News: New Linux kernel available for download
Those of you heavily into Linux will be interested in this. Personally I’m still learning the basics of Linux so I’m not up to speed with you :).
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This week provided yet another reminder of the dangers inherent with “cloud” solutions. When you depend on a web service and their domain get’s highjacked, suddenly your data is unreachable for you. People, and entire industries (ahem, law firms), that are conservative in nature and risk-averse look at web-based platforms and start to think about…
The first bit of Office that I looked at was Outlook 2003. I spent a good portion of late Saturday night/Sunday morning learning about the differences and features. It took a little while to adjust to the 3 panes-across layout as opposed to the 1 pane on the left, two panes over top of each…
I was reminded of this when I got back from vacation. Since I wasn’t going to be working at the help desk, they removed me from the “Helpdesk” Exchange distribution list Monday morning. Unfortunately, we used that group as a member of every other list I was supposed to be on so I didn’t get…
“ProtonMail, the encrypted email created by CERN and MIT scientists, has released a new product in response to the administration’s roll back of Obama-era internet privacy rules. Starting today, you can try out the company’s VPN service, which was in beta testing by 10,000 initial users for a year, by getting it from the official…
This is some interesting stuff to think about: The students, part of a university honors class this semester called When Machines Decide: The Promise and Peril of Living in a Data-Driven Society, were tasked with creating a mobile app that teaches the public how a machine-learning algorithm could develop certain prejudices. “It was created to…
