Month: July 2021

Where to stay in Pattaya?

I write about Pattaya, about the purchase of housing there, and after all, its streets are right in front of my eyes, but I caught myself thinking that not everyone is well oriented in this city. Let me introduce you to it a little on Google Maps. Legend on my map: 1. Scale. This line is equal to one kilometer....

How to shut down computers in PowerShell

Stop-Computer cmdlet The Stop-Computer cmdlet shuts down the local or remote computer. You can run Stop-Computer with additional options to specify authentication types and alternate credentials, and to force an immediate shutdown. This cmdlet uses the Win32Shutdown method of the Win32_OperatingSystem WMI class. The following two commands are identical and shutdown the local computer: Stop-Computer Stop-Computer -ComputerName localhost The following...

How to restart computers in PowerShell

Restart-Computer Cmdlet The Restart-Computer cmdlet restarts the operating system on a local or remote computer. The following command will reboot the local computer: Restart-Computer You can use Restart-Computer with various parameters to trigger restart operations, to specify authentication levels and alternate credentials, to restrict operations to be performed simultaneously, and to restart immediately. Starting with Windows PowerShell 3.0, you can...

I wanted to advertise Wise (TransferWise), but I could not make a transfer…

TransferWise renamed Wise You may not have heard the name Wise when it comes to cheap international money transfers, as TransferWise recently changed its name to Wise and even changed its website address. Wise is not a new company, it is a well-established English company with the cheapest international transfers. I have been using PaySend for a long time and...

How to configure the network interface to use a dynamic IP address (DHCP) in PowerShell

Note: all settings in this article must be done with administrator rights. Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) allows the network adapter to obtain the correct network settings without manually configuring network interfaces. To manage a network interface, you need to know its index. The list of interfaces and their indices can be obtained with the following command: Get-NetIPAddress | Format-Table...

How to set IP address, netmask, default gateway and DNS for a network interface in PowerShell

Setting a static IP, netmask and gateway for a network adapter in PowerShell is a little confusing but possible. This post will show you how to do this using the New-NetIPAddress and Set-NetIPAddress cmdlets. The old way of configuring network interfaces is using the netsh command. First, we look at the name of the network interfaces of any of the...

How to configure HTTP Digest Authentication in Squid

Basic authentication is bad because the password is actually transmitted in plain text (encoded in Base64). See the article “How to hack HTTP Basic and Digest Authentication” for details. Therefore, it is preferable to use Digest authentication on the Squid proxy server. Let's start by creating a file with a password hash, this is done with a command like: sudo...

An unplugged disk causes a delay in system boot

The fstab file contains descriptive information about the file systems that the system can mount. In the /etc/fstab file, you can specify the parameters for mounting a disk, which can be either plugged to the system or unplugged from it. An example of such a disk is an external USB drive. In the latter case, you must additionally specify the...

How to check if your computer supports TPM 2.0 on Linux

One of the requirements for Windows 11 is the TPM 2.0 chip. I think it was thanks to Windows 11 that many users learned about the existence of the TPM. This article will tell you how to find out in Linux if there is a TPM and what version is it. TPM: Trusted Platform Module 2.0 – this chip is...

Linux Mint 20.2 Released: What’s New & Download Links

Download Linux Mint 20.2 Linux Mint 20.2 is uploaded to the mirrors and is available for download: Linux Mint Cinnamon Development versions 20.2: x64 Linux Mint MATE Development versions 20.2: x64 Linux Mint 20.2 “Uma” The biggest piece of news this month is the upcoming release of Linux Mint 20.2 “Uma”.  After the stable release is officially unveiled, the upgrade path...
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