A command to remove all Windows mapped drives

A command to remove all Windows mapped drives

If you work in a Corp env and having a Laptop, you will likely go home with it still running and it must has all the network drives still mapped. And then later when you are at home and try to use your Laptop, you will see considerable delay. The Windows Explore and many Windows application that access File Browser dialog will try relentlessly in reconnecting those drives without sucess. This also affect your Cygwin shell too.

Here is a DOS command to remove them all.

C:> net use * /delete /y

If you are in Cygwin bash, then you must quote the *.

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A Convenient Case For All Your Memory Cards

A Convenient Case For All Your Memory Cards

If you carry multiple Flash memory cards of different formats, the Elecom card reader is a perfect thing for you.

Elecom MR-C12 series has numerous slots for housing a variety of Flash memory cards that may be from your mobile phone, PDA, digital camera or other devices.

As in the figure, the card reader attaches to the computer via USB port so you dont have to worry about slipping the SD Card in the Compact Flash slot or vice versa.

More details on Elecom website. Its currently available only in Japan but others can grab the Kingston MobileLite which is similar though not so sleek as the Elecom thing. Thanks GBM.

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5k Fans Reached on Facebook Thanks for all your support

5k Fans Reached on Facebook Thanks for all your support

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72 Vulnerabilities found in macOS Sierra and Apple patches them all

72 Vulnerabilities found in macOS Sierra and Apple patches them all

Apple announced on Tuesday the availability of macOS Sierra 10.12.2, which patches a total of 72 vulnerabilities affecting various components of the operating system.

The latest version addresses flaws related to components such as Apache, Audio, Bluetooth, the kernel, IOKit, IOSurface, IOAcceleratorFamily, IOHIDFamily, Disk Images, graphics components, media services, security, and several third-party libraries.

macOS Sierra 10.12.2 also addresses the cURL vulnerabilities discovered recently during an audit sponsored by the Mozilla Secure Open Source (SOS) program.

The security holes patched with this macOS update can be exploited to cause an application to enter a denial-of-service (DoS) condition, execute arbitrary code (including with elevated privileges), obtain sensitive information, escalate privileges, leak memory data, and overwrite existing files. RC4 and 3DES have been removed as default ciphers to prevent attackers from exploiting their weaknesses.

Independent researchers and representatives of Tencent, Synopsys Software Integrity Group, Google Project Zero, Huawei, Alipay, Qihoo 360, Topsec, the UK�s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), INRIA Paris and CXSECURITY have been credited for reporting the flaws. Ian Beer of Google Project Zero and the researcher known online as �daybreaker@Minionz� have found many of the flaws.

This is the second security update released by Apple for macOS Sierra since its launch in September. The first update fixed only 16 vulnerabilities.

Apple also announced on Tuesday security updates for iCloud for Windows, iTunes for Windows and the Safari web browser. Safari 10.0.2 resolves two dozen vulnerabilities, a large majority of which affect the WebKit engine. The same WebKit flaws have also been fixed in the Windows versions of iCloud and iTunes.

On Monday, Apple released iOS 10.2, tvOS 10.1 and watchOS 3.1.1, but the Apple Watch update was quickly pulled after users reported that it bricked their devices.

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