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Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7

Seeded on Tue Feb 17, 2009 2:59 AM EST (Slashdot)

TechForensics writes "A few days' testing of Windows 7 has already disclosed some draconian DRM, some of it unrelated to media files. A legitimate copy of Photoshop CS4 stopped functioning after we clobbered a nagging registration screen by replacing a DLL with a hacked version."

technology, microsoft, computers, internet-security, drm, hacking, dll, windows-7, vulerabilities

Is Ubuntu Getting Slower?

Seeded on Tue Oct 28, 2008 1:02 AM EDT (Slashdot)

From the article: 'A number of significant kernel changes had went on between these Ubuntu Linux releases including the Completely Fair Scheduler, the SLUB allocator, tickless kernel support, etc.

technology, slashdot, linux, benchmarks, ubuntu, computer-chair-interface

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