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I have a fair amount of music that I want to be able to access both at home and at work (I also like to have an offsite backup).  Since I now have a gateway both at work and at home, I'm not able to directly connect the machines to use rsync to keep the music stores up to date.  I've put this together and set up a cron job to automatically manage it all:

ssh -R 2201:localhost:22 filesync@shell2.strav.net "ssh -R 2201:localhost:2201 user@mp3server" \"rsync -e 'ssh -p 2201' --stats --progress -a 'path_on_mp3server' root@localhost:'path_on_localhost'\""

I have also used this to set up a background session

ssh -f -N -T -R 1443:localhost:443 user@hostname

The -f switch tells ssh to background itself after authentication. The -N switch creates the tunnel without running any remote commands and the -T switch disables pseudo-tty allocation

For some reason, Microsoft decided to prevent ICMP packets by default in their firewall.  Here's a command to reenable them.

netsh advfirewall firewall add rule protocol=icmpv4:8,any dir=in action=allow name="Core Networking – Answer an echo request [ping] (ICMPv4-In)" description="Allows this computer to answer IPv4 ICMP echo requests (ping). This rule was added by the sysadmin." profile=any interfacetype=any

Links for installing CoolRunner 3 on the Xbox 360

FiB3R's TX Glitch Guide
Xecuter's NAND-X forum
TX CR3 PRO V1.0S FULL POST - ULTIMATE KIT
Disassembling the Xbox 360 Slim
Help to identify corona 4g, Corona 16mb nand or corona2.
Xbox360 J-Runner Guide (YouTube)
Xecuter CR3 Lite Corona v1 Install Guide Soldering NAND x Wires (YouTube)
New Xecuter NAND-X & J-R Programmer Drivers

I recently picked up a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1" to replace one of my HP Touchpads.  The micro SD card slot makes all the difference in the world.  Now I can put a bunch of kids movies on a micro SD card and be able to swap out the regular card as necessary.  Below are some links for root, roms, etc.

[ROM][ICS][STOCK][GT-P5100] ICS 4.0.3 Stock Safe / Recovery / Root (P5100XWALD7)
Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 (GSM): Full Update Guide
[ROM] Stock Rooted Deodexed 4.0.4 UEBLG2
[KERNEL][GT-P51XX][4.0.4] blamesamsung kernel for stock samsung roms [FAST | NO LAGS]
Samsung P5100 / P5110 / P5113 Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 Complete Stock Firmware
[Tutorial] Revert completely to stock state including the flash counter

Below are some links detailing how to disable MS Exchange Security on the Android email application.

[HACK] Removing keyguard and other security policy restrictions from Email apk
Exchange security bypassed in ICS
[MOD] GS3 SecEmail.apk & Exchange.apk with Exchange Security Disabled