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t.co / Twitter
RT @Techmeme: Judge Posner scolds Apple's lawyers: 'I've had my fill of frivolous filings by Apple'... ...
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t.co / Twitter
A Relevant Tale: How Google Killed Inktomi - Diego Basch's Blog
A Relevant Tale: How Google Killed Inktomi - Diego Basch's Blog
In short, Google had realized that a search engine wasn't about finding ten links for you to click on. It was about satisfying a need for information. For us engineers who spent our day thinking about search, this was obvious. Unfortunately, we were unable to sell this to our executives. Doug built a clutter-free UI for internal use, but our execs didn't want to built a destination search engine to compete with our customers. I still have an email in which I outlined a proposal to build a snippets and caching cluster, which was nixed because of costs.
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A Relevant Tale: How Google Killed Inktomi - Diego Basch's Blog
OS X Lion passwords can be changed by any local user | MacFixIt - CNET Reviews
OS X Lion passwords can be changed by any local user | MacFixIt - CNET Reviews
Unfortunately, recent discoveries have shown that in OS X Lion this security structure is not intact, and any user on the system can modify the passwords of other local accounts quite easily. The problem at hand appears to be because of a permissions oversight that allows all users search access to the system's directory services.
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OS X Lion passwords can be changed by any local user | MacFixIt - CNET Reviews
Emergency Patches Pushed for Flash, PHP | PCWorld
Emergency Patches Pushed for Flash, PHP | PCWorld
Adobe pushed an emergency patch Friday for its Flash Player to fix a flaw that's being actively exploited to attack computers running Windows. Meanwhile, software writers are still scrambling to fix a vulnerability, made public earlier this week, in PHP, a scripting language which is used widely to run servers on the Web, including those of Facebook.
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Emergency Patches Pushed for Flash, PHP | PCWorld
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Apple Seeks to Gain Control of Domain - Mac Rumors | |
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