Mount 3rd Gen Ipod Touch in Slackware

November 21st, 2011 | Posted by admin in Linux - (0 Comments)

Iv been bored of playing with debian and debian based distro’s. So i took the plunge to try Slackware. I have tried it in the past but always failed miserably to get a usable machine. But this time i succeeded, and it is running brilliantly.   One thing i really wanted to get working was … Read more →

Fatty lewis dead?

August 18th, 2011 | Posted by admin in Random - (0 Comments)

A true LEGEND died on the 16th of this month — Huw Ceredig RIP FATTY http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huw_Ceredig

ms-sys – An absoloute life saver!

August 18th, 2011 | Posted by admin in Linux - (0 Comments)

Today i had a crash on one of my machines in work. Xubuntu just kept crashing, grub became or something as all i got was the grub rescue> prompt. I could boot a live enviroment off a flash drive, but the installer was corrupt on it so i couldnt get grub reinstalled. So i couldnt … Read more →

New Site

August 17th, 2011 | Posted by admin in Random - (0 Comments)

Just a little shout to anyone wanting to check it out, Iv just started work on iconia-a500.com Have a look and let me know what you want to see. I want to make it a repository for all info and links to all roms for the Acer Iconia A500. Cheers.

Root Acer Iconia After 3.1 Update

July 12th, 2011 | Posted by admin in Acer Iconia - (0 Comments)

Obviously if you have updated to the latest Android 3.1 (Honeycomb) you will have lost root. Luckily, those awesome devs over at XDA have got us root back. Its Incredibly simple to install. Just download the APK From this post on XDA http://tinyurl.com/6yyevb9 Its probably best to get the latest version. I have used the … Read more →

Stop a router in GNS3 maxing out your PC

July 12th, 2011 | Posted by admin in Linux - (0 Comments)

This is a little tip passed onto me by a friend at work. By default it appears that routers in GNS3 like to use as much resources as possible, shown here. You can see that Core4 Is currently being totally maxed out. This is with one router, no config running. This is also on a … Read more →

GNS3 and Qemu On ubuntu 10.10 64bit

July 12th, 2011 | Posted by admin in Linux - (0 Comments)

Seeing as OVH had gotten rid of the setup fees on their servers for a short while, i decided to grab myself a new server, its got an i5 in it and 16GB of ram and a 2TB HDD. I didnt actually know what to do with such a beasty machine, but i figured, seeing … Read more →

Mounting Acer Iconia in ubuntu

July 6th, 2011 | Posted by admin in Acer Iconia | Linux - (0 Comments)

I was really upset to find that there was no way to just mount the internal HDD of my iconia in ubuntu to copy music/pics/movies across to it. After a bit of googling and fiddling, i managed to get it working. **DO NOT use “sudo apt-get install mtpfs” To install MTPFS, there is a bug … Read more →

FaceNiff – Firesheep for android

June 2nd, 2011 | Posted by admin in Phone - (0 Comments)

Having a read on engadget today, i came across an article about FaceNiff. It is essentially the same as firesheep, but for android. The scary thing is, it works. Tested myself on my own account (obviously after disabling SSL) i was able to post a status update on my wall. Pretty scary really!   Excuse … Read more →

Galaxy S AMOLED Burn-in

January 10th, 2011 | Posted by admin in Random - (5 Comments)

Well i was over on the xda-devs site today, and there was a thread about amoled screens and burn-in. So using some codes to get into “test” mode, i set the screen to all blue, red and green. It was only while having the screen blue, did i see any real burn-in. Its pretty bad … Read more →