Comment by mckenzm on What are these little rubber "condoms" that came with...
Prior to these, when paste came with instructions, the use of plastic wrap on the fingers was encouraged to fill extrusion grooves in heatsinks that were less than optically flat.
View ArticleComment by mckenzm on What factors are relevant when buying thermal paste?
It may not matter of the CPU is BGA, but for AMD CPU's with pins, there were recommended products. You needed to be able to eventually break the seal, and some formulations practically welded the...
View ArticleComment by mckenzm on How do I type the schwa symbol ə if Alt + 0259 doesn't...
or Wikipedia and cut/paste. Maybe keep a "sampler" of those characters that are difficult.
View ArticleComment by mckenzm on PGAdmin4 with SSH port forwarding using identity file...
Amazing. To me tunnel password means SSH password not SSH-key encryption password, maybe they leverage this option and use it for either since they are mutually exclusive? I do have to do it for every...
View ArticleComment by mckenzm on Notepad++ save as UTF-16 file without byte order mark
@DavidPostill because it shows up as a revision, and is evidence of using Notepad++.
View ArticleComment by mckenzm on Are subnets always contiguous 1s?
@agtoever but for Sami Kuhmonen's answer being wrong and this answer being correct. The OP is not asking about CIDR and subnet masks to not strictly have to comply with CIDR requirements.
View ArticleComment by mckenzm on Are subnets always contiguous 1s?
The OP is not asking about CIDR per se. The short answer is no, but such subnets cannot use CIDR as a masking notation.
View ArticleComment by mckenzm on Are subnets always contiguous 1s?
Not a valid duplicate. None of the answers there address this question at all. The short answer is no. See prado.it/2016/05/21/…
View ArticleComment by mckenzm on Tunneling a TCP/IP Connection through Remote Desktop...
The converse of the question?
View ArticleComment by mckenzm on How to force Java to use IPv4 instead IPv6?
It does not get passed the the browser it is used when the app starts.
View ArticleComment by mckenzm on Disable .dev redirection to HTTPS in Firefox
Nov '23 - Does not work for me.
View ArticleComment by mckenzm on Outlook needs password but dialog box disappears
This works, but might not even be possible. Totally unacceptable to be going through this. I have 10 or 20 MS accounts. Basically this means no Outlook if I am logged into the Azure portal as admin. So...
View ArticleComment by mckenzm on Can I delete Microsoft Reserved Partition in Hard-Drive?
.. and mine is the last partition on the drive, the boot partition is first. I also have a container in front of it, with EXT4 and the like as extended partitions between the system partition and this....
View ArticleAnswer by mckenzm for Can a simple static http website not be secure?
It is secure enough for "you". But for someone accessing it, it may not be secure. This is topical, as a popular service is currently serving images of subscribers using http. As other subscribers...
View ArticleAnswer by mckenzm for Are there any disadvantages to leaving a large portion...
No, there are no real drawbacks to not fully utilising the disk. You are not changing the geometry. Partitions may fill earlier, but you should not be concerned about wear levelling as the controller...
View ArticleAnswer by mckenzm for Attempting to Determine if ISP is Blocking Port 3074
This approach is sound, one can also try from another supplier or from a proxy/VPN. Think about all the firewalls between the points.Also consider trying DMZ options. Ask yourselves, has it ever worked...
View ArticleAnswer by mckenzm for Map ftp servers as network drives in Ubuntu Linux
It's actually still pretty broken at them moment (see date), the vast majority of users wanting it want a passive FTP connnection seamlessly as for sftp.The workaround is to use other software such as...
View ArticleAnswer by mckenzm for Can someone download files from your personal computer...
Yes they can, as with any internet connection, but you may find it easier to upload files to a shared location for them to download. The "push from device" ala stolen smartphone.The safest way to allow...
View ArticleAnswer by mckenzm for How can I ping a computer in Linux?
Pay attention, people with years of experience overlook this.I apologise to Windows users presumably using PuTTY.On Linux systems (clients), SSH resolves the host "name" in this order...(Ubuntu naming...
View ArticleAnswer by mckenzm for Dual Boot Windows and Ubuntu at the same time
There are options.Run Windows as a VM. Windows as you need media performance on Linux.Acquire another box for Windows and use a good quality KVM switch to jump between them.
View ArticleAnswer by mckenzm for Is "curl -u username:password http://example.com" secure?
Short answer is no... but....If there are no server side options you can harden the security.If this is local intranet then isolate the broadcast domain, and donot use WiFi or any radio.As Shameer...
View ArticleAnswer by mckenzm for Best way to set up internet/network where apartments...
Gut feeling is that they are not going to spring for VLANs. You want a VPN service. This is getting to be quite common now as buildings can have the intercoms over IP as well as smart meters for power,...
View ArticleAnswer by mckenzm for Does an identical cryptographic hash or checksum for...
NO. Different values guarantee the files are different. The same values are not a guarantee the files are the same. It is relatively easy to find examples using CRC16.On the balance of probability with...
View ArticleAnswer by mckenzm for What is the difference between rendering video on a...
On a laptop, generally no. However many laptops are not built to last. The CPU may not degrade but something will. It is abusive to use a laptop in this way, even a "gaming" laptop.Running over...
