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I have to share these links for anyone that see’s this and so I can find them in the future:

lifehacker – Top 10 Ways to Teach Yourself to Code

Free Programming Books – GitHub list

WARNING! If you do anything else than listed before the browser may act worse or not work anymore.

• Open FireFox and go to “about:config” in the Address Bar.
• Search for “network.http.pipelining” and double-click on it to change it to TRUE
• Then “network.http.proxy.pipelining” and change it to TRUE
• Then set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to 8 (higher the number pages may load slower)

Close all copies of FireFox and open it up again to enjoy quicker page loads.

Friendly IT post for my techie friends:
If you have a Netgear WNR1000v3 (Firmware 1.0.2.28_52.0.60NA confirmed, maybe others?), please make sure you have Remote Access locked down or turned off. While in your router checking this please see if you have had your WAN changed (will be changed to DHCP by the bot) or your DNS set to something you don’t recognize (66.118.165.22 and 69.65.41.30 confirmed). If so change everything back to what it should be and start changing your passwords online. Looks like there is some kind of bug or backdoor that a bot is using to hack these routers. Might affect other models too, but so far I can not find any online posts about this. I have worked with 2 people and can confirm this seems to have started making rounds on Friday May 23rd.
If your have the above router and your ISP installed it, I would hope and assume they locked down Remote Access (like Action Communications does to protect their customers from these kind of hacks).

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If you are ever looking for an old version of Firefox for testing or loading to an older OS here is the link to all versions (old and new!): ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/

Sleep not showing as an option in Windows 7?

Right-click ‘Comment Prompt’ and select ‘Run as administrator’

Use the command:

powercfg -energy

After which you can see the report by Opening “c:\windows\system32\energy-report.html” in a browser to see the results.

In my case it was a Device Driver called VgaSave, so if that is what is causing your issue see below:

First update the video driver

Next go into Device Manager and View -> show hidden devices
Scroll down and expand ‘Non-Plug And Play Drivers’ -> Uninstall VgaSave
Reboot