by Joseph Forbes | Jan 27, 2013 | NERD NEWS, Technical Support
from the making-the-best-of-it dept. “New video card launches from AMD and NVIDIA are almost always reviewed on hardware less than 12 months old. That’s not an arbitrary decision — it helps reviewers make certain that GPU performance isn’t held back...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 27, 2013 | INTERNET, NERD NEWS
from the ten-years-warning-insufficient dept. Several major Internet Service Providers in the United Kingdom, including BSkyB, Virgin Media, TalkTalk, AAISP and Fluidata, have warned that the adoption of Carrier Grade NAT (IPv4 address sharing) is likely to become...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 27, 2013 | HACKING, NERD NEWS, Technical Support
It is now illegal under federal law to unlock your cell phone without permission from your wireless carrier. Here’s a quick guide to answer all your why, how, and WTF questions. As of today, it is illegal to unlock your new smartphone. This rule, issued by the...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 27, 2013 | SECURITY
On Saturday, Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE), Microsoft’s free anti-virus software package, stopped automatically updating its malware signatures on some systems. Users are also reporting that clicking on the “Update” button on the program...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 27, 2013 | The Daily WTF
from The Daily WTF by Remy Porter “Hey, can you give me a hand? This computer I built won’t boot.” Alexander sighed, and went to see what Nicholas had done now. Only a few weeks before, around the start of the year 2001, Alexander was full of hope and optimism for the...