View ArticleAnswer by mckenzm for Broadband firmware upgrade
Never update firmware over WiFi. Nor from the upstream network.Never allow your router to be accessed from the world.It is your router, correct ?When you downloaded the firmware (!) Where did you save...
View ArticleAnswer by mckenzm for When doubling Internet connection speed, will my...
Headline (deceptive, please update) answer : Yes Qualified answer, no.Regardless of the "backwater bandwidth" endured in the farthest corners of the house, the "consumable" bandwidth will actually...
View ArticleAnswer by mckenzm for Temporarily disable WLAN internet access for children,...
EDIT: Re-reading the question, you do not specifically mean wi-fi, but I had assumed this was implied. You may only need a managed switch.Yes.Method 1. Use a separate physical access point (AP), on a...
View ArticleAnswer by mckenzm for Why can I access my router from one ISP but not the other?
This sounds like rules based filtering.It may be the ISP, and it is likely based upon the default port the router ships with. They may not want people to be running web servers over the GSM network,...
View ArticleAnswer by mckenzm for How can Internet speed be 10 times slower without a...
Agree with davidgo. Now, if your modem is a pure modem (or a router in bridge mode), you can try spoofing the MAC address of your router as that may be what your ISP is looking at.Does the router have...
View ArticleAnswer by mckenzm for What can I do if someone tampers with my SSH public key?
You should restore it from a backup.I'm sorry if this sounds like a NSS statement, but yes.And yes you can regenerate it from the private key, but why would you not have a backup or redundant copy? And...
View ArticleAnswer by mckenzm for When the Internet drops, I can not access the router
Ask this. How are you determining that the internet is dropped?1) Your symptoms are exactly the same as a WiFi loss, without WiFi you have no access to the router.2) The same applies if your laptop...
View ArticleAnswer by mckenzm for Access Linux VM from Windows via SSH
Historical question. But this is what people do.Access the portal at https://portal.azure.com/#home.Find your "Network Security Group" and add your (client IP) IP for port 22.Make a note of the public...
View ArticleAnswer by mckenzm for SSH from Windows (Putty) to Ubuntu via HTTPS
Have at least on SSH service listen on Port 443. Connect using Putty.If your server is behind NAT, port forward from 443 to 22.AjaxTerm.Tunneling as per another answer.RDP/VNC to an outside desktop and...
View ArticleAnswer by mckenzm for Does an extra old internal hard disk drive affect my...
Minimally. Some people like to disable on board peripherals to reduce interrupts and oversight load.Since you are likely to be using at least one SATA port you probably will not be doing this.If it is...
View ArticleAnswer by mckenzm for 16 bit windows under Win64 using Wine?
I can confirm this works for Ubuntu Bionic. I am using Zorin 15 :Winetricks:Select the default wineprefix, change settings, winxpExpanded ftp://ftp.lotus.com/pub/lotusweb/product/smartsuite/Kvlotus.exe...
View ArticleAnswer by mckenzm for Can an ISP see private IP addresses?
If the ISP maintains the router and assigns the WAN IP address, they can see everything you can, including DHCP details. So they know you have 30 devices connected, and that two of these are routers...
View ArticleAnswer by mckenzm for How do I transfer 148GiB files from an Android phone to...
Don't do it all at once. Do it in tranches of 8GB.Then plan to have a window. By all means stage it to a card first.4.5 hours is not a long time. 2 games on Steam.Windows feature updates take that...
View ArticleAnswer by mckenzm for How to auto-hide bookmarks bar in Chrome?
There is currently no way to permanently hide the bookmarks bar in Chrome. sadly this type of behaviour has led to a prevalence of junk "help" websites offering pretty much the same useless...
View ArticleAnswer by mckenzm for Is it possible to install a device driver for windows...
There is at least 1 NDISWrapper port for MacOS, so the answer is a strong maybe, providing it is a network driver. We are talking of years gone by when we speak of this so what applies today may not...
View ArticleAnswer by mckenzm for Can't boot from Windows 10 USB stick: Black screen with...
Wait it out.It is basically poor UI design, I think Microsoft want you to do the upgrade from a running OS. Nevertheless, this is not really forgiveable, there should be some indication that boot has...
View ArticlePGAdmin4 with SSH port forwarding using identity file asks for file password
I am using PGAdmin 4, the application, on Ubuntu 20.04.1 (Zorin 16). I am using an SSH tunnel and an identity file. This works. However every time I connect, I am prompted for a password for the...
View ArticleAnswer by mckenzm for How do I see all previous output from a completed...
The traditional way was to use PuTTY and keep thousands of lines.There is also screen, as not many Linux (or local) users use PuTTY.Now that Windows has ssh on the command line it is falling into...
View ArticleAnswer by mckenzm for KB5034441 update error 80070643 - Increasing recovery...
How are you installing this update? I have stretched the partition to 5GB and it still fails. Some advice suggests shrinking the partition to 250MB, still further advice suggests that this partition...
View ArticleComment by mckenzm on How to wipe free disk space in Linux?
@naught101 odd that nobody has discussed why Gutmann repetition is not required on modern HDDs - it has to do with "vertical" recording. If you had an old Quantum fireball from the 90's maybe, as there...
View ArticleComment by mckenzm on Is there a way to "auto login" in PuTTY with a password?
Does not address the question at all. @Zac B hopefully you have some hours in the saddle now. Keys are just longer passwords that have to be stored somewhere. If I can copy and paste 12 characters I...
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