Read more about the article Solving your computer performance issues with Windows Task Manager – Part 2
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Solving your computer performance issues with Windows Task Manager – Part 2

In my previous post, I showed how easy it is to check the memory that is used by all the programs and processes you are running on your computer. Additionally, I showed how you can quickly shut down programs that suddenly freeze up and can’t be closed and restarted again. This is all done by using Task Manager. One of the basic features that a Tech supporter checks in order to do a root cause analysis for performance issues of programs and applications on your computer.

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20 October 2021
Read more about the article Solving your computer performance issues with Windows Task Manager – Part 1
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Solving your computer performance issues with Windows Task Manager – Part 1

Do you know the feeling of annoyance when you start up your computer or a specific program and you have to wait for ages? Or of getting a little upset when a program just doesn’t work at all or suddenly stops? I do and I think a lot of people that frequently use a computer at the office run into this situation now and then as well. It’s very frustrating and leads to restarting your computer over and over again without a real solution, leaving you without a clue why it is so slow. Especially not having a clue about the root cause of the problem is the biggest annoyance I have for myself: I want to fix it but I don’t know how so I just keep going while frustration is building up.

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18 October 2021
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Brute force attacks

I have been running into the term “brute-force attacks” quite a lot during my journey into cybersecurity. Brute-force attacks are used when you want to crack someone’s password to obtain unauthorized access. I understand what they do but I never invested a lot of time in getting a full grasp of how brute-force attacks work. 

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15 October 2021
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The Power of Power Apps

During one of the webinars I was following about Business Intelligence, the name “Power Apps” appeared. It was only mentioned very briefly but it piqued my interest because I never heard about Power Apps before. I decided to do some research myself to get a grasp of the basics. Personally, my first “hunch” was that Power Apps was closely tied to the creation of automatic solutions in the administrative/financial environment of an enterprise. So let’s see if my assumption was correct.

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11 October 2021
Read more about the article Bitcoin Taproot Soft Fork Upgrade: DeFi competition for Ethereum and other blockchains?
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Bitcoin Taproot Soft Fork Upgrade: DeFi competition for Ethereum and other blockchains?

The latest Bitcoin update was the Segregated Witness (SegWit) soft fork update in 2017. This eventually ended in a split in the Bitcoin community and to an undesirable hard fork that created Bitcoin Cash.

In November 2021 Bitcoin will undergo a significant soft fork upgrade. In contrast to the SegWit update, this update has the full support of the Bitcoin community and the risk of an unexpected hard fork like the one in 2017 is negligible. 

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7 October 2021
Read more about the article Using KeePass Part 1 -setting up a password database
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Using KeePass Part 1 -setting up a password database

I have been postponing the installation of a decent password manager on my computer for quite a while now. The main reason is that I didn’t really see it as a key priority and installing the one I selected, KeePass can be a bit of a hassle to set up. I think it’s more about procrastination than “priorities” in the end so I decided to stop all the presses related to other stuff and to set up

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30 September 2021