First, get into your file explorer on the program that you are going to run.  Click on Application, Troubleshoot Compatibility.

Next, click on Troubleshoot program.

Click on Program worked in earlier versions of Windows.

Click on Windows 7

Click on Start the Program, but do not hit NEXT until the install completes.

Once the installation completes, click on next.  Now, this worked for the BLUETOOTH keyboard drivers from the ASUS web site, but I could not get the Warpia USB drivers to work in a similar manner.  I hope this helps someone out there, because I struggled with it until I read a post from a fellow Microsoft employee earlier today.

Good luck and have fun!

I just checked out two books from the library from the comfort of my own home.

The desktop client allows you to transfer your audio books to your portable player.  Mine works on my Zune HD 64gb without a hitch. 

You will need the overdrive client and an active library card number if your library participates.  You can find out more information about your local situation from overdrive.com

The software works on Microsoft, Macintosh, and about every major portable device:

http://www.overdrive.com/software/omc/

‘If you can play Xbox, you can fly a Raven’

Monday, August 29, 2011 7:00 PM  | US Army Front Page |

Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, practiced assembling and flying the Raven unmanned aircraft at Camp Fallujah, Iraq, Aug. 23, 2011.

Federal workers offer suggestions for improved disaster preparedness

2 Sep 11 7:50 AM Alicia Mazzara Washington Post

Confusion and a lack of coordination in the wake of Hurricane Irene and last week’s 5.9 earthquake has federal employees worried that the government is still woefully unprepared for emergency situations.

Government workers repeatedly complained about the inability to communicate during the recent earthquake when cellular phone networks went down. Many felt like they were left in the dark, and agency leaders didn’t have the means to disseminate key information.

Blue Angels to Soar on Biofuel During Labor Day Weekend Air Show

Thursday, September 1, 2011 10:57 AM U.S. Navy News Top Stories|

The U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, is slated to perform their flight demonstration with every aircraft powered by a biofuel blend at the Naval Air Station (NAS) Patuxent River Air Expo Sept. 2-4.

Two female acquisition officers to get second star

Wednesday, August 31, 2011 7:00 PM | US Army Front Page  |

Two female Army acquisition officers have been tapped for promotion to the rank of major general.

TRICARE portability reduces moving stress

Wednesday, August 31, 2011 7:00 PM | US Army Front Page 

With a single phone call, service member and family beneficiaries under TRICARE Prime can arrive at a new duty station, confident their medical records and prescriptions were transferred and new doctors were lined up for them in advance, a top TRICARE official said.

10. If you are mad at your significant other – pause before sending. Don’t tweet, Facebook, electronic message, or SMS. Pause! Give it 24 hours and see if you feel the same way.

9. Don’t surf porn at home or at work – but especially not on a corporate asset. Lots of malware. Lots of spyware. Would your mom be proud to know about your porn surf? What would your employer think about your porn preferences on company time?

8. Don’t use your bluetooth when you wander around public spaces like malls or grocery stores. When in Public, like grocery store, post office, bank, don’t use your Bluetooth earpiece and continue an Non-Emergency conversation, one, it’s Rude to others around You and two, from a distance you look like an idiot talking to himself." (Ron H.)

7. Always use Spell Check.  In today’s world.  Speling erors reali shouldn’t happppen, rihgt? Absolootly noa excooze.  (Amy H.)

6. Reply All should never be used.  When I was at a major financial institution, a newly minted MBA cost the firm a regulatory mandated $75,000 in message retention costs by hitting reply all.  But most people just use it to CYA. (Anna L.)

5. Don’t pull out your cell phone at supper, lunch, or other social gathering. Your guests, friends, and family will think you bored – and you probably are – but at that moment you are valuing that phone more than your immediate associates. "Never look at your email when you are trying to have a serious conversation with your friends" (Doyle F.)

4. Don’t put your social security number in Tweets or Facebook Posts. Mastering the obvious, but we disclose a lot of personal information. We probably shouldn’t. (Mikey H.)

3. No cell phones in the movie theater once the trailers start. As my son just said, “go right outside the door,” because you are definitely disturbing a neighbor who is there to immerse him / herself in the flick.

2. No nude or semi-nude pictures of you, your body parts, or your friends’ body parts on the corporate network, Twitter, your laptop, Facebook, email, or anywhere!  I mean, this one seems obvious, but hey … 7 years of e-discovery and goofy friends tells me this happens all the time.  Don’t be this guy:  Anthony the Twitter Congressman. 

1.  Mute that phone during meetings. "There’s a mute switch for a reason. Don’t be the guy rocking the Ice Ice Baby ringtone in a meeting." (Jason B.)

National Security: National Security, Pentagon & Defense Department News – The Washington Post
Labels: Newsletter – Government

There’s a new commander on this sandy, swampy spit of land that has transformed rawboned recruits into macho Marines for nearly a century. Brig. Gen. L.E. Reynolds, a 6-foot-tall Baltimore native and a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, is the latest in a long line of no-nonsense leaders to take charge here.

But she’s the first woman.

