To insert the characters using a Windows keyboard on a system running the Microsoft Windows operating system, type the numeric code (the numbers are hexadecimal numbers so "A" through "F" represent the numbers 10 through 15) and then hit Alt-x, i.e., hit the "Alt" and "x" keys simultaneously, after entering the numeric code. Note, you needed to have a space before the number you enter, otherwise if you attempt to put "ē" in "fēmina," by typing "f" with "0113" immediately after it, the "f0113" will be replaced with a small box with a question mark within it. So place a space after the "f," type 0113, hit Alt-x, then when ē appears, remove the space before it. Also note that though Microsoft Word supports this method of entering vowels with a diacritic mark in a document not all Microsoft Office applications allow you to enter Unicode characters by this method. E.g., for Microsoft Powerpoint, you will need to use the Character Map method of entering such characters, instead.

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1. Open the program and click on the gear (cog) icon at the upper, right-hand corner of the window.
2. Under the PC Security section of the Settings, you will see "Real-Time Scanning." When you click on "Real-Time Scanning" you will have the option of turning off the real-time monitoring for 15 minute intervals from 15 to 60 minutes or you can select "When I restart my PC" or "Never."

If you select a timed option, the protection will automatically turn back on after that period of time. You can also turn on protection again prior to that time by modifying the "Real-Time Scanning" setting again.

If you wish to view or restore items McAfee AntiVirus Plus has quarantined, you can click on "Quarantined items" under Settings, which will show you all files in the quarantine area, if any.

Note: these steps were tested on McAfee® AntiVirus Plus version 16.0

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1. Open Outlook and click on Next at the startup window.
2. When prompted as to whether you would like to configure an E-mail account, maintain the default option of "yes" and click on Next.
3. At the Add New Account window, choose "Manually configure server settings or additional server types" and then click on Next.
4. At the Choose Service window, maintain the default option of "Internet E-mail" and click on Next.
5. At the Internet E-mail Settings window, you will need to provide the relevant information for your AOL email account. In the username field, include "@aol.com" as part of the user name, e.g., jdoe@aol.com. You will also need to choose whether you will access your AOL email account using the Post Office Protocol (POP) or the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP). The default option is POP3, version 3 of POP. With that option, the email in your inbox will be downloaded to Outbox and deleted from the server after a specified period of time; by default Outlook will leave it on the server for 14 days. If you log into the AOL website to check your email after you've downloaded it with Outlook and delete a message while viewing your email in a browser, it won't be available to download with Outlook, if you subsequently check your AOL email with Outlook, although that may not matter to you. A disadvantage of using the POP protocol is that it only downloads email from the inbox, not any other folders you may have created to hold specific email messages. Also, by default email is deleted from the email server after you download it to Outlook, so email you've already downloaded won't be visible to you if you check your email through a web browser at a later time—by default Outlook will leave the email there for 14 days, though. You can change that setting, though, once you've filled in account information by clicking on the More Settings button, then clicking on the Advanced tab and choosing how long a copy of messages should be left on the server.

   If you select IMAP for the account type, you can view email in other folders besides the inbox and Outlook's view of the email in your account is synchronized with the email messages maintained on the AOL email server, so you can check with a web browser or with Outlook and see the same messages in your email folders. You could also set up Outlook on another system and select IMAP there as well to see the same email messages on a separate system where you are using Outlook.

   The information you should put in the incoming mail server and outgoing mail server fields is as follows:

   Protocol	Server	Port Settings
   POP3	Incoming mail server (POP3): pop.aol.com Outgoing mail server (SMTP): smtp.aol.com	POP3: 995-SSL SMTP: 465-SSL
   IMAP	Incoming mail server (IMAP): imap.aol.com Outgoing mail server (SMTP): smtp.aol.com	IMAP: 993-SSL SMTP: 465-SSL

   Put a check mark in the "Remember password" check box, if you don't want to have to enter your password every time you open Outlook to check your email.

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1. Download the image of the author. If you wish, you can place the image in the location where book cover images are stored, i.e. the images directory beneath the Book Collector directory where you store the book database.
2. If you are editing an entry for a book by the author, you can right-click on the icon of three horizontal bars to the left of the author's name while editing the book entry and select "Edit this author entry." Or from the main Book Collector window, you can select "Edit" then "Manage Pick Lists" to select the author picklist where you can select the relevant author—you can double-click on the author entry then to edit it.
3. In the Edit Author window, click on the Images tab.
4. For the "Template Image" field, browse to where you downloaded the image of the author. Once you have selected the image, click on OK. Leave the "Image (will be scaled to 16x16)" field blank. You can then close the entry where you are editing the author's information. When viewing the entry for a book by the author from the book list in the home screen for Book Collector, you should then see a small thumbnail picture of the author.

