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| Suggested Edit | Post #283835 |
Suggested edit: Although the answer may involve direct database access, the *question* is squarely about MediaWiki, not MySQL (more) |
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| Edit | Post #283748 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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What's the pattern for how on/off sliders work? Okay, this is driving me nuts with modern UIs. Back in the old days, it was easy: Checkboxes were either checked, crossed, starred, filled in, or whatever glyph the particular environment used for the purpose, indicating that whatever was described by the label was on, true, active, selected, ...;... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #283159 |
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| Comment | Post #283664 |
@#8046 No, TCP/IP doesn't encode anything about the application as such. There are heuristics that can be employed which can be anywhere from moderately unusable to actually pretty good, but those are usually relatively blunt instruments. (For example, it's relatively trivial to block outright at lea... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #283660 |
The more general term for the type of software would be an *application firewall*. From a quick perusal of links from $SEARCHENGINE, [it looks like](https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201642) whatever is built into OS X can block *incoming* connections on a per-application basis, but not *outgoing* co... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #283642 |
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| Edit | Post #283650 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Application check for updates will never succeed and blocks launch; can I intercept or bypass it? You certainly can use Wireshark to look for DNS traffic. First off, because of caching, I strongly recommend that you reboot the computer, and as quickly as possible start Wireshark, start monitoring network traffic, set up a Wireguard filter, and then start the application in question, while doin... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #283640 |
Using HTTP 302 is likely a bad idea because different browsers have implemented it with different behavior; it's better to use 303 or 307 as appropriate for temporary redirects, and 301 for permanent redirects (while being aware of the consequences of doing so). See e.g. [Wikipedia's List of HTTP sta... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #283642 |
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| Edit | Post #283642 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: A term that describes frontend redirects As already stated, of course it's possible to do a redirection in the front end by telling the browser to request a different URL. Using Javascript is one possible method (some companies apparently actually do that); using `` is another. With the Javascript approach, you can even have the client pick... (more) |
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| Suggested Edit | Post #283574 |
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helpful | over 3 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #283256 |
Suggested edit: whatever the issue is, that doesn't sound like a site we want to link to (more) |
helpful | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283232 |
Adding to the above, where does what's discussed in the question body support your claim in the title that the total character count is reduced? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #283159 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Why does my HTC Desire 610, running Android v4.4.2 and WiFi connected, falsely allege "your phone is up to date" and "no updates available"? Your phone appears to be telling the truth in stating that there are no updates available for it. Mapping that fact to a statement that "your phone is up to date" in the message title is perhaps unfortunate, but doesn't change the fact that no updates are available and that the phone is plainly te... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #281889 |
You state that a RAW image would be "completely uncompressed". That's unlikely; what's desired for RAW images is *lossless storage*, not necessarily *uncompressed* storage. I checked a sample of RAW image files from my Canon EOS 50D, and they vary in size between (approximately) 16.3 MiB and 26.9 MiB... (more) |
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| Suggested Edit | Post #282601 |
Suggested edit: Quote in post title should at least match the text being quoted (more) |
helpful | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282452 |
@#36396 What you are most likely missing is that SSH is a general-purpose authenticated secure transport protocol, not entirely unlike, say, TLS. While it is often used to establish an interactive text-based terminal session to a remote system (hence "secure shell"), that's not the only thing it can ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #282298 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Data transfer between computer system ports, as unidirectional or bidirectional > is it common to set firewall rules for ports to transfer data in only one direction (only inwards with incoming data or only outwards with outgoing data)? No. At least not strictly as stated. There is a very simple reason for this: TCP (which is used for much traffic on the Internet, and w... (more) |
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A: How to stop all automatic Windows Update restarts on a Windows 10 Pro machine? You can pause updates for a while, which should be good enough for your use case. The following looks like it'll work on at least Windows 10 21H1 Pro. Go into Settings -> Windows Update, and select Pause updates for [X] days. When the task is complete, it's probably a good idea to manually go b... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #282122 |
I believe the different editions of Windows 10 differ in this regard, so it might help if you specify which you are interested in. Also, do you need to completely prevent updates, or is it sufficient to be able to postpone the installation of updates? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #282068 |
I don't see why it would be a problem. What about your usage, or intended usage, makes you think it might be? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #281989 |
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| Comment | Post #281940 |
@Lundin What location information is used (and how it is derived) by Windows to select which weather to show certainly sounds like a worthwhile separate question to ask. (more) |
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| Suggested Edit | Post #281989 |
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| Edit | Post #281966 |
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| Edit | Post #281966 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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Should we use more specific version tags for software? Some questions, like my own In Windows 10 21H1, how do I remove the weather report in the task bar?, are specific to a given version of a product. Other questions are more generic, or apply to products that don't have version numbers per se (web applications would likely be a major such category). In... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #281940 |
Post edited: 'widget' is a much too general tag IMO + restore content deleted in revision 4 |
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| Suggested Edit | Post #281935 |
Suggested edit: add 'hibernation' tag (more) |
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| Edit | Post #281940 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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In Windows 10 21H1, how do I remove the weather report in the task bar? Windows 10 version 21H1 added a weather report to the task bar, next to the system tray area. Since I can just look out the window instead and get accurate, up-to-the-second weather information, I am completely uninterested in this useless-to-me waste of screen real estate. However, I can't seem t... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #281773 |
Post edited: more specific tag 'web-browsers' instead of 'browsers' |
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| Edit | Post #281867 |
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| Suggested Edit | Post #281867 |
Suggested edit: more specific tag 'web-browsers' instead of 'browsers' (more) |
helpful | over 3 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #281773 |
Suggested edit: more specific tag 'web-browsers' instead of 'browsers' (more) |
helpful | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281839 |
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| Edit | Post #281839 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: What actions should be performed to restore a website after a DDoS attack? A typical DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service; which is a subtype of the broader class of Denial of Service attacks) will simply flood a host, or its network connection, with data. It's not uncommon for the data to be completely meaningless, and for it to never even reach web server software if indee... (more) |
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