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Friday, September 29, 2006
![[Item Permalink]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/images/ur_bullet.gif){kind=small} Windows and underpants -- Comment()
Keeping Windows running and stable is like maintaining a pair of underpants: "Ideally, you could just patch the holes and tears and thin spots as you go, but deep down you know that you[base ']re just staving off the inevitable. The thing is designed to be used it until it no longer has any structural integrity whatsoever, at which point you[base ']ll have to toss the whole thing."
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No new malware for Mac OS X -- Comment()
Symantec quits beating the 'OS X malware' drum: "The latest Internet Threat Survey from Symantec is a whopping 120 pages and unlike in its previous reports, the company has avoided any mention of malware for Apple's OS X."
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Plant with a sense of smell -- Comment()
Smells like trouble: Parasitic weed sniffs out its prey: "The parasitic dodder plant doesn't have a nose, but it knows how to sniff out its prey."
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