by Joseph Forbes | Apr 20, 2013 | Blog Entry, NERD NEWS, SOFTWARE, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
from the one-of-us-one-of-us dept. The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced the Xen Project is becoming a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project. Linux Foundation Collaborative Projects are...
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 20, 2013 | Blog Entry
Analysts urge company to recant design ideology as nod to customer complaints Microsoft may recant its Windows 8 design theology, bloggers reported Tuesday, by offering Windows 8 users an option to bypass the “Modern” UI and by restoring the Start button...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 20, 2013 | Blog Entry
from the everybody-has-the-same-idea-at-the-same-time dept. BoingBoing reports on why it’s ‘so hard to make a phone call in emergency situations.’ Quoting: ‘[The thing about] the radios is that they have different sizes of cells. You’ve...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 20, 2013 | DATA, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the credit-where-credit-is-due dept. A few weeks ago the FSF reported that Google had started blocking invites sent from non-Google Jabber servers. This was done as a crude anti-spam measure. Google have since rolled out proper anti-spam filtering for its Jabber...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 19, 2013 | NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
While the company is committed to Internet Explorer, it is experimenting with an architecture to replace the browser called Embassies Microsoft’s latest security report has found that Web-based attacks pose the greatest threat to companies, giving credence to...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 19, 2013 | DATA, INTERNET, Malware Reports, SECURITY
From August 2011 to February 2013, AV-TEST investigated malicious code in approximately 40 million search results from major search engines. The results of their research are now out and show that Google comes out on top, returning only 272 infected web pages in a...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 19, 2013 | Blog Entry, Data Recovery, KnowledgeBase (KB), SOFTWARE, Technical Support, Technicals
Windows 8 has been out for a while, featuring an interface that’s as cool as it is annoying . . . until you get the hang of it. But, like any computer operating system, it can fall over. Luckily, there is an easy way to solve the cause of most crashes; just call...
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...
