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When you first turn on your computer, a small piece of software gets executed to set it up and get it ready for your operating system, be it Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, or whatever. This technology has been around for A LONG time and it was getting harder and harder to use for modern software. A couple of the more pertinent changes will be things like "instant on, " support for larger drives, and a security mechanism that will help protect the operating system on the disk. (if you want a full run down, here is the Wikipedia article)...
So....I thought long and hard about finding an article to post about before the end of the year (we are off next week), but I'm pretty much mentally checked out at this point! :0)
Actually - I'll leave you with this. It is a link to a summary of the web as Google see's it: http://www.googlezeitgeist.com/ - frankly, I don't even know who Rebecca Black is (the number one choice) - but that figures - I'm usually way out of pop culture! I'll especially recommend the video review at the bottom (2011 In Review Video), but bear in mind that is a little pushy with the Google advertisments... The music is by Matt Kearny.
I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year - we'll see you in 2012! |
Only very vew people that I talk to know what UEFI is, or, for that matter, have even heard of it! It stands for Unified Extensible Firmware Interface. Huh?? Well, what this technobabble really means is a replacement to the little piece of software that initially lets your computer boot up. - Marty Roesch pushes collective analysis, underscores cyberthreat intelligence
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