Computer Virology. Scientific papers about computer viruses

Computer viruses are types of a computer program that, when executed, replicates itself by modifying other computer programs and inserting their own code. When this replication succeeds, the affected systems are then said to be infected with a computer virus. Computer viruses currently cause billions of dollars’ worth of economic damage each year, due to causing system failure, wasting computer[…]

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The pain of the modern Apple operating systems

I was a Mac user in very difficult times, between the transition from Motorola microprocessors to Intel CPUs. I experienced the transition from traditional MacOS to the innovative MacOS X and I had a lot of fun as beta-tester for all the new technologies that the Unix world was bringing into the machines of the bitten apple. The moments of[…]

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From Mac to Linux. Again

Another interesting Linux Journal Podcast with Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Linux Journal Editor at Large, Petros Koutoupis, about moving from Mac to Linux. Blast from the past: Apple stops to cover the developer’s needs and sells overpriced hardware, so people are looking to alternatives. Both, in hardware and software. Here, Why devs are switching from Mac OS X[…]

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