Transferring 35TB of data from one system to another is something that doesn’t happen overnight. There are practical limits of transfer speeds. I know where bottlenecks occur, but it’s good to have real experience to see how data moves and figuring better ways to do it. From my benchmarking of the parity arrays I did […]
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Using your phone to pay at POS terminals has become a convenience people expect. But sometimes, even with your phone unlocked, you’ll be asked to verify with a fingerprint or PIN leaving you awkwardly fidgeting and retrying the tap. This happens because most Android phones’ face unlock isn’t considered secure enough for payments. Apple’s Face
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A single command wiped all my data: Get-VirtualDisk | Remove-VirtualDisk -Confirm:$false I blame Claude (An AI Chatbot). He told me to enter this into PowerShell.😭 My disaster recovery story I use the Windows Storage Spaces (WSS) to manage my data storage system. I have two pools and I transferred the data from one of my
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Back when I gamed a lot from my friends, there were some mini-games that surprisingly I would totally crush and take first place easily. These involved rapid clicking. On a gaming controller, the tip is to rub your fingernail over the button side-to-side and that happens to be a faster motion that triggers the button
Most of you know that powering a computer is not free. When a computer is on, it generates heat. What some people might not know is that the amount of energy a computer, laptop, tablet uses varies by usage. For example, your phone drains battery more when you use energy intensive functions like filming video,
Most of us play media content on our computers or devices. For those who watch content on computers, we would know the keyboard shortcuts for the most common commands. Different players have different shortcut keys for the same type of action. This makes things not so intuitive. Everyone has their own thoughts on what are
Have you ever lost a window while working in Windows? You might see the program on the taskbar, but you can’t seem to get to it. In some rare cases, the window may have been shifted off-screen and you won’t be able to click on it and because you can’t, you won’t be able to
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Bots are relentless but I found a way to thwart them. I received a message on my contact form on this website, but it clearly looked like spam. I always wonder why some websites use a contact form rather than just providing an email address for contact that way. I prefer to email since I
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Here are my apps I always install on machines I work on. By default, Windows includes a Notepad editor, a web browser called Edge, and a rudimentary video player. Here are superior alternatives that you can freely download. There are multiple versions of each program. Choose the x64 version if a choice is provided.
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