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What is a Unix sysadmin doing with an iPhone, you ask? It was a birthday present, if that’s all right with you. I know, I should have gotten something odd with a beta version of …
When you look at the CPU activity of your computer, one of the parameters is the iowait. This value shows how much time your CPU wastes while it is waiting for I/O operations for complete. …
You have information on your computer that you don’t want others to see. Sometimes you want to share information with someone, but you don’t want anyone to know that you are the one sharing it. Let’s say that you came across some information suggesting that your employer may be breaking law. You want to make this information public, but you can’t do it openly becausloe you will be fired. Another example: you are at work and you need to send a personal, confidential email…
How do you protect your computer from viruses? Most computer users just buy antivirus software, install it, and reboot their PC – done. If only it was that easy. Over the past several years percentage of home and business computers infected with viruses has been steadily growing. Most PCs are sold these days with preinstalled antivirus software. And yet, the number of infected computers keeps on growing…
The cost of storage arrays is falling along with the quality of their manufacture. To quote Lev Andropov from the “Armageddon”: “Components. American components, Russian Components, ALL MADE IN TAIWAN!” What in the nineties used …
The news of Artificial Intelligence research always attracted my attention. Whenever this subject comes up on Slashdot, I just can’t resist posting a comment. The desire usually is to dump a bucket of cold facts …
Network World reports this week that, according to a study by Accenture, some twelve percent of computer users are connecting to some else’s unsecured Wi-Fi networks. So here’s the question I wanted to discuss: is …
