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Lovely. Okay developers, time to get moving — add public-key code-signing stuff, so that your programs can tell whether they’re getting a legitimate update or not. Don’t know how, and don’t have time to learn? Try the GnuPG Made Easy (GPGME) library. I’m happy to say that Ubuntu Linux isn’t affected by this, because it …
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It’s “stressed magnetic field lines that suddenly snap to a new shape, like a rubber band that’s been stretched too far.” Hm… any way to duplicate it in small-scale experiments? Probably not, but it’s an interesting proposition.
As I’m not an MS geek, I couldn’t refute the headline any better than the article does.
I thought the whole point to science was questioning assumptions to find the truth? I hate to be classed as a Global Warming denialist (there seems to be some decent evidence that it’s happening), but there’s a distinctly over-ripe odor around the subject.
It seems that the replacement motherboard that I got last month, for my Dell XPS m1210 laptop, had some problems… the system just died tonight, and Dell’s support line says that it looks like the motherboard again, with a different problem. I was an electronics technician for the USPS for many years before I turned …
Two of my favorite targets in a single (and pretty good) article — bonus! 🙂
GoddessJ and I have been watching, with a mixture of horror and incredulity, a web dustup between an outspoken atheist and a large religious group recently. Read the link if you want the gory details, but the upshot of it is that the more zealous people on the religious side are threatening to do physical …
The collective tech sphere (which has been holding its breath wondering what lawsuit-happy Apple was waiting for) can now breathe again. The article says that this “pretty much spells the end for Psystar.” He’s probably right, because it’s not likely Psystar can afford to defend itself… but if it can take this all the way …
Yes Chris, it probably is. But you’ve got to admit, it does look neat. 🙂
If you run your own website, you might have been following the brouhaha over the new LinkScanner feature of GriSoft’s AVG virus scanner. I can’t find this text on the GriSoft website, but it was quoted in a comment on another blog I was reading today: Following is AVG’s official response to LinkScanner concerns: We’d …