Steam was broken for me for about a week. The solution was to roll back a Windows Update that changed the drivers being used to operate my USB wireless adapter. All other network usage was fine. If Flash Player can stream videos just fine, Steam ought to be able to download its update: why is it doing things in such a non-standard way that it can't? Just use the operating system's methods for downloading.

entitled: Steam and a Ralink USB wireless networking adapter | posted: 19:45Z
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…when you can export your SSH host keys and connection profiles. Open regedit and export the SimonTatham tree. The exported file should import on any machine; I am hoping those that I use regularly are not too locked down.

entitled: No need for portable PuTTY... | posted: 17:32Z
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Windows 8 Has A Friendlier Blue Screen Of Death | TechCrunch

Take a look at the BSOD; fascinating how things like :) have become so mainstream. I guess it’s still something computer-related. Interesting how you are immediately told to search; it should have added “on Bing”.

entitled: Windows 8 BSOD | posted: 18:21Z
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