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Comparing storage size with 3 different OS’s

If you’ve noticed, lately there’s been a lot of buzz about Snow Leopard showing file sizes “correctly.” There’s a great article on Lifehacker by Gina Trapani which explains this in greater detail. I’ve decided to do a little comparison on the three most used OS platforms with a Sandisk 4GB USB Flash drive. Here are [...]

Finding a working anti-virus client for Linux

Yes, I know. Linux doesn’t need an anti-virus scanner, but I’m talking about using it to scan files from a Windows machine. In my case, I’m scanning files from a user’s XP backup folder. The problem: We all know and use AVG for Windows, but guess what? It doesn’t work well or update properly on [...]