In the world of hacking and mass defacements, Linux is being hacked more often than Microsoft Windows, according to Zone H.

It is going to be very hard to argue with these numbers, Zone H is the repository of many web site and systems defacements or hacks globally. The annual report has become somewhat of a celebrity cause in trying to figure out why we are so bad at securing our systems at the corporate or service level.

In 2007, Linux was hacked some 306 thousand times, while Windows 2003 was hacked only 114 thousand times in the most general of terms. The hacks that Zone H follows are normally mass defacements of web services, so the argument that it is not Linux or Windows can apply, it can be Apache or IIS. There will always be a company apologist somewhere in the lot willing to take on the numbers.

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I spend a lot of my time on the phone with people in New York and London, but am based in San Francisco. What I’d love to have on my Vista machine is a set of clocks on the screen that can show me the time in these other regions, but I can’t add unapproved software to the machine here at work. Solution?

Dave’s Answer:

There is a very elegant solution, actually, and it’s one of the neat little hidden features of Microsoft Windows Vista that - dare I say it? - I really like!

Well, you can’t have multiple “analog” clocks with this little trick, but you can most definitely have multiple digital displays, and even better, they’re neatly hidden until you need to check on the times and make sure you’re not calling too early or late.

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