The second biggest problem in running a computer or a computer system, these days, is keeping your data, and your identity, safe from prying eyes. (The biggest problem? backup, of course.) Essential Computer Security - Everyone’s guide to e-mail, internet, and wireless security by Tony Bradley and Harlan Carvey — ISBN 1-59749-114-4 [...]
I’m sitting in chancery court, this morning, waiting for my case to be called, and vaguely listening to the court call. An attorney wants to change his name — to make it shorter, he says — and as Judge Bronstein goes through his questions, he notes that the Petitioner recently finished the Marathon, apparently with [...]
I’m not a Patent Lawyer, and have no idea as to how to conduct a patent search, but I’m certain that there are a lot of people in my category who will turn to Google to do a little looking through the new Google Patent site at www.google.com/patents. You can find more information at [...]
Microsoft has issued Security Advisory of a new vulnerability in Word 2000 to 2004, Mac verionsm and even Microsoft Works.
Microsoft is investigating a new report of limited “zero-day” attacks using a vulnerability in Microsoft Word 2000, Microsoft Word 2002, Microsoft Office Word 2003, Microsoft Word Viewer 2003, Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac, and Microsoft Word [...]
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The Information Superhighway is wonderful, but excellent is a requirement if the thing is to make sense. Living and working in a Chicago suburb, we have access to interesting programs from time to time, but there is a lot of good content out there that most lawyers simply can’t get. Until high speed [...]
Google has brought out into Beta several services that attach to your domain name — email, calendaring, im and chat, and so forth, that can be used from within your domain, permitting sharing of calendars and the other applications.
I applied (https://www.google.com/a/) and was granted a license to use these things [...]
OK! It has been a long time since I’ve accessed this blog. First there were back problems…then there were….but you’re really not interested in all of that, anyhow. Sufficient to say that I slacked off, didn’t get back to it, and am, in essence picking up again, mostly about what is going on in the [...]