If you spend a lot of time in the command line you may find it a bit difficult to remember the different commands you need to use to achieve basic things depending on whether you’re using Unix/Linux or Windows that day. This guide contains a cheat-sheet with some of the most used Unix commands and […]
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One trick the OnePlus 6T has up its sleeve is that despite not being listed on Vodafone and EE’s supported devices list, it actually comes with the keys and certificates required to connect to the VoWiFi/Wi-Fi Calling servers – all you need to do is enable it in a debugging menu. Please note that this
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Quick Fix Error message: Could not get metalink https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-7&arch=x86_64 error was 14: HTTPS Error 503 – Service Unavailable Fix: sudo rpm –query –file /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.trust.crt Output (will change as time goes on): ca-certificates-2018.2.22-70.0.el7_5.noarch Copy and paste output, and then run: sudo yum reinstall ca-certificates-2018.2.22-70.0.el7_5.noarch Then try yum update again.
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If you’ve ever accidentally pressed CMD+Q and quit an app when you wanted to press CMD+W to close a tab or the window, you can easily re-map the key combination required to quit a specific app (or all apps) in Settings. To do this open Settings, head to Keyboard, and then Shortcuts. Then select App Shortcuts from
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By default, macOS defaults to the SBC audio codec for Bluetooth headphones regardless of whether your headphones supports AAC or aptX. macOS itself, however, does support these codecs, it just needs enabling. In my case, I am using the Bang & Olufsen Beoplay H9i that support the AAC codec, but this guide also includes a
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If most reviews from popular outlets are to be believed, the Bose QC35s (and QC35 II, which are identical in every way except for the Google Assistant button and a differently designed carrying case in the box) are unrivalled in the wireless over-ear noise cancelling headphone market. How true is this though? Do they really
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Easy Editor (ee) is one of my favourite built-in utilities from FreeBSD. It’s my preferred text editor (vs vi, vim, nano, pico etc). Thankfully it is easy enough to install it on CentOS 6 and 7 (tested on 2018.03.18). 1 – Prerequisites Firstly, you’ll need to install some prerequisites: yum install libX11 libXdmcp This command should install
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When updating your Mac, you usually have to go through the App Store to do it. This can be annoying because it takes around 20 minutes to do each update and you can’t use your Mac at the same time. But did you know there’s a way to do it via the command line interface?
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In this guide, we will be creating a guest WLAN/WiFi network and isolate it from your existing network by creating a guest VLAN and putting all devices on this VLAN on a operate subnet. This can be scaled to create numerous VLANs but we’ll just be creating two (your own network, and a guest network).
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This guide will walk through the steps required to block devices on your network from accessing your ISP provided router. This guide will specifically walk through the steps required to block a guest LAN from accessing the user interface of the Virgin SuperHub cable modem/router but it can be tweaked to your own requirements. Specific
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