If you don't have an image, but want to add a picture to the author's entry, check to see if there is a Wikipedia entry for the author or if the author has a website.

You can use similar steps to add an image for a publisher's entry in the database.

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You can verify a website's security certificate from a command line interface (CLI), such as a shell prompt, by using OpenSSL, which is available for Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows and other operating systems — for a Windows version, see the instructions at How to install the most recent version of OpenSSL on Windows 10 in 64 Bit. To check a certificate, you can issue the command openssl s_client -connect example.com:443 -showcerts, substituting the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the site you wish to check for example.com. The output for example.com is shown below.

$ openssl s_client -connect example.com:443 -showcerts         CONNECTED(00000003)
depth=2 C = US, O = DigiCert Inc, OU = www.digicert.com, CN = DigiCert Global Root CA
verify return:1
depth=1 C = US, O = DigiCert Inc, CN = DigiCert SHA2 Secure Server CA
verify return:1
depth=0 C = US, ST = California, L = Los Angeles, O = Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, OU = Technology, CN = www.example.org
verify return:1
---
Certificate chain
 0 s:/C=US/ST=California/L=Los Angeles/O=Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers/OU=Technology/CN=www.example.org
   i:/C=US/O=DigiCert Inc/CN=DigiCert SHA2 Secure Server CA
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MIIHQDCCBiigAwIBAgIQD9B43Ujxor1NDyupa2A4/jANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQsFADBN
<text snipped>
SSL-Session:
    Protocol  : TLSv1.2
    Cipher    : ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256
    Session-ID: 907C391C745555481A141A04D65B7CD175BD5E052FF39EFD17B30848D535F0D1
    Session-ID-ctx:
    Master-Key: 9DC337D789BB8DB7CCE82BBC3EAD28C4A9E98016C98D35AD9A6B737C0B76AE3118881303F7E7890BEE0567FFC402B5F9
    Key-Arg   : None
    Krb5 Principal: None
    PSK identity: None
    PSK identity hint: None
    TLS session ticket lifetime hint: 7200 (seconds)
    TLS session ticket:
    0000 - b1 7d 3a 56 0e 17 8f 5a-37 b0 4b 03 dd de 8d 98   .}:V...Z7.K.....
    0010 - 59 36 bb 73 43 e2 95 2a-9b 2e de ef 99 5e 92 d8   Y6.sC..*.....^..
    0020 - 3a 16 b6 4d 78 2b c6 a4-58 a5 5b 2e c0 8a 1f a6   :..Mx+..X.[.....
    0030 - e6 35 dd 8d 77 fb 4e 09-82 94 c0 8c 6e f8 56 41   .5..w.N.....n.VA
    0040 - 9a bb 82 a6 b1 30 5d bc-38 24 00 9c a6 a3 10 c5   .....0].8$......
    0050 - 6f cc e8 c8 25 62 6f e0-8f 7d 1a d9 18 6a db 32   o...%bo..}...j.2
    0060 - 48 07 df b0 15 fc 98 a0-5d 27 93 df 20 4c 6c ae   H.......]'.. Ll.
    0070 - cf 95 23 49 d0 c0 57 10-c1 8b 12 fa b0 c4 33 41   ..#I..W.......3A
    0080 - 2f 21 cf df dc 9a 1f 44-68 a3 76 81 0f b8 04 ab   /!.....Dh.v.....
    0090 - 59 e7 c4 29 79 28 f9 45-43 82 b9 a0 5a e5 6d 5a   Y..)y(.EC...Z.mZ

    Start Time: 1592522720
    Timeout   : 300 (sec)
    Verify return code: 0 (ok)
---
closed
$

If you wish to check on whether a particular cipher is supported, you can use the command openssl s_client -cipher followed by the particular cipher for which you wish to connect and then -connect followed by the FQDN, a colon, and then the HTTPS port, port 443, as shown below for example.com. If you see the response "handshake failure" as in the example below, the cipher is not supported.

