A brief guide to help you resuscitate your PC in case you are no longer able to start after malicious driver updates. NOTE: This guide also applies in the event of an error due to driver installation that is not compatible with your system. Blue error screen: CRITICAL_SERVICE_FAILED. If you are in the condition of not being able to […]
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It may have happened that you entered the wrong password on Windows (XP/7/8/10…) and noticed that the computer took longer to retry the input field. Many will have wondered why when you enter the correct password the PC recognizes it immediately, while it remains in a sort of semi-stall otherwise. Some may have thought that
They say that the most used passwords are always the same (example: 123456, password, qwerty, etc. …), or in any case referable to birth dates or memorable moments of someone’s life. Well, using public characters or real places is not a good idea anyway: in fact there are some software (like John the Ripper) that are able to use huge dictionaries,
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How do I choose a password? There are many combinations, some more efficient, some less so; those that reminds us of our real lives should definitely be avoided. Google’s message is clear: “Man’s best friend (the dog) does an exemplary job in protecting your home – so begins an article by Fox Van Allen, writing
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DNS stands for Domain Name System, it is the protocol used globally for domain name translations. What does it mean? When we type in the name of a website (e.g. spaceclick.com) our computer sends a DNS request to an appropriate server to translate this name into an IP address (e.g. 105.0.0.155). And then it connects to that IP address
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If you have problems with the Windows update procedure (8 or 10), and you are no longer able to download updates for your system, proceed with these steps to try to solve the situation. check that the date and time on your system is correct (if so, correct them from the settings)
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Punycode is an encoding system that serves to represent a sequence of unicode characters via an ASCII character sequence, to make it possible to use these sequences in domain names, without having to modify existing infrastructure and standards. In this way you can manage internationalized domain names (IDNA) by adding the characters ‘xn–‘ to the beginning of the punycode string. For example, by entering xn–google.com as address, we
An interesting collection made by Ian Stewart, British mathematician and writer. From Pythagoras’ theorem, passing through Euler and Fourier, to Maxwell, Einstein, and Shannon; all the greatest discoveries are listed in chronological order. But what can I say? in my opinion there is room for at least another dozen equations, in any case you can see his list in the picture below.
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If you have installed Ubuntu Linux in a virtual machine on VirtualBox you will surely realize that by default its resolution is set to 640×480, very poor for any type of use. You will have also noticed that going on the screen settings it is not possible to change this resolution from the dropdown. To change the displayed resolution
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A computer or any device, when connected to a network (LAN), is identified by an IP address assigned by the router. This address is usually in the form 192.168.X.Y and it is released by the router’s DHCP to identify the various devices connected to it. However, since the router itself is connected to the Internet
