Workaround for Diversity Visa Lottery Site Bugs

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Image by Mohamed Hassan from Pixabay

How to get around Connection Reset on DV Lottery application:

Increase the JPEG compression on your photos until they are 60KB or smaller. Keep the dimensions at the required 600 by 600 pixels.

If you still get Connection Reset, don’t despair, you don’t need to enter everything again:

* Start a new application
* Do the Captcha
* Go back to your original application and reload the page

Unsubscribing from Zoom Release Notes E-Mails

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Button labeled "Following" with drop-down menu open

For a long time now Zoom has been sending release notes to the e-mail account I used to register. I didn’t want this and so I scrolled to the bottom looking for a way to unsubscribe, but found nothing. I also searched the web where I found information on unsubscribing from meeting notifications, but nothing about the release note e-mails. Today I finally figured out how to unsubscribe.

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Why All Capitals?

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A news report in all upper case on the platen of a Model 15 Teletype
A Teletype Model 15 teleprinter
Attribution: John Nagle at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Q: Why do some users complete forms all in capital letters?

A: This is because early teleprinters and computer systems had no provision for lower case. Mixed case teleprinters came on the market in the 1930’s, but the standard US military teleprinter of World War II was the Teletype Model 15 (produced from 1928 to 1963) which only printed in upper case. This exposed an entire generation to official communications and reports typed in all upper case. This ‘official’ style was then duplicated by users of typewriters by engaging the Caps Lock toggle key.

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