August 28, 2011
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Apache, the open-source Web server, is the most popular Web server on the planet. It’s also as safe as safe can be. Well, usually it is. An old, unfixed security hole has come back to haunt the Apache webmasters in … Continue reading
August 26, 2011
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In Germany, Apple currently looks like it may win a legal battle to keep Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 from being sold in the European Union. Their reasoning? The Galaxy Tab looks too much like the iPad. Excuse me? The iPad … Continue reading
August 25, 2011
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Some people are still in denial. They think that Steve Jobs retiring as Apple’s CEO won’t change Apple much. I beg to differ. I think it changes everything. Further, I think it changes far, far more than just Apple’s role … Continue reading
August 25, 2011
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As an East-coast based technologist I barely knew the Steve Jobs of Apple’s early years. As a journalist covering Unix though I did get to know Steve Jobs when he founded NeXT and directed the creation of NeXTStep, the first … Continue reading
August 25, 2011
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I was sitting in a local coffee shop recently and, since I was bored, I kicked on a Windows instance in VirtualBox on my Mint Linux-powered laptop so I could run Firesheep. Firesheep was, and is, a hacking program meant … Continue reading
August 23, 2011
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The sad, bad secret about cloud-computing is that setting up a cloud and running an application on any of them is relatively easy, managing it though, that’s another thing entirely. That’s where companies like Convirture come in. Convirture’s open-source project … Continue reading