$ openssl s_client -cipher 'ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA' -connect example.com:443
CONNECTED(00000003)
140497569793952:error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure:s23_clnt.c:769:
---
no peer certificate available
---
No client certificate CA names sent
---
SSL handshake has read 7 bytes and written 121 bytes
---
New, (NONE), Cipher is (NONE)
Secure Renegotiation IS NOT supported
Compression: NONE
Expansion: NONE
No ALPN negotiated
SSL-Session:
    Protocol  : TLSv1.2
    Cipher    : 0000
    Session-ID:
    Session-ID-ctx:
    Master-Key:
    Key-Arg   : None
    Krb5 Principal: None
    PSK identity: None
    PSK identity hint: None
    Start Time: 1592522976
    Timeout   : 300 (sec)
    Verify return code: 0 (ok)
---
$

If the cipher is supported, you will see "connected" instead, as shown below.

$ openssl s_client -cipher 'ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256' -connect example.com:443
CONNECTED(00000003)
depth=2 C = US, O = DigiCert Inc, OU = www.digicert.com, CN = DigiCert Global Root CA
verify return:1
depth=1 C = US, O = DigiCert Inc, CN = DigiCert SHA2 Secure Server CA
verify return:1
depth=0 C = US, ST = California, L = Los Angeles, O = Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, OU = Technology, CN = www.example.org
verify return:1
---
Certificate chain
 0 s:/C=US/ST=California/L=Los Angeles/O=Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers/OU=Technology/CN=www.example.org
   i:/C=US/O=DigiCert Inc/CN=DigiCert SHA2 Secure Server CA
<text snipped>
   Krb5 Principal: None
    PSK identity: None
    PSK identity hint: None
    TLS session ticket lifetime hint: 7200 (seconds)
    TLS session ticket:
    0000 - 27 d3 5d a3 cf ac 34 0b-92 af c6 00 17 0d 15 bc   '.]...4.........
    0010 - 6b be b4 92 dc 1a 01 97-98 9c f4 2b 68 f7 fd 69   k..........+h..i
    0020 - 1c fd 25 16 21 ba aa f9-43 2b 1a 4b 54 d8 48 37   ..%.!...C+.KT.H7
    0030 - 90 f7 2f 3f 76 d1 88 22-cf db 43 77 55 40 d2 41   ../?v.."..CwU@.A
    0040 - c8 3a 8c f5 75 02 9b 88-92 92 38 f3 53 46 e7 48   .:..u.....8.SF.H
    0050 - 9a bf 2d db 78 00 cd 12-2c 30 fc f8 81 20 e9 89   ..-.x...,0... ..
    0060 - c0 8f 3c e3 e6 22 69 af-cb cd b0 ec dd 06 1b c9   ..<.."i.........
    0070 - f3 82 cb ee 85 f1 c8 6a-27 29 5b 42 7e bb 87 60   .......j')[B~..`
    0080 - c3 17 4a ff 54 41 b3 1a-8e 3b e3 30 b6 48 fa 9d   ..J.TA...;.0.H..
    0090 - b3 50 a5 2b 73 8d 59 16-4c fd b4 24 54 48 14 08   .P.+s.Y.L..$TH..

    Start Time: 1592523392
    Timeout   : 300 (sec)
    Verify return code: 0 (ok)
---

closed
$

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1. Click on Manage, which is under Hosting Packages.
2. Click on Settings.
3. Click on Reset Password.
4. You will see the username you should use under Username. You will also see the fully qualified domain name (FQDN), e.g., serverxxxx.hostgator.com, where "xxxx" is a four-digit number, of the server you will connect to under Server. Or you can use the IP address shown, instead. Click on Reset Password.
5. When prompted for a new password, enter one that is a minimum of 8 characters in length with a mixture of uppercase and lowercase characters (at least one of each) and which also contains at least one digit and one special character, such as a dash, exclamation mark, dollar sign, etc. Click on the Change Password button to reset the password.

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1. Download the Zotero PubPeer .xpi file from GitHub at PubPeerFoundation / pubpeer_zotero_plugin.
2. Within Zotero, click on Tools on the menu bar, then select Add-ons.
3. Click on the gear icon on the Add-ons Manager window, and select "Install Add-on From File."

   

4. Navigate to the location where you downloaded the .xpi file and click on it to select it, which will open a Software Installation window where you can click on the plugin to select it and then choose Install Now.

   

5. Next, click on "Restart now" to restart Zotero and complete the installation.

   

After the add-on is installed, when you select an item you've saved in Zotero, you will see a "PubPeer" tab next to the usual "Info," "Notes," "Tags," and "Replated" tabs.

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