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Minimal Asterisk 11 Google Voice setup (Simonics replacement)

I signed up for another Google Voice account, and went to simonics to register it so I could use it on a SIP adapter. Registration was closed. Asterisk 11 just hit and it’s chan_motif does the job. Asterisk is very

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BIOS Password Recovery

It gets harder and harder to find. This is very resourceful! How to Reset a BIOS Password

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Minimal Wii SoftMod

Homebrew channel logo

When I modify a Wii, I start with the homebrew channel, USB Loader GX, and WiiMC (a great media player). Many of the guides are outdated, and include many things I don’t believe you need anymore. The latest hack, LetterBomb,

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My take on Secure UEFI booting.

I just read the article and a lot of the comments about Fedora’s plan to tackle booting under secure UEFI: Implementing UEFI Secure Boot in Fedora Firstly, I do run Microsoft Windows. It’s a good desktop. I also have Linux

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AT&T U-Verse vs. Time Warner Cable

I had AT&T sales rep sell me on trying the U-Verse TV and Internet package. He said no-contract and 30 day money back guarentee so I figured why not. The install was yesterday. It was interesting but I’ll try not

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Recursive functions: Casting out Nines (in Bash)

Someone asked how to implement an algorithm where you add the digits in a number, until you have a single digit left. For example: 1234 10 1 The first given solution used a loop. He asked if it could be

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Apple Genius’s are far from it

The screen on my mom’s iPad2 was cracked Monday morning. I decided I’d have Apple replace it, since it’d also take care of the slightly bent metal backing. I drove 40minutes to Charleston for a 1:30pm appointment at the “Genius

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time for a post – NOOKcolor / Xbox issues

I guess it’s Aug 22nd and I should post something (see, now every other month on the 22nd … ha!). I rooted my mom’s NOOKcolor again… It likes to kill itself it seems if you don’t reboot soon after. Like,

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Early Internet Days

I was reminiscing my early internet connections this morning on the drive to work for some reason. My first service was Prodigy Online. I probably had the 286 at 2400 baud. Then I believe CompuServe. They were weird. Then my

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Debian lenny SiI3114 FakeRAID GRUB2 JFS

Well shit. I was messing with this for awhile, and I was about to post how I did it… but it seems the debian wiki was updated just a few hours ago: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SataRaid I had the netinst media for amd64.

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