode." Whatever you call it, though, the elimination of the switch will be good news. Currently, if you don't activate your retail copy of Windows Vista after 30 days, your desktop turns black, and your icons and the Start menu vanish. You can't open your files (although you can copy them). You're able to use a Web browser for only an hour before you get logged off.

The same thing happens if Windows Vista decides that you've installed it on a different PC than your original one, and you ignore a three-day grace period for contacting Microsoft. Vista might also decide it's been installed on a different PC than the original if you make a substantial number of hardware changes to your original PC.
In the shipping version of SP1 (though not in the current RC version), the Kill Switch will become more of a "Nudge Switch." You'll be frequently reminded that you need to activate Windows, and the desktop background will turn black. Try to change it to another background, and an hour later Windows will turn it black again. In addition, you won't be able to download signed drivers and optional updates via Windows Updates, although you'll still be able to get critical security updates. Not a pleasant experience, certainly, but at least you'll still be able to use the operating system.
For more details about the Kill Switch and new antipiracy measures baked into SP1, read our article "Microsoft to beef up antipiracy checks in Vista SP1
Changes since the previous beta
Not much has changed in the RC version of SP1 compared to the previous beta, although there are slight differences. Installation on my 1.83-GHz Core Duo laptop took under an hour; the previous beta took an hour and 15 minutes. The previous beta didn't clean up after itself, and left about 1GB worth of files in a folder that was no longer needed after installation. RC, on the other hand, deletes that directory and files.
A bug I found in the previous beta still remains: On my home network, which uses a Linksys WRT54GX4 router, I couldn't connect from my SP1 RC test machine to any other Vista PCs on my network. And I couldn't connect from Vista PCs to the test machine, either. However, I could connect to XP machines, and from XP machines to my test machine. That bug appears to be an isolated one, because other reviewers have been able to connect to Vista PCs on their networks.
Overall, in RC, Vista seems a little zippier when it connects to XP PCs. Copying files between PCs seems faster, and the time estimates that Vista gives for how long that copying will take seem to be more accurate.
Microsoft claims there have been other, minor changes as well, including a reduction in the size of stand-alone installers. It says that the RC stand-alone installer packages with 36 languages are 50% smaller than the previous beta, and the stand-alone installer packages with five languages are 30% smaller. In addition, the company says, disk space required for installation has decreased, and in RC, if SP1 discovers there's not enough space to install, it will tell you how much extra space you need. Microsoft also claims that the installation is more reliable, with a higher percentage of successful installs.
Same changes for Windows Vista
Otherwise, the RC version of SP1 offers the same changes to Vista that the previous beta did. One of the biggest changes is in the way search works. For example, you can now use a third-party search technology, such as Google Desktop Search, as your default search engine, by choosing Start --> Default Programs --> Set your default programs. You'll see a screen that allows you to change which search tool to use by default.
In addition, if you choose Start --> Default Programs --> Associate a file type or protocol with a specific program, you'll see a new entry in the protocol section, called Search. It lets you configure which program opens when you click on a file that uses the Windows Search protocol.

In addition, the Search link has been removed from the Start menu, and when you enter a search in the Start menu search box and results appear, the names of the links to additional searches have changed from "See all results" to "Search Everywhere."
If you want more information, Microsoft offers an overview of Windows Vista SP1 desktop search changes in its Knowledge Base.
There are a variety of other small changes to Vista that still appear in the RC version, including to the Disk Defragmenter, which now lets you choose with volumes to defragment, and to BitLocker, which lets you choose which drives to encrypt.
Where Vista goes from here
Microsoft is about to ramp up the beta program for RC SP1. It is now available for subscribers to TechNet and MDSN, and it will be freely available for anyone via Microsoft's Download Center the week of Dec. 10, 2007. Microsoft is still targeting the final release of Vista SP1 for the first quarter of 2008.
If you're looking for more information about SP1, check out these resources