The Mitre Corp has produced the 2010 CWE / SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors which identifies the most commonly encountered coding errors that can potentially lead to web sites being hacked or PCs being compromised. Some of the errors…
I decided to devote a large part of last weekend to upgrading my main system to Windows 7. In the interest of science I decided that I would read no guides or tips beforehand, I would test how easy it…
The rumour machine is abuzz with the prospect of Apple releasing a tablet, and there are a number of other people, most notably TechCrunch and Archos, have tablet systems either out or on the planning desk. It will be interesting…
I don’t classify myself as an early adopter, I usually wait until a new technology has been out a while and the price has come down a bit before I jump in. Consequently I rarely find myself ahead of the…
1 petabyte of usable storage would weigh about 1.5 tons
Like a few other thousands of people around the Internet I have payed close attention to the E3 briefings going on down in Las Vegas this week and it got me to thinking. As I watch the live streams of…
Wall Warts is a slang term used for power supplies (wall transformers) and are the little brick-like devices that come with almost every electronic device. So why do I say they are like socks? Well, like socks, they seem to lose their mate…