Ctrl blog archive, page 18

Learn how to log in to and take control of Windows 10’s new SSH Server.

How to set up source IP-specific or network-interface-bound firewall zone rulesets in FirewallD — the Linux firewall system.

I’m retiring the previous ‘Slight Future’ branding for my blog as it gets a shorter name and moves to a .blog domain name.

Adobe’s Acrobat Update service remains on your computer even after uninstalling Acrobat Reader. Here is how to uninstall it.

Five best practices to reduce bandwidth requirements for feeds (Atom/RSS). Tips for reader and publisher implementations.

Be wary when entering DNS TXT records in the Linode DNS Manager. The web interface doesn’t properly normalize user input.

The D3 Connected is the only robotic vacuum cleaner I’ve had that damaged itself the first week and that sees “ghost furniture”.

Plenty of third-party firewalls and similar programs can break Windows 10’s Data usage counting. Here is how to make it count your data again.

How come every Bluetooth device is so different? Do you shake it? unplug batteries? hold a button for two–ten seconds? This needs to change.

Why and when do you need to run the ‘firewall-cmd --reload’ command after making changes to your FirewallD configuration.

Brave Software has only attracted 120 publishers to join their Rewards program that gets rid of all ads on the web.

Feed delta updates strip away feed entries that the subscriber has already download and only transmits the update delta consisting of new entries.