There’s plenty of material online on the IPv6 vs. IPv4 topic. Suffice it to say that IPv6 provides a gazillion times more addresses than IPv4, making the address space exhaustion a non-issue and obsoleting workarounds such as NAT that’s been used for many years to extend IPv4’s life. That’s the good news. With IPv6, you — Continue reading »
Opting out of PayPal’s Personalized Shopping
📆 October 6, 2024
Every now and again companies send their users updated terms of service, with the stipulation that the continuing usage of their services constitutes a tacit agreement to the new terms. These are usually long and boring documents filled with legalese and in most cases users simply ignore them. I have been guilty of that myself — Continue reading »
Moving, Migrating, or Exporting/Importing Windows 10 Network Locations
📆 July 15, 2024
I have been in the process of migrating my Windows 10 computer to a more muscular hardware. Instead of dealing with partition cloning, I made the decision to start everything from scratch and reinstall all applications. Some applications have decent export/import tools that do the job. In other cases, I must manually configure the new — Continue reading »
Resize/Scale/Zoom Image or Photo Dimensions in Browser
📆 December 27, 2023
I don’t recall if Picasa, the predecessor to Google Photos, had a way to shrink or enlarge photos, but Google Photos doesn’t have this feature. By shrink or enlarge I don’t mean changing the file size, I mean actually changing the dimensions of the entire photo, as in its height and width. For example, changing — Continue reading »
Cloudflare DDoS Mitigation
📆 September 13, 2023
A part of my day job involves managing various servers and web services. There was a time that dealing with DDoS attacks was a mega stressful event that could last from hours to days. It generally involved waking up to the boss or team members or automated alarms messaging me about dead services, followed by — Continue reading »
Did Elon Musk Suspend My Twitter App?
📆 May 21, 2023
This blog runs on WordPress and, as evident, it’s updated infrequently, like one or two new posts per month. There are only a handful of plugins installed on it and one is used to auto-submit new posts to my low-activity Twitter account, @hashemian. In fact, the only activity on my Twitter account is the new — Continue reading »
Email Forwarding Fail and Return to The Legacy G Suite
📆 March 7, 2023
About a year ago Google announced the sunsetting of the Legacy G Suite product that was available free of cost to users who had signed up for it many years ago. The idea was to force the freeloaders to migrate to the paid Google Workspace service. Many users, myself included, were dismayed with the announcement, — Continue reading »
NYC / Manhattan From Up Above
📆 February 25, 2023
Sometimes one needs to be at the right time, the right place, with the right weather. That was the case for me on a recent business trip on a JetBlue flight from Westchester, NY to Florida. The plane took off heading south and within 10 minutes at 10,000ish feet spectacular aerial New York City scenes — Continue reading »
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