The Windows® NTFS disk filing system was first introduced in 1993, but despite its undoubted sophistication, not everyone is convinced that it is perfectly tuned for all possible eventualities. Prompting Dr. Fanglu Guo and Dr. Tzi-cker Chiueh from Symantec Research. Laboratories, Culver City, USA to develop their DAFT disk operating system. A comprehensive description of […]
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Garbage In / Garbaged Out presaged
The principle of “Garbage In / Garbage Out” dates (though not in those specific words) to the mid-1800s. Charles Babbage pioneered many aspects of programmable computing. In his book Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864, Longman and Co.), Babbage said: On two occasions I have been asked,—”Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into […]
Ig Winning software might have prevented porn Arrest
A South Florida man might have avoided arrest had he installed Ig Nobel-winning catproofing software on his computer. According to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, a man’s cat has been implicated in his arrest for having child pornography on his computer. Martin County Sheriff’s detectives didn’t buy it when a 48-year-old Jensen Beach man claimed that […]