With how interconnected the world is today. There are some standard things that you should be doing to maintain a reasonable level of internet security. All the recommended solutions are free.

Https Traffic

A VPN stands for Virtual Private network. They are encrypted network connections, allow you to connect to computer service cloud or physical from a remote location without comprising security of the network. …

Databases

There are two types: traditional relational database and non-relation database. Traditional relational databases have been around forever well more like 40 years or so. Relational databases also know as RDMS or SQL databases, they store data in rows and columns and join different table to complete complex queries. A join…

Why do you need to invest?

Why do you need to invest? Why can’t you just keep your money in a bank account? There are two answers:

• Inflation
• Growing your money

Inflation is the decline of purchasing power of your money over time. The target rate of inflation from the bank of England is 2% so…

Bricks and motor

The Housing Problem

Buying a house in the UK has been drilled into every person from a young age. There is an idea that renting is dead money and buying a house is the best investment you can make. When you retire there is a significantly less financial burden on…

Index Mutual Funds

An Index fund is essentially portfolios of stocks that match a particular index such as the S&P 500 with the aim to match it’s average yearly return, which for the last 100 years is about ~10%–11% not adjusting for inflation. The index fund also matches the weighting of the index…

Prerequisites

• Windows WSL 2 → https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10
• Docker for windows → https://hub.docker.com/editions/community/docker-ce-desktop-windows/
• Docker Linux → https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/
• Port forward the following ports: 28015, 28016, 8080 both TCP and UDP to your computer that is hosting the server.

System requirements

• 4 GB RAM Minimum for the server
• i7 7700K
• 25GB Space

Server Setup

The aim of this guide…

What’s the sum of numbers 1 to 10? Well erm, it’s 1+2 +3 +4+5+6+7+8+9+10 So 55?

Cool Cool. So what about the sum of numbers 1 to 1*10⁶ then?

This is where Guass’s trick comes into play and it’s as follows:

Guass’s trick = n/2(n + 1)10 / 2 (10 + 1) = 55 1 * 10^6 / 2 (1*10^6 +1) = 5.000005*10^11

So basically it’s a quick way to sum consecutive natural numbers quickly.