Thursday Thirteen - CIA: Computer Industry Acronyms
2009-02-19 19:01:00 - CD-ROM: Consumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in Months- PCMCIA: People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms- ISDN: It Still Does Nothing- MIPS: Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed- DOS: Defunct Operating System- WINDOWS: Will Install Needless Data On Whole System- OS/2: Obsolete Soon, Too- PnP: Plug and Pray- APPLE: Arrogance Produces Profit-Losing Entity- IBM: I Blame Microsoft- MICROSOFT: Most Intelligent Customers Realize Our Software Only Fools Teenagers- COBOL: Completely Obsolete Business Oriented Language- MACINTOSH: Most Applications Crash; If Not, The Operating System Hangs
By: The JOKES Blog
Cheap supercomputing from your graphics card
2007-10-25 16:11:00 The folks at Russian firm ElcomSoft are making headlines this week by releasing one of their brute force password cracking tools that uses nVidia graphic processing units to boost performance by 25 times. (You may recall ElcomSoft from 2001 when an employee was arrested during Defcon. He was eventually ...
ClamAV bought by Snort vendor Sourcefire
2007-08-17 15:22:00 Get good results in one little bake-off and you get bought out? Sourcefire , the little company behind the open source Snort intrusion prevention has just acquired the open source ClamAV anti-virus project: “Sourcefire has acquired the ClamAV project and related trademarks, as well as the source code copyrights held ...
Marcus Ranum has a podcast
2007-05-09 18:47:00 Exhalted internet security guru Marcus Ranum has posted a podcast, complete with presentation slides to go with it. He promises this is the first of a series (I certainly hope so, but making podcasts takes much more time and effort than blogging, and Marcus rarely updates his blog). ... |
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