Oh yes I know that I just wrote about this the other day, however I have to jump in and say I have tried it and by gawd it worked so smoothly it was a tad scarey. I followed the instructions and uploaded it to The Barrel and just like advertized 5 clicks and I [...]
Move over, Microsoft Singularity. There’s another microkernel, .Net-based operating system in town. And this one’s available under an open-source license.
Cosmos: An open-source C# microkernel OS is bornKnown as Cosmos, the new, independently developed operating system (OS) is the brain child of former Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism team member Chad “Kudzu” Hower. Unlike Singularity — [...]
Are underseas telecom cable cuts the new IEDs?
After two underwater cable cuts in the Middle East last week severely impacted countries from Dubai to India, alert netizens voiced suspicions that someone — most likely Al Qaeda — intentionally severed the cables for their own nefarious purposes, or that the U.S. cut them as a [...]
WordPress put out an urgent security release today. If you are using an older version of WordPress you should consider upgrading to version 2.3.3 as soon as possible.
I was about to do the manual update when I was pointed to this tool from Scott’s Twiiter. It’s the WordPress Automatic Updater plug-in (GPL). WAUP is an [...]
Storing backups on optical media such as DVD-R discs suffers from two major drawbacks: DVD discs are easy to scratch, and the media itself degrades after a while. You can deal with the scratching issue by careful handing of the media, but even expensive media becomes unreadable over time. Dvdisaster aims to help you recover [...]
