UPDATE – Microsoft, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and others have all released updates to address the WPA2 KRACK vulnerability. See the bottom of this page for more info. The WPA2 security protocol for wireless networks has been compromised. This means that the wireless connections on your home network are insecure. Since most people assume that their…

Change default document template to single-spacing (Word 2016) Windows start -> Search -> %appdata%\Microsoft\Templates opens in Explorer: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates\ in blank document in Word 2016: Home tab -> Styles -> right click Normal -> select Modify change font to Calibri 11 pt. (other good fonts or this) click single-spacing icon (near center) click Format -> Paragraph…

It’s in the news today that the US government is looking into phasing out the use of Social Security Numbers for identification. This is after the massive Equifax security breach in which the data including Social Security Numbers of over 150 million Americans have been stolen. For any company or organization to require or even…

You may have noticed the yellow boxes next to many add-ons in Firefox’s add-ons manager which say “Legacy”. As of November when Firefox version 57 is released those extensions will no longer work with the new Firefox engine called Quantum. There are literally thousands of plugins which will no longer work when the update occurs.…

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday that illegal immigrant parents who brought their children to the U.S. in defiance of the law “did a great thing,” giving the country an infusion of successful young people. washingtontimes.com: Pelosi: Dreamers’ parents ‘did a great thing’ in sneaking them into U.S. If someone robs a bank and…

It makes me glad to see this. Unfortunately family safety or even family is generally not sufficiently well understood in the mainstream to have the meaning it should. And despite the legion of professors of psychology and sociology – actually in part because of them – our families – our family – is endangered as…

Your people are dying.  They are being crushed.  They have been oppressed for so long that they’ve forgotten what it’s like to be successful, to have dreams.  They are broken. Hilary Clinton would not have saved them.  Nancy Pelosi certainly won’t.  The Democratic and Republican establishment won’t.  Corrupt city political machines won’t. But you can. …

I installed Winamp on a system today as a backup to play my white noise while being able to listen to other music through Media Monkey which is the main player I now use. Media Monkey is pretty good but still, after installing Winamp and applying a color theme to it, I’m still amazed. Winamp…

This is a very quick guide to setting up the Sendmail mail transport agent in Cygwin. Run the Cygwin setup-x86_64.exe program and install both sendmail and mutt. Your machine has to have a domain name assigned to it for Sendmail to run. Most people name their computers without assigning a domain name. To assign a…