The “evil ones,” as President George W. Bush likes to call the terrorist mastermind and his henchmen, remained maddeningly elusive. But the evidence they left behind underscores why it is essential to stalk bin Laden and his lieutenants to the ends of the earth. In Al Qaeda safe houses and crude laboratories around Afghanistan, investigators have found plans to launch chemical and biological attacks against American and European targets. U....
You might be concerned that the impact of future COVID variants and inflation could ruin the outlook for 2022, but there are many reasons to be optimistic. High-level professionals aren’t exempt from any of this. Here’s how to make the most of the current situation and put yourself in the best possible position for 2022. The Outlook for 2022 Before we get into what exactly you can do to prepare yourself for the 2022 job market, allow me to make the case for why I’m so optimistic about the outlook....
How to Stop Podcasts Automatically Downloading on MacBook By default, the Podcasts app will automatically download new episodes of shows to which you’ve subscribed. To turn off automatic downloads, follow these steps: In the Podcasts app, click Podcasts in the upper-left Menu bar. Select Preferences. Under General > Automatic Downloads, uncheck the box next to Enable When Following. To ensure episodes aren’t downloaded when you save them, navigate to Preferences > Advanced and uncheck the box next to Download episodes when saving....
Proxy and Real IP Concepts Today’s web applications run on multiple app servers and database systems. Imagine two application servers sharing the same source code. Requests from the user are ready to be met by either of these servers depending on the load situation. The load balancing mechanism, which handles HTTP requests in front of the application servers, decides which request to forward to which application server. This poses a big question for middleware system administrators and software developers: what is the user’s real IP address?...
Turbos are brilliant achievements of engineering that have quickly proliferated across the automotive industry. It started as a rare performance upgrade limited to high-end luxury and sports cars but is now a ubiquitous add-on that increases efficiency. Read on to find out more about how turbos work. Why Modern Cars Use Turbochargers Turbochargers date back to 1905, when Alfred Buchi was granted a patent for an early turbocharger. It’s amazing how the technology dates back more than a century, especially considering how much of a boom turbochargers are experiencing now....
In this article, we’ll look at Back Market, how it works, and what customers have to say about it. Moreover, we will share some tips to help you have the best shopping experience. What Is Back Market? Back Market is an online marketplace where refurbished items are sold for incredibly low prices. Most of the marketplace is dominated by electronics, with a small share of home and kitchen products. However, the marketplace is slowly morphing into other categories....
The amount of batteries that will begin to phase out of their useful life expectancy will increase massively in the coming years, and finding useful (and safe!) ways to use their remains is vital. Read on to find out how battery recycling works and what’s in store for the future. Why EV Battery Recycling Is a Big Deal At the moment, the recycling process for lithium-ion batteries isn’t exactly a super profitable business venture, and it’s also complicated to extract all the elements and metals that originally composed the EV battery....
But what is the internet? How does it work? Let’s take a quick overview of its history to understand how it works and then follow the journey of a piece of data as it travels around the world on the global network that is the internet. The Birth of the Internet In the 1960s, computers were only usually found in giant corporations and government offices. The military is also one major user of computer systems, and they discovered the need to access computers in remote bases from a central command, like the Pentagon....
This means I could theoretically overclock it to 6GHz, but how fast can I set it in the real world?
The company HighSpeedInternet.com recently released a study of internet speeds around the country. New Mexico clocks in with the slowest downloads in the country, with an average rate of 72.2 megabytes per second. Experts say that internet speed often depends on the infrastructure in the area where you live, but there are ways to make the best of bad situations. “To make the internet faster in many states requires ISPs to make the necessary upgrades and investments,” Neset Yalcinkaya, a vice president at wireless company Quectel, said in an email interview....
If your typing speed is lower than you want it to be, or you’re prone to keyboard errors, this is where the best typing software (opens in new tab) can prove invaluable. Accuracy at work is always important, but equally there are some professions that require much faster typing speeds than others. To help you assess whether you need to up your typing game, we’ve looked at current job descriptions to find out how fast, on average, you need to type for specific typing jobs....
When I log into XP, my 5 hard drives get mapped C, D, F, X, Y (I believe I somehow set 2 of my drives to be X and Y under XP, and the others are mapped ‘automatically’ When I log in under Win 7, the letters are C, D, F, G, H (automatically). Had I anticipated having a dual boot system, what’s the best way to ensure the hard drives always have the same letter or name under either boot, so I don’t need to change directory paths for various application programs....
How to Find a Driver’s Version Number You can find an installed driver’s version number from within Device Manager, along with other published information about the driver. Open Device Manager. The easiest way to do this in Windows 11/10/8 is from the Power User Menu (WIN+X keyboard shortcut), or with Control Panel in older versions of Windows. See Tip 4 below for some other methods that might be quicker for some people....
However, Clubhouse is an invite-only platform, meaning you can only join the app or a chat room if your friend sends you a link. This exclusivity means that there is a limit to how fast you can grow your audience. But this doesn’t mean that it’s impossible to make a living off Clubhouse. So, how do people on the app make money? 1. Sponsorships A widely-used business model in the social media age, sponsorships are one of the main ways to earn money on Clubhouse as a content creator....
Distributed denial of service, or DDoS for short, refers to a cyber attack resulting in victims being unable to access systems and network resources, essentially disrupting internet services. The DDoS attack will attempt to make an online service or website unavailable by flooding it with unwanted traffic from multiple computers. For a DDoS attack to be successful, an attacker will spread malicious software to vulnerable computers, mainly through infected emails and attachments....
But, apart from the electric motors, the most important component in an EV is its battery. The lithium battery in most EVs is also one of the most controversial parts of an electric vehicle. Read on to discover how lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles help propel these advanced machines forward. Why Are Lithium-Ion Batteries Important? Lithium-ion batteries are at the core of the electric vehicle revolution. These batteries offer great energy density, especially compared to lead-acid batteries, which are much heavier if you want to get a comparable capacity....
