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...Whalers Nab Islanders...
Steen's plan takes the onus of the home directories away from fas and puts it on a dedicated machine called a Network Appliance Box (NAB). The NAB, which Steen plans to purchase pending an initial trial, will handle one of the jobs that fas has now: acting as a server for 14,000 home directories. In fact, the NAB is designed specifically for that task...
...strategy is not without its pitfalls, however. The NAB's efficiency will depend on how fast it can process home directory requests and relay them back to the requester over the network...
Although it will have no effect on the speed of a user's network connection, thousands of requests and responses every second will bog down the local network segment between the UNIX machines and the NAB...
...Drug Enforcement Administration and officials from Italy, Spain and Britain -- also found links between the Italian Mafia and the Cali cartel in Columbia. Along the way, agents seized paintings by Rubens, Picasso and Reynolds from drug smugglers. The DEA used a private bank in the British West Indies to nab the cartel members. Seven Colombian drug trafficking and laundering organizations opened accounts at the bank, providing agents called "an unprecedented window" into the way drug organizations work...