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2004
IEEE
14 years 9 days ago
Why PCs Are Fragile and What We Can Do About It: A Study of Windows Registry Problems
Software configuration problems are a major source of failures in computer systems. In this paper, we present a new framework for categorizing configuration problems. We apply thi...
Archana Ganapathi, Yi-Min Wang, Ni Lao, Ji-Rong We...
FC
2009
Springer
142views Cryptology» more  FC 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Passwords: If We're So Smart, Why Are We Still Using Them?
While a lot has changed in Internet security in the last 10 years, a lot has stayed the same – such as the use of alphanumeric passwords. Passwords remain the dominant means of a...
Cormac Herley, Paul C. van Oorschot, Andrew S. Pat...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Understanding why we preserve some things and discard others in the context of interaction design
This paper takes up the problem of understanding why we preserve some things passionately and discard others without thought. We briefly report on the theoretical literature relat...
William Odom, James Pierce, Erik Stolterman, Eli B...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Why we tag: motivations for annotation in mobile and online media
Why do people tag? Users have mostly avoided annotating media such as photos ? both in desktop and mobile environments ? despite the many potential uses for annotations, including...
Morgan Ames, Mor Naaman
MIDDLEWARE
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Why Do Upgrades Fail and What Can We Do about It?
Abstract. Enterprise-system upgrades are unreliable and often produce downtime or data-loss. Errors in the upgrade procedure, such as broken dependencies, constitute the leading ca...
Tudor Dumitras, Priya Narasimhan