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Learn to speed read with comprehension

admica — Wed, 08 May 2013 14:49:08 +0000

The biggest barrier to reading speed is subvocalization. If you're reading 'out loud' in your head, there's going to be a cap on your reading speed.

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Compiling keepassx in OpenSuSE

admica — Thu, 02 May 2013 18:45:08 +0000

Does this keypass error look familiar? This isn't the first time I've seen it in OpenSUSE, but I can't remember where else this cropped up before exactly. But the fix is easy. There's a library that's installed on the system already, but missing in the code.

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Root Android in one step – Motorola Razr MAXX HD

admica — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:17:35 +0000

As unlocking bootloaders becomes harder with each update, rooting android phones seems to get easier and easier. I found Motochopper by Dan Rosenberg on http://www.droidrzr.com/ and used it to root a Motorola Razr MAXX HD. It was as easy as running a simple bat/bash script and clicking Enter.

[crayon-51a01c3b43c0a/]

It doesn’t get much easier than that! The whole process only took a few seconds to complete. I used the run.sh script from OpenSUSE 12.3. But it’s reportedly just as easy from windows. I’m not responsible for your voiding your warranty, bricking your phone, or any of that other fun stuff. So don’t unlock features for yourself, don’t free yourself from forced apps, don’t unlock your phone. There I said it.

Anyway, the easiest way to test to make sure your phone is actually rooted is to go to the Google Play app store and download an app intended for use on a rooted phone such as Titanium backup, Rom manager, or simply root checker.

Here’s the sha1sum of my downloaded motochopper.zip 7556521bd9a7ff678e992b1d79a0fb64de71a73e

My carrier, Verizon, are particularly bad about adding their own bloated apps. But in the latest versions of android, disabling most of the bundled apps is trivial without even the need for root ... Read More »

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Postgresql Backup Script – Quick and Simple

admica — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 20:46:20 +0000

Root uses psql to list all databases and then looping through each one, root uses pg_dump as postgres piped into pbzip2 which is a parallel implementation of bzip. Any new databases will be picked up by the script each time it is run.

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Fix KDM pausing before allowing login on KDE

admica — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:00:20 +0000

My gut said there was some sort of timeout occurring before KDM would show the login window after bootup. It paused a full 10-15 seconds before showing anything except the background wallpaper. It was the same delayed behavior on each reboot, so I figured it's got to be something failing or a fallback kicking in and surely I would find it in the logs somewhere.

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Get Samba LDAP winbind working with Active Directory

admica — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 16:04:06 +0000

I'm attempting to use a Windows Active Directory for user authentication in an OpenSUSE Linux environment. The configuration tools in OpenSUSE's Yast take care of just about everything, or try to at least. But I found one instance where a default samba setting just doesn't make the cut.

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Rotate the framebuffer during boot in Linux

admica — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:45:01 +0000

If your kernel is compiled with CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_ROTATION=y you can rotate the framebuffer console output to match your rotated monitors.

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