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...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 9, 2013 | The Daily WTF
Santosh K. had seen all the emails about the upcoming code audit. He thought Oh, I’m safe, all my code has been in Production and working fine, surely someone would have complained! But, alas, here he was – in the main conference room having to explain himself...
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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...
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by Joseph Forbes | Feb 9, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, Technical Support, Technicals
Imagine this: you’re busy working on your computer and need to access documents saved on your external hard drive. You connect it, get ready to find your data, and…nothing happens. Your hard drive isn’t working. Uh oh. Before you panic, there are...
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 | Blog Entry
from the raise-your-hand-if-you’re-at-all-surprised dept. A copyright monitoring program called MarkMonitor mistakenly flagged HBO.com for pirating its own shows, and sent automatic DMCA takedown notices to the network. It’s a funny story, until you...
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 8, 2013 | Blog Entry, KnowledgeBase (KB), Technicals
Windows 8 received a decent amount of enhancements on the desktop side that I tend to appreciate versus running Windows 7, even if that means I get Metro standing in the middle here and there occasionally. One such area of improvement is notification management and...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 7, 2013 | Blog Entry, LAW, MONEY
from the everyone’s-favorite-law dept. “From the article: ‘A dizzying story that involves falsified medical research, plagiarism, and legal threats came to light via a DMCA takedown notice today. Retraction Watch, a site that followed (among many...
