I bought Win 8.1 Pro from the Microsoft store yesterday. It was a download and I originally made a USB flash drive with the MS media creation option. But then I realized I want to have an UEFI ...

It has been some time since I have written about installing Linux on systems with UEFI firmware, and I have recently gotten several questions about how to do this. So I think this is a good time for a ...

When I first started blogging about Linux, MEPIS was one of the first distributions that I wrote about. I always liked it, and enjoyed using it, so I was disappointed when it quietly died a few years ...

Topic says it all. I have an 8 installation that is non-UEFI (on an SSD). System is UEFI-capable so I don't know why Win8 didn't use that by default. I'd like to upgrade to 8.1 (system doesn't have ...

Yesterday, at the BlackHat Asia 2017 security conference, researchers from cyber-security firm Cylance disclosed two vulnerabilities in the firmware of Gigabyte BRIX small computing devices, which ...