I don't know how they know, but they seem to know. Yet another reason to use a VPN.
Thursday, March 11, 2021
I know what you bittorrent
Hard Disk Utilities
Victoria for Windows offers an impressive amount of detail and options for analyzing and fixing your hard drives.
HD Sentinel has useful free version and a paid version that has monitoring and alerting.
I also like HDD Scan, as it indicates the speed of disk operations. I use it to test a disk before adding it to a cluster. Some disks pass all tests, but nonetheless are slower than other disks, and HDD Scan allows you to weed those out.
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Keep your computer awake with Mouse Jiggler or Caffeine
Mouse Jiggler simulates a mouse movement at a regular interval to prevent your Windows PC from going to sleep.
Caffeine simulates a keypress at a regular interval to accomplish the same.
I prefer Mouse Jiggler, as Caffeine's default keypress of F15 inserts a ~ character in my ssh sessions. I read this thread about fixing it, but switching to Mouse Jiggler is simpler.
Sunday, March 7, 2021
507 Mechanical Movements
Your 1868 guide on how to transfer linear motion to rotary motion, pulleys, gears, and so on. Many have animations.
Monday, March 1, 2021
Email Deliverability Resources
User these to remove your domain from a blacklist or two or ...
MX Toolbox Email Health Check.
Get a free Google Postmaster Tools account to get insight into deliverability and reputation problems.
Sign up for a free Microsoft SNDS account to do the same.
Here's a whole guide on how to prevent your messages from getting blocked by Google.
Get your reverse DNS, SPF and DKIM records straightened out.
Get help creating records with MX Toolbox DMARC record and SPF record generators
An Open Source project that makes it easy to setup DKIM on Exchange. Instructions.
Testing your email setup
Send an email to your GMail account, then select 'Show Original' and Google shows a summary at the top with the status of your SPF,DMARC and DKIM config.
or
Go to https://www.mail-tester.com/ and send an email to the unique address generated, and get an analysis back of your server.
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