Nathan Zachary

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2016 Superheroes Race for the National Children’s Advocacy Center (NCAC) in Huntsville, AL

Well, it was that time of year again… time to dress up as one’s favourite Superhero and run for a great cause! The first weekend of April, I made the drive down to the lovely city of Huntsville, Alabama in order to support the National Children’s Advocacy Center by running in the 2016 NCAC Superheros …

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Linux firmware for iwlwifi ucode failed with error -2

A couple weeks ago, I decided to update my primary laptop’s kernel from 4.0 to 4.5. Everything went smoothly with the exception of my wireless networking. This particular laptop uses the a wifi chipset that is controlled by the Intel Wireless DVM Firmware: #lspci | grep ‘Network controller’ 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N …

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Changing Windows account passwords and enabling the local Windows admin account

Recently, I needed to get into a client’s computer (running Windows 8) in order to fix a few problems. Having forgotten to ask for a most obvious piece of needed information (the account password), I just decided to get around it. The account that he was using on a daily basis was tied to a …

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