by Joseph Forbes | Feb 3, 2013 | Blog Entry, MONEY, NERD NEWS
from the we-enjoy-taking-your-money dept. Joel Runyon recounts a tale that will be familiar to many people who have bought secondhand smartphones. After his old dumbphone died a few months ago, Runyon picked up a used iPhone. He just needed it for basic phone...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 31, 2013 | Blog Entry
For individuals, there is no one answer when it comes to buying or renting Office. Let’s take a look at the options For the first time Microsoft is tempting Office users to rent, not own, software that for decades they’ve bought as a standalone program....
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 31, 2013 | Blog Entry, HARDWARE, KnowledgeBase (KB), Technical Support, Technicals, Web Hosting
The installation, care, and feeding of an Apache Web server is not terribly difficult, but can seem so if you haven’t ventured into those particular waters before. This quick-start guide will help you get your feet wet with Apache on a Linux server. You’ll...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 31, 2013 | Blog Entry, LAW, NERD NEWS
from the power-to-the-people dept. Now that the ridiculous phone unlocking law is a done deal, and we all understand exactly what that means (i.e., ‘fines of up to $500,000 and imprisonment of up to five years’), you might be left wondering what can you do...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 30, 2013 | Blog Entry
Modern operating systems randomise all memory addresses (Address Space Layout Randomisation). Libraries loaded into memory, for example, are loaded into memory with random offsets. The result is that simply discovering a buffer overflow in a browser and so...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 30, 2013 | Blog Entry, MONEY, NERD NEWS
In a few weeks the MPAA, RIAA and five major U.S. Internet providers will start to warn BitTorrent pirates. The parties founded the Center for Copyright Information (CCI) and agreed on a system through which copyright infringers are told that their behavior is...
