by Joseph Forbes | Apr 19, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the a-little-less dept. Lithium-ion batteries have long been thought to be free of the memory effects of other rechargeable batteries. However, this appears to be not the case. Scientists at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, together with colleagues from the...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 19, 2013 | Blog
With Java 7 Update 21, Oracle has made available a patch release that can be regarded as important. The release includes 42 patches that fix security issues; Oracle says that 39 of these issues potentially allow attackers to take control of computers without...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 19, 2013 | DATA, NERD NEWS, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
Going completely paperless has its advantages (and for many people won’t even take as much time and effort as you might think), but when you have paper documents going back many years (maybe even decades), it can be daunting and, plainly, not worth your time to...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 19, 2013 | DATA, MONEY, NERD NEWS
from the ron-paul-says-eat-gold dept. A brief editorial by Steve Forbes, one of our moneymeisters, on why bitcoins are not money.. Hint: For those who are too lazy to read the opinion,. Bitcoins are too volatile to be money.” From the article: “Money is...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 19, 2013 | HARDWARE, INTERNET, KnowledgeBase (KB), Technical Support, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
There is, in fact, a difference between all those network cables. They look very similar from the outside, and any of them will plug into an ethernet port, but they do have some differences on the inside. If you aren’t sure what type of cables you have, look at...
