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Samsung Captivate (Galaxy S) | GingerBreak Log

SuperOneClick v1.9.5.0 Checking drivers… Killing ADB Server… OK Starting ADB Server… * daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 * * daemon started successfully * OK Waiting for device… OK Getting OS Version… OK Pushing GingerBreak… 130 KB/s (16830 bytes in 0.125s) OK chmod GingerBreak… OK Running GingerBreak… ROOTED Pushing busybox… 1426 KB/s […]

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Hardware Personal

Samsung Galaxy S – “Skype has stopped working.”

Day 1 on the Galaxy Android and I download Skype and cannot sign in.  I am greeted with the non-informational message of “Skype has stopped working” and I have two options, Exit Skype or Sign in. Wait… Sing in?  That’s thing that doesn’t even work.  For testing purposes I attempt to create an account – […]

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How-To Personal

Reset PS3 Video Setting

This short write up is for a friend who needs to know how to reset his video so that he can move away from composite video (blah) to HDMI (come get some). Make sure the system is off. Hold down the Power Button for a few seconds (about 5) – until you hear the second […]

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Personal Technical

“Why is there no /var/log/messages any more?”

Woah!  I just noticed this was missing.  I have used this for many years as my go to location for messages in my Ubuntu Linux environments. With the newest update of Ubuntu this seems to be gone.  {Shocker}   But, there is no need for worrying… The logs I was looking for are in /var/log/syslog. […]

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News Personal

Valued PlayStation Network/Qriocity Customer

And there we have it. The letter I have been waiting for, for those of you who did not get this. Here you go: =================================== PlayStation(R)Network =================================== Valued PlayStation(R)Network/Qriocity Customer: We have discovered that between April 17 and April 19, 2011, certain PlayStation Network and Qriocity service user account information was compromised in connection with […]

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How-To Personal

Enable XML-RPC Posting

Looking for a way to post to WordPress from my iPhone, I downloaded the WordPress application.  Soon after running the app and attempting to connect to my site, I was notified that I need to enable XML-RPC remote publishing.  That being said, I went to my site and made the following changes: If your blog […]