HTTP Caching
Reduce the bandwidth requirements for keeping Fedora Linux up to date
Tips on how to tweak Fedora Linux to reduce the bandwidth it consumes every month to keep your system stay up-to-date.
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Microsoft Windows
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.
Linux
Tutorial: Configuring zones bound by source IPs in FirewallD
How to set up source IP-specific or network-interface-bound firewall zone rulesets in FirewallD — the Linux firewall system.
Blog gets a new name: Ctrl blog
I’m retiring the previous ‘Slight Future’ branding for my blog as it gets a shorter name and moves to a .blog domain name.
Microsoft Windows
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.
HTTP Caching
Best practices for syndication feed caching
Five best practices to reduce bandwidth requirements for feeds (Atom/RSS). Tips for reader and publisher implementations.
DNS
Linode DNS Manager pitfall: No TXT record normalization
Be wary when entering DNS TXT records in the Linode DNS Manager. The web interface doesn’t properly normalize user input.
Hardware
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”.
Microsoft Windows
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.
Bluetooth
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.
Networking
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.
Advertisement Technology
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 on the web.