There is a time honored statement that “Those who don’t learn from history, are condemned to repeat it.” Some people must have never heard that, or taken it to heart.
The people who write the Open Office software are generally smart people, and do what it needed to make their product better, and leave things that [...]
As I was looking on ZDNet this afternoon, I was reading a story about one columnist’s frustration with the common keyboard. He is located in the UK, but the problem he describes is no less a problem for people here on this side of the pond.
The problem described is the fact that, though our typing [...]
Bluetooth is one of those half-baked technologies that was allowed to get through because it was designed by committee, and none of the members could stand to think their progeny should be either rethought, or euthanized.
Yet, with all the problems, mice, headsets and other products continue to be manufactured, which only proves that P.T. Barnum [...]
Researchers have shown that wireless keyboards, specifically those made by Microsoft and operating on CB frequencies (most do operate at 27 MHz), are easily hacked, allowing the reconstruction of passwords, among other delicate information.
The article, from ZDNet, shows how easily and quickly one of these keyboards can be hacked -
Researchers from Remote-Exploit.org, the home of the [...]
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