Why Ubuntu excites me more than Windows or Macintosh – Times Online #introS2K3

Here’s a post from a Tech writer who gives you his reasons for switching to Linux from Windows. Interesting perspective, and it also offers a nice little history on the modern OS from the end-user POV.

You know that thing that happens on your computer, when you are using Windows? When you ask it to do something, and it thinks about it, and then it keeps thinking, and then you go off and make a cup of tea, and it’s still thinking, and you want to headbutt the wall, again and again, until gets all smeared and red and bloody and bits of your brain are raining down on to your shoes? Yes? Well, there’s a way to stop that happening. Stop using Windows. Use Ubuntu instead.

Why Ubuntu excites me more than Windows or Macintosh – Times Online.

Black Hats Plan to Move Forward with Banned ATM Vulnerability Demo @ Black Hat Security Conference #intros2k3

The Black Hats are a consortium of security experts whose main goal is to promote better security practices by showing the vulnerabilities in systems. This year’s conference has an ATM vulnerability demo scheduled that is drawing some fire. Read on for the Full Story.

http://www.feedzilla.com/r/3BACB8615B34340FEA54A67E3EBF693051EDB335

Windows Tools: Barracuda Firewall Wins Readers Choice Award #intro2K3SRV

http://www.WindowsNetworking.com/news/WindowsNetworking-Readers-Choice-Award-Anti-Spam-Hardware-Barracuda-Spam-Firewall-Mar10.html

Activation Vulnerability Found in Server 2008 and Windows 7

Microsoft’s new releases have a vulnerabilty in the authentication process that allows hackers to safely run the newest version of Microsoft’s newest softare family. Read and prepare to dicsuss in class. http://cn181.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/windows-7-and-server-2008-vulnerability-exposed/