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Will Morro continue to innovate?
Rich Mogull thinks that Morro (the free AV from Microsoft) will lead more innovation. However I think that the issue is not so clear-cut: Morro will be forced to innovate like any AV vendor due to the external pressures of the extensive user base of existing AV solutions, changing threats/attacks, and continued pressure from third…
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Suspicious domain – or not?
I was forwarded a link to primariaclujnapoca.ro, and (although I was 99% sure that the site is legit) decided to check it out with domaintools. To my amazement I found the WHOIS information to be severely lacking. This, coupled with the fact that it is hosted on a shared server raised my suspicion. In the…
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Join the World Community Grid!
Via Userfriendly: join the World Community Grid and help save lives – effortlessly. Do I sound like a late-night TV commercial? Now with no added sugar!
All jokes aside: WCG is a cool community project which dedicates idle CPU time to things like cancer research. While I don’t recommend that you leave on computers… -
Tweaking the design
It seems that changing site-designs periodically isn’t a rare phenomenon. I’m not really a designer, however I like to tweak ready-made designs for usability/functionality reasons. For example recently I went from a two-monitor 19″ setup to a one-monitor 22″ (wide) setup. Comparing the two I arrived to the same conclusion I’ve heard from many sources…
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Mixed links
The guys over Jupiter Broadcasting (is it a sign of networking geekdom if I kept typing Juniper broadcasting? :-)) reviewed boxee. It is very cool to find out that the product is based on an open-source program (XBMC). Also, AFAIK it is only available on Mac and Linux currently and because of this I couldn’t…
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If you don’t know English, …
Scott Hanselman thinks that I’m linkbaiting. Just wanted to let everyone know, I stand 100% behind my affirmation that If you don’t know English you are not a programmer. I personally think that the following commenter (also cited in the blog) nailed it: It would *seem* (totally non-scientific sampling) that the non-English speakers (as a…
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The first rule of computer security is
You don’t talk about computer security. No, that’s not it, but it sure seems like many people adopt that attitude. Getting back to the subject, I want to talk about the first of the 10 Immutable Laws of Security: If a bad guy can run (persuade you to run) his program on your computer, it’s…
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F*** you Microsoft!
For deciding that your precious Windows Update is so important you have to restart my computer in the middle of the day, costing me two hours of work!
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Funny quote of the day
… if you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you’re screwed anyway, and should fix your program. From an older version of the Linux Kernel Coding Style. The newer version contains a less funny (offensive?) wording…