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...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 7, 2013 | Blog Entry, GMAIL
by Thorin Klosowski Gmail is one of the best email clients out there, but even though it’s packed with features out of the box, it’s still not perfect. With that in mind, here are some of our favorite browser extensions and plugins for taking complete...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 6, 2013 | Blog Entry, HARDWARE, NERD NEWS
from the tiny-penguins-with-hats dept. Barebones mini PCs have been around for a while, and the latest one from Zotac is pretty unique. For $270, the Zbox ID42 offers a Sandy Bridge CPU, a discrete GeForce graphics processor, and all the integrated I/O and networking...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 6, 2013 | HARDWARE, MONEY, NERD NEWS, Technical Support
from the next-month-back-in-the-old-dorm-room dept. Dell is going private again, as the result of a $24.4 billion deal involving private-equity investors and Microsoft. The deal will close before the end of the second quarter of Dell’s fiscal 2014, according to...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 6, 2013 | INTERNET, LAW, NERD NEWS
from the give-me-back-my-stapler dept. John Foley at InformationWeek has an editorial saying that the missing piece in the new gun control legislation is adequate data management. ‘President Obama introduced 23 executive orders on Jan. 16 aimed at reducing gun...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 5, 2013 | Blog Entry
from the all-a-secret-plot dept. “Yesterday afternoon, Kaspersky Labs released a definition update that blocked all Internet and Intranet access on Windows XP workstations. While there has been no official communication from Kaspersky, their forum is lit up with...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 5, 2013 | Blog Entry, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL
from the hope-the-repository-doesn’t-go-down dept. Aeon Magazine ran a longform critique of Open Source politics last week titled ‘Open Sesame: “Openness” is the new magic word in politics – but should governments really be run like...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 5, 2013 | HACKING, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
from the too-much-effort dept. Last year, Rackspace planned to support third-party OpenStack distributions as part of its private cloud offering. That was then. ‘Things have evolved quickly as enterprises start evaluating their options in the cloud generally and...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 5, 2013 | HEALTH
Jennifer Cain Flu season came early this year, and it’s not only worse than expected, but it’s also the worst flu season in years. The mayor of Boston declared a public health emergency in the city due to the high number of cases—over 700—there. And dozens...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 4, 2013 | HARDWARE, NERD NEWS
from the run-an-android-emulater dept. Software that allows Windows apps to run on Android devices was demoed at the Fosdem 2013 open source conference this weekend. The demo by Alexandre Julliard, one of the original developers of Wine, showed Wine running on an...
