Category Archives: Technology

Security

Scary Chip Flaws Raise Spectre of Meltdown — Krebs on Security

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Please be sure to update/patch every device you have. On most Windows machines, you should be able to do a manual reboot (Start -> Power -> Restart) and have the updates applied. On iOS you want to go to Settings -> General -> Software Update

Scary Chip Flaws Raise Spectre of Meltdown — Krebs on Security

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Health, iPhone, Technology

The Most Dangerous Thing You Can Do While “Multitasking”

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So true. Please enable “DND while driving” on your phone! Both the iPhone and Android have the feature. I’ve been using it since I updated to iOS 11, and it works well. Just getting the notifications I found was a distraction, and since I can still get calls from my “favorites” it’s been a huge help.

OPTIMIZE with Brian Johnson | More Wisdom in Less Time: +1 #52: The Most Dangerous Thing You Can Do While “Multitasking”

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Technology

Billionaire ex-Facebook president Sean Parker unloads on Mark Zuckerberg and admits he helped build a monster

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Yes, I realize the irony of posting this to FB, but it will also be on my blog which is where I’d like to see a lot of what goes on SM now distributed to.
Billionaire ex-Facebook president Sean Parker unloads on Mark Zuckerberg and admits he helped build a monster

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Technology

This Week in Tech 639 Anywhere but Albany

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Good discussion on Facebook and Twitter in This Week in Tech (TWiT 639: Anywhere but Albany):
This Week in Tech 639 Anywhere but Albany | TWiT.TV

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iPhone

How to Stop Your iPhone From Autocorrecting “i” to “A”

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Yes, I️ am seeing this happen…
How to Stop Your iPhone From Autocorrecting “i” to “A”

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Technology

What intelligent machines can learn from a school of fish

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Wow!

What intelligent machines can learn from a school of fish

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iPhone

Addicted to Your iPhone? You’re Not Alone – The Atlantic

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Addicted to Your iPhone? You’re Not Alone – The Atlantic

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Security

10 Unusual Things I Learned From Mr. X – Altucher Confidential

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Ep. 265 – 10 Unusual Things I Learned From Mr. X – Altucher Confidential

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Linux

Linux Startup Email

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Want to receive an email any time your linux server reboots? Just create this script…

sudo nano /usr/local/sbin/startupemail.sh

Here’s the code for the script…

#!/bin/sh

# Lets things startup
sleep 60

# Get info
IP="$(ifconfig | grep -A 1 'eth0' | tail -1 | cut -d ':' -f 2 | cut -d ' ' -f 1)"
HOSTNAME=`hostname`

#Send email
echo "IP: $IP, Host: $HOSTNAME" | mail -s "Server Started" me@there.com

Make sure to make it executable…

sudo chmod u+x /usr/local/sbin/startupemail.sh

Then add it to your /etc/rc.local file

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Security, Windows

Find the Members of an Active Directory Group

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The simplest way to get the list of users in an Active Directory group is to use the following command right from the command line:

NET GROUP "my_group" /DOMAIN

And yes, that is the work “DOMAIN”, not the domain you are in. The only value to change in the command is my_group

Ref: Is there a way to view the members of an Active Directory group if you aren’t a domain admin and can’t log into a domain controller?

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