Sony Pulls 'Cyberpunk 2077' from PlayStation Store After Widespread PS4 Issues

And it’s no exaggeration to say that when that release arrived, it was far from perfect. Notably, the PS4 logo still appears on the game’s official website.

December 18, 2020 · 1 min · 27 words · Patricia Martin

Securing a New Windows Server

A default Windows Server configuration is not inherently locked down and leaves important protection open and accessible to hackers. Let’s take a look at how we can secure our web server! We can use this registry to make this necessary change. Navigate to the following subkey, located at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetControlTerminal ServerWinStationsRDP-TcpPortNumber. pop pop the subkey by double-clicking and change the Base punch in from Hexadecimal to Decimal. Simply change this value from the default port of 3389, to your desired, unused, port....

December 17, 2020 · 2 min · 393 words · Felicia Bartlett

How Do SSL Certificates Secure the Web?

Let’s take a look at how SSL certificates work on the web! What is SSL/TLS? SSL, which stands for Secure Sockets Layer, is a protocol used to encrypt traffic between two computers. What is the Purpose of SSL/TLS? How Does SSL/TLS Actually Work? The private key is held secure by the website and a public key is available for users. Shutterstock/Robert Avgustin This protects you from an attacker on your connection snooping on traffic and recovering sensitive data....

December 16, 2020 · 2 min · 232 words · James Phillips

Ten Awesome Holiday Action Movies (That Aren't 'Die Hard')

Related Quick Links Is Die Hard a Christmas movie? We don’t know. But let’s assume for a moment that it is, and skip that tired debate. That being the case, it’s time to retire your yippee-ki-yays and expand your holiday action movie playlist. UPDATE: 12/6/22 Checked content for accuracy, film availability, and dead links. It also has a few genuine laughs in its script. “I’m too old for this sh**!”...

December 11, 2020 · 2 min · 363 words · Elizabeth Edwards

The Best Tools for Beautiful Cable Management for Your Desk or TV

My favorite cable management solutions are listed below, roughly in order of importance. UPDATE: 2/8/22 Verified content and links up to date. Velcro Strips Velcro strips are the number one tool for keeping cables tidy in almost any situation. Note that the 3M adhesive used on the back is safe for most furniture with a little care. These stick-on cable routers are great for assigning single routes at the start and finish of cable routes....

December 9, 2020 · 3 min · 471 words · Karen King

The Trick to (Almost) Never Losing 2FA / MFA Access

But what happens if your phone breaks? Here’s the trick… What Is2FA / MFA? 2FA stands fortwo factor authentication, and MFA stands formulti-factor authentication. Often these terms are used interchangeably but they do not mean the same thing. Why would anyone use 2FA? The answer is 2FA. Shutterstock/BestForBest If you use an Android phone, you will get a ‘Did you just login?’ popup when you login to a Google based account....

December 9, 2020 · 1 min · 208 words · Cindy Martinez

How to Correctly Parse File Names in Bash

Learn to parse file names correctly, and thereby ensure your scripts work as intended! You would have to do all sorts of string modifications to make this work. That is, unless you have the secret recipe. Thelsoutput will contain hex codes which represent the color to use to your terminal. To avoid running into these, simply use–color=neveras an option tols: ls –color=never. I have seen this issue as recent as mid August 2020 on Ubuntu....

December 7, 2020 · 2 min · 245 words · Pamela Richard

How to Compress and Decompress Files Using tar in Linux

Learn all about it in this article and more! What istarand How Do I Install it? It supports many features, including compressing and decompressing files on the fly when archiving them. Let’s have a look at the options used in this command. Next we have the-cand-foptions. Note that they are just written together with the-in-h, i.e. instead of specifying another-, we simply tag them onto the other shorthand options. The-coption stand forcreate a new archive....

December 4, 2020 · 1 min · 153 words · Henry Pearson

Every Movie Warner Bros. Releases in 2021 Will Come to HBO Max the Same Day

The list of big-budget films that will hit HBO Max and theaters on the same day is staggering. These are some of the biggest releases on the calendar. Source: Warner Bros. press release

December 3, 2020 · 1 min · 33 words · Robert Grant

How to Use Aspell to Spell Check Your Text Files at the Linux Command Line

This article will get your setup and started with Aspell, the interactive spell checker. Start spell checking your text files, for free, today! What IsAspell? GNU Aspell is an open source and free spell checker which can be installed easily on your Linux system. Here we use theen_USdictionary to use the US English language. This may help with avoiding false positives. For English language abbreviations likeen_USanden_GB, see the installation screenshot above as it highlights the ones installed....

December 3, 2020 · 1 min · 194 words · Jeremy Grimes Jr.

Using CRON Jobs in CloudFlare Workers through Wrangler

Installing the Wrangler Command-Line Tool To create a site deployment, Cloudflare has created theWrangler command-line tool. Wrangler requires installation via eitherNPM (NodeJS package manager)orCargo (Rust language package manager). To do this we use the newwrangler loginfeature. Otherwise, jump in and Wrangler will configure the API token automatically. This file is contained in the user’s home directory and stored in the sub-directory.wrangler\config\default.toml. We need to turn off the default WordPress CRON setup by using the following configuration inwp-config....

December 2, 2020 · 2 min · 291 words · Monica Jones

Raspberry Pi 4: Good Enough For Gaming?

Related Quick Links Is the new Raspberry Pi 4 fast enough for gaming? And, if so, what sort of games can you play on it? This article will answer these questions, and show you how to improve performance and measure CPU speed! Raspberry Pi 4: Fast Enough For Gaming? The new 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 may have made a few heads turn when it came out. A cheap, small, microcomputer with desktop like capabilities and memory sizing....

December 1, 2020 · 2 min · 378 words · Angelica Wells

How to Bulk Rename Files to Numeric File Names in Linux

This can be done with some light scripting and this article will show you how to do exactly that. Many other semi-automated systems produces similar date and time based filenames. This also applies to other domains and sets of files. Many other commands tried all had limitations which I wanted to avoid. hey do your own research before running it. I also checked a file named which contains a newline....

November 30, 2020 · 2 min · 256 words · Dr. Daniel Lewis Jr.