by Joseph Forbes | Feb 10, 2013 | NERD NEWS, Technical Support, Technicals
from the the-nineties-never-left dept. FreeDOS — the drop-in, open source replacement for MS-DOS — was started after Microsoft announced that starting from Windows 95, DOS would play a background role at best for users. Almost two decades later, FreeDOS has survived...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 10, 2013 | HACKING, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL, SECURITY
from the dubya-the-painter dept. The apparent hack of several e-mail accounts has exposed personal photos and sensitive correspondence from members of the Bush family, including both former U.S. presidents. The posted photos and e-mails contain a watermark with the...
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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 | HARDWARE, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
Payment Card Information can be held in the cloud, and this 50-plus page guideline tells you how Can you hold Payment Card Information (PCI) data in a cloud-based service? Yes, but doing so isn’t straightforward, so the PCI Security Standards Council has...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 8, 2013 | NERD NEWS
from the whole-numbers-is-best-numbers dept. LibreOffice 4.0.0 has been released. Some of the changes are for developers: an improved API, a new graphics stack, migrating German code comments to English, and moving from Apache 2.0 to LGPLv3 & MPLv2. Some...
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...
