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favicons of mobile devices and tablets

Yes! More on this again. Adding this post for a a few who may need more info. Apple iOS has supported touch icons, also Android also has apple-touch-icon support. For web pages that don’t specify a custom touch icon, a thumbnail screenshot of the page is used instead (iOS Devices). Android has a default icon, and some […]

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Finding the Failed Hard Drive – Linux Software RAID

After discovering my software raid system had suffered from a failed disk drive it was time to locate it and replace. But the question was “Which physical disk drive failed”. I don’t have a fancy blinking light or one that changes to amber or red when something is wrong. So to locate the drive I […]

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WiFi Tether AT&T Galaxy S4 SGH-i337

I must first thank Zedomax over at galaxys4root.com for his work and information provided which made this possible for me tonight. My hat’s off to you sir. Please visit his website and follow his YouTube Channel for all the latest and up to date info in rooting Android devices, such as the Galaxy S2, S3, and […]

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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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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 […]