Monday, February 28, 2011

Daily links for 02/28/2011

  • For as much as Mac OS X has a reputation for being safer than Windows, security researchers won’t hesitate to point out that the opposite is, in fact, true. Indeed, the primary reason why the Mac has been relatively immune from security threats often found on Windows is because the Mac’s relatively paltry market share makes it an unattractive target for malicious hackers.
  • When an application fails to perform as expected, the network is often the first thing blamed. I suppose this is because end users typically view the network as the sole limiting factor with regard to throughput, unaware of the intricacies of application, database, and storage performance.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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