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Monday, February 9, 2009
Software

Beware: UNIX Time to Read 1234567890 On Friday the 13th

10:15AM Jack Loftus | Forget the Mayans and their silly 2012 doomsday scenario. The real end of the world will happen because of that most venerable of operating systems: UNIX. More »
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Saturday, February 7, 2009
Software

People Have No Idea What Windows 7 Is

4:00AM Matt Buchanan | Proof Microsoft could’ve done whatever it wanted with Windows 7 and people would’ve swallowed it, as long as it’s pretty: People told a demo of KDE 4 was Windows 7 were amazed. More »
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Software

Twenty Five Year Old Unix Bug Finally Fixed

6:10AM Jason Chen | We’re not sure why nobody’s caught this bug until now, but OpenBSD developer Marc Balmer has just closed the book on a 25-year-old flaw affecting BSD file systems. He found it when an OpenBSD user emailed him about SAMBA crashing, which he then traced to a workaround SAMBA used to function correctly on BSD systems, which he THEN traced back to a flaw that existed since August of 1983. This bug is in every single BSD system since then, including Mac OS X. The code itself was a very trivial fix, which makes it all the crazier that it took 25 years to do so. [OS News - Photo credit] More »
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