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Kindle Paperwhite 2 Setup

June 26th, 2014

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

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Android 4.4 Setup

June 26th, 2014

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.

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list of pids using awk

January 22nd, 2014

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

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

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Web Application Information

January 2nd, 2014

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.

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