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LinkedIn, Adobe Got Hacked?

Posted on October 18, 2018 by timlyg

This appears to be causing some panic at my company lately. Spoof mails (usually sending as recipient's address) claiming to be a darknet hacker and sometimes revealing passwords of users asking for bitcoin payment. It seems that this is related … Continue reading →

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Emailing with Telnet

Posted on October 3, 2018 by timlyg

All SMTP servers basically work this way. This can be done using the freeware PuTTY. Telnet to server & port: (bold types are user input) 220 BY2NAM03FT048.mail.protection.outlook.com Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service ready at Wed, 3 Oct 2018 23:54:21 +0000 ehlo … Continue reading →

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Office 365 Outlook Shared Inbox folder now appearing after added to some user

Posted on September 28, 2018 by timlyg

Problem: When a user is given a shared mailbox, that mailbox should automatically appear in the user's Outlook client right under the user's folder in the left panel, within a couple of hours if not minutes. But some users never … Continue reading →

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SAS Programming

Posted on September 19, 2018 by timlyg

I have an entry that lists all SAS resources (Questions) that is a great resource for training. Here, I will start with installing SAS programming environment. The SAS site offers free University version.

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Using Phone App to Learn Chinese and other Languages

Posted on September 19, 2018 by timlyg

An idea from Nadia: Take a photo with a phone, make an app to recognize text (Chinese) in the photo and to read it out loud as a way to learn Chinese. General outline: Pipe camera image to OCR then … Continue reading →

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When Windows losts DNS records (no IP records, cannot ping) and needs a refresh

Posted on August 21, 2018 by timlyg

CMD as administrator. Computer was unable to connect to printer server. Command prompt --> ipconfig /flushdns ipconfig /registerdns

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When normal way of turning on the domain network discovery file sharing doesn't work

Posted on August 21, 2018 by timlyg

Domain network discovery has been turned off. Solution: export mine that is on... - run cmd as administrator, type netsh, then type advfirewall - type export c:\firewall.wfw copy the firewall.wfw file to client's computer. import it: netsh, advfirewall, import c:\firewall.wfw … Continue reading →

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Command Line for Time Change/Update

Posted on August 3, 2018 by timlyg

For some computers that does not sync their clocks with internet time (NTP server), which means it's depending on the local CMOS clock (command: w32tm /query /status), which becomes inaccurate after a period of time (3-4 min offset in a … Continue reading →

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Electricity Leak / Stolen

Posted on August 3, 2018 by timlyg

The power meter reading showed that we've used 55 kWh in 2 days (7/31 - 8/2). On average we paid $60/mo. Then it went to $70 which was still ok. But last month's bill was $148. And our average power … Continue reading →

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Reboot Restore RX Could Interfere with Windows Updates

Posted on August 1, 2018 by timlyg

Windows 10 build 1709 or earlier failed to update to build 1803 due to the freeware Reboot Restore RX at my company. Uninstall RR, Windows will update successfully, then put RR back. Reboot/Restore is a good software that works like … Continue reading →

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