Recently, a user who had replaced Windows on his netbook with Ubuntu Linux discovered that, as far as Best Buy was concerned, he had voided his warranty. For all practical purposes, he had.
In The Consumerist, the disgruntled netbook user reported, “My four month-old netbook’s touchpad and power adapter all stopped working. I took the machine [...]
Poor Adobe, they’re just not doing well with security lately. No sooner do they patch a bunch of serious Adobe Flash Player security bugs, than another zero-day exploit is unveiled. This time Adobe Reader and Acrobat are the targets, and regardless of whether you’re running Linux, Mac OS X, or Windows, you’re vulnerable.
What makes this [...]
I don’t think about Adobe Flash much. I just use it. I think that’s the case for most of us. Almost all the video on the Web is in Flash, and we just take it for granted. That’s a mistake. Like any other popular application, it can be an easy way for a cracker to [...]
Up on the Internet servers pause and then out jumps relatively good old Microsoft and down through your Internet chimney they’ll be delivering lots of Windows and Office patches to good little Windows users-those who have legal copies of Windows.
Yes, it’s almost time for Microsoft’s holiday edition of Patch Tuesday, December 8th. This is one [...]
When I went to the doctor’s office recently, I assumed I’d be getting my seasonal flu shot, and I’d hoped that I might get an H1N1, swine-flu, shot. I was wrong. It turns out that because of shortages, doctor offices aren’t being supplied with flu vaccines. Worse still, they didn’t know where I could get [...]
