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- Krebs on Security
- U.S. Charges Russian Man as Boss of LockBit Ransomware Group
- Why Your VPN May Not Be As Secure As It Claims
- Man Who Mass-Extorted Psychotherapy Patients Gets Six Years
- FCC Fines Major U.S. Wireless Carriers for Selling Customer Location Data
- Russian FSB Counterintelligence Chief Gets 9 Years in Cybercrime Bribery Scheme
- Who Stole 3.6M Tax Records from South Carolina?
- Crickets from Chirp Systems in Smart Lock Key Leak
- Why CISA is Warning CISOs About a Breach at Sisense
- Twitter’s Clumsy Pivot to X.com Is a Gift to Phishers
- April’s Patch Tuesday Brings Record Number of Fixes
Category Archives: Technology
WMIC – a little known command in Windows
So what if you needed to find out information about your computer that is otherwise available in third party programs or all over Windows? You can use WMIC to find out a lot of information about your computer. I’ve been using … Continue reading
Posted in Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 10, Technology
Tagged windows commands, WMIC
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Is your SSD or HDD dirty?
You can of course use the Windows GUI to check your SSD or HDD. But did you know that you should check your drives by typing the following (you can copy and paste in a elevated command prompt and change … Continue reading
Internet or network application slow? You may need to temporarily disable Nagle’s Algorithm
With the Nagle-Algorithm, Windows takes small packets and packages them in to more manageable and efficient sizes. If you have poor latency, you might try to disable the Nagle-Algorithm. Nagle’s algorithm helps to control congestion when small packets are … Continue reading
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CLI vs GUI – Basic CLI commands
The CLI or Command Line Interface, is a text-based interface used to program devices such as switches and other network equipment. So it’s 2019. Why are we still using a CLI? The reason? It allows a granular ability to program devices … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Hardware, Information Technology, network, Networking, Technology
Tagged CLI, managed switches, network, networking, switches
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Change network adapter priorities in Windows 10 – PowerShell
irst thing – disable network adapters you don’t use If you use Ethernet, disable everything but flow control and RSS Disable LLMNR Adjust NTLM Perform test with Totusoft’s network speed test Next, avoid latency of your network card by adjusting … Continue reading
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Should you disable 8dot3 for performance and security?
icrosoft did recommend to disable short names in a security guide some times back. There is evidence that file operations in directories (folders) that contain a large number of file can be slowed by short file name creations. So does … Continue reading
Wireless Dropping? Change your Scan Valid Interval
Is your Wireless dropping? Update your driver of course and then try changing your Scan Valid Interval. By default, most wireless cards are set to 60. This is the amount of time before your wireless ‘looks’ for other … Continue reading
Posted in Home Networking, Networking, Technology, Wireless
Tagged Network Troubleshooting, Wireless, wireless troubleshooting
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AlphiMAX PTP Estimator provides an excellent way to align your wireless antennas
When you are networking computers, wireless access points, printers and other nodes in multiple rooms, try to avoid daisy-chaining switches or using small 4-8 port switches when you are in a hurry. Replace any hubs on your network as soon … Continue reading
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Need to optimize your network – Silly Window Syndrome could be happening
Need to speed your internet up or tweak your network out? Here’s some things to take into consideration. Something called Silly Window Syndrome can occur if a server or workstation that has a shared files has high latency. You see, … Continue reading
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Truly reset the TCP/IP stack – Fix network/internet problems Updated 3/14/2021
Having connection issues and no viruses or malware? Hardware ok? Try typing the following at a command prompt as an administrator (you can copy and paste the bold text below) to fully reset the TCP/IP Stack- netsh winsock reset catalog … Continue reading
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Tagged internet troubleshooting, Network Troubleshooting, networking
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Need to optimize your network? Look at adjusting LocalPriority, HostPriority, DNSPriority or NetBTPriority.
Need to optimize your network? Look at adjusting LocalPriority, HostPriority, DNSPriority or NetBTPriority. (Host/DNS resolution) The tweak works by increasing the priority of four processes. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\ServiceProvider\ LocalPriority = 4 (DWORD, the default is 499, change to 4) HostPriority = 5 (DWORD, … Continue reading
Optimizing your server with more than one network card
New IT professionals may think that adding a second network card will improve throughput. While this can be true, IT personnel need to be aware of several rules behind configuring multiple network cards. Assuming the server will be in the … Continue reading
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Review – GL-MT300N-V2 (Mango) Mini Smart Router
Do you travel? Want extra protection of taking a router with a firewall with you when you are on the road? Want the flexibility of OpenWRT? The GL iNet GL-MT300N-V2 mini smart router is loaded with a ton of features. … Continue reading
Posted in Computers, Hardware, Internet, Mobile Computing, network, Networking, Technology, Wireless
Tagged GL-iNet routers, openwrt, portable router, router review, Routers, Wireless
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Fix Windows Update errors by using the DISM or System Update Readiness tool
At an elevated command prompt (command prompt as administrator) – type DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth What should you try first? – Try the PowerShell post we made on an earlier date to check for updates. Open PowerShell as an Administrator … Continue reading
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Optimizing MySQL- Moodle
To be specific, if you are loading Moodle, look at the optimization at – https://docs.moodle.org/37/en/Performance_recommendations On our server, we use a SSD with the Inetinfop\Parameters set to 2. You need to run the performance under plugins at 100,000 request. So … Continue reading
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Tagged IIS and MySQL, IIS MySQL, Moodle, Moodle Optimization
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Updating Drivers? Don’t forget the chipset!
While I’d like to guess that over 98% of the computers that I have worked on that are privately owned; the drivers were out of date or missing critical drivers that other drivers rely on. Here’s what I mean. If … Continue reading
Posted in Computer hardware, Computer Software, computer troubleshooting, Computers, Information Technology, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 10, Technology, troubleshooting, Windows, Windows 10, windows 10 privacy, Windows 10 Quick Tips, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server
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Link aggregation – Use Multiple NIC Cards
There is truly an advantage to adding multiple NIC cards to a computer. It won’t speed up a single internet connection but it can help with loss of signal, detecting access points, transferring information to and from computers. When adding … Continue reading
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Need System Information? Use PowerShell
If you need system information about your BIOS, Motherboard and more, open PowerShell as an Administrator and past the following into PowerShell – Get-WMIObject -Class Win32_ComputerSystem Get-WMIObject -Class Win32_BIOS Get-WMIObject -Class Win32_Baseboard Get-WMIObject -Class Win32_Processor Get-WMIObject -Class Win32_LogicalDisk Get-WMIObject -Class … Continue reading
Windows 10 Shell Commands you can run from the ‘Run’ line
e following shell commands can be ran from the ‘run’ line in Windows 10 shell:AccountPictures %AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\AccountPictures shell:AddNewProgramsFolder Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Get Programs shell:Administrative Tools %AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools shell:AppData %AppData% shell:Application Shortcuts %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Application Shortcuts shell:AppsFolder Applications shell:AppUpdatesFolder Installed Updates shell:Cache … Continue reading
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Tagged Windows, Windows 10, windows shell
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