☣️🌐 Is Your PC Virus-Free? - Changing Your IP Address - And More

                                                                                                                                              [Logo](%2F%2Fwww.howtogeek.com%2F%3Futm_campaign=HTG-202310221700%26utm_source=HTG-NL-DN%26utm_medium=newsletter/1/0100018b5945b0e7-612b03e5-8212-4add-9ee1-d2b324606b9c-000000/gBnc-xDZMz6ija0-tnXGZlslgys=344) October 22, 2023 Did You Know German chocolate cake is not, in fact, of German origin. The recipe was named after a man, Sam German, who invented a type of sweet baking chocolate for the Baker's Chocolate Company (a popular cake recipe called for "German's chocolate"). Over the years though, the possessive was dropped and people just called the popular recipe "German chocolate cake". --------------------------------------------------------------- TODAY'S TOP STORY [Does Your Computer Have a Virus? 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But did you know there was another format war in the 90s? It pitted the VHS once again against the video compact disc, also known as the VCD. Though the VHS reigned supreme in the US, in other parts of the world, the VCD was the dominating format of its era. Here's a spotlight on the VCD: a format that was a ruler of its day, until the world forgot it ever existed. 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There is - and you can do it all from within the Command Prompt as well as from PowerShell and Terminal. We show you how to do all three, as well as how to change your DNS settings using only command line. 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