by Joseph Forbes | Feb 10, 2013 | Blog Entry
from the how-to-break-things dept. Packets of death. I started calling them that because that’s exactly what they are. … This customer location, for some reason or another, could predictably bring down the ethernet controller with voice traffic on their network....
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by Joseph Forbes | Feb 9, 2013 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, MONEY, NERD NEWS
from the those-particular-5-of-7 dept. For the 64 percent of Americans whose internet service provider imposes a broadband cap, and for those lucky enough to have a meter, I have some bad news. The president of the firm who audits many of the country’s broadband...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 8, 2013 | Blog Entry
from the raise-your-hand-if-you’re-at-all-surprised dept. A copyright monitoring program called MarkMonitor mistakenly flagged HBO.com for pirating its own shows, and sent automatic DMCA takedown notices to the network. It’s a funny story, until you...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 8, 2013 | Blog Entry, KnowledgeBase (KB), Technicals
Windows 8 received a decent amount of enhancements on the desktop side that I tend to appreciate versus running Windows 7, even if that means I get Metro standing in the middle here and there occasionally. One such area of improvement is notification management and...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 7, 2013 | Blog Entry, LAW, MONEY
from the everyone’s-favorite-law dept. “From the article: ‘A dizzying story that involves falsified medical research, plagiarism, and legal threats came to light via a DMCA takedown notice today. Retraction Watch, a site that followed (among many...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 7, 2013 | Blog Entry, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
from the you’re-gonna-need-a-bigger-post-it dept. Deloitte predicts that 8-character passwords will become insecure in 2013. Humans have trouble remembering passwords with more than seven characters, and it is difficult to enter long, complex passwords into...
