Smoking discs

Imagine smoke coming out of your CD Drive when you are burning a new CD/DVD. If that gets you worried, let’s live with smoke coming out of the software while you burn the media. Disco is an amazing tool to manage and burn CDs and DVDs. And it smokes while it burns. You can blow […]

Shortage of IT talent

Attrition and Shortage of IT talent is something that I am concerned about right now. We have seen four times more people leave in last month, than our average. This may be also because the size has grown, and the ratio to total number of developers would come to the same. But it yet makes […]

You are spidered!

I was testing my wifi connection once and did the ego search to see if I was getting the proper network settings. And I was surprised to find out that some site knew a lot about me! Without my knowing! They spidered me! Collected information on my name from various sources and pulled it together. […]

Apple protects some core binaries via encryption

“By now we know that OS X uses encrypted binaries for some critical apps like Dock, Finder and LoginWindow. Amit Singh explains the implementation of this protection scheme which makes use of the AES crypto algorithm and a special memory pager in Mach. The so called Do Not Steal Mac OS X (DSMOS) kernel extension […]