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Hacks, Linux

Lenovo Z570 phy0 hard blocked solution

tarah / October 18, 2012

If you’ve had issues with wireless being grayed out and you’re unable to enable it on your Lenovo Z570 or any other box, there is a simple solution. You must reset your bios. There’s an oddity in the bios for…

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Hacks, Scripting

How to get the microphone working in Skype with Kubuntu 12.04 (and likely with previous versions)

tarah / June 28, 2012

I have had this problem perpetually since starting to use Skype. I had to boot into my Windows partition for this single task in order to have conference calls via Skype. I finally put together a howto and a script…

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Hacks, Linux, Programming, Scripting

HOWTO: Always know your home computer’s IP address from anywhere using Dropbox

tarah / April 6, 2012

To always know what your home machine’s IP address is (and while I’ll assume that you’re running Kubuntu, this can be adapted using the following bash script to any machine). Apt-get ‘kcron’. Open Task Scheduler and set the following bash…

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Android, Hacks, Linux

How to SSH into your home computer to access media files, documents, processes, or anything else you might need

tarah / December 8, 2010

I wanted access to my home machine so I could access any files I want. Dropbox is pretty awesome, but if you’ve forgotten to put something in your Dropbox folder, you’ll be in deep trouble. (1) Run “sudo apt-get install…

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