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Pete Brown writes on a variety of topics from XAML with the Windows Runtime (WinRT), .NET programming using C#, WPF, Microcontroller programming with .NET Microframework, .NET Gadgeteer, Windows on Devices, and even plain old C, to raising two children in the suburbs of Maryland, woodworking, CNC and generally "making physical stuff". Oh, and Pete loves retro technology, especially Commodore (C64 and C128). If the content interests you, please subscribe using the subscription link to the right of every page.
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Internets
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It seems that each generation is exposed to more mature or
serious situations at earlier ages than the one before it. There
are a lot more ways for kids to get in trouble online than just
running afoul of the creepily mustachioed basement dweller you see
on "that" episode of Special Victims Unit.
tl;dr: A child was banned from Xbox live and that caused me to
investigate some things ...
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Telnet can be a nice easy way to debug DNS and see the raw
result of a web request. There are lots of other tools that do
this, but I keep returning to Telnet; maybe because at one point in
my career, Telnet was the
internet.
Enabling Telnet
Open the control panel, and go to Programs and Features.
Select "Turn Windows features on or off"
Next, select the Telnet Client. Don...
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You too can be part of the internet fun. Just pick one of these
comments at random and post it to any blog post, youtube vid, or
anything else with a public comment field. Guaranteed to work 100%
of the time. Bonus points if you trigger a comment war.
10. Lame. Go look at <url>, they did it better.
9. <insert instant godwin's law trigger here>
8. OMG LOL YOUR...
