A good explanation of web & email encryption plus how it’s crippled by the US government. Discover Magazine has a good explanation of the maths behind encryption used in web secure pages and email. It’s somewhat misleadingly headlined “How to create codes that even the NSA can’t break“. The article explains the prime number maths […]
What can Office for Mac users do instead of font embedding? Since Office for Mac won’t let you embed fonts, what can you do instead? We’ll look at the options that Office for Mac users can try when sharing a document with Office for Windows. Going the other way (Office for Windows to Mac) isn’t […]
Full list of fonts available in both modern Office for Mac and Office for Windows The following fonts are available on both Macintosh OSX 10.4 and later with Office for Mac and Windows 8 or later with Office for Windows You can use these fonts in Office documents, knowing that anyone who gets the file […]
Linux developers think ahead, I mean waaaay ahead. Gotta hand it to Linux developers, they think ahead. “At 15:30:08 UTC on Sun, 4 December 292,277,026,596 …. 64-bit based Unix time stamps will overflow as the time stamp will exceed the register space; save your alarm, however, as this is much longer than the time it […]
Microsoft makes Office for Mac compatibility harder by omitting an important feature. In the feature list of Office for Mac is one vital omission, one that Microsoft definitely doesn’t like talking about. It effects anyone trying to operate in a ‘mixed’ Office Windows/Mac environment. In theory, a document made on Office for Macintosh can be […]
