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Windows 8 Developer Preview – A Quick View

Lured with “MetroUI” and “ARM processor support”, I dont want to wait until next year for RTM release.  Downloaded 64-bit Developer Preview with Development Tools from http://snip.udooz.net/qNCs4G. Environment I believed that Windows Virtual PC could be the only choice to install Win8DevPrew.  However, it throws “This 64-bit application couldn’t load because your PC doesn’t have [...]

Security – The Other Way Round

Two security issues really surprised me. One is with Linux and another one is Adobe Flash. Linux Kernals and NULL Pointers To handle unavailable operations for some protocols, Linux kernal has methods that are not doing any NULL pointer check before deferencing those methods.  An attacker can put his code that will get executed with [...]

As a response to growing Bing and Facebook search engines, Google is developing next generation search engine with new architecture. It keeps the features and internals secret. The development version is available at http://www2.sandbox.google.com/. The only difference I found when I googled “Next generation Google search engine” is search result. Current engine gives 37,300,000 results, [...]