Microsoft Office alternatives, Threats

1. This article from eweek.com discussed alternatives to Microsoft Office that may be interest to you. It won't help you in this class (which requries Office) - but this inof may still be useful to you.

Some of these alternatives are free!

2. There are several ways Office can be attacked by malware. Read this article, from eweek.com, about how some of them. BTW - keep your copy of Office updated!

The first disk drives

There is a photo gallery at
http://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-10877_11-31979-1.html

showing the first hard disk drives. My, how far we've come in terms of storing data.

50 of these platters could hold 2 iTunes songs.


There is more info HERE on a Yahoo news site (original article from PC World). (Thanks, Michael, for passing this on).

The original pricing:

Prices have dropped dramatically. The RAMAC 305's cost per megabyte was approximately $10,000--that's about $70,000 in today's value. Today, a typical desktop hard drive can deliver that same megabyte for 3/100 of a cent.

Notice that's $/meg.