#Software

• 9/17/26 Retired Microsoft Engineer details the story about the famous leaked FCKGW Windows XP key — copy protection used 10MB of encrypted Microsoft Bob for validation
• 8/25/26 Linux was announced by Linus Torvalds 35 years ago today — humble OS started with 10,000 lines of code but has now grown to 40 million, dominates global infrastructure
• 7/23/26 Geekbench 7 introduces biggest overhaul yet — real-world CPU testing, new media workloads, AI benchmarks, and CUDA support
• 7/14/26 Microsoft Is Finally Fixing Windows Search
• 4/29/26 PS5 Linux loader goes public, turning ‘Phat’ consoles into full Linux PCs — build script includes bootable Ubuntu 24.04 image, can output 4K games at 60 FPS
• 4/20/26 Linux 7.1 update includes new in-kernel NTFS driver — delivers storage support upgrade for Linux users
• 8/10/11 Samba 3.6 Released With SMB2 Support
• 6/15/10 Knuth Got It Wrong
• 11/11/09 Go, Google's New Open Source Programming Language
• 1/27/09 My Software & Scripts
• 10/18/08 Generic VMs Key To Future of Coding
• 10/13/08 Machines Almost Pass Mass Turing Test
• 10/10/08 Linux 2.6.27 Out
• 2/2/08 Python 3.0 To Be Backwards Incompatible
• 8/21/07 Flash Player 9 Gets H.264 Support