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Manually Adjust Buffer Rate in Netflix

Although Netflix does an excellent job at adjusting the amount of buffering, you can manually adjust the buffering rate to cause Netflix to buffer more or less before displaying the video.

Netflix Movie Player: Use Keyboard Shortcuts When Viewing Watch Instantly Videos

The Silverlight player for Netflix has a few handy keyboard shortcuts that can make your viewing of Watch Instantly videos a little easier and quicker. You can also access the diagnostics menu, check A/V stats, and manually set the streaming rate.

How Can I Secure Dropbox Files on my Android device?

The Dropbox application for Android offers an easy way to store and access your Dropbox files. However, if a thief gains physical access to the mobile device, all of your private dropbox data is easily accessed and stolen. Here is how to secure it.

Gmail: Check Recent Logins and Sign Out of All Sessions

While visiting the Apple store, you quickly check your Gmail. You get distracted and leave yourself logged in. Later while at home, you start receiving some strange email and become concerned that somebody is accessing your account. By using these directions you see that you are still logged in at the Apple store, and you immediately close the sessions preventing anybody from accessing your account there.

Solving ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s error with ldapsearch or ldapmodify

This error message is commonly found when using the OpenLDAP ldapsearch, ldapmodify, ldapadd or other ldap command line utilities against non-OpenLDAP servers such as Sun’s SunONE/iPlanet, IBM’s Tivoli, or Novell directory servers. This tech-recipe explains the error and describes how to solve it.

Solve your UNIX Identity Crisis

If you frequently login to multiple UNIX systems as different users, it is sometimes helpful to make sure you know who you are. The who command, in addition to telling you who else is online, can tell who is logged in to the console you are currently using and on what tty port.

JSP Basics: Include Directive to Read Content at Compile Time

JSPs are compiled entities. Two include techniques read the included content before and after compilation. This tech-recipe describes the compiled include directive.

Cut and Paste Text in vi or vim

Cutting and pasting text in an editor is a basic requirement. This tech-recipe describes the cut and paste functions of vi and vim.

Prevent Solaris Core Files Creation with coreadm

Core files provide debugging information about a process that has terminated unexpectedly. Unless you are developing an application, core files are typically of little use and can cause serious problems by filling up filesystems. This tech-recipe describes how to configure Solaris to turn off core file creation for processes.

Solaris: Generate a Core Dump from a Running Process with gcore

A core dump is a snapshot of the memory occupied by a process plus additional debugging information. Core files are typically generated when a process terminates unexpectedly. This tech-recipe describes how to generate a core file manually from a running process.

XP/2003: Reset or Reinstall to Correct a Bad TCP/IP Stack

In the later versions of Windows, TCP/IP is considered a core component and cannot be uninstalled. Several things can corrupt the TCP/IP stack. This tech-recipe explains how to reset the stack.

XP Pro: Schedule a Program to Run Once at a Specific Time Using schtasks

Windows XP Professional has a command line utility that allows users to schedule the execution of tasks. The schtasks utility has a wide variety of options. This tutorial provides a simple example of scheduling a task to run once in the future.

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