I've seen quite a few people asking for a basic overview on how to configure Windows NPS (Network Policy Server, Microsoft's implementation of the RADIUS authentication protocol) to work with UBNT equipment. This guide focuses on Unifi, but should be easily translatable to Edge/etc. if you know...
Curious to see what my fellow .Net developers/architects think of this new language feature that's been bandied about since at least early 2017, though it's now potentially slated to be included in C# 8.0. I have to admit, at first I didn't "get it" but I've been doing some...
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Over the years I've tried quite a few password manager/autofill utilities, and none of them have quite offered the full integration experience I've needed, at least nothing above and beyond what browsers and operating systems have built into them...I've always ended up uninstalling them and...
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Recently I attained the title of Solutions Architect in my career, which is exactly what I wanted to be when I embarked on this career path 16 years ago. Even though I’ve basically been doing the role of a Solutions Architect for a few years now, obtaining the official title and the official responsibilities...
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Configuring websites to only allow SSL traffic is pretty much the norm these days (and if it isn’t, it should be). The problem with taking this route to secure your web traffic is that there really isn’t an intuitive way to then make sure all http (port 80) traffic then gets properly redirected over...
Note; If you don't feel like reading this entire post, at least read this: Start8 from Stardock Corp (30 day free trial, 5 bucks after that, and well worth it IMO): Get your start button back, disable hotspots, and boot directly to the desktop with that utility. Otherwise, read on. This post is not...
This will be short how to on how to get ISO C ‘99 code to compile in Visual Studio 200x (in this case, Visual Studio 2012), since Microsoft only supports ANSI C ‘89 (and barely at that). Microsoft have made it very clear that they will not support C99 , and instead urges users to move to...