by Joseph Forbes | Apr 8, 2014 | NERD NEWS, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
After 4/8/2014 Microsoft will no longer support the Windows XP operating system. Microsoft will no longer release new security patches intended to eliminate threat vulnerabilities in this older version of Windows. According to Microsoft, continuing to use Windows XP...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 16, 2014 | Blog Entry
Simple one liner. Nothing impressive to show. But if you see this one Facebook, twitter, and all the other networks. We now know. I can alert the whole world with just one email. MWUAHAHAHAHAAH -Joe (All Hail Cesar!)
by Joseph Forbes | Jul 27, 2013 | SCIENCE
from the erik-the-red-in-spaaaaaace dept. “For Ved Chirayath, a graduate student and amateur fashion photographer, a photo project that involved NASA researchers dressed as Vikings was just a creative way to promote space science. ‘I started this project...
by Joseph Forbes | Jul 27, 2013 | HAPPINESS, LAW, POLITICAL
from the you-bunch-of-sweet-talkers-you dept. “The WSJ reports that Attorney General Eric Holder promises Edward Snowden won’t be tortured or face the death penalty in a new letter hoping to persuade Russia not to grant him asylum or refugee status....
by Joseph Forbes | Jul 27, 2013 | HARDWARE, HEALTH, NERD NEWS, SOFTWARE, TECHNOLOGY
from the siri-replace-team dept. Apple’s had a small, very secretive office in Cambridge, MA for a few months now. And we finally know what they’re doing: Building a team that works on speech technology for Siri. Sure, it’s interesting for Apple to...
by Joseph Forbes | Jul 27, 2013 | DATA, LAW, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL, PRIVACY, TECHNOLOGY
from the trust-no-one dept. Following the /. story on the Feds demanding SSL keys, now comes news that the feds are demanding user passwords, and in some cases, the encryption algorithm and salt used. From the article: ‘A second person who has worked at a large...
by Joseph Forbes | Jul 26, 2013 | HAPPINESS, HEALTH, NERD NEWS
from the bofh-demands-tribute dept. July 26 is Sysadmin Day, the system administrator’s version of Secretary’s Day. Are you giving your hardworking sysadmin the recognition they deserve? Blogger (and, yes, sysadmin) Sandra Henry-Stocker argues that a...
by Joseph Forbes | Jul 26, 2013 | HACKING, HEALTH, SECURITY, Technicals
from the too-young dept. A shocking and sad day today in the security industry. Well known hacker Barnaby Jack has passed away, sending a shock through the security community. Jack, a famed white hat hacker, was scheduled to present at the Black Hat conference on...
by Joseph Forbes | Jul 24, 2013 | Blog Entry, TECHNOLOGY
from the bill-just-wants-a-vat-of-molten-salt dept. TerraPower, the Gates-chaired nuclear power company, has garnered the most attention for pursuing traveling wave reactor tech, which runs entirely on spent uranium and would rarely need to be refueled. But Terrapower...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 29, 2013 | SOFTWARE, Technical Support, Technicals
from the they-love-you-as-long-as-everything-works dept. When you call your business Penguin Computer & Telephone Solutions, it’s obvious that Linux is your favorite operating system. Company owner Frank Sflanga, Jr. happily works on Windows, Mac and...
