If you believe your computer may be experiencing hard drive failure or if you would just like to make sure the hard drive you use to store all of your data currently is in good shape, you should test your hard drive for errors! There are many free utilities out there that perform some basic tests or read the S.M.A.R.T. data, but it’s hard to beat a utility made by one of the largest hard drive manufacturers, Seagate (I mean, c’mon, who knows hard drives better than those that create them).
There are two types of software companies; those that profit from improving the user’s experience and those that profit from the user’s lack of technical knowledge. When designing software, it’s easy to take the lazy route and only create the bare minimum required to make a process work (requiring manual editing of configuration files, setting permissions, offloading any other unfinished task to the end-user). Even if the software being created does, in the end, accomplish a complex task, the result will be an alienated customer with dwindling chance of any purchase in the future.
The internal processes of the mind have been linked with computing for decades and this article provides a unique look at this hard to ignore correlation. There are similarities that can not be ignored to the technical individual such as how short term and long term memory are internally structured in relation to how modern computer systems and software utilize components such as Random Access Memory (RAM) and Hard Disk Drives (HDD).
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors, announced a new personnel transport system earlier this year. It’s called the Hyperlopp and is what he describes as a “cross between a Concorde, a railgun, and an air hockey table”. Recently, ET3 Worldwide released a YouTube video describing the process.
Hilarious video from VMware showing where Microsoft really stands in the virtualization realm. I loved using Microsoft’s Hyper-V but VMware’s line of products changes the game by virtualizing entire data centers; your kitchen sink is not safe!
Using certificates is great, but how do you secure your keys? The WWPass PassKey is a cryptographic hardware token that bridges the gap between physical hardware and cloud technologies (Smart Card in the Cloud). Don’t store your private keys on your insecure PC where they can be easily stolen or destroyed, use the PassKey where your keys are cryptographically sealed, even at rest, and have the resiliency of data stored in the cloud.
