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    (NO GPUs) 'How much can I sell this for?' thread

    How much can I expect for a 1 year 9 months old Lenovo Z2 plus 4 GB / 64 GB. Phone is in good condition with tempered glass and original cover
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    India to launch its own DNS service

    When you connect BSNL 3G one of the assigned DNS is of google. Such is the competence of our national ISP. They have to do a lot of work to improve their existing infrastructure before venture into new
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    Is there any way to contact paytm ? (Fraud services if they dont have direct number).

    Tagging "Make in India" is no excuse for sloppy / nonexistent customer service.
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    Is there any way to contact paytm ? (Fraud services if they dont have direct number).

    I stopped using paytm after a bitter experience. There is very little you can do when things go wrong. They have little control on sellers and a lot of them are fraudsters. I have received inferior products mutliple times and you cant even talk to a human being when something goes wrong. For...
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    Over 80% of engineering graduates in India unemployable

    I have a different view, the academics are important because it helps you to understand what you are doing. You cannot manage / supervise / control things you dont understand. Totally agree with you here.
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    Over 80% of engineering graduates in India unemployable

    Yes, they sure learn a lot but for some reason they cannot relate what they learn to things around us. I am not sure where is the problem, the way they are taught, the lack of interest or the academics itself Unless the students are able to connect what they learn to how that applies in real...
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    News Ransomware - WannaCry

    If it is a worm, then isolating SMB v1 systems to a vlan will help ?
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    News Ransomware - WannaCry

    Propagates through email and exploits a vulnerability against specially crafted SMB v1 packets. MS has released patches to plug the vulnerability. Disabling SMB at network boundaries and installing the patch is the solution.
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    Over 80% of engineering graduates in India unemployable

    Not exactly into software, from what i have seen, lack of strong fundamentals is a serious hurdle for people to relate and understand practical stuff. One of the issues i have felt in the schooling and colleges is that there is too much spoon feeding. The natural learning abilities of a student...
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    Differential backup or Incremental backup?

    That would depend on how much changes are there in a day (assuming daily backup). In a differential backup, you add the incremental difference of each day from the last full backup till the next full backup. Hence it takes more space than an incremental backup.
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    Differential backup or Incremental backup?

    Whether one or the other is better depends on your priorities and available resources. Differential backups require more disk space than incremental backups but they can be restored faster. If you have adequate space for differential backups and time to restore is your priority differential...
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    FS: Home Audio Video Stoner Accoustics UD110v2

    Up for sale is a budget audio dac from Stoner Accoustics. Please read a review and details from here This is not a very high end dac, but will be more than enough if you have <10K speaker system. It is supposed to work in OTG mode with android phones, but i have not tested the same. Please note...
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    FS: Networking [Sold] TP-Link WDR-4300 Router

    Although in warranty, as i dont have invoice you may not be able to claim warranty. The router is currently running Openwrt, but i can revert to latest stock firmware if you want so. The hardware version no. is 1.7 and is fully supported by Openwrt except the accelerated NAT. The original...
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    0-10K Poor man's download rig!

    If you have a router with a usb port, you can install transmission on the router itself and the router is anyway on 24x7
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    Who is blocking external IP access behind NAT?

    Was reading a bit about Asus Merlin, it already has NAT loopback (2 options Asus / Merlin) settings in the firewall section. Now I dont have any idea how that is enabled for a policy / rule. Can you give it a shot first
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    Who is blocking external IP access behind NAT?

    Is that Asus Merlin ? I have not seen / used it. I am familiar with Openwrt and have seen little bit of Tomato and DD-WRT Let us know how it goes.
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    Who is blocking external IP access behind NAT?

    Here is an explanation A few examples are given here . Please substitute the values as required. Btw which firmware are your running ?