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 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 Chinese hacks have the search firm requiring either a Mac or Linux for all new recruits to provide better security. Those who want Windows now often require explicit approval from executives and may not have any choice on desktops where it\’s only an option for notebooks.

[link to original | source: LXer Linux News

Google said to be moving away from Windows internally, Mac and Linux systems on tap instead (engadget.com)
Google revamps new employee computer policy; Windows now out of the equation (edibleapple.com)
Who Needs Windows? Google Starts Putting Their Computers Where Their Mouth Is (techcrunch.com)

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Firefox Disables Microsoft .NET Addon

2010-05-27 1 min read Linux

Firefox Disables Microsoft .NET Addon ZosX writes ”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 ’following addons have been known to cause stability or security issues with Firefox.’ Thanks, Mozilla team, for hitting the kill switch and hopefully this will get Microsoft to release a patch sooner.” Here’s the Mozilla security blog entry announcing the block, which Mozilla implemented via its blocklisting mechanism.

Silent Install Firefox Plugin Backfires on Microsoft

2010-04-12 1 min read Linux

Silent Install Firefox Plugin Backfires on Microsoft Whilst it’s not okay in Microsoft’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’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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Top 10 most ridiculous Windows Vista error messages – priceless though!!!

2010-02-10 0 min read Linux

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Windows Vista is always in the news on the blogosphere about how effective it performs. No matter what version of Vista you may be running, it’s

possible that you may have already seen these error messages more than once and may well probably be fed up with them!

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’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.
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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.