Showing posts with label Windows. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Windows. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Ctrl + Alt + Delete = Mistake?

As the world's richest man, Bill Gates funds tons and tons of world betterment projects, because he obviously wants to do something positive with his billions and billions of dollars.



Lately, one of the most recent ones is that he wants to take a product that comes out of the process of a nuclear power plant, and then use that to make his own power plant.



Moving on, in a recent interview, he came out that the code: Ctrl + Alt + Delete, to like close programs and restart, was actually a mistake. Previously, David Bradley, an engineer that worked at IBM PC, claimed that he created Ctrl + Alt + Delete, but Bill Gates made it famous.



Bill Gates came out to retort the insult, saying that Ctrl + Alt + Delete was his original idea of stopping a program from making a fake log in an attempt to steal a password, and ultimately, quote:



Bottom line, nobody's above making mistakes, not even the world's richest man. Consequently, if Bill Gates can own up to his mistakes, then you should too.

Personally, I use the command: Ctrl + Alt + Delete, to bring up a login screen, or open up to a task manager. What other computer functions do you use it for? Leave your interesting and creative responses in the comments section down below. And while you're at it, hit the share button.

Saturday, August 17, 2013

The Pirate Bay's Internet Browser

The Pirate Bay, of course, is one of the most blocked websites on the internet, worldwide.



Arguably, the most censored website in the world, The Pirate Bay is known for providing torrent files and magnet links to facilitate bit torrent file sharing, which has gained a bad wrap, as it's most popularly used for piracy.

And, in honor of their tenth anniversary, they gave the internet a little present called The Pirate Browser.



A big thing to note is that the software allows users to bypass ISP filters, and access blocked websites.

And, it seems they weren't the only ones who thought that this was a good idea, because over 100,000 people have downloaded from the direct link, with countless others getting it elsewhere.

While the browser does not provide anonymity, it does circumvent censoring, and website blocking, which could mean incredible new opportunities for people in countries (like China and North Korea) that make a habit of blocking websites, and they find that appropriate for whatever reason.

The Pirate Bay team explained:



It's currently only a Windows application, but they said Linux and Mac are up next.

The Pirate Bay has also said that the browser is merely the first of many tools they hope to release, including a special bit torrent powered application that would allow users to store and distribute The Pirate Bay (and other websites) on their personal computers, making it impossible for third parties to block them. ☺