June 14, 2010
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Most malware are like leeches on your computer’s software. But, a rootkit can turn your computer’s very operating system against you. If you’re a smart Windows user, you probably already know about the basics of protecting your computer from malware. … Continue reading
June 14, 2010
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L Last week, the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah finally granted Novell’s request for declaratory judgment and ruled against SCO‘s last frantic attempts to keep any of its claims going. Or, to quote Pamela Jones, editor of … Continue reading
April 7, 2010
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Right next to my desk in a bookshelf is my 1988 copy of Kernighan and Ritchie’s the second edition of The C Programming Language. I’ve kept this book, the ur-text of C programming, because C has always been the first … Continue reading
March 30, 2010
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Ding dong! The SCO is dead. Which old SCO? The wicked SCO! Ding dong! The wicked SCO is dead! It’s true. After just more than seven years of SCO lawsuits, SCO has lost its last real chance of causing Linux … Continue reading
March 29, 2010
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I’ve given up on predicting when the zombie movie series staring the undead SCO monster is finally going to stay quietly in its grave Still, this week a jury is deciding whether SCO or Novell owns Unix’s intellectual property rights. … Continue reading
March 22, 2010
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Today’s news that TSE (Tokyo Stock Exchange) has moved to Red Hat’s RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) as the operating platform for its next-generation “Arrowhead” trading system shouldn’t come as any surprise. Linux has become the smart stock market’s operating … Continue reading