Microsoft Moves to Lock Out Linux

Microsoft has announced plans for a security feature in Windows 8 that has the potential to prevent users from installing their own operating systems including Linux.Early versions of Windows 8 do away with the established BIOS > bootloader > OS booting paradigm in favor of something called the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). This booting system has enabled Microsoft to demonstrate machines booting Windows 8 in a respectable-even-for-Linux eight seconds, but it's the security...

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What Is Cloud Computing ?

It's the BUZZWORD on everybody's lips but what does cloud computing actually mean? It's not been an easy term to define and there have been many different attempts to explain what the term means. Cloud companies have been prone, like Alice's White Knight, to define the term in a way that they want it to mean.In some ways it's strange that the term has been so slippery. Millions of us are happy to use such cloud-based services as Facebook, Gmail and Twitter, thinking nothing of it, yet...

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