Malin Archive

Where Android beats Windows

For quite a while Windows was seen as the worst operating system ever in terms os security. There were so many vulnerabilities in the proprietary source code built by Microsoft that in the early 2000’s in the dawn of botnets a lot of people thought Windows is doomed. And if that weren’t enough the third party

Desktop over Arch Linux? Yessir

A bunch of Arch Linux enthusiasts have released Apricity OS, a fork based on Arch Linux which brings all the advantages of using Arch Linux on a desktop oriented distribution: Apricity OS is an open source, freely distributed, modern, and beautiful desktop-oriented operating system derived from the well-known Arch Linux distribution and built around the

Redundancy bitch! You need it

ArsTechnica writes about the disruption that knocked off all Delta Airlines’ operations today and which apparently was caused by a fire in their datacenter: According to the flight captain of JFK-SLC this morning, a routine scheduled switch to the backup generator this morning at 2:30am caused a fire that destroyed both the backup and the

Do you worry about spam?

No? Well you should! Let’s talk a little bit about the most common website spam issues and how to actually prevent or resolve them. Every once in a while I get work order requests from customers on a shared hosting environment that all of a sudden are exceeding their resource usage allowance and this either

Idiots everywhere

Here’s two stories that will make you laugh until your balls hurt: BBC detector vans are back: The folks over at BBC have announced that they have upgraded their detector vans and will use them to spy on everyone in order to determine who users their iPlayer without a license. Well going out public on