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Chrome: Your Connection is Not Private

This can be bypassed by clicking on the Advanced button at the bottom of the message page. However, in many cases, this is due to expired SSL certification or that the certification needs update. Check the error message.

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The Emotion of Humanity: Can Technology Become Sentient?

This is meant to be a long hypothetical dialogue. Q: The question essentially comes down to human emotion. Can emotion be quantified? If I tell my wife/girlfriend that I have presented all evidence for my love for her, she just … Continue reading

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Sharepoint Threshold 5000 items limit

It seems that when browsing Sharepoint Online files for more than 5000 items, it will break and say "The server is busy now. Try again later..." A solution I could think of is to do OneDrive sync with a local … Continue reading

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LinkedIn, Adobe Got Hacked?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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