Windows 7 restores balance to the universe
No longer will software outpace hardware, thanks to Windows 7's respect for The Great Moore's Law Compensator. It's a term I coined more than a year ago to describe the process whereby each successive Windows release effectively gobbles up the latest gains in PC hardware performance. The net result is an environment that performs roughly on par with the one you're upgrading from.
Adding Up Six Years of Microsoft Patch Tuesdays
Six years = about 745 vulnerabilities across almost every Microsoft product. About 230, or more than half, of the bulletins addressed security vulnerabilities that were described by Microsoft as "critical."
Snow Leopard bug deletes all user data
Several posts on the Apple Support forums (1, 2) dating back to 12 September indicate that some users have been losing all their data due to a nasty bug in Snow Leopard, a.k.a. Mac OS 10.6.
RIAA and MPAA Can’t Stop BitTorrent, Study Finds
For years RIAA and MPAA members have hired companies to attack popular BitTorrent swarms in an attempt to interfere with their downloads. According to a recently published paper by New York University researchers, these attacks are highly ineffective. At best, they slow downloads for a few minutes, something most users don’t even notice.
Google Chrome Blog: A guided tour for new Google Chrome users
Did you, or someone you know, recently switch to Google Chrome and wonder, "Where's the file menu?" "What happened to the search box?" "How do I bookmark a page?" To address these initial questions and help people settle into the browser, we created the "New to Google Chrome?" guide. Editor’s Note: I have been using Google Chrome for a few months now as a second browser and am impressed.
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