by Joseph Forbes | Feb 6, 2013 | Blog Entry, HARDWARE, NERD NEWS
from the tiny-penguins-with-hats dept. Barebones mini PCs have been around for a while, and the latest one from Zotac is pretty unique. For $270, the Zbox ID42 offers a Sandy Bridge CPU, a discrete GeForce graphics processor, and all the integrated I/O and networking...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 6, 2013 | HARDWARE, MONEY, NERD NEWS, Technical Support
from the next-month-back-in-the-old-dorm-room dept. Dell is going private again, as the result of a $24.4 billion deal involving private-equity investors and Microsoft. The deal will close before the end of the second quarter of Dell’s fiscal 2014, according to...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 6, 2013 | INTERNET, LAW, NERD NEWS
from the give-me-back-my-stapler dept. John Foley at InformationWeek has an editorial saying that the missing piece in the new gun control legislation is adequate data management. ‘President Obama introduced 23 executive orders on Jan. 16 aimed at reducing gun...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 5, 2013 | Blog Entry
from the all-a-secret-plot dept. “Yesterday afternoon, Kaspersky Labs released a definition update that blocked all Internet and Intranet access on Windows XP workstations. While there has been no official communication from Kaspersky, their forum is lit up with...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 5, 2013 | Blog Entry, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL
from the hope-the-repository-doesn’t-go-down dept. Aeon Magazine ran a longform critique of Open Source politics last week titled ‘Open Sesame: “Openness” is the new magic word in politics – but should governments really be run like...