And for the tradition-bound Marine Corps, which endlessly promotes a tough-guy image and built its recruiting on the search for “a few good men,” the idea of all those ruthless Parris Island drill instructors having to salute a leatherneck named Loretta could take some getting used to.

Visualized: A School Day as Data

Friday, August 19, 2011 12:32 PM
Brandon Keim
Wired Science
Labels: Newsletter – Government

By putting RFIDs on children and monitoring their interactions over a single day, researchers have produced one of the most detailed analyses ever of the roiling, boiling social free-for-all that is school.

The findings, published August 16 in Public Library of Science One, document the minute-by-minute interactions and locations of 232 children aged 6 to 12 and 10 teachers.

Reconfigured as pulsing network maps and flows of color are the universal experiences of middle school: the between-class rush, playground cliques, snatched hallway conversation and the fifth-graders who are too cool for everyone else.

“We can compare different types of assumptions or modeling with a model that takes into account all interactions,” said Alain Barrat, who studies complex networks at the Institute of Scientific Interchange in Turin, Italy.

Trajectories of students throughout the day, arranged by location and class. Rows correspond to locations — playground, cafeteria, canteen, courtyard, and so on — and columns to time, with five classes as color-coded bars varying in thickness according to group size. Barrat et al./PLoS One

For epidemiologists, these visualizations — which focus on face-to-face interactions during which a hypothetical pathogen could jump from one person to another — aren’t just pretty pictures. They could inform better models of disease spread and perhaps guide school closures during outbreaks.

Researchers can also investigate different outbreak control strategies. Perhaps it’s not necessary to close entire schools, but only specific classes, to slow a contagion’s spread. “Shifting some schedules by 10 to 15 minutes could be enough,” Barrat said.

According to Barrat, some aspects of their data will be particular to the Lyon, France school where it was gathered, but the essential dynamics are likely universal.

Interaction between schoolchildren with interactions of less than 2 minutes removed. Line width corresponds to duration of contact. Teachers are in gray. Barrat et al./PLoS One

Video: Contact patterns between the students. (Barrat et al./PLoS One)

Secretary of the Army announces effort to transform Army management, structure

Sunday, August 14, 2011 7:00 PM
US Army Front Page
Labels: Newsletter – Government

Secretary of the Army John McHugh today announced creation of the Institutional Army Transformation Commission, a panel charged with finding new ways to make the Army a more "agile, cost-effective organization."

Detailers Review Projected Rotation Dates

Naval Personnel Command announced Aug. 17 that more than 60,000 Sailors will see their projected rotation date (PRD) adjusted as Navy Personnel Command (NPC) implements new Sea Shore Flow enlisted career paths.

Today 05:21 PM

Soldiers, HR specialists must understand importance of casualty docs

It is the responsibility of all Soldiers to update their casualty documents and to ensure their intent is annotated properly.

8/17/2011 07:00 PM

Soldier 360° gets leaders at right time: Course builds resilience after reintegration

Just three months after returning from Afghanistan, more than 40 noncommissioned officers from the 2nd Stryker Calvary Regiment reported for Soldier 360°, a leader comprehensive fitness course for junior and senior noncommissioned officers, Aug. 8-18, 2011.

8/16/2011 07:00 PM

FBI Releases 2010 Mortgage Fraud Report

According to this latest report—which highlights current mortgage fraud schemes, perpetrators, and mortgage fraud “hot spots”—mortgage fraud continued at elevated levels during 2010. The FBI, with its partners, dedicated significant resources to the problem and saw investigative successes during the year. And the current housing market will likely remain an attractive environment for mortgage fraud criminals in the near future who will seek new methods to circumvent loopholes and gaps in the mortgage lending market.

8/12/2011 10:00 AM

A need to upgrade Uncle Sam’s innovation skills

Uncle Sam talks a good game when it comes to encouraging his staff to find better ways of serving the public, but the reality is a different story.

That’s the message of a new report that indicates a strong disconnect between the desire of federal employees to innovate and the degree to which innovation is encouraged in their workplaces.

An analysis of survey data by the Partnership for Public Service and the Hay Group found that 91 percent of responding federal employees said, “I am constantly looking for ways to do my job better,” and just 39 percent said, “Creativity and innovation are rewarded.” In the middle were the 60 percent who said, “I feel encouraged to come up with new and better ways of doing things.”

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8/9/2011 09:28 PM

We created a network asset inventory database that will provide the basis for the upcoming lifecycle strategy. Some results from this data are attached. There are many questions to answer as part of the lifecycle strategy which is the focus of the next phase of the project. What is the appropriate lifecycle period for classes of devices? What areas should be prioritized for lifecycle? What products should we use for lifecycle?

The answer to these questions will come through continued dialog with Cisco toward their product roadmap and discussions with operational groups. The lifecycle strategy will move us further toward a real time services architecture, where we can reduce network latency and complexity, while improving network uptime. This strategy will provide the foundation for a cloud ready network.

Gmail accidentally resetting accounts, years of correspondence vanish into the cloud? (update): http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/27/gmail-accidentally-resetting-accounts-years-of-correspondence-v/

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