Answer 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...
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