HP WakeOnLAN bug versus Open Source – An “It shouldn’t be this hard!”-Odyssey.

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 …

Using Samsung Mobile Tracker on Galaxy S in any country.

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.

The worst keyboard ever!

People who know me, know that I freak when some company ‘improves’ the keyboard layout by tilting the ins/del/home/end/pgup/pgdn block (ie putting it vertically instead of horizontally) or by moving down the PrtScr/ScrollLock/Pause row to make room for useless Power/Standby Buttons at the top, usually putting the ‘Power’ button in place of the ‘Pause/Break’ button …

Bear