In times we are experiencing an economic crisis, most people are in search of new ways to handle their monetary resource the right way and limit their spending. This need has given rise to the popularity of prepaid Visa credit cards. These credit cards are used like a regular plastic, but the principle it usages is that of a debit card. To use a prepaid credit cards, first you have to deposit some money into an account. You may use the card for as long as there is sufficient funds in the account … [Read more...]

In truth, Linus Torvalds was quite disinclined to name his new operating system Linux - he believed that it was arrogant. At this point, work on the GNU Project, a magnum opus making an attempt to write a free Unix-compatible operating system, had been under way for almost ten years but Torvalds was not inclined to wait any longer. In 1992, a mere year after Linux was released, it was announced "obsolete" by the creator of MINIX, Andrew Tanenbaum. He cited its lack of portability and its ties to … [Read more...]