20 years ago Thursday, a student named Linus Torvalds announced he was going to be creating a new operating system which he intended to displace Microsoft Windows. Torvalds described Linux as “just a hobby, won’t be big and professional.” Today, we’ve seen Linux being used in most every mid to large-sized company around the world [...]
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It is very important for a company to secure its vial and critical data. It is very private and some information is very sensitive. Most of the accounts data are very important for an organization so as medical record for a hospital. And, banks and financial institutions are highly critical. In today’s world most of [...]
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If you’re running the latest version of Firefox or Google’s Chrome browser, you can now run a light-weight Linux right there on your browser. Who said that JavaScript was a weak language? If you’d like to try it out, point Firefox 4 or Chrome 11 to the demo page. Keep in mind that this is [...]
Tags: Emulator·Fabrice Bellard·Firefox·Google Chrome·JavaScript·Linux·Mozilla Firefox 4·Web browser
The bad guys are using an exploit against one of the backbone Internet protocols to trick your computer to take you to their site instead of where you think you’re really going. Nasty stuff. Currently more than 52% of Internet users are exposed to this problem due to ISPs who haven’t properly updated their DNS [...]
Tags: DNS·DNS Providers·Dan Kaminsky·Domain Name System·Internet service provider·Protocols·Web Tools·World Wide Web
Image via Wikipedia [Listen here to get the inside information from the people who make parallels about how it will help your Mac run Windows while it's still running the famous Mac Operating System!] Parallels, an award-winning virtual machine packages, enables Mac users to run Windows, Linux or any other operating system and their critical [...]
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Palm has been falling behind the times. Time was when Palm was the industry leader in handheld devices. It set the standard for ease of use, interactivity and features. Those days are past, but Palm is hoping that its secret multi-year project will get it back to the heady days of industry leading technology by
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