Searching Google for relevant results can be somewhat of a mixed bag. Try to make the most of your searches with the tips shown in the link below.
Improve Your Google Search Skills [Infographic] – How-To Geek.
Category : Internet, Search Engine
This post is especially for the paranoid amongst us. Recently an Android Developer discovered a rootkit called Carrier IQ that is capable of logging everything you do and worst of all it comes pre-installed on almost all smartphones, including Android, iPhone and Blackberry. Click on the link below for more information
Carrier IQ: How the Widespread Rootkit Can Track Everything on Your Phone, and How to Remove It.
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All my computers now run some variation of Linux therefore this article was very useful in helping with flashing the BIOS of my various machines.
How to flash motherboard BIOS from Linux (no DOS/Windows, no floppy drive)? | LinuxInsight.
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I received an email this morning (see below). If you’re in the market for a hard drive best get one now or else wait until stock levels return to normal in a few months time.
“Flooding in Thailand has caused the closure of a number of hard drive manufacturing and component plants. This has led to worldwide shortages which are expected to last until at least February next year. Hard drive internal and external prices are shooting up. We have very limited stock at cheaper than market prices, especially on our external hard drives. We recommend that if you plan to purchase a hard drive between now and Christmas you should do so while prices are still bearable.“
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This is a fairly good way to determine of your Windows PC needs more memory.
How To Fix Your Stuff – Does My Computer Need More Memory or RAM?.
I am currently studying for a CCNA. A friend that already has his CCNA warned me that subnetting can get tricky. This page shows some tricks for calculating subnets and wildcard masks.
What are Wildcard Mask? How do you Wildcard Mark? How do you calculate Wildcard Mask | The DNetWorks.
I have my computers set up with static IP addresses on my network but since upgrading to Ubuntu 11.10 I have noticed that none of them could access anything outside my network.
When I checked the /etc/resolv.conf file I noticed it was blank and even after I populated it it went blank again after a restart.
Here is how I fixed it:
1. Edited /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf so it looks like this:
[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile
[ifupdown]
managed=true
i.e. I changed managed=false to managed=true.
After I made and saved these changes I did
$ sudo bash
$ service network-manager stop
$ service network-manager start
It did NOT work to say
$ sudo service network-manager stop
At this point, I restarted and came up with a fully-populated /etc/resolv.conf which had been written by NetworkManager.
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Canonical released the next version of Ubuntu yesterday to a slew of new features. I have finished my upgrade yet so I can’t give you my personal opinion but there’s a full write up about the new features in the link below.
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I recently purchased a new HTC smartphone and noticed when I used the live.vodafone.apn Access Point to browse online I was greeted with some Vodafone branding and the pages were rendered strangely (see sections outlined in green in the image below)
After checking my APN settings I realised that there was a proxy server set up in the APN for live.vodafone.com once I removed this and the port number and saved the APN settings the web page looked like this.
For those interested you can change the settings by going to Settings – Wireless&Networks – Mobile Networks – Access Point Names – Vodafone Live! and it should look like this
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Subsonic is a free cross platform web media streamer. You can get access to your music anywhere you have an internet connection. Subsonic has an Android app that makes accessing your music even easier.
Subsonic
It is designed to handle very large music collections and will allow you to stream at a range of bitrates so it should work over even the crappiest of internet connections.
It is also extremely easy to install. Once you understand how to access your routers settings and forward ports then you’re golden.
Port Forwarding on DD-WRT
Because I’m a Ubuntu user this installation option applies to Debian Linux, including Ubuntu.
Windows download and instructions
Mac download and instructions
First, install Java: sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jre
Download the Subsonic .deb package and install it: sudo dpkg -i subsonic-x.x.deb
Notice that the installer configures your system to start Subsonic automatically when booting.
After installing, open the Subsonic web page on http://localhost:4040
Advanced configuration - To change the port number, Java memory settings or other startup parameters, edit the SUBSONIC_ARGS variable in /etc/default/subsonic.
To restart Subsonic, do sudo service subsonic restart
Troubleshooting Check the logs in /var/subsonic.
