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Dear folks Simple task can't get it work https://www.askdavetaylor.com/enable-parental-controls-linksys-wi-fi-router/ Tried to block internet access for one of my iPhone for testing purpose (it has dummy SIM means no cellular data) Enable Parental Controls (i.e it is ON) Choose a specific home device that I want to block then choose option …

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I am using an ASUS H110-E/M.2 motherboard on my desktop with an ADATA SX6000 120GB M.2 drive installed as a system disk, with a 1TB Hard Drive as a storage disk. The system has worked fine for several months, but recently I installed an optical drive and moved my machine …

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I have a NanoPi Neo Core with eMMC..I have installed armbian os from "https://www.armbian.com/nanopi-neo/" to sd card and tried the "Armbian configuration utility" and "nand-sata-install" to install os to eMMC. But it is showing "there are no targets..please check your drives."..If we give "fdisk -l" command it is not detecting …

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Anyone who knows me will happily inform you that I am, as my username implies, rather tech obsessed. I'm not a happy geek when it comes to smartphone cases though, and it's been a long time since I've been able to say I've got the perfect case for my current …

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Hello I've been facing this issue since today, whereby my TwinMOS Micro SD HC Card is not being detected by my Samsung phone, and when placed in the adapter and inserted on PC, again the latter is not detecting it at all, although in the Device Manager I can see …

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I have been experiencing a load last solution loaded problem with VS2017 where it works sometimes and sometimes it doesn.t. Mostly it doesn't. After much research it that are a couple of things that can trigger this, but I can't verify it. I think it is a BUG intorduced by …

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I just got an i7 8700k from hardware swap and the 3rd core is running way hotter than the rest. Its sitting at 68 degress celsius, while the rest are in the 30s. I've reapplied the thermal paste and it didn't change.

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I have a Presario X1050, the laptop just froze on me all of a sudden, the screen went a little weird on me with waves going from one side to the other of the screen. I shut it down imm. but then it never started again. Now when I turn …

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Hi, I have a little problem with my PC. This 'America Megatrends' screen pops up unpredictably when playing/using my computer. Is there a way I can stop it from popping up? This all started 2 weeks ago while playing Fortnite and ever since, I have this screen showing everyday. I …

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My daughter is into making youtube videos but she's been pretty disapointed in the camara/software that came with her laptop. I just purchased her an independant web cam but I need some suggestions on software for her to use for capturing and making her youtube videos. I can't remember if …

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Hey, Currently, I'm running a startup venture developing mobile applications. Such applications and websites are considered to be amongst the cheapest and perhaps the most effective advertising tools for any business. The electronic systems used in our company operates with all kinds of sensitive and confidential data. The flawed data …

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Computer won't turn on cpu light isn't blinking but power light is blinking monitor is like computer is in sleep mode key board num lock light is on but can't off it

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Hello, I am trying to understand prepared statement and what it does. https://www.owasp.org/index.php/SQL_Injection_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet#Defense_Option_1:_Prepared_Statements_.28Parameterized_Queries.29 "Prepared statements ensure that an attacker is not able to change the intent of a query, even if SQL commands are inserted by an attacker. In the safe example below, if an attacker were to enter the …

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Hello, One type of SQLIA is UNION Query and I still do not completely understand what is the point. SELECT Name, Address FROM Users WHERE Id=$id by injecting the following- Id value: $id=1 UNION ALL SELECT creditCardNumber,1 FROM CreditCarTable. We will have the following query: - SELECT Name, Address FROM …

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How to prevent Illegel/ Logically Incorrect Queries? Illegal/Logically Incorrect Queries 1)Original URL:http://www.arch.polimi.it/eventi/?id_nav=886 2)SQLInjection: http:/`/www.arch.polimi.it/eventi/?id_nav=8864' 3) Error message showed: SELECT name FROM Employee WHERE id =8864' from the message error we can find out name of table and fields: name; Employee; id. By the gained information attacker can arrange more strict …

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I downloaded many movies online. But the computer screen is too small, I want to play it on home DVD player. What preparations should I do?

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I want to play iTunes movies on DVD player. I searched online, someone said that iTunes movies couldn't be burned to disc because of DRM.

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Hello guys, we all have read about HTTP, TCP/IP and all kinds of protocols OSI model. My genuine question is whether a protocol is hardware or it is a software or combination of both ? Your views are valuable. Thanks.

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Hello Community, I've been looking around my computers registry and have found a few weird keys under Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ The keys are: ![Capture.PNG](/attachments/small/3/29dd83890b9d34a3c084272ea9bd6e68.PNG "align-right") I'll put them here too in case you want to copy and paste them or something: Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\멘Ṉ싈Ṉ멘Ṉ_ Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\뭘⨱㺀ℎ뭘⨱楎 Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\섀ׂ뤠ׂ߈_ Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\冀⩩览⏡冀⩩_ Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\鬰竣鯐竣鯰竣骐竣鳐竣饰竣鰰竣騰竣馐竣 Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\㦸ᷢ흠຾㦸ᷢE Could anyone tell me what …

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Hello, I am trying to prevent SQL Injection on Codeigniter. I am reading this link: https://www.roytuts.com/prevent-sql-injection-in-codeigniter/ I do not understand what is the purpose of Escaping Queries, Query Binding and Active Record. Thanks in advance.

