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Why and how to disable the Windows DNS Client Service
The Windows DNS client is poorly named. It is not a true DNS client but rather a DNS caching service. It caches records of all domain names you have visited (resolved). Overall this is a positive feature for network performance as it can greatly reduce the time it takes to begin the actual connection to […]
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ImageNet Roulette is an art project that demonstrates how terrible AI is at labeling people
Located at the Fondazione Prada museum in Milan as well as online ( https://imagenet-roulette.paglen.com ), the ImageNet Roulette art installation is part of the Training Humans exhibition. The exhibition covers the data-sets, photos and training of Artificial Intelligence. Earlier today I was sent a link to this by a friend who requested that I submit […]
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WordPress 5.2 got me to activate the “Hello Dolly” plugin for the first time ever
Many, many years back when I was using WordPress I would notice the “test” plugin by Matt Mullenweg, Hello Dolly. This plugin only displays some lyrics from the song of the same title in the Admin screens. I had always deleted it, figuring it was good practice to cleanly delete a plugin that I was […]
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Mounting, Unmounting Drives and Network Folders on Windows Subsystem for Linux
Here is how you mount drives in linux on windows: sudo mkdir /mnt/e (specify the drive letter you want to mount) sudo mount -t drvfs e: /mnt/e To unmount: sudo umount /mnt/e Mount a network folder: sudo mount -t drvfs ‘\\server\share’ /mnt/share (remember to sudo mkdir /mnt/share first)
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Where is Ubuntu’s Filesystem Located on Windows Subsystem for Linux?
You can find your filesystem here: C:\Users\USERNAME-HERE\AppData\Local\Packages\CanonicalGroupLimited.UbuntuonWindows_79rhkp1fndgsc\LocalState Or with this: %AppData%\Local\Packages\CanonicalGroupLimited.UbuntuonWindows_79rhkp1fndgsc\LocalState And yes, that seemingly random block of text is the same for everyone.
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How to Rip DVDs and Blu-rays the Good and Easy Way
This guide will demonstrate how easy it is to get a high quality rip of your DVD and Blu-ray Discs or ISOs at a decent speed. To do all of this we will need a few things installed first so open your Terminal and execute the following: brew install handbrake ffmpeg mkvtoolnix mp4v2 mpv libaacs […]
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How to use youtube-dl to download videos from the web (not just youtube!)
Recently I have had to download a large number of videos off the web for the purpose of archiving and transcoding. There are a lot of software products that do this but since I had to download hundreds of them at a time I decided to look into something on the command line so I […]
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Using the “find” command with real world examples
When you’re on a mac/bsd/*nix system you will likely have access to the “find” command which is extremely useful in helping you to “find” a file. This can be particularly handy in situations where you aren’t familiar with the layout of directories on a system and need to find a config file or whatever. This […]
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How to use screen with real-world examples
screen is a program which allows you to run multiple terminal instances (think of them each as a window), switch between them and even detach and reattach to one later on. I will provide you with a few examples of how this works and why it is so useful: I often compile software remotely, this […]
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How to fix “Component comdlg32.ocx or one of its dependencies not correctly registered – a file is missing or invalid” on windows
Check if you have the files already: For 64-bit check in C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ For 32-bit check in C:\Windows\System32\ If you are unable to locate the files, then please download them here and place them in their respective directories Locate cmd.exe and Run it as an Administrator by right-clicking on it and selecting the option to Now […]