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I have a couple of HP MediaSmart EX485 Windows Home Servers (WHS).  This post contains a bunch of information about them.

Drives
How to successfully clone and upgrade a WHS System Drive
Questions About Replacing Failed Drive
HP 485 drive missing and new drive shows as external
Server's system drive failed, replaced, now lost everything
How to remove "missing drive" from WHS V1
System Disc Shows As 'non Storage Hard Drives'
I Have Successfully Cloned The System Drive
Can Not Remove External Drive
Server recovered without data drives

Add-Ins
MSS Search Results
WHS Health
Windows Home Server Add-Ins
Home Server SMART WHS add-in
Serviio Media Server Add-In Released

Power Supply
How to Replace the MediaSmart Server Power Supply
Replacement Power Supplies Available for the MediaSmart Server
Replacing the Power Supply
No Power
Repair Your Power Supply

Debug Board
[Gen3] HP MediaSmart Server VGA/PS2/Serial Debug Board Sale
What's this mobo header for?

CPU Upgrade
EX47x CPU parse from "Saw a EX470 Post with a AMD X2" thread
CPU Model Number Confusion for upgrading the HP EX470

Misc
[SOLVED] Flashing blue health light, cannot boot
Server Recovery on the EX490 and EX495 
Can't install on HP MediaSmart Server 

Collections on Kindle Paperwhite:
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=215469 
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=118635&page=114

Collections Manager:
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=186305
http://dearauthor.com/ebooks/using-kindle-collections-plugin-for-calibre/
http://www.amazon.com/forum/kindle?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx1D7SY3BVSESG&cdThread=Tx1JTGIK7R0C999

Mobileread Kindlet Kit:
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=233932

Jailbreak:
http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kindle_Touch_Hacking#Jailbreak

KUAL:
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=203326

Backup:
http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kindle_Touch_Hacking#Backup

Disable Auto Updates:
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=219986&page=3
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=205666

Firmware Downgrade: 
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=235413&page=3
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=233580&page=2
http://ixtab.tk/kindle-touch-images/PW2/README.txt
http://ixtab.tk/kindle-touch-images/PW2/diags/
http://ixtab.tk/kindle-touch-images/PW2/main/5.4.0/

Rescue Pack:
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=195670
http://ixtab.tk/kindle-touch-images/README.txt 

ScreenSavers Hack
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=195474

Enable Diags:
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=172820

Eject Kindle in Linux:  sudo eject /dev/sdb1

PS: http://fictfact.com/author/974/feist-raymond-e (example) groups author publications by series and order

NOTE: need to document the ringtone and alarm sounds

NOTE: need to set up ssh servers

OpenVPN setup:
mount -o remount,rw /system
Requires a manual installation To perform a manual installation you will require a root explorer such as Root Browser.
Navigate to "/data/app/de.schaeuffelhut.android.openvpn.installer-1.apk/assets"
copy the file "openvpn-2.1.1-static-busyboxinsbin" to "/system/xbin".
Afterwards rename the file to "openvpn"
and set its permission to "rwxr-xr-x".
Finally open the Openvpn Settings and it should detect the installation correctly.
Done successfully in my SuperSu rooted Nexus 5 on 4.4.2 

Fix for Titanium Backup "Insufficient free storage space" (not writable)
edit /etc/permissions/platform.xml
change:

<permission name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" >
<group gid="sdcard_rw" />
</permission>

Add the media_rw group:
<permission name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" >
<group gid="sdcard_rw" />
<group gid="media_rw" />
</permission> 

Then reboot the device.

I have to use this once in a while and I keep forgetting it.

ps -ef | grep [p]rocess | awk '{printf "%s ", $2}'

I'm rewriting a web application, converting it to use a REST backend and updating the frontend to take advantage of new web trends including jQuery, CSS3, AJAX, etc. I have way too many windows open for information on these items so I'm going to create a big post to record them and close down some of these windows.

jQuery

• jQuery core
• Using jQuery Core
• jQuery ajax
• jQuery for Absolute Beginners (Video Tutorial)
• 7 Things I Wish I Had Known About jQuery
• ModalPopup in jQuery
• Using jQuery to get XML and put in HTML table
• Using jQuery .each to loop over XML file
• XML Parsing with jQuery
• Use jQuery to Retrieve Data From an XML File
• XML Parsing With jQuery
• XML parsing using jQuery
• jQuery.ajax parse XML
• JavaScript AJAX call a PHP that returns XML
• $( document ).ready()
• What is the best back button jQuery plugin? [closed]
• jQuery hashchange
• jQuery hashchange example
• jQuery hashchange forked to work with current jQuery
• Using Location Hash To Enable BACK/FORWARD Navigation
• jquery.history.js VS jquery-hashchange
• history.js project page
• How do I actually use history.js on my site
• Is this a proper way to use History.js?
• using history.js so that i can deep link on a website
• jQuery.getJSON()
• 55 jQuery Form Plugins To Download And Use
• Best Free jQuery Form Plugins to Improve User Experience
• jFormer
• Pass request headers in a jquery AJAX GET call
• History API and History.js Back Button issue
• JQuery & history.js back button not working
• Preferred client side routing solution?
• jquery-hashchange
• jQuery History
• jQuery BBQ Implementation (video)
• 10 jQuery History/Back Button Plugins
• How to change state without triggering statechange in history.js?
• Working with Cookies in jQuery
• jQuery - How to PUT JSON via Ajax?
• Ajax Project - Populating a Form

jQuery UI

• jQuery ui dialog change title after load-callback
• Dialog Widget

jQuery datePicker

• jQuery date picker plug-in
• Datepicker
• How to customize the Date Picker
• Datepicker Widget

REST

• REST API - A Simple PHP Tutorial
• Using HTTP Metnods for RESTful Services
• Signing and Authenticating REST Requests (Amazon API Documentation)
• Private REST API with Ajax Call
• A Beginners Guide to HTTP and REST
• Learn REST: A Tutorial
• htaccess Rule to Tidy Up REST API requests
• Passing complex objects into a WCF Rest Service

CSS

• multiple elements with similar css
• How to Center a DIV Block Using CSS
• How to position a table at the center of div horizentally & vertically
• CSS Vertical Align: Divs
• Learn CSS Layout - Position
• Learn CSS Layout - Position Example
• CSS - Extending class properties
• How to Center an Absolutely Positioned Element Using CSS
• CSS fixed width in a span
• Simple way to vertically align a nested div?
• make div's height expand with its content
• Clearing floats
• CSS - How to center nested divs?
• Justify elements using jQuery and CSS
• How do you easily horizontally center a div using CSS?

Handlebars

• handlebars array of json object
• Handlebars.js Tutorial: Learn Everything About Handlebars.js
• Best Practices When Working With JavaScript Templates
• JavaScript Templating with Handlebars
• Is it possible to access jquery functions through a templating library like Handlebars?
• jQuery Autobars Project Page (Handlebars Template Loader)
• Handling handlebars.js like a pro

SPA

• Single Page Applications (SPA) - John Papa
• SPA and the Single Page Myth - John Papa
• Singe Page App Homebrew
• Architecture for single page application (JavaScript)

PHP

• Simple XML to JSON with PHP
• json_encode
• Correct content type HTTP header for JSON

JavaScript

• How can I create a two dimensional array in JavaScript?
• Beautiful JavaScript: Easily Create Chainable (Cascading) Methods for Expressiveness

Online Tools

• XML to JSON and JSON to XML converter
• JSON Formatter & Validator
• jsfiddle
• XML Formatter
• iconfinder