Displaying items by tag: Geek

What do you do if you are an accounting firm and succumb to ransomware? -Call for a Geek!

Speculation is rife that the terrorists who attacked multiple locations in Paris on Friday night, killing at least 129 people, may have communicated when planning and carrying out their attacks using Sony PlayStation 4 gaming consoles.

In exactly 24 hours, and despite a bigger venue, the complete compliment of 3 day badges for the Penny Arcade eXpo Australia (PAXAus) have already sold out.

For the first time ever the geek-fest PAX has made its way out of North America and ventured about as far as it could go, to Melbourne Australia.  Here are some early impressions before the gates have even opened at PAXAus.

What goes, "pieces of seven, pieces of seven?"

Compered by self-confessed geek Adam Spencer, the keynote session at Microsoft's Tech.Ed conference celebrated the geek.

Steve Jobs, who leads Apple and makes the decisions that matter, has clearly decided that the iPad mute-lock switch is simpler and easier when delivered in a consistent manner with his other iOS devices, but does this mean he's a geek?

'Artist in residence' programs are commonplace these days. More innovative is the 'geek in residence' program being run by the Australia Council for the Arts to help provide arts organisations with technical expertise.

Think you know Linux? Test out your geek street-cred and that of your friends in this test!

Pressure from open source luminary Eric S. Raymond led to geek feminists hosting code created by one of their detractors, which otherwise would have disappeared for good, a post on Raymond's blog reveals.

If only this worked it could have been the year's must-have Christmas gift for the gadget lover or the hard-to-buy-for. I'm talking about a pocket projector which on paper sounds brilliant: a tiny, battery operated, portable 10 lumens 640x480 video projector. Use it on the plane, the car, your roof, anywhere, without a care for power or weight. If only it worked.