Just another personal site.
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Jack’s Law Finally Becomes Official
If you bother someone else with a difficult question the answer will immediately reveal itself to you from another source. Jack Feschuk, 2023 I find that I whenever I bother someone else, taking up their valuable time, with a problem of my own that the answer suddenly appears to me from somewhere else. This is…
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Using my personal hosts file to block ads and more
Going forward with this website I will be maintaining a hosts file to block ads, trackers, malware, fraudulent sites, trackers and all other kinds of things. I’m using a lot of public sources that are merged together, cleaned up and then uploaded to https://www.jackfeschuk.com/hosts-file/ I’m personally using this with all of my computers (macOS, Windows,…
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The humble ping tool and how to use it with real examples
ping‘s basic use is to determine the time it takes to send a packet to the destination and receive a response, the lower the time in milliseconds (ms) the better. The ping tool is the most commonly known network tool. I first used it decades ago as a child to test if websites were actually…