A recent post by independent blogger Richard Stiennon on ZDNet http://blogs.zdnet.com/threatchaos/?p=311 on the system calls involved when viewing a simple html page has generated much heated debate over which operating system is more secure (Windows vs. Linux).
I have read from many sources that the majority of the websites are running on Linux and UNIX like operating systems.
I have a DataStor parallel port external hard drive enclosure bought in 1997 and a laptop computer (Pentium MMX 133, 128M RAM) from around 2001.
After I installed FreeBSD 6.2, I found out that my wheeled Microsoft Mouse does not support scrolling any more.
By default FreeBSD (in my case, the most recent 6.2 version) installs sh as the standard shell.
I read an article linked from http://www.omgili.com/captcha.php on SlashDot that illustrates an alternative way of generating Captcha to prevent spam bot attacks.
One of the shortcomings of flash drives is that the read/write cycles are limited and many sources suggest that flash drives are not suitable for frequent reads and writes operations (e.g. using a journaling file system).
About half a year ago, I mentioned that I had some problems of running VMWare while using 1701HG Gateway.
So why should you buy an LCD instead of a CRT monitor? Well, an LCD is flat, lighter, more power efficient, and its viewable screen size is the same as the stated size (as opposed to CRT).
Download MPThreadBench.zip There is no doubt that Hyper-Threading can, under certain circumstances, boost application performance.
In one of my previous posts, I described in detail for using X509 certificates with web services.
I have a 64MB USB flash drive and was experimenting putting different file systems on it. But when I removed the partition and re-partitioned and formatted using FAT32, I only got 52MB instead of the original 64MB.
I use Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Connection tool to connect to remote servers all the time, mainly to conduct administrative tasks.
It seems that I have not had much luck with IE7 recently.