Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at a PDP-11. Peter Hamer [CC BY-SA 2.0] Last week the computing world celebrated an important anniversary: the UNIX operating system turned 50 years old. What was ...

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Early Sunday morning in Greenwich, England, the clock that keeps Universal Time will strike 01:46:40 -- the 40th second of the 46th minute in the second hour of Sept. 9, 2001. That instant will be an ...

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A lot of new users come to Linux because they dislike aspects of Windows. That's fine, but trying to recreate the old Windows ...

It is a well-known fact that the vast majority of viruses are written for Windows operating systems. Some would argue that this is because Windows is inherently insecure and is full of holes and ...