How-To Geek on MSN

What Home Assistant’s configuration.yaml file does (and why you should care)

The configuration.yaml file is a set of instructions commonly located under the config directory on your Home Assistant ...
ZDNet

Creating a Web configuration INI file

Application-specific configuration information has historically been stored in INI files, which are plain-text files that contain key/value data within sections. In Windows, the registry has replaced ...
Redmond Magazine

Using Configuration Files to Control PowerShell Scripts, Part 1: The Basics

Recently, I have been hard at work, creating some really complex PowerShell scripts related to a few projects that I have been working on. One of the big lessons that I have learned through all of ...
PC Magazine

configuration file

A file that contains data about a specific user, program, computer or file. Used for myriad reasons, configuration files are generally read at startup by the operating system as well as by ...
Redmond Magazine

Using Configuration Files to Control PowerShell Scripts, Part 2: Building Blocks

In my previous article in this series, I explained that you can make your PowerShell scripts far more flexible and dynamic by leveraging a configuration file as opposed to hard coding all of the ...
MacRumors

Three Unreleased Mac Models Appear in Apple's Find My Configuration File

Three new Mac model identifiers were recently added to a Find My configuration file on Apple's backend, as discovered by Nicolás Álvarez (via @aaronp613). The new identifiers are Mac14,8, Mac14,13, ...
Dark Reading

JSON Config File Leaks Azure ActiveDirectory Credentials

A publicly accessible configuration file for ASP.NET Core applications has been leaking credentials for Azure ActiveDirectory (AD), potentially allowing cyberattackers to authenticate directly via ...