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The VPN is safe, but not infallible

Lately VPN has been in the spotlight. On one side, as a measure to protect itself upon attempts of espionage: are encrypted tunnels (in most cases) that keep someone from knowing what we are looking on Internet if, for example, we connect to public WiFi networks or we do not trust our ISP.

Unfortunately, and as usually happens in computing, they are not infallible. We have a sample in the failure we’ve seen this week that affected Firefox and Chrome, and that revealed the real IP of the user through RTC. And it’s not the only one.

How does a VPN work?

VPN

A VPN it’s a little like a Portal: instead of going out through the door of your room, you open a portal and walk out the door of another site.

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The upcoming Nvidia GTX 1060 will use 256-bit bus.

Snooping by the database of Zauba, we noticed an entry pertaining to a shipment of 10 graphics cards from Nvidia which run on the next kernel GP106, which is the name that Nvidia has given to the kernel installed in their next midrange graphics cards, which evolve from the recent Pascal graphic kernel. Obviously, we …

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Best Screen Recording Softwareon for Windows 10, Mac and Linux

Do you need to record your desktop? Show colleagues how to use an application or game? Create training material for uploading to the web? Screen recording applications are in, so let’s review the best offerings.

What is this about?

It refers to a technique of “desktop recording” or “screen recording” video, without using external cameras, which may or may not also include audio. You do your thing, edit it if necessary, and upload it to the Internet. Or you could record and stream it live by using streaming services such as Twitch, an immersive, multimedia entertainment experience of immense success, which we’ve discussed about on other occasions.

In addition to these services for games, a professional can use it to develop training material, developers to display an application that they’re working on, to teach others how to use said application or a system tool, a user to show off their desktop or how well he can play a game and everything in between.

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How to get Windows 10 for free after July 29

The free upgrade program to Windows 10 from computers with a valid license of Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 will end on July 29, as recently recalled Microsoft Vice President Yusuf Mehdi. If the strategy doesn’t change, to get Windows 10 from July 30 on, you will have to either purchase a license (119 dollars) …

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What are the NVIDIA “Founders Edition” graphics?

Yesterday, we were discussing the price and the release dates of the upcoming Pascal graphic cards from NVIDIA (the GTX 1070 and the GTX 1080), including what the manufacturer has called “Founders Edition”. It seems that it is still not very clear what is the difference between these graphics and the other ones, so in this article we will clarify it to beyond any doubt.

In the event in which NVIDIA introduced its new graphics to the press, they were not too clear about the issue of nomenclature, among other things. In fact, the names tend to confuse some people. So, what is so interesting about this NVIDIA Founder Edition of its new Pascal graphics?

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AMD Announces The SSD Radeon R3

The Radeon R3 is the new AMD SSD unit series, updating a storage catalog Storage in which Sunnyvale’s company is also present, in order to “offer consumers a unique window” in computer products, which includes the main components of a computer under its own brand.

The Radeon R3s are sold in a 2.5-inch and 7mm thickness format which allows inclusion in ultra-portables. They use a Silicon Motion SM2256KX controller which under a SATA-III interface provides a data transfer rate up to 520/470 Mbytes per second, depending on the model.

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What is the difference between a VPN network and a Proxy?

It is known that a proxy is connected to a remote computer and a VPN network is also connected to a remote computer, so one would imagine they’d be the same, but it is not so, because proxies are a poor substitute of VPNs.

Every two weeks there is an important story about encryption, data filtering, IGMP, or other digital privacy issues. Many of these articles speak of the importance of security your Internet connection can have, such as using a VPN (virtual private network) when you are in a public place on a Wi-Fi network.

Even though they are completely different, virtual private networks and proxy servers have only one thing in common: both allow you to appear as if you’re connecting to the network from another location. They also offer privacy, encryption, and other functions, however, it varies greatly from one to another.

Proxies hide your IP address

A proxy server is a server that acts as an intermediary in the flow of Internet traffic, so your activities on the Internet seem to come from elsewhere. Traffic from the web browser could come from the remote computer and not your own.

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How to convert a disk from MBR to GPT without data loss with MiniTool Partition Wizard

This feature is only available in the paid versions of MiniTool Partition Wizard, the price of this software is $39 and can be a utility center really able to perform common tasks with our storage units. It is able to clone partitions, migrate entire operating systems, recover partitions, recover boot systems or safely delete our storage units.

This time we will convert a MBR drive to GPT format to take advantage of new more agile boot systems that provide most modern operating systems (Such as Windows 8 and Windows 10).

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NVIDIA announces the GTX 1080, specifications and price

This morning has been very agitated, NVIDIA has introduced its two big bombs for the graphics market and since it couldn’t be any other way one of them is the GTX 1080 a high-end graphics card that presents itself as a very powerful solution.

We start with what we see externally. New design and new casing covering the card and its heat dissipation system, in line with what we told you in earlier rumors. Jumping to the specifications we have confirmed enough information but some details still remain in the air such as rasterization unit and texture counting, but thanks to the data provided by the green giant we can clearly make out that the GTX 1080 yields more than an SLI GTX 980 and the GTX TITAN X, that’s something.

GTX 1080

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Maximize boot speed using GPT

I wonder how many times I’ve heard people complain that they can’t boot their Linux Live USB flash drives, or can’t install this or another operating system. I myself have cursed some devices more than once for only having EFI boot. 

The GPT format has certainly brought issues but also obvious advantages. The latest editions of Windows 10 are compatible and improve things like boot and safety performance. 

Many factory devices come preinstalled with this partition system that reduces boot speeds, especially between the time the BIOS starts and the system boot begins. Up to four times faster (we have seen a boost from 2.5 seconds with MBR to only 1.2 seconds with an average device with a not very modern bios but consistent with this system).

GPT

BIOS

To ensure that Windows partitions our disk in GPT mode we have to activate any of our BIOS’ fast-boot modes and activate the Secure Boot. For that we’ll need a UEFI compatible bios. It is not that rare, nor that modern, my testing device for this trick uses this type of bios and it’s a Core i3 Sandy Bridge Socket 1155.

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