by Joseph Forbes | Apr 21, 2013 | DATA, HAPPINESS, NERD NEWS, PRIVACY, TECHNOLOGY
Set the rules for what happens to your Google data if you go off to that great results page in the sky Google provided a somewhat morbid reminder of the increasing primacy of digital data in our lives with the release today of the euphemistically named Inactive...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 21, 2013 | DATA, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the safer-than-relying-on-pigoens dept. Vint Cerf, one of the ‘founders of the Internet,’ told an audience April 16 that if he could do it all over again, he would construct the Internet in the mold of Software-Defined Networking (SDN). Cerf, who...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 20, 2013 | DATA
from the projected-release-2047 dept. Java Development Kit 8, planned for September 2013, is being delayed until next year because of ‘a renewed focus on security.’ Java has been having security publicity problems recently, but Oracle now seems to be...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 20, 2013 | Blog Entry, NERD NEWS, SOFTWARE, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
from the one-of-us-one-of-us dept. The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced the Xen Project is becoming a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project. Linux Foundation Collaborative Projects are...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 20, 2013 | ENTERTIANMENT, HARDWARE, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
Using two (or more) video cards in tandem—known as “SLI” for NVIDIA cards and “Crossfire” for AMD cards—can get you better performance, sometimes even for less money than you’d spend on a comparable single card solution. However, whether...