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Hello, I am planning to do my Thesis on SQLIA and now I am trying to understand something about SQLrand. SQLrand - a system for preventing SQLIA against web servers. The main intuition is that by using a randomized SQL query language, specific to a particular CGI application, it is …

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I am Engr. Rodney KJnr. I am Mikrotik COnsultant. Feel free to chat if you are having any issue with your MikroTik RouterBoard and OS.

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I'm looking for a program reproduces in a picture box the AVI files present within the various files (of course continuous playback and transparent effect including). dll and others, I found one in Visual Basic and it works, but I can not do it Running in VB 10, i have …

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I pre booked this phone and I am really excited about it, so can anybody suggest me is it worth it or not?

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I have a Dell Inspiron 620 desktop. I was working on iTunes when the computer froze. I couldn't get it to do anything. I ended the itunes process in task manager. Everything still froze. I turned the computer off for a bit. Turned it back on and all that came …

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I am using Windows 10 on my Toshiba Satellite with Google Chrome as my browser. Whenever I click on Youtube to watch a video, attached is what appears in my browser instead of the video.: **"Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats available. Click here to …

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![Hello to all members! Actuall I have made an simple android app which just redirects its users to theri favorite brands' websites or online stores. I just downloaded free images of famous brands and added them in my app. When any user clicks on his favorite brand's image, app redirects …

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I am trying to find a way to create an un-deletable partition/content on a USB pen drive. Basically my client wants to give customers a pen drive as a welcome gift with some multimedia and document content already recorded on a partition of the drive. The rest of the drives …

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Recently Thunderbird asked me to login again for Gmail. It presents me a form in which I have to insert the password. It is the same form as when I login to my Google account via my browser. Only the NEXT button does not work. Do you have an idea …

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# Good day to all! # Broken old printer it's time to buy a new one. I can not determine the inkjet or laser ... I read an article and was confused by the fact that laser printers do not print so clearly. On the other hand, the paint does …

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Hi I have a question? If you dump the RAM "internal memory" with dd to an image file, you get everything in memory or Will something be missing?

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Hello everyone, I have been trying to open a text file with the extension .tdb (Text database or something like that) for weeks. The file is used in a GameCube game. This contains the texts of the game (of the menus, information of the enemies, etc.), unfortunately these texts are …

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hello everyone.. i am a final year student. we are asked to do a project in networking.. what kind of project in networking should i do.. i confuse what kind of project should i do.. i am in need of a project topic which is feasible and can be finished …

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i am a student of diploma in electronics and telecomm can anyone suggest me projects related to the below domains:- wireless communication power electronics electrical and electronics IOT Biomedical Instrumentation and control system embedded system

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Hello everybody! Right now I own a Satellite C655 and I am planning to upgrade to a new laptop. I am looking for something faster & around 400$. I work as a web developer & CM and this laptop isn´t working at its best when it comes to multitasking. Any …

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Here at the cottage I have a 3 gig/month cap. If I go over I pay extra. That gives me about 100 meg a day to play with. In preparation for the summer I have to spend some time 1. setting my wifi connection to metered (to block updates) 1. …

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i am trying to add two external monitors to extend screen on my toshiba laptop through vga and hdmi port . But only one is working. i cannot detect second monitor. if i plugout one other is working then. how to add two monitors? display card is :intel(r) hd graphics …

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I have Lenovo Ideapad 320 i7 8550u 8th Gen laptop it has below display adapotrs AMD readon TM 530 Intel(R) UHD graphics 620 I want to add two or three external monitors but it has only one HDMI port, Two USB 3.00 and one Type-C 3.1 port how can i …

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An SSL certificates are used to make your personal information protected, particularly when it comes to online transactions. It’s a mechanism that works between a user’s browser and the website the user is connecting to. In its software, the website has an SSL certificate issued by a trustworthy authority. Web …

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Hello all, My enterprise just released Windows 10 on one of our domains. Using the previous Windows 7, we were able to sysprep a copy of the OS pulled down from SCCM by imaging a workstation with a task sequence. Continuing with that practice on Windows 10 has presented some …

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Hello All, I have an issue with Windows 7: sometime the copy paste doesn't work and when this issue appear => the only way to remove it is by rebooting my pc. The copy paste doesn't work (wether using using [Ctrl]+[C], [Ctrl]+[V] or by context menu (right-click menu)) for all …

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Here's the full notice -> https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/05/fbi-tells-router-users-to-reboot-now-to-kill-malware-infecting-500k-devices/ You can read what happened if you wish but just a r̴e̴b̴o̴o̴t̴ ̴a̴n̴d̴ ̴i̴t̴'̴s̴ ̴g̴a̴m̴e̴ ̴o̴v̴e̴r̴ ̴f̴o̴r̴ ̴t̴h̴i̴s̴ ̴m̴a̴l̴w̴a̴r̴e̴.̴ **Update in new reply.**

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It blocks every attempt to modify any file anywhere. I give Steam and all its subsidiary .exes permission and then it says that there is no permission to modify 'Documents'. I just bought the darned machine to game with and it is freaking driving me nuts. Any suggestions on where …

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I've just bought a stand/sit desk 70cm x 120cm which because of lack of space has to fit almost up against a wall. I need to buy a monitor arm for my 17" monitor and there's room enough for any clamp but not for overhanging arms. So I will need …

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Hi all , I need some help with my laptop in booting. Someone told me that choosing the No gui boot option makes the computer boot faster? However there are also many other options like, boot log, safe video, safe boot (with minimal, alternate shell etc.. options) vista. What do …

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