I noticed on osnews that Apple plans on updating Tiger soon. Here’s the link to the story on apple insider. Everything seems to work fine so far…
Category Archives: Computer Stuff
No HT Vulnerability In Linux
I saw on OS News that Greg KH posted a comment pointing out that the 2.6 Linux kernel does not suffer from a vulnerability that could allow exploits via the Hyperthreading found in P4 and similar chips. Good news for the penguins!
Interview With OpenBSD Devs
OnLamp has an excellent interview with OpenBSD developers, including Damien Bergamini and Marco Peereboom. They discuss the features of the new 3.7 Release as well as the integration (or lack thereof) of ProPolice into GCC.
Hungarian Notation?
While lurking in #ruby-lang on freenode, someone (chris2, actually) mentioned this article from www.joelonsoftware.com, about coding style. It’s a very interesting article which just might change the way you code! Definitely a must read.
Gaim 1.3.0 Released
“We fixed some security problems in this release, so please try to upgrade soon. See our security page for details.” Get it at sourceforge