Two of Lenovo's five best-selling laptops ( updated hourly) are Windows 7 machines as I type this.

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Ever since Johannes Gutenberg developed movable type around 1439, making machines for putting ink on paper has been a growth industry.

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Graham Cluley, a computer security expert from net security company Sophos, told the BBC that there were ways for computer owners to protect their machines from this type of fraud - for instance, by using up-to-date anti-virus software.

BBC: Luminous keyboard

"Even two or three years ago, we could only use one type of software affordably to control the machines, " he said.

WSJ: Sewing Machines Go High-Tech

As the Sobig threat eased, a new profit-driven virus appeared:Mimail, which crashed machines and directly asked users to type in their credit card numbers.

FORBES: Criminal Outbreak

Xerox built machines that scanned a printed page of type using a photographic lens, and then printed a duplicate.

NEWYORKER: Creation Myth

This is because while it was always claimed, indeed stated, that the new version of the operating system would work on older machines, it never did at anything above geological era type speeds.

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This type of "moblog" just isn't for PCs, Macs, Linux machines etc..If you have a Sony Aibo, you can use the built in application which sends a photo email to also send a photo to the Moblog, I have 2 of my Aibos doing that now as well as Tablet PC mounted to a Roomba and it's been working out great.

ENGADGET: pt's How-to Fridays: Turn your PC in to an automatic "moblog" picture posting machine!