How to show your IP address from the command line
Someone on the phone asks for your IP, and you blank on which command your OS wants. Windows takes ipconfig; Linux wants ip addr, or just ip a if you're ...
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How to kill the process using a port on Windows
Your dev server won't start, and Windows greets you with 'address already in use'. Something's squatting on the port, and the fix is to kill that process, not the port ...
How to flush the DNS cache on Windows
A site moved servers yesterday and your PC keeps loading the old one. That's the Windows DNS cache holding a stale answer, and one command clears it: open Command Prompt ...
How to see a saved WiFi password on Windows
Someone asks for the WiFi password and you realize you typed it once, two years ago, and it's gone from your head. Your PC hasn't forgotten: one netsh command prints ...