Virtualizing Your Desktop: Unavoidable.
Juggling operating systems is becoming the norm. If you have less than three of them available at just a click, then you're not working hard enough.
Top Ten General Operating Systems Rants
Operating systems are full of chutzpah. Mine's faster than yours. It does tricks, see? Bah. Most all of them fail at the most basic of needs. We list them.
Great and Disappointing Operating Systems of the Decade
There were literally hundreds of them from huge companies down to busy people with laptops: operating systems. Some found their way into microdevices, watches, refrigerators, mobile phones, cars, motorcycles, jets, even the International Space Station. Occasionally, they worked, and perhaps they worked well. Others, sadly, didn't-- or weren't the right thing at the right time. We name names.
Apple releases server diagnostic tool for Snow Leopard
Apple released a server diagnostic download on Thursday that the company says will test servers running Mac OS X Server 10.6 for hardware issues.
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Top Ten General Operating Systems Rants
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PS3 motion controller delayed; goes up against Project Natal
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Neolithic Windows security hole alive and well in Windows 7
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Perl source code comparison makes for good reading
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Where Google Chrome security fails: the password
I heard mention that the Chrome OS will have some sort of encryption available a la bitlocker. If it's possible to encrypt personal data using another password or key, then it may have potential for very secure data.... And Ubuntu has an 'encrypt home directory' option, perhaps google should follow suit.
- Dann
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