I’ve been using an OpenVPN tunnel for years with good success. I have a couple of server locations set up in the US, and I connect from overseas, presently Sierra Leone. I think it’s a fairly generic configuration; I didn’t mess with presets in the configuration file other than the […]
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Can I adjust the location of arrowheads on directed graphs? Ideally, I would like the arrows placed in the middle of each edge. I would also like to customize the type of the arrowhead, “<“, instead of solid triangles. Is that possible? Can I also move the node labels off […]
26H2 update is available. I have my laptop set to get the latest updates when available. This setting has been on for months now. Still, I’m on 25H2. I can click the update button repeatedly and then it says the system is up to date. Why can’t Windows update properly?
I regularly fill in the same web forms where some free-text fields takes one of many different values. When I click into the empty field, Chrome shows a dropdown of values I’ve entered before, but never more than 6. How can I make Chrome show more than 6 autocomplete suggestions […]
My Windows box no longer seems to sleep. I’ll come back to it in the morning, and it’s still perky, having run all night. It used to sleep. Not sleeping is a security issue — if I am away from my desk suddenly and forget to manually sleep, I want […]
I recently purchased a Windows 7 Ultimate retail DVD because I wanted to experience using Windows 7 again. I know I can rip the original DVD to create an ISO file, transfer it to a USB drive, and install Windows from there. However, that’s not what I’m looking for. Is […]
The title says it all. Sometimes it’ll be fine all day or, like this morning, it’ll die three times in two hours. I have been working with the company that sold me the machine for a long time, but they’ve been unable to find out what’s wrong and their final […]
I was on a domain, a tab opened, and after a series of redirections, I landed on another page. I suspect there is some kind of advertisement scam somewhere (the end point being a legitimate business, but the initial domain, let’s say, I was visiting to try and collect malware) […]