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Unable to connect to iPhone personal hotspot using WiFi - "Cannot connect to network" and blue hotspot bar flickers on phone

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When you try to connect to the iPhone personal hotspot using WiFi you get an error "Cannot connect to network" and blue hotspot bar flickers on phone. There are no errors shown on the phone and on the laptop you are not prompted to enter the password. The hotspot works with a USB cable To solve this issue try the following: On the iPhone goto Settings > General > About > Name Change the name to something simple without any apostrophes or other special characters Goto Settings > Wi-Fi and disable Wi-Fi Goto Settings > Personal Hotspot > and disable personal hotspot Goto Settings > Personal Hotspot > and enable personal hotspot and enable Wi-Fi when prompted. You should now be able to connect.

Problems with Stack Overflow and intellectual property

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We often find that in the course of our work we come across answers to problems and will generally blog about them or post them as answers on sites like Microsoft.com or Stack Overflow. We generally attribute the code that we paste to our product and put a backlink to our site, some forums like Microsoft don't seem to mind as long as your posting relevant content and valid answers and I thought StackOverflow didn't mind either so happily worked for free for them pasting our source code into answers given a product mention. Other forums won't allow this and your post won't appear which is fair enough. That was until I started getting quite arrogant emails from StackOverflow. I'm not sure what the multiple accounts are unless I've logged in with Google+ or Facebook (?) and it their site hasn't linked the accounts together correctly. I wasn't particularly happy with this attitude which harks back to the old sysops of the 80s that treated users

Spotify taking space on C: drive, change the Spotify cache folder location

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If you find that you're running low on space on your C: drive and use Spotify you may find that it is taking a lot of space for offline data To resolve this Open Spotify Goto Edit > Preferences Click Show Advanced Settings Goto Cache and click "Change Location" You'll need to restart Spotify, it will move the data for you If this doesn't work you can check the settings in C:\Users\ username \AppData\Roaming\Spotify\prefs

IIS Authentication Issue 403 - Forbidden: Access is denied.

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I'm posting this in case it's useful and you're also having a mental block on a problem If you see the following error in IIS you may assume that this is an authentication problem IIS Authentication Issue 403 - Forbidden: Access is denied. And then start making changes to Basic Authentication, Anonymous access etc This issue can be caused by your SSL configuration 2016-10-03 10:03:02 10.0.0.4 GET /someurl - 80 - 95.138.200.166 Mozilla/5.0+(Windows+NT+10.0;+WOW64;+rv:49.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/49.0 - 403 4 5 98 The key is to check the HTTP subcode, a subcode of 4 relates to SSL, in this case IIS is configured to require SSL, going to the web site using HTTPS:// will resolve the issue.