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How to take a screenshot on the Samsung Galaxy S4

Hello All, Today I got my hands on the new Samsung Galaxy S4 (AT&T). I wanted to test how to take a screenshot. For sometime now I have used my rooted Galaxy S2 with CyanogenMod which allowed for me to simply press the power button and get a menu context which allowed me to take the […]

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Galaxy S4 AT&T

I can feel it coming in the air tonight… And I’ve been waiting for this moment… Well the wait is almost over for many of us as the folks over at CyanogenMod have just posted the following message ‘The patch to enable nightlies for the AT&T variant of the S4 (jflteatt) has just been merged – […]

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Update available message after installing update

Recently I updated my Ubuntu Server 12.04.2 to Ubuntu 13.04 when I noticed that the message of the day (MOTD) displaying in my console was telling me that an update was available and to Run ‘do-release-upgrade’ It seems the cause of this was /usr/lib/ubuntu-release-upgrader/release-upgrade-motd which is called by /etc/update-motd.d/91-release-upgrade which checks for the existence of the release-upgrade-motd file. Removing this with rm /var/lib/ubuntu-release-upgrader/release-upgrade-available […]

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Some Basic Use of Nmap

Nmap (“Network Mapper”) is a free and open source utility for network discovery and security auditing. I along with many other systems and network administrators also find it to be a useful tool for the right job. Nmap can be installed and used in Windows, and mostly common in Linux distributions such as Debian and the […]

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logstalgia – website access log visualization tool

Logstalgia is a website traffic visualization that replays or streams web-server access logs as a pong-like battle between the web server and an never ending torrent of requests. On a regular basis I tail the access.log of my website watching request to jermsmit.com Last night I ran across a awesome log visualizer tool called logstalgia. Logstalgia […]

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Google SSL Certificates going to 2048-bit

Coming Soon! In August 2013, Google will start the process of switching its SSL Certificates over to 2048-bit for its services adding stronger security. This information was made public on Stephen McHenry’s, Director of Information Security at Google Blog. The completion of this project is set to be completed by the end of the 2013 year. […]