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Windows 10, Day One
Last night, as promised, I installed Windows 10 on my own personal laptop. I left everything to chance. I didn’t back up my data. Hell, I set my Lenovo ThinkPad X240 on the floor of a pizza parlor in San Francisco—dongle and all—and let it install totally unattended....
Dynamic DNS: Bridging The Gap Between Dynamic & Static IP Address Environments
IP Addresses and the Domain Name System (DNS) are two core elements of Internet infrastructure that have been working together for a long time – the DNS typically being referred to as the “telephone book of the Internet” – to map human readable domain names to IP...
How do I modify my hosts file?
Modifying your hosts file will allow you to override the DNS for a domain, on that particular machine. This can be used to test your site without the test link, prior to going live with SSL, verify an alias site works prior to DNS changes, or for other DNS related...
Getting music off an iPod using Mac OS X!
There are lots of Instructables out there on how to get music off of an iPod using the "view options" trick in Windows explorer. Unfortunately for those of us using Macs, Finder isn't so keen on letting you see those pesky hidden files. We have two roads diverging...
Fix “Windows was unable to find a certificate to log you on to the network”
I recently bought a new Linksys wireless router and after setting it up with basic WEP security, I tried to logon from my laptop and was successful! Not very exciting, eh? So then I tried to connect from my desktop computer that has a wireless USB adapter attached to...
Adafruit’s Computer Add-On Pack for Raspberry Pi Gets You Started Fast
The Raspberry Pi is great, but it's also missing a few things you need to actually use it. Namely, a keyboard, mouse, and monitor. Adafruit solves that (with the exception of the monitor), with the Computer Add-On Pack. Included here is a wired keyboard, wired mouse,...