Author: John Nash

Until we get a better manifestation of the brain-computer communication link the lowly keyboard will remain. Rumors of the death of the desktop are exaggerated at this time.

Speculation is that Microsoft will force hardware vendors to hard wire their computers so that they can only boot Windows 8, through a feature called UEFI. See here, here, here, and here. Microsoft requires that machines conforming to the Windows 8 logo program and running a client version of Windows 8 ship with secure boot enabled….

InfoWorld.com had a good, short, article on hacking here by Roger A. Grimes. Roger makes the point that security losses are not usually due to smart criminals breaking in by unpredictable means, but rather Malicious hackers are using pretty much the same old tools and exploiting the same old weaknesses. However, companies and end-users aren’t…

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Look at http://www.google.com/webmasters/+1/button/ for instructions on adding the Google +1 button to posts on your web site. Supposedly this will result in improved ranking in Google’s search engine. The actual code you insert at the end of your page is: <!– Place this tag after the last plusone tag –> <script type=”text/javascript”>// <![CDATA[ (function() {…