Pakku’s Blog

UAC (User Account Control), the most discussed feature of Microsoft Windows Vista, said to be made to be a pain in the ass for it’s users, but most of all needed to be the ultimate layer of security, but is now popping up almost every second of your computing time. Is UAC taking control over you? Is UAC going beyond it’s purpose? Read the rest of this entry »

Dcebian based Linux distributions come with a very nice and useful application called: apt-get. It sort of keeps a database with all applications installed on your Linux system installed by apt-get. This can be compared with the ‘Add and remove software’ option in Windows but there is one major difference. Read the rest of this entry »

Open standards are worth living for, they are so important these days, we (mostly developers) can’t imagine a life without them. But why is there still some rumbling in the sky? Read the rest of this entry »