UK Extended keyboard with even more extensions
Recently, I switched from a German QWERTZ to a UK Extended QWERTY keyboard layout - for easier access to characters for programming.
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Cardo Updater puts the main binary cardo-updater into /usr/local/ and
registers this as a LaunchDaemon with the file /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.cardosystems.cardo-updater.plist.
Toyota Touch 2 Firmware Update
What unit do I have?
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There are two locations where you can define the button's location: dconf and gconf.
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Here are some Android apps and games I've found interesting or which were recommended somewhere for various purposes. And which I didn't had the time/need to try them yet.
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On my hp Spectre x360, the Ins key is only reachable via the Fn key as in Fn+PrtScr.
So I wanted to swap both keys. System-wide - so not only in X (using xev).
I finally found this which suggested the following procedure:
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Calendar/Contacts servers
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In Outlook 2016, you can't setup an account from an Exchange 2007 server without having autodiscover setup correctly. The Manual Setup only offers "Exchange ActiveSync" which doesn't work with the 2007 Exchange. (The working method is named "Microsoft Exchange".)
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Similar to booting different operating systems via network, you can also boot multiple systems from a USB flash drive.
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This is even a bit easier since you have a boot medium (the flash drive) and don't have to jump through hoops to get a system to boot from the network.
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Most tools you want to boot are probably Linux systems. To boot them, you need a kernel and some (initial) filesystem. One way is to load an initrd (initial ramdisk) which contains only the basic stuff and mounts the big filesystem itself. Or you can mount the "big" filesystem directly and use that from the beginning.
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I first stumbled upon iPXE because of a failing info monitor at my local train station:
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iPXE is an open source firmware, meant as a replacement for the very basic option ROM in ethernet cards. But you can also use that default option ROM to chainload iPXE without having to modify your device(s).
iPXE brings several features like loading boot images via HTTP, FTP, iSCSI, SMB, etc. and it also supports WiFi.
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I'll list my modifications (keep everything else as it is) here but keep in mind that you most probably want different settings.
See also this post about iPXE in general.
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Steam has the bad habit to not run after upgrades of the Steam software.
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To install Puppet on CentOS 7, you can basically follow these instructions.
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OpenWRT sysupgrade with ExtRoot
Run sysupgrade or upload the new file with LuCI.
Kernel Module Check for Nagios
Resize partition
Detect new disk size
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Get decompiled savegame
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If you text with someone over Tango, you might not know his/her phone number, because he got yours first and started the conversation.
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root
Rooting means installing a su binary onto the device, which provides a way to become the root (=Superuser, "su")
user on the Android system. root has access to everything and thus you can do really nasty things with it.
Duplicate files in /data/app-asec/
On Jelly Bean, using FX with root, I noticed duplicate files in /data/app-asec/, e.g.:
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wua.la is a Dropbox-like online (aka. cloud) storage.
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To enable most .plgx-Plugins, you need to install the mono-gmcs-Package. For newer versions of
KeePass, use mono-dmcs.