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CyanogenMod 10 now with File Manager

For those using CyanogenMod 10 nightly builds. The popular custom Android distribution now comes with an in-house file manager. CyanogenMod 10 File Manager allows the use of elevated permissions (“root”), to perform various file operations and access all items available on the internal and external storage. What does that mean for me. One less app to […]

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Sorry for the inconvenience…

Sorry for the inconvenience but jermsmit.com was down for several days. In fact it was down for 7 days due to the recent Hurricane, named Sandy. I along with my family were without power and heat and sought out shelter from the cold weather until the power returned. If there is one thing I have learned […]

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Windows 8 Shortcuts Key Combos

Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses. – Thomas Kuhn Hello Friends, so you found your way to Windows 8 and have found some of the many shortcuts. Well I have also, and would like to share this long list that most of us […]

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How to clear Internet Explorer cache in Metro

If you need to clean the browser cache / history in the Metro version of IE 10 do the following: Press the Windows key to get into the Start Screen. Then run Internet Explorer Metro Press Windows + C key combination to open the Charms bar. You can also display it by touching the right […]

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Windows 8 VPN Error 812

I recently bumped into a little issue when connecting to my companies corp network using the VPN Client built into Windows 8. I haven’t run into this issue on XP, Vista, or Windows 7 so I wondered if something was new that may have prevented this. And I guessed it right. After getting the following error: Now […]

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ettercap and urlsnarf fun

Playing around I downloaded the package dsniff (apt-get install dsniff) to get a bunch of tools. One of the tools are urlsnarf which outputs all requested URLs sniffed from HTTP traffic in CLF (Common Log Format) CLF is used by almost all web servers You start this by typing the following: urlsnarf -i eth0 urlsnarf: listening on eth0 [tcp […]