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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 are well-publicised in the technical press, e.g. "cross-site scripting"; some are downright stupid, e.g. "use of hard-coded credentials" and others
I was very pleased with this install though. No only were all of the mentioned features there instantly after install, the new version of FF remembered all of the tabs I had open under XP when I shut down. I had left a number of tabs open as what a I though would be an unfair test of the upgrade and was pleasantly surprised with the result.
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 to see if anyone can finally make one that is worth owning. The first tablet PC I had used was
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 certification curve. It is more a measure of the length of time that the IEEE certification has taken that I
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 the Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo briefs most of it seemed very familiar to me, due to the fact that most
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 and you end up wondering where it belongs.