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What platform / CPU / APU do you recommend for people you build for?

If people ask for advice for a system that will be their primary computer, I have a few pieces of advice I give (which includes SSD and some networking stuff, but question here is CPU). If a laptop, get an Intel i5 CPU or better. The only reason is that i5 has turbo, i3 and below does not. Look...
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- Post #93
- Apr 16, 2016
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Best Device/Solution to get unsecured wifi to Private Network

I do the same thing, only difference is my landlords Wi-Fi is secured. I use a TP-Link WDR4300 with one 2.4 GHz and one 5 GHz radio with OpenWrt. A wireless client can be configured in a number of ways, only some require administrative access to the remote access point. One radio connects to...
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- Post #2
- Feb 17, 2016
- Forum: Networking
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Windows 7 Update Adventures

How to manage Windows 10 notification and upgrade options Microsoft has given you a simple registry value to express your opinion in a way your computer can understand, and your computer will adhere to it. Wouldn't have taken you longer to add this value than posting in this thread. Note: The...
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- Post #8
- Feb 11, 2016
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Windows XP vs Linux for office/web system?

These are your words. Running unmaintained software on an Internet connected device means you will have vulnerabilities that will never be fixed. XP is already dead, and applications are dropping support for it. Chrome dropped support last year. Firefox still supports XP, and no end-of-life date...
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- Post #12
- Jan 29, 2016
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Stop redirect after page loads?

There is an option for this in Firefox. Go to Settings, Advanced, General, and look for Accessibility. Something along the lines of "Warn me when a website tries to reload".
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- Post #9
- Jan 29, 2016
- Forum: Windows
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Legit Win 7 Pro ISO (found one thanks)

Windows 7 / 8.1 / 10 ISO Official Direct Download Links from Microsoft Tech Bench I've used this method several times, it works great (and the ISO hashes check out).
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- Post #6
- Jan 28, 2016
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Difference between UT2003 and UT2004?

Congratulations, you have won the Golden Spade award for your digging efforts!
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- Post #20
- Jan 25, 2016
- Forum: Windows
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PC Applications!!!

That depends completely on what "the work" actually is. Your question is impossible to answer.
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- Post #2
- Jan 20, 2016
- Forum: Windows
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IPv6 vs NAT security

Your devices can have multiple IP(v6) addresses, and will likely do so by default. For example, Windows does this. I'm not IPv6 enabled on the WAN side, but if I boot my router with a default OpenWrt, which enables as many IPv6 features on the network as it can manage, all my Windows devices...
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- Post #20
- Dec 21, 2015
- Forum: Networking
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IPv6 vs NAT security

Amount of work does not scale in any rate that is related to the number of IP addresses available to customers. On the network provider side, IPv6 is designed around the idea that you assign each customer a subnet, not an address. NAT wasn't part of the IPv6 spec from the beginning, it was...
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- Post #16
- Dec 21, 2015
- Forum: Networking
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SSH RSA question - Learning and implementing at home

RFC 4252 shows how a public key authentication works. The server (if following protocol) will not reveal the list of public keys it trusts. An eavesdropper will only be aware of the public keys a client attempts to authenticate with.
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- Post #2
- Dec 18, 2015
- Forum: Networking
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Unauthorized code in Juniper firewalls decrypts encrypted VPN traffic

No need to wonder, administrative access is confirmed right in their advisory. Important Announcement about ScreenOS®
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- Post #3
- Dec 18, 2015
- Forum: Security
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How can I keep from getting more spam emails!

You will have to live with spam sent to this address. You can still use it if you want. You can also have multiple accounts, this one for logins and crappy services, and a new one for genuine communication. An address ending up in a spammers lists is a one way street. You're not going to get it...
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- Post #7
- Dec 18, 2015
- Forum: Security
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Microsoft intentionally sabotaging Windows 7, by making Windows Update unbearable??

I set up a special-purpose tripleboot laptop over the weekend, with Windows 7, 8.1 and 10. 2520M, 8 GB RAM and 250 GB painfully slow 5400 RPM drive. The Windows 7 initial "search for updates" took about 90 minutes, and found 215 (~250 with optionals, I think) updates to install. Subsequent...
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- Post #50
- Dec 16, 2015
- Forum: Operating Systems
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SSH downloads

You are using the -L option. You want the -D option. Turn any Linux computer into SOCKS5 proxy in one command ssh -D 9898 [username@]remoteserver [-p remoteport] Set your browser/client to use 127.0.0.1:9898 as a SOCKS proxy. All activity from the application now goes to the SSH server, and...
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- Post #10
- Nov 25, 2015
- Forum: Networking

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