Due to some really annoying issues and change in use habits I decided to factory reset my HTC Droid Incredible with Android 2.3.4. Did it help? Let’s review my issues: Searches insist on changing my search query – I cannot…
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Resetting My Android Phone Part 4: Did It Help?
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Resetting My Android Phone Part 3: Restore
I backed up and then factory reset my HTC Droid Incredible Android 2.3.4 phone. It has been activated and assigned the same Google account I used before the reset. I will now restore my data and see where I goofed…
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Resetting My Android Phone Part 2
The backups are done. The moment of truth is here. Settings -> SD & phone storage -> Factory data reset -> check “Erase SD card” and click “Reset phone & internal storage”. Confirm with “Erase everything”. After a minute or…
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Resetting My Android Phone: Backup
My HTC Droid Incredible Android phone has been mostly great. But after the last major update to Android v2.3.4 it has picked up some really annoying issues. Even though I have autocomplete turned off, the phone will always substitute what…
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What IPv6 Can’t Do…Yet
Here are some things you can’t yet do with IPv6: PXE Boot: There is no Preboot eXecutable Environment boot standard for IPv6 yet, but there are some developments towards this goal. PXE v2.1 is a 1999 non-open standard, and it…
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IPv6 Policy Routing Linux Gotchas
I have two IPv6 tunnels with subnets, one from SixXS and one from Hurricane Electric. (Why? Eh, I’m a tinkerer.) I had them both active and responding to tunnel broker pings on my Cisco E2000 with DD-WRT v24-sp2 rev 14929 firmware, but…
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View HTTP Headers With Chrome
I’ve been looking at my headers the old-fashioned way with curl -I and wget –save-headers, but I notice Chrome and IE have some pretty advanced site diagnostics built-in now. Here I am using Chrome’s F12 to check my HTTP headers…
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Please Allow Myself to Introduce…Myself
I am going to blog about the technical production of the weekly live webcast DBAs@Midnight, but I will be posting as midnightFreddie, the nickname and Twitter handle I adopted when joining the show. The name is based on Freddy from iCarly. Freddy…
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JaguarPC, I Recommend Them
When I don’t have the proper home internet service to run my own public servers I get an unmanaged Virtual Private Server (VPS). I’ve spent quite a few years running everything off of a VPS because I’ve been moving from…
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Streaming a Live Webcast — Concepts and Know Your Audience’s Tech
Computer video concepts can be very confusing, and streaming adds more complexity, live streaming possibly more so. This is largely because there are competing proprietary methods for encoding, storing and transporting video. I’ll try to break it down for you…
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