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How-To Technical

How to: hide media on Android

To hide media in a specific folder from the player apps do this: Windows: Open notepad and save an empty file as filename “.nomedia”. Linux: In a terminal window create a file called “.nomedia” by typing “touch .nomedia”. Connect your Android phone by USB and copy the file into all folders you wish to hide […]

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Personal

Look dad, a bird

This photo is of my son; looking in amazement at birds flying.

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Personal

My thoughts on hacking

Hacking an account, exploiting someone’s false sense of security is, in my opinion, a great example of where the security failures are really: in the humans. I am sure; that EVERY account hacked in known history has been made because of the end users’ negligence. Giving their password to someone else, using a third-party application, […]

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How-To Technical

PS3 Media Server (Again)

It’s been about 2 years now and well it was time for me to rebuild my PS3 Media Server The last time I made a write up about this; I gave a few steps and left some out. Here is my rebuild and steps I took to get it working. I started off by installing […]

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How-To Software Technical

Sysprep Windows Server 2008 R2

Today I was working on testing some systems when some of the errors I had been getting eluded to the machines security information not being unique from other systems. It’s time for sysprep, but first we need to find it. Is it on the DVD media…? No! Perhaps we have to cross a broken Bridge, […]

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Technical

DISA

DISA (which stands for Direct Inward System Access) allows you to provide an internal dialtone to external callers. When you configure a DISA destination, you can use it as a menu destination within a Digital Receptionist, so that you can get an internal Asterisk dialtone. This means you could call into your Asterisk system and […]