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Archive for August, 2009
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard on sale from August 28
Aug 29th
Apple’s latest operating system, version 10.6 named “Snow Leopard” is not final and available for purchase on www.apple.com or Apple’s partners. This new version is focused more on speed and optimization of Leopard (10.5) and brings some nice improvements in 64 bit computing and small visual tweaks.
All the apps inside Snow Leopard are now 64 bit native apps and it’s also sitting on a 64 bit kernel that is bootable only on Mac Pro’s and MacBook Pro’s. More >
Windows 7 RTM now on MSDN and Technet
Aug 7th
As of today, Windows 7 is available to download from Microsoft’s tech websites, MSDN and Technet. There is the standard version of Windows 7 ,and the enterprise versions too.
Currently the only language is English, but more versions will come soon and the “Starter” version of Windows 7 too. So get your browsers pointed to MSDN or Technet now and get the official Windows 7 RTM.
The final version for us, the rest, will be available on October 22 this year.
Twitter dead for 2 hours
Aug 7th
Today a Denial of Service (DoS) attack was directed to the best known micro blog around, Twitter. A Denial of Service attack is where a hacker uses a way to request a lot of data from the server until the servers can’t take it any more and all the operations are pushed to the limit, in that scenario the user can’t access the service anymore.
It seams like twitter had a 2 hour crash from this problem today.
Mac OS X 10.5.8 update and Tiger security update
Aug 6th
Mac OS X
Apple released today probably the last update to Leopard 10.5 OS. Do not forget that Snow Leopard is due to September release, 10.6 OS ,and will bring small graphical improvements, but big performance improvement, or so Apple says. Here is the text from the apple update system :
The 10.5.8 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac, as well as specific fixes for: More >
Windows 7 RTM “chkdsk” bug found
Aug 6th
A bug in Windows 7 RTM has been detected, the problem does not implies any security risk or other “door” for hackers to take advantage of.
The problem appears when the “chkdisk” command is called via the command prompt, and after not much time the user can detect that all the ram memory is taken by the process (memory leak).
This is a nasty one for the people out there that use this command, but no worry More >
