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Thinking Software, Inc. announces that Race Catcher, the industry-leading dynamic code analyzer for Java and JVM-based applications, is available at no charge for open-source projects. Open-source developers and integrators now have the use of a powerful tool to identify and analyze concurrency issues. This class of bugs, including race conditions and deadlocks, is the hardest to diagnose because of their indeterminate nature.

Race Catcher Open Source Edition is easy to install from the Thinking Software website. A no-cost open-source license key can be requested the first time the software is launched. Race Catcher Open Source Edition is designed to work on a single machine to monitor locally running Java processes.

Thinking Software created the Race Catcher series of products for use by software developers, testers and vendors to continuously increase the reliability of their mission-critical applications.

With Race Catcher Open Source Edition, Open-source developers can take free advantage of Race Catchers ability to pinpoint race conditions and deadlocks, raising the quality of open-source software for all to use. Developers of proprietary applications that are integrated with open-source packages can be notified of any concurrency issues that arise in these open-source packages when invoked from their applications. Developers, testers and managers can evaluate Race Catcher in the context of standard open-source libraries, and experience the advantages of continuous dynamic code analysis.

Download Race Catcher Open Source Edition from the Thinking Software website: http://www.thinkingsoftware.com/products/race-catcher-open-source-edition

About Thinking Software, Inc. Thinking Software, Inc. provides dynamic code analysis tools based on its Software Understanding Machine (SUM) technology to help software developers and integrators find elusive software bugs in development, test and production. The Race Catcher series of products focuses on concurrency issues like race conditions and deadlocks. These tools are targeted at Java and more than two dozen other JVM-based languages, including Scala, JRuby, and Jython.

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Nothing in life is free except some tools to help you manage and improve the performance of your Ethernet networks. Here are five we found to do just that:

1)Free 30-day trial of Riverbed's Cascade Shark Virtual Edition packet analyzer. This software is designed to provide continuous packet capture and long-term storage for real-time and back-in-time forensic analysis and reporting of network and security events. It can run standalone or as a component of Riverbed's Cascade line of network performance management products. Cascade Shark VE records all inter-virtual machine traffic crossing a virtual switch on a VMware ESXi hypervisor.

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2) LAN Speed Test is a free utility designed to measure file transfer, hard drive, USB Drive, and wired and wireless LAN speeds. It builds a file in memory, then transfers it both ways while keeping track of the time, and calculates the result.Most tests are less than 1 minute, and the file size is 120KB for Windows and 370KB for Mac. It's compatible with all Windows versions 2000 and up, and will soon be available for Linux.

3) This EtherNet/IP Scanner Software is source code that enables developers of PC-based or embedded products to add scanner functionality to a product's feature set. The software is delivered as a developer's kit, or as dynamic link library for Microsoft Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 -- 32 and 64 bit. It is offered as royalty-free company site license.

4) Free Intel Ethernet controller drivers can be found here, on SourceForge, an open source community resource owned by Slashdot Media. This e1000 open source project contains Linux kernel drivers for all Intel Ethernet adapters and LAN On Motherboard.

5) Finally, here's a free tool for estimating the amount of bandwidth you use on an Ethernet/IP network. Rockwell's Ethernet/IP Capacity Tool is designed to allow the user to select a platform, add different types of I/O and network devices, and then calculate how many Common Industrial Protocol (CIP) and TCP connections are processed in addition to packet- per-second performance requirements.

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A Cary-based software company is offering a free service to university students and professors.

SAS Analytics U will allow them to use statistical tools to manage data, identify trends, and make decisions in their research and class work. Analytics U also allows them to share their work in online communities.

Education sales director Emily Baranello says the company's software is already useful to statistics majors, but she said they want to make more students familiar with it.

How can we affect it by getting into more of the undergraduate classes and making sure that we get this across multiple disciplines, so that if students graduate and go into one job area, want to move into another and work towards a different career, that they have some of that background earlier in their career? she said. We're trying to make statistics and analytics not scary to some of these folks.

SAS projects that by 2018, there will be a need for 1.5 million analysts and managers who can understand data and use it to make decisions.

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The parents of Jordan Davis and Trayvon Martin called for the repeal of Stand Your Ground during a hearing Tuesday in Washington before a human rights commission.

Davis and Martin were both teenagers killed in Florida. Their parents blamed the law for creating a culture of lawlessness even though Stand Your Ground wasnt specifically cited in the trials of the men who shot their children.

Sybrina Fulton, mother of Martin, said the law has created fear that black teenagers will be shot when theyre doing nothing wrong.

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Our teenagers have no clue what to do, Fulton said. Theyre afraid of being perceived as criminals when theyre not.

Her son was simply walking home from a convenience store, and he was shot, Fulton said.

An unarmed Martin, 17, was shot to death in Sanford by George Zimmerman after the Neighborhood Watch member became suspicious and started following him. Zimmerman was acquitted on the basis of self-defense.

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As weve seen especially since the infamous George Zimmerman court ruling court cases concerning the Stand Your Ground law tend to draw a considerable amount of media attention. One Florida lawmaker is determined to change that.

According to the Huffington Post, earlier this month, state Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fort Walton Beach, filed an amendment that would, as Tampa Bay Times writer Michael van Sickler wrote, severely limit access to court records in the self-defense cases. Those found innocent in self-defense cases in which Stand Your Ground was employed would be able to apply for a certificate of eligibility to expunge the associated criminal history record.

While Gaetz purports the amendment to be a measure that would protect those found innocent from being placed under media scrutiny, the implication that reporters would lose access to public records has ignited anger among journalists.

Many believe the amendment has been brought to the table as a result of an extensive Tampa Bay Times review in 2012 of 200 self-defense cases that involved Stand Your Ground. The investigation found that the law was being interpreted in different ways and applied inconsistently. In an ideal world, the report would spark policy change regarding how the law can be used in self-defense cases not as the inspiration for an amendment that would limit access from court and arrest records.

Gaetz told The Associated Press the amendment was unrelated to the Times investigation.

While its true the mainstream American media has the ability to and occasionally do unfairly scrutinize citizens in controversial court cases, prohibiting journalists from acquiring public records is not something a democratic government should consider. The medias watchdog function would be severely infringed upon; and not to speculate, but the passage of an amendment limiting journalists rights in this particular case could lead to legislation that limits their rights in other cases.

Stand Your Ground, weve seen, has been an open can of worms from the start. Newspapers have rightfully called attention to the laws unintended consequences as a go-to tactic in self-defense cases.

And its no surprise that Gaetz is championing the amendment. Hes a well-known proponent of the Stand Your Ground law. Last year, he told the Tampa Bay Times, after being appointed chair of a hearing on the laws unintended consequences, I dont support changing one damn comma.

Changes, however, are crucial.

The Orlando Sentinel editorial board wrote last year that the law has let scores of people escape punishment who started fights and then shot their unarmed opponents, because the shooters said they felt their lives were in danger.

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