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What is the allocation unit size when formatting disks?

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Within Microsoft Windows, while formatting drives most people leave the operating system to handle the characteristics of their partitions. But there are times where manually adjusting these options could be beneficial. This post will focus on the allocation unit choice available during formatting, its purpose and how it can benefit you.

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Way too slow sudo

I recently suffered an unusual issue in the Linux terminal. Any commands prefixed with sudo would take 10 to sometimes 15 seconds to execute, while all other bash and terminal commands would operate at speed.

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Quick fix the UNSAFE_VAR_ASSIGNMENT warning in JavaScript

The UNSAFE_VAR_ASSIGNMENT “Unsafe assignment to innerHTML” is a Mozilla Linter warning for WebExtensions written in JavaScript. It can appear either from the use of their web-ext analyst tool or during submission of a WebExtension to the Mozilla add-on site.

The UNSAFE_VAR_ASSIGNMENT description states “Due to both security and performance concerns, this may not be set using dynamic values which have not been adequately sanitized. This can lead to security issues or fairly serious performance degradation.”

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