Patch Tuesday is always a little more interesting when Adobe's quarterly updates sync up with Microsoft's monthly updates. Today's particular updates also seem to bring some promising changes that will improve patching in the future. … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2012
Utilize Memcache with your phpBB forum
One of the features introduced in phpBB 3.0.6 (back in November 2009) was the ability for phpBB to utilize other caching modules beyond its own file caching. phpBB is already quite fast for a dynamic web application that pulls its information from a database. If you have a large number of posts and a lot of users, you may be able to get even better performance by utilizing a … [Read more...]
Intel’s odd codenames for their CPUs, motherboards, and other devices
If you follow the latest tech news, you might be curious about the codenames that get thrown out there. Some are known and thematic like Apple's "big cat" names for Mac OS X and Google's dessert names for Android (Ice Cream Sandwich, FroYo, etc.) Intel is another big one that uses a lot of codenames for each of its products or product lines like Nehalem, Ivy Bridge, and Sandy … [Read more...]
About the O’Reilly Books’ Animals on the Covers
Like any good tech, I have a number of O'Reilly's technical books on my shelves. Whenever I see the books, I have two thoughts cross my mind: "Man, I should really use _(book topic)_ more." "I wonder what the story is for the animals that adorn the covers of these books." … [Read more...]
If Project Glass was a Microsoft Project
I'm sure you have seen Google's video for Project Glass and its augmented reality glasses. If not, check it out on TechNoose. Here is a parody of the video making the case for what it would be like if Microsoft made Project Glass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwModZmOzDs … [Read more...]