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Microsoft is famous for their “Where do you want to go today?” advertising campaign, but for 30,000 passengers the answer was “Home!” or “Anywhere!” after a “maintenance failure” left aircraft pilots around Los Angeles without radio communications for three hours.
After being migrated from UNIX to Windows based servers, the radio communications system for Southern California [...]

I’ve been pretty busy this week working on a presentation titled “Firewalls by example” for The University of Melbourne’s SecureCon conference tomorrow.
It’s a ninety minute presentation that will cover the features of Windows XP’s Internet Connection Firewall, Mac OS X’s (client and server) ipfw and Linux’s iptables. I will also be discussing typical traffic patterns [...]

If you’re sick of advertising on the websites, then try Privoxy, available on OS X, Linux and Windows platforms. Privoxy is a free, open source software package which runs as a proxy server on your computer, automatically filtering out advertisements, unwanted cookies and more.
Privoxy is a proxy that is solely focused on privacy protection [...]

One of the most useful features of the Linux (and OS X) command line is autocomplete for file and path names. when using the command line As someone used to using terminals under Linux / OS X, I have a tendency to use cmd.exe for the same purposes when using Windows.
For those unfamiliar with [...]

Introduction
Apache is easily the most popular web server on the Internet, estimated to power 62% of all websites1, and is the most visible and successful project of the Open Source movement. The second most popular web server, Microsoft’s IIS, is estimated to hold a 28% market share.
Apache originated in the early 1990s from the National [...]

And people wonder why I laugh every time Bill Gates talks about Windows having a lower Total Cost of Ownership than Mac OS or Linux.

Sobig has overtaken Klez, Love Bug and Yaha in the league table of most economically damaging malware tracked within the SIPS database, having now recorded $14.62 billion of economic damages worldwide [...]

Sobig, LoveSan, Welchia, LoveBug, Melissa, Code Red, Nimda, Klez, Bugbear, Sircam, Badtrans, Magistr et al…
I, for one, would like to welcome our virus and worm overlords and hereby submit that Windows is the most secure and stable operating system in the history of our planet.
I would also like to heartily thank BillG for using the [...]

A sign on a Trenton, NJ railroad bridge says “Trenton Makes, The World Takes.” In light of recent history, a sign at Sea-Tac airport should probably read “Microsoft Makes, The World Quakes.”
For the second time this year, Microsoft is the source of a major internet security event. First was Slammer/Sapphire in January that [...]