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Today I ended up finding Yahoo again. I cant remember when I last used Yahoo search. I vaguely remember using Yahoo email. I had forgotten it was even there. The reason why I had to use it is because my wife’s email account wasn’t syncing on her mobile. She got her email address more than a decade ago. Many people only have Yahoo today because they have an email address that has been with them so long they can’t be bothered to switched or is linked to services they care about, It’s using Yahoo out of inertia rather than desire. On the bus the other day people were talking about getting some information on the Internet and they used the word phrase “Google it” rather than “search for it”. Yahoo started as a directory with search and it is now a “portal”. This means a directory with search. A lot of the “news” on Yahoo is spamvertising. Advertising of get rich quick schemes, celebrity gossip leading to get rich schemes or links to fake news about diet pills. So called clickbait. There

So bash is installed and running on Windows 10 here. Its actually a whole Ubuntu sub-system running inside Windows 10 talking to the NT kernel. This basically means user space programs on the cli are available. Things like ssh, ftp and the like. You can also download things. Right now to enable this you have to run the cutting edge buggy Windows 10 Preview enabled in Settings>Update & Security>Windows Update>Advanced Settings. You need to set the ‘fast ring’. Once that is done you get an update and you then add Linux as a feature here;   In order not to mess up my daily laptop I have this Lenovo T410 just to run the beta. Makes more sense than crashing the regular one. For me the first app on the Linux system is PGP (Pretty Good Privacy). Invented by Phil Zimmerman to protect internet users privacy in communication it’s still a great tool today, The best implementation seems to still be the command line Linux/Unix variant although Symantec make a version for Unix

One of the new great little features of Windows 10 is “Windows Hello”. Windows Hello is the name for the biometric login feature that Windows 10 supports. So far Windows Hello gives the impression that it is only supported on clear facial recognition cameras in the most modern of PCs. Apparently this is not true. This week I bought an old Lenovo T410 from ebay. I was keen to have a spare machine that I could run the fast ring preview editions of Windows 10. Specifically the new Linux integration with the bash command line. For more about this check the Channel 9 video. The Lenovo T410 is a poor replacement of my regular pc. The keyboard is crowded, the fan whirrs but tucked away to the right of the mouse touchpad was a fingerprint reader. When this laptop was made you had a separate security level to deal with fingerprint readers on Windows 7 however it was biometric so would Windows Hello work with it. After doing the Windows 10 upgrade I located the Lenovo Thinkpad Fingerpri