Interviews with Jann Horn and people who know him show how a combination of dogged determination and a powerful mind helped him stumble upon features and flaws that have been around for over a decade but had gone undetected.
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Okay, lately I have been having a real hassle dealing with my Twitter feed. I recieve a LOT of tweets in it every day, to the point that on weekdays I actually can't get back to the point where I left off last night because Twitter just stops loading any older tweets than, say, 8 hours ago.
I...
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The new Windows 8 touch-based UI , revealed earlier today at the D9 Conference , looks good. It’s clearly drawn from the same inspiration as Windows Phone 7, and shows some seriously innovative UI thinking.
Source: Yahoo! News
The Mac App Store is the recently launched integrated application store for Mac OS X which brings the experience of the iPhone and iPad App Store to Apple's general purpose operating system. For the user, this promises a one-stop shop for Mac applications and easy installation and updating. But...
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Almost 40 vulnerabilities have been found in the Linux Ubuntu 10.04 Long Term Support (LTS) kernel.
"The holes also apply to corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu," writes ZDNet's Darren Pauli.
"The vulnerabilities include an issue with the way the Common Internet...
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Surprisingly not about security. See, after spending time trying to personalize things since I am used to doing so on Linux, I discovered a huge flaw in how Windows does personalization. It's completely limited. Sure, people unfamiliar with computers take Linux as too confusing because you can...
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Well here it is everybody.. straight from the horse's mouth.. ;)
Microsoft Confirms Windows 7 Holiday Release - Tom's Hardware
Very good news.. as long as no major flaws are found between now and then of course... ;)
What's up to worthy users of Windows Vista,
I have a major PET-PEEV about this OS! It like how can I tell you
about my frustrastion about this new versions of Windows just
like any other version, It has FLAWS!!!!! Looks like some admin-...