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The world is transforming into a digital world where most work is done via computers. Software and hardware are the most common terms used when discussing computers. Many elements dedicate themselves to the making of modern tech devices. There are various kinds of software and hardware, and you may come across firmware. In the electronic industry, firmware and software are evenly popular. Differentiating between these terms can be tricky as they can sometimes have the same purpose....

IoT-powered buildings use less energy, allowing people who care about the environment to make the best decisions. It’s true that Deloitte has done a survey and says that the Asia Pacific region is going to invest in smart building projects. It says that by 2050, 90% of emissions from cities can be cut. It’s because more people are moving to cities and more green and sustainable spaces are built. In the future, the number of people will grow even more....

What is Kerberos, and how does it work? If you use email or other online services that require logins to access resources, the chances are that you are authenticating through the Kerberos system. The secure authentication mechanism known as Kerberos guarantees safe communication between devices, systems, and networks. Its main objective is to safeguard your data and login information from hackers. Kerberos is supported by all popular operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS, FreeBSD, and Linux....

The Microsoft Windows operating system comes with some restricted and hidden folders that usually contain files that help run Windows 11 or 10 smoothly. Disturbing these files could result in system errors or complete Windows OS malfunction. Some of these folders are Program Data, System32, AppData, WindowsApps, etc. Among these folders, WindowsApps is of particular interest since this drive use ups a lot of disk storage when you do not restrict app installations from Windows Store....

As a result, most organizations or businesses use it for different purposes. It offers an all-around solution to them for writing proposals, contracts, quotes, and more sales documents. It is obvious that all such official and professionally used documents require the signature of one or more parties. So, they also want a way to instantly and conveniently add signatures without the worries of hand-signing, printing, or scanning. Thanks to Microsoft for making it possible to add signatures to a word document....

If you are a small business owner or have just started your own business, doing a break-even analysis is important. It will help you determine if your business is sustainable or not, if the costs are too high or if the princess is too low to reach the break-even point at the right time. It will help you forecast your business’s profitability, revenue and growth. What is the Break-Even Point?...

Like any other modern software, logging events and messages like warnings and errors is an inherent part of the Docker platform, which allows you to debug your applications and production issues. We’ll be covering some simple ways in which you can manage and monitor logs for your containers. So let’s get started. Docker Logs Command The basic syntax to fetch logs of a container is: OR Both of the syntaxes are essentially the same, so we’ll focus on the rest of the commands in this article as docker logs....

Gaming is one of the entertainment that humans have. We can find different types of games on the web, mobile, desktop, etc. We are not here to make one of those heavy games now. We are going to create a CLI tic-tac-toe game using Python. If you are not familiar with Tic Tac Toe, play it visually here to understand. Don’t worry, even if you don’t understand it, we are going to see it....

It’s necessary for the transactional or membership-based site to encrypt the sensitive data from a client to a server. Improve your Website Security with SSL/TLS Certificate. HTTPS would also boost the search engine ranking, so you may consider having this for your blog as well. If you are looking to have a certificate implemented on your website without spending $$$ then here are a few Certificate Authority houses (SSL providers) to help you with that....

Chef is a configuration management tool based on ruby. It is used to automate the management of configurations across all the nodes in the cluster and maintain consistency. There are three major components of Chef. Chef server Workstation Nodes All the configurations are managed from workstations and later pushed on to the chef-server. Chef server is the centralized store of all the infrastructure configurations. Knife is a command-line tool present on a workstation that is used to interact with Chef Server....

In an organization, people with the same standards are admitted to engaging better with each other, and today we will talk about the well-known organization Mensa. If you don’t know about the Mensa organization, this article is for you as it will share all the essential information related to Mensa and how to become a member of Mensa society or say organization. What is Mensa? Across the globe, Mensa is the biggest high IQ society and the oldest one....

You can’t view these files with your standard photo viewer. Files with the .eps extension can only be launched with a specific graphic design application. This guide explains EPS files, their use cases, and how to open them on Windows and Mac. What Is an EPS File? An EPS file is a vector image file containing elements including bitmap images, two-dimensional vector graphics, and texts. This allows you to transfer information across various operating systems....

Let’s start with the basics first. What is Cloud Computing? Simply put Cloud Computing means the availability of computer resources on demand. The entire range of computing services – both hardware and software- including servers, storage space, database, networking (hardware), analytics, and intelligence (software), are available on-demand from the cloud. Traditionally these resources were stored in in-house data storage centers like huge servers, depending on the quantum of data one has to process....

Cloudflare is one of the popular CDN and security platform, powering millions of sites from small to enterprise. When you implement Cloudflare for your website, all the traffic is secured and accelerated. But this is true when a site is accessed using a domain name. How about if someone finds out the actual server IP (Origin) and misuse it? Finding server IP for the site behind Cloudflare doesn’t take much....

Nowadays, a simple mouse costs approximately $5, and almost all computer operating systems are designed to work with this ubiquitous pointing device. Using a computer could become more complicated if the mouse malfunctions and cannot carry out right-click operations. Every time we use Microsoft Word, Excel, coding software, or graphic design tools, we must do a right click. Why not complete your task without any interruptions on a Windows or macOS computer by learning how to right-click without a mouse?...

Google offers storage in the cloud, which you can use to store and serve object data, static host websites, mount as a file system, etc. If you have lots of images on your WP sites and would like to optimize image file delivery, then Google cloud storage may be helpful in many ways. Reduce bandwidth cost Serve content faster through Google’s low-latency network Reduce storage cost In the following, I will explain step-by-step how to integrate WordPress with Google cloud storage....

I think most of you would agree with me. To overcome this hectic task of coding, you can leverage a tool to autocomplete the syntax called Kite. We are going to see the details and how to work with the software to make Python development faster. What is Kite? Kite is an AI-based autocompletion tool for Python. It uses machine learning to help you with the suggestions for keywords while coding in Python....

There are countless cases of password and data theft, credential stuffing, and other crimes related to passwords. Password theft can devastate a business and expose its sensitive information. People nowadays are burdened with plenty of passwords used for social media, bank accounts, employee logins, and other applications they use every day. Therefore, forgetting passwords is common. But it leads to security and privacy issues, reduced productivity, frustration, and unnecessary stress....

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a core part of the DevOps domain and is a core skill that DevOps engineers must possess. IaC is used to provision and manage the IT infrastructure using configuration code that is machine-readable definition files. Using this software engineering approach towards operations, you can automate the IT infrastructure using programming scripts. When a DevOps engineer thinks about automation using code in DevOps, two DevOps tools always get highlighted, Terraform and Ansible....

PHP rules the web, with around 80% of the market share. It’s everywhere – WordPress, Joomla, Lavarel, Drupal, etc. PHP core is secure, but there are a lot more on top of this, which you might be using, and that might be vulnerable. After the development of a site or complex web application, most of the developers and site owners focus on functionality, design, SEO, and they forget the essential component – security....