In some situations we may have to connect to a Wifi network that is not ‘visible’ from our homes. Especially on holiday, where we are forced to stand at the window to try to get a better signal from a public HotSpot. How to ‘repeat’ the signal picked up outside, in our house? We […]
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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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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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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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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 quick guide to the world’s cheapest and best-known Linux-ARM platform Models – Connections – Setup – Installation – Booting – Configuration commands – Linux commands – Tricks Introduction What is Raspberry Pi Raspberry Pi was conceived from the idea of creating a low-cost computer. In particular, a card that is able to run a linux distribution with
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If you are programming in C# (.NET) and you are in the situation of having to create and execute a Task in a new thread, you can proceed in many different ways. First you add the following using directive: using System.Threading.Tasks; Use one of the following methods: Classic Method Task.Factory.StartNew(() => { Console.WriteLine(“Hello
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What is cUrl cUrl is an open source object programming language, it’s very useful in web applications where a strong inter-compatibility between protocols and documents is required. In particular, it avoids the developer having to use multiple programming languages, making a single framework available in a series of functions combined between markup (HTML or JS) and computational languages (Java, C#, C++…).
If you try to run a disk check on Windows 8 or Windows 10, you will notice that the system will first perform an analysis. Only if problems are detected will you perform a thorough check. However, if you want to force the scheduling of the disk check ‘at startup‘ (i.e. with correction and recovery of
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