by Joseph Forbes | Apr 19, 2013 | DATA, NERD NEWS, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
Going completely paperless has its advantages (and for many people won’t even take as much time and effort as you might think), but when you have paper documents going back many years (maybe even decades), it can be daunting and, plainly, not worth your time to...
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 | DATA, LAW, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL, PRIVACY, TECHNOLOGY
from the you-can-trust-us dept. The ACLU has issued a FOIA request to determine whether the IRS gets warrants before reading taxpayers’ email. The request is based on the antiquated Electronic Communication Protection Act — federal agencies can and do request...
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...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 18, 2013 | ENTERTIANMENT, MONEY, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the indrema-repeats-itself dept. “Results of recent benchmark tests reveal that Ouya is not up to the mark and there are over 70 other ARM devices that perform better than the gaming console. Futuremark, which is known for its benchmarks like 3DMark and...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 17, 2013 | Cloud Apps, DATA, HARDWARE, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY, Web Hosting
from the latest-and-greatest dept. Red Hat still doesn’t have a fully supported commercial version of OpenStack in the market yet (coming this summer) as it lags behind Ubuntu and SUSE. But Red Hat is doing something no other distro vendor has done, they are...
