by Joseph Forbes | Apr 23, 2013 | HARDWARE, NERD NEWS, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
If you’re building an HTPC, a small workstation, or you just don’t want your rig to take up tons of space under or on top of your desk, you need a smaller PC case. Something that fits the important stuff, but doesn’t waste a lot of space on expansion...
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...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 19, 2013 | HACKING, HARDWARE, INTERNET, SECURITY, Technical Support
Wireless IP cameras from Foscam and other vendors have serious security issues, researchers said at Hack in the Box Thousands of wireless IP cameras connected to the Internet have serious security weaknesses that allow attackers to hijack them and alter their...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 19, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the a-little-less dept. Lithium-ion batteries have long been thought to be free of the memory effects of other rechargeable batteries. However, this appears to be not the case. Scientists at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, together with colleagues from the...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 19, 2013 | HARDWARE, INTERNET, KnowledgeBase (KB), Technical Support, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
There is, in fact, a difference between all those network cables. They look very similar from the outside, and any of them will plug into an ethernet port, but they do have some differences on the inside. If you aren’t sure what type of cables you have, look at...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 18, 2013 | HACKING, HARDWARE, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, SECURITY, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
from the protect-ya-neck dept. Security researchers at Independent Security Evaluators have published a report demonstrating that a slew of home and small office (SOHO) routers are vulnerable to previously undisclosed vulnerabilities. The report asserts that at least...
