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Time of Reckoning?

I’ve been a long time subscriber to SANS news letters.  Most days I have too much to do to really read them, but today as I was wrapping up the day I came across this nugget: —–BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE—– Hash: SHA1 A fascinating battle is taking place today in the struggle between those who [...]

Ubuntu

I’ve been threatening to load a Linux variant on the main computer in the house for a few years now.  It is a 5-year-old Dell that was running XP.  I reloaded XP on the thing at least three times.  Every time it eventually crawled to a halt.   Windows profile corruption most likely. Finally, I am [...]

Can I live with Cloud Computing?

Increasingly, I spend most of my time on the computer in a browser.  Okay, almost all of my time is in a browser, and even when it’s not, I usually wish it was.  (I’m saddled with Lotus Notes at the office, and I really would love to just have a good webmail interface in its [...]

Still Amazed by Technology

I should not be amazed by technology because I am part of the technology world.  But I am. My first web browsing experience was with a text based browser called “lynx.”  I was in my early twenties when Netscape 1.1 was released.  I survived “the browser wars” my favorite browser of the time didn’t, but [...]