Never give up, never surrender!
Disclaimer: Below you will find a “quick” recount of my personal experience in migrating my Samsung Galaxy S GT-i9000 Android phone from the Samsung stock ROM (2.3.5 / XXJVS) to CyanogenMod 7.1.0. Following any of the procedures listed here may wipe your data, kill your apps, destroy phone, eat your dog or cause the end …
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This is the story of how I used Open Source to work around a bug in an HP computer’s BIOS. Background: I administer a small remote office with about 10 computers which need to be backed up regularly. To do this without disrupting the users’ work, I have the backup server wake up all the …
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If you’ve tried to activate the Samsung Mobile tracker on your Samsung Galaxy S I9000, you’ve undoubtedly encountered numerous pointless error messages like ‘SSO_2012’ or ‘For legal reasons, this function not in service in some countries.’. I, for one, am sick and tired of living in a technological 3rd world country that always gets the short end of the stick for anything on the World Wide Web and since moving is not an option, here’s the procedure to set up Mobile tracker despite the arbitrary limitations.
… and yet, I managed to get my USB stick to half-working condition again. Not great, but good enough to get my data off of it. Oh yeah, this one also broke during my year long 2008 – Year of the Dead Hardware ‘event’, even before my headset died. Actually, it wasn’t really a hardware …
Given the bad omen that the old call sign brought my new PC (its motherboard died about 14 days after I built it), I’ve decided to change its name. Granted, the old name was a troublesome Kilrathi colony, the new one is the Kilrathi homeworld which eventually got blown to bits by the Temblor Bomb. …