Vacuum Tubes aren't empty

There has been a renewed interest in vacuum tube devices and vacuum tube circuit design. If you are interested in either, then you NEED a uTracer. This is truly one of the great designs that helps users to better understand vacuum tubes and how to get the most out of them. Please click on over to see how great it is.

The Root Problem with Technical Support Desks

Having interactions with hundreds of technical support help desks, I have come to the conclusion that they all have a root problem. A problem which causes frustration for the end users and often times results in no problem solution and no help.
That root problem is that the help desk starts with the overarching assumption that the user is wrong or has done something wrong; and everything on providers end is perfect.
Think about your own interactions and consider how different it would have proceeded if it was approached in an unbiased fashion focused only on first, understanding the problem, and second in finding a solution no matter where it lies. It is possible, but seldom exhibited.

FolderMatch is an Essential Tool for all PC Users

FolderMatch is an essential tool for All PC users. Whether you write code, administer systems, handle media etc. One way or the other, you are going to deal with files and folders.
FolderMatch:

• has an intuitive graphical user interface
• handles files and folders
• can be used to copy/move, backup files/folders and verify the results
• compare/synchronize two folders
• line by line file comparison
• and much more

If you haven't been using FolderMatch, you will wonder how you got by without it.

KiB - GiB Ranks Among The Dumbest Ideas Ever - The Unnecessary "i"

KiB and GiB solve a non-problem.

Everywhere in the digital domain and computers KB , MB, GB etc mean the binary, powers of 2 domain, EXCEPT in drive capacities. ie hard drives, SSD, Flash Drives etc. Some twit marketing type back in the 1950s/1960s decided that the capacities would "look" larger if they used MB where M is in the power of 10 domain (or they just couldn't wrap their head around binary numbers - whatever). It was a stupid idea then and an even more stupid idea now.

And, by the way, it is only applies in the advertising and cardboard box world. As soon as you look at the drive size on a computing device, it shows it in the powers of 2 domain.

But no, do we fix the problem by changing how drive capacities are shown in literature and on the cardboard box? Some really well meaning, ignorant person/group decides we should re-label everything is the entire computer world as xiB where "i" means it is in the power of 2 domain.

Yes there is an "i" in binary, but that isn't the point!
All I have to say about this "i" movement is Kibbles 'n Bits...

Deactivate RC4 in Firefox

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Deactivate RC4 in Firefox

Sonicwall has lucid moments; this isn't one of them

How can you get "host up" alerts from a Sonicwall NSA and NOT get a "host down" alert? Even though both are configured correctly in Log/Settings. It's hard to imagine...

An Icon that isn't

In what world is the icon for "paste", as in the triad "cut, copy, paste", the symbol of a clipboard? Only in the weird Android world.