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How to enable, login to, or disable Microsoft SSH Server in Windows 10

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

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Tutorial: Configuring zones bound by source IPs in FirewallD

Set up source IP-specific or network-interface-bound firewall zones in FirewallD.

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Blog gets a new name: Ctrl blog

Slight Future gets a new name and moves to a shorter .blog domain name.

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How to remove the Adobe Acrobat Update service

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

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Best practices for syndication feed caching

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

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Linode DNS Manager pitfall: No TXT record normalization

Be wary when entering DNS TXT records in Linode DNS Manager.

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Review: Neato D3 Connected robot vacuum

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

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Fix the Windows 10 Data usage report when it stops counting data

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.

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Thoughts on Bluetooth 5 and the device pairing user experience

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.

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When is it necessary to reload FirewallD configurations?

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

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Brave micro-payments still not a hit with publishers yet

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

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Syndication feed deltas help reduce subscription bandwidth costs

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

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