Category Archives: computing

Unbrick Netgear Router

Posted on June 24, 2014 by JB

http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/18989/kw/wndr4500%20corrupted%20firmware%20recovery%20tool%20lost%20cd

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Responsive Notes

Posted on April 10, 2014 by JB

Twitter Bootstrap – responsive framework.

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Viewports: CSS: Place before any media queries. @viewport { width: 480px; zoom: 1; } Meta tag (better support): <meta name=”viewport” content=”width=320″> <meta name=”viewport” content=”width=device-width”> <meta name=”viewport” content=”width=320,initial-scale=1″> // Set zoom to full size <meta name=”viewport” content=”initial-scale=1″>

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Batteries

Posted on March 11, 2014 by JB

Lithium-ion: – Avoid complete discharge – Store/re-charge at 50%

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FTP Notes

Posted on March 1, 2014 by JB

Proftpd connections: ftptop – show current connections in realtime in a ‘top’ like format ftpwho – list current connections Restart Proftpd (Parallels Plesk/Cent OS): /etc/init.d/xinetd restart Active vs Passive FTP: A good article on this subject can be found here. MS-DOS … Continue reading →

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Memory leak Netgear WNDA3100v2 USB Wifi adapter

Posted on February 24, 2014 by JB

Version 1.2 of the Windows XP driver has a memory leak – the solution is to upgrade the driver to a later version of the driver. Version 1.3 (driver date: 05/11/2009, driver version: 5.60.180.11) also appears to have a memory … Continue reading →

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SRV 2019 Error (The server was unable to allocate from the system NonPaged pool because the pool was empty)

Posted on February 19, 2014 by JB

An excellent article on troubleshooting this error can be found here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ntdebugging/archive/2006/12/18/understanding-pool-consumption-and-event-id_3a00_–2020-or-2019.aspx

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Mac safe boot

Posted on February 17, 2014 by JB

Hold down shift key after startup tone.

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Apache reset/delete logs

Posted on February 15, 2014 by JB

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/misc/howto.html#logreset The correct procedure is to move the logfile, then signal Apache to tell it to reopen the logfiles. Apache is signaled using the SIGHUP (-1) signal. e.g. mv access_log access_log.old kill -1 `cat httpd.pid` Note: httpd.pid is a file containing the process id of the Apache httpd … Continue reading →