Google staff dropping Windows for Macs, Linux PCs

2010-06-02 1 min read Linux Uncategorized
For those who keep saying this is not the year of linux and probably it will never be 🙂 Google staff dropping <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/microsoft_windows" title="Windows" rel="homepage" href="http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWS">Windows for Macs, <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/linux" title="Linux" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux">Linux <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/personal_computer" title="Personal computer" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer">PCs Google is abandoning the use of Windows by its staff as it\’s too much of a security threat, multiple staffers said Monday night. Recent concerns about

Firefox Disables Microsoft .NET Addon

2010-05-27 1 min read Linux
Firefox Disables Microsoft .NET Addon ZosX writes &#8221;Around 11:45 PM Friday night, I was prompted by Firefox that it had disabled the addons that Microsoft has been including with .NET — specifically, the .NET Framework Assistant and the Windows Presentation Foundation. The popup announcing this said that the &#8217;following addons have been known to cause stability or security issues with Firefox.&#8217; Thanks, Mozilla team, for hitting the kill switch and hopefully this will get Microsoft to release a patch sooner. Continue reading

Silent Install Firefox Plugin Backfires on Microsoft

2010-04-12 1 min read Linux
Silent Install Firefox Plugin Backfires on Microsoft Whilst it&#8217;s not okay in Microsoft&#8217;s eyes for Google to install a plugin into Internet Explorer, increasing the potential surface area of attack, when Microsoft do it to Firefox, it&#8217;s a different matter. Now a security hole has been found in a plugin that Microsoft have been silently installing into Firefox. URL: <a href="http://osnews.com/story/22358/Silent_Install_Firefox_Plugin_Backfires_on_Microsoft">http://osnews.com/story/22358/Silent_Install_Firefox_Plugin_Backfires_on_Microsoft

Linux Malware – Proof that Linux is not as secure as we all think

2010-03-26 1 min read Linux
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Some Rather Old But Still Funny Anti-UNIX Jokes (One Liners)

2009-12-28 3 min read Linux
<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/unix-jokes1.jpg"><img src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/unix-jokes1.jpg" alt="" align="bottom" />You may have heard a lot of anti-<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/microsoft" title="Microsoft" rel="homepage" href="http://www.microsoft.com">Microsoft jokes before since you can read them everywhere. However, it&#8217;s pretty rare to find anti-UNIX/Linux jokes. So I would like to share with you some pretty old but still funny anti-UNIX one-liners. Enjoy! If <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/unix" title="Unix" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix">Unix is the answer, then it must have been a stupid question. Continue reading

10 Websites to Compare Google vs Bing Results Side By Side

2009-10-17 5 min read Uncategorized
10 Websites to Compare Google vs Bing Results Side By Side Thankfully, the web doesn’t make us take sides. We can have the best of every world. With the launch of Bing, we had another search engine to crawl the web with. A few months and millions of searches down the line, Bing has also built up its legion of users (and fans). It’s Google vs Bing now. The former is still The search engine while the latter calls itself a decision engine. Continue reading
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