** UPDATE : VERSION 1.5 IS HERE **
I’ve put my first ever Android App into the Marketplace, it’s a tiny tool called ‘MinFreeManager’ that allows you to edit the ‘ender the hood’ settings for Androids automatic memory cleaning routines. It’s based on the discussion and ideas found at XDA Developers.
It’s not the kind of thing you should just check out for fun, it requires root access and can mess up your phone enough to require a reboot, so please make sure you have read the thread and understand what you are doing, I take no responsibility for anything that may go wrong.
You can find it on the marketplace by searching for my ‘minfreemanager’ or ‘oldskool73′, or download it directly from the link below. (Anyone know how I create a link to it in the marketplace directly?) (Thanks Archie)
NOTE: Requires Android v1.6 v.1.5 or better and root access to run!
Download:
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I recently upgraded a machine to Windows7 and was unable to see mount any of the network Samba shares (from an Ubuntu server). After a bit of Googling I found this fix…
- Open Control Panel -> System and Security -> Administrative Tools
- Launch Local Security Policy
- Select Local Policies->Security Options
- Find the ‘Network security: LAN Manager authentication level’ entry & click to change
- Change the dropdown to ‘Send LM & NTLM responses’ & OK
- Find the ‘Network security: Minimum session security for NTLM SSP based (including secure RPC) clients’ & click to change
- Ensure both options are not checked
That should do it, go back to the network area in explorer and refresh to see your Samba shares again (hopefully).
So far not overly impressed by Windows7, it’s shiny and boots/shuts-down quicker than old Windows (no where near as fast as OSX though, about the same as Ubuntu9.10) but under the hood it still seems as clunky as ever, and there’s dialogues that obviously haven’t changed since XP (e.g. joining a workgroup).
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If you try to edit a dsdt.dsl generated for an IP35 pro (to fix the cmos reset issue on Snow Leopard for instance), you may get an error when you try to recompile it something like…
5824: Store (GAHS (Zero), Local6)
Error 4060 - Called method returns no value ^
This prevents you recompiling a useable dsdt.aml. The fix is to return a value from the GAHS method. Search for ‘GAHS’ and you will find a function that should look like this…
Method (GAHS, 1, NotSerialized)
{
}
and change it to…
Method (GAHS, 1, NotSerialized)
{
Return (0x1)
}
…and you should be good to go.
NOTE: This issue may not be exclusive to the IP35 Pro, but I did find several others with the same Mobo & issues in my Googling for a solution. Not sure either if 0×1 is the correct return value, or if it even matters, but it does fix the compile error and seems to work fine on my system. YMMV
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Appears a user tracking component from Pinch Media used by devs in a variety of apps in the app store is sending back a little more info than some people are happy with. You know, like your birthday, age, hardware ID and exact geographic location! (full overview here)
I have to admit, when I click the button to allow the device to use my location it’s never even occurred to me that this was a two way street and this info was being sent out and harvested somewhere. Naive perhaps but I’ll think twice from now on.
If you’re concerned about this issue, a good blog to keep an eye on is http://i-phone-home.blogspot.com/, which reviews apps based on their privacy. They also have a hosts file available (jailbroken phones only of course), which may be a better option than the suggestion from Pinch Media that we simply use all our apps in Airplane mode!
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Seems even the scientists are having a hard time getting funding these days and are turning to sensationalist headlines to get eyeballs. Two recently…
- Humans glow in visible light … except that ‘visible light’ is “1,000 times less intense than the levels to which our naked eyes are sensitive” … so, errr, not very ‘visible’ then is it?
- Transparent aluminium is ‘new state of matter’ … which is cool, except that in reality it was only “nearly invisible” to “extreme ultraviolet radiation”, effected “a spot with a diameter less than a twentieth of the width of a human hair” and lasted “an estimated 40 femtoseconds” (40 millionths of a nanosecond or 40*-15 of a second) …. so, errr, ‘transparent’ as long as you see in extreme UV, have great eye sight and don’t blink, ever!
Yeah, I know, these are ground breaking in their own rights and may lead to amazing things in the future, but surely they should be working on something practical like jetpacks or flying cars instead if they want good headlines?
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