by Joseph Forbes | Mar 9, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, LAW, MONEY, NERD NEWS
from the let’s-also-tax-keystrokes-and-thinking-about-cats dept. The Berkeley, CA city council recently met to discuss the closing of their downtown post office, in attempt to find a way to keep it from relocating. This included talk of ‘a very tiny...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 9, 2013 | DATA, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the in-the-cloud dept. Now that President Obama’s federal health care reform is past its major political hurdles — and with renewed focus on out-of-control costs in healthcare — companies that sell ‘big data’ software are licking their chops....
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 9, 2013 | INTERNET, KnowledgeBase (KB), NERD NEWS, Technical Support
Recently Facebook decided that in addition to visual notifications, it would start making a “beeping sound” when you receive a new notification. This brief tutorial will show you how to disable that annoying beep. Note: this “feature” hasn’t been rolled out across all...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 9, 2013 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, Technical Support, Technicals
from the at-least-you-get-ipv6 dept. I’ve recently learned that our neighborhood is getting a fiber optic network, with a 100Mbps connection in each subscriber’s home. IPv6 connectivity is included, but unfortunately, the only IPv4 connectivity they offer...
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by Joseph Forbes | Mar 9, 2013 | DATA, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, SECURITY, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
Java is indeed a pain. But, the good news is few people actually need it in the first place. Here’s what you need to know about what it does, what its problems are, and how to get rid of it. What Is Java? Java is a programming language that developers use to...
