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  2. DNS blocking - Wikipedia

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    Domain Name System blocking, or DNS blocking / filtering, is a strategy for making it difficult for users to locate specific domains or websites on the Internet. It was first introduced in 1997 as a means to block spam email from known malicious IP addresses .

  3. Black screen of death - Wikipedia

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    Windows 10 and later also displays a black screen due to an unfinished update in addition to the aforementioned causes above; in this case, after the system restarts and the user tries to login to the system, the user is then stuck at a black screen instead. Performing a hard shutdown of the computer and cold-booting is the only way to resolve ...

  4. Xbox system software - Wikipedia

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    Across all four generations of the Xbox platform, the user interface of the system software has been called the Xbox Dashboard. While its appearance and detailed functions have varied between console generations, the Dashboard has provided the user the means to start a game from the optical media loaded into the console or off the console's storage, launch audio and video players to play ...

  5. Xbox 360 technical problems - Wikipedia

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    The article also revealed that representatives of the three largest Xbox 360 resellers in the world (EB Games, GameStop, and Best Buy) claimed that the failure rate of the Xbox 360 was between 30% and 33%, and that Micromart, the largest repair shop in the United Kingdom, stopped repairing Xbox 360s because it was unable to fully repair the ...

  6. Microsoft DNS - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft Windows Server operating systems can run the DNS Server service. This is a monolithic DNS server that provides many types of DNS service, including caching, Dynamic DNS update, zone transfer, and DNS notification. DNS notification implements a push mechanism for notifying a select set of secondary servers for a zone when it is updated.

  7. AOL Mail Help - AOL Help

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    You've Got Mail!® Millions of people around the world use AOL Mail, and there are times you'll have questions about using it or want to learn more about its features. That's why AOL Mail Help is here with articles, FAQs, tutorials, our AOL virtual chat assistant and live agent support options to get your questions answered.

  8. System Link - Wikipedia

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    While "system link" was popularized by the pre-Xbox Live era Xbox games, the capability has been used for years in computer gaming. The primary advantage of system link is to allow users to host their own games and control the settings. System link can be visualized as an Xbox being used as a small server and "hosting" other Xboxes.

  9. Zero-configuration networking - Wikipedia

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    Users type in domain names, such as example.org, which the computer's DNS software looks up in the DNS databases to retrieve an IP address, and then hands off that address to the protocol stack for further communications. [5] Looking up an address using DNS requires the IP address of the DNS server to be known.