The Internet has always been a hotspot for innovative ways to scam people. It wasn’t long ago when Nigerian lottery emails scammed thousands of people across the globe. Phishing and identity theft has also been there for a while on the Internet. If you find these scams advanced, wait till you hear about the online scams prevalent in recent times. Why have online scams grown recently? The pandemic behaved like a catalyst in pushing a colossal population into the online realm....

And I get that since it’s still in the early development stage, and there’s so much to learn and implement. This article aims to introduce you to the basics of blockchain technology, how it works, and its application. For starters, imagine how easy life can become if you could send money to your family, staying thousands of miles away, in minutes without paying hefty banking fees. Now, think about having complete control of your money without requiring any permission from your bank to view or transfer it....

People often get confused between content creation and content curation. Content creation is the process of coming up with new content from scratch. This content is entirely original, with no other similar content available anywhere. On the contrary, content curation is the process of collecting relevant content from different authoritative sources and tweaking the content to give it your own voice. This content is shared in various formats with the audience....

Starting with the geography game, you might find it helpful to hear a few tips and suggestions with beginners in mind. It will take much work and time to reach their skill level. The essential tips below will help you get started on your search for a total score. To do that in a GeoGuessr round, you need to know where on the planet your camera is. Once you know the basics of guessing a country, you shouldn’t worry too much about trying to figure out the exact city and street within that country....

You can learn about your business’s health by just looking at how money is moving through it. Is there any surplus money? Are you just in the break-even position? Or, are you losing money out of your pocket to run the business? To get a clear answer to such movements of money, you need to learn how to calculate profit margin. If you rely on others to compute profits, you might be in a problem....

Vampirism can happen to anyone in Skyrim. As a matter of fact, some pursue it intentionally due to the powers it comes with. It has its pros which makes it interesting for specific quests. However, in addition to the abilities, the ‘issues’ a vampire faces during the daytime make it problematic for most daytime gameplay, enough for you to search for a cure. First, we will see what’s the deal with vampirism, how to become one, and finally, the cure....

Suppose you are working on a project and created some folders and files to work. And later decided that they are not necessary for the current project. But you didn’t remove them for some reason. What happens shortly? Nothing. It just becomes a big mess for you. So, the importance of organizing should be one of ours top skills. Here, we will make sure our GitHub account is clean by deleting the unused repositories from our accounts....

A rootkit is a sort of covert and deadly malware that hackers employ to take complete control of a computer or network. Using Rootkits, the attacker can easily manipulate and steal the data from the system. Rootkits may appear as a single piece of software, but they’re usually a set of tools that provide attackers unauthorized administrative access to the target system while actively concealing its presence. Once a rootkit has been placed in the system somehow, the attacker will have the ability to execute remote files and change the host machine’s system configuration....

Smartphone addiction is scary. The urge to wake up the screen every now and then to check updates takes a toll on the overall fitness, with depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, reduced cognitive ability, and migraines just the tip of the iceberg. Ergo, it’s best to have some personal non-digital time where one lives normally. Do Not Disturb plays a vital role in those situations. And it’s not just for bedtime (I prefer flight mode for that); notifications can ruin most of your after-work hours, eating away significant chunks from your personal and family time....

If you are already using an enterprise monitoring system, then most probably you don’t need this. However, for learning or interview questions, this will help you to enable JMX & monitor essential metrics of WebSphere JVM. The good thing about this is you don’t have to install any additional software. Let’s start with the implementation… Login into DMGR Console Click on Servers » Server Types » WebSphere application servers Click on JVM from the list you wish to monitor using JMX Expand Java and Process Management under “Server Infrastructure” and click on Process definition...

Windows 10 and 11 BSoDs are on the rise, but we’ve got some troubleshooting advice for you. What is the IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL Error? Interrupt Request Level (IRQL) is a Windows feature that helps the operating system prioritize processor interruptions. For example, the IRQL will pause any currently running processes to let the higher priority process continue if the processor generates an interrupt with a higher priority than those processes....

TradingView is a premium cross-platform charting platform with access to a number of markets and exchanges. This suits both newcomers and pros to make their life easy with trading. With excellent brokers’ availability, TradingView is biased towards the technical analysis of market trends. But trading can be challenging without analytics tools. And that’s precisely where custom indicators come into the picture. TradingView supports creating indicators with their homegrown PineScript. Pine Script is a lightweight Tradingview-exclusive programming language....

Cloudflare is one of the popular CDN and security platform, powering millions of sites from small to enterprise. When you implement Cloudflare for your website, all the traffic is secured and accelerated. But this is true when a site is accessed using a domain name. How about if someone finds out the actual server IP (Origin) and misuse it? Finding server IP for the site behind Cloudflare doesn’t take much....

Ambient noise in recorded audio or video is unavoidable. You can not record every video or audio from a silent room. If you do, you will still discover a humming noise from your laptop, desktop, fan, air conditioning, etc. Instead of investing too much money and time in eliminating background noise, you can just eliminate the noise from the recorded audio. There has been much development in noise reduction algorithms....

How we work and do business will fundamentally change in a matter of months and stay with us thereafter. This is partly because the virus will never go away; it will merely be managed. A key component of managing the virus will be social distancing. Human beings are social creatures; we like the company of others and use physical cues to affirm each other. It’s what we know; it’s what we seek....

Foxes are loyal companions in Minecraft. Once tamed, they attack any mob that attacks you. However, they don’t follow you around; instead, a tamed fox will not flee from you. Yet, you can use a lead or sweet berries to keep them close or take them to your place. They are also one of the few Minecraft animals that can actually sleep. Being nocturnal, they sleep throughout the day and stay active during dark hours....

SNMP is a standardized network protocol used to collect and organize device information on a network. It does this over UDP port 161. It was initially developed in 1980 when the size and complexity of many IT organizations were increasing at a fast pace. And today, in the field of network monitoring, SNMP is the most widely used network protocol. In this article, I will discuss SNMP in detail. So, let’s get started....

The existence of Google is significant to our lives, and hence it has become an inseparable and indispensable part of our daily lives. With a single click of the enter key, all the information reaches us within no time. The existence of Google has made our lives easier and hassle-free. Just imagine your life without the existence of Google! How would our companies, businesses, and projects be affected if Google didn’t exist!...

Digital photography has been an effective solution for replacing the traditional problem of boxes full of photographs. Now, the scenario has been changed a bit, and people are storing photos on different devices. What would be your answer if I asked you, where are all your digital photos stored? You would probably say that your photos are stored in your smartphone, computer, and even some cloud platforms. Other than that, you will also remember that you have some photos stored on your old PC or tablet at home....

PostgreSQL and MySQL are the leading databases (DBMS) that many commercial and non-profit organizations use. That’s not all! These are also the most acclaimed open source relational databases. Hence, IT companies, governments, NGOs, and independent database developers freely use these databases with their own modifications. Continue reading to discover a clear picture of PostgreSQL and MySQL comparisons that will help you choose the suitable database for your upcoming project....