Author Archives: Brian Agrawal Goodacre

CyanogenMod Updates for T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S3

My T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S3 phone did not automatically receive an update in quite some time. I looked on the dt2mo Wiki page and found that dt2mo had merged with other Galaxy S3 streams into the dtIte stream. I checked … Continue reading

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OwnCloud, 403 Forbidden, and Shared Folder

403 Forbidden. That is a webserver’s way of telling someone does not have permission to a file or folder they are trying accessing. When I saw this in an OwnCloud desktop sync client, I was confused because the user should … Continue reading

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Bitcoin ASIC Miner on Linux

Getting an ASCI Bitcoin Miner to run on Windows is straight forward but getting the correct drivers and terminal commands down to run it is actually more difficult than one would think. So, I would suggest sticking to Windows but … Continue reading

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Hard drives do die

Hard drives are made cheap but with lots of storage. They are not made to last forever but when hard drives seem so reliable, a dead hard drive can catch many people (including myself) off guard. Hard drives will die … Continue reading

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Review of Powerline for Wifi

I learned that Wi-Fi range extenders, repeaters, and amplifiers are all different and use different technologies. From first hand experience, using any of these that take an existing weak wireless signal and send them out again will result in poor performance. … Continue reading

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Remove the soccer on the Soccer Team Template on Google Sites

Google Sites has some nice templates. If you are building a site for your sports team, then you probably selected the Soccer Team theme and were happy with the look and feel of the site. If you are not a … Continue reading

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Upgrading from Linux Mint 15 to 16

Using Linux Mint 15, I noticed that I was not notified when a newer version of Linux Mint was published. v15 was treating me well but I like to run the latest. A clean install is always an option but … Continue reading

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Free domains from dot.tk

Buying a domain for a website you only want to play around with can cost you a few bucks along with the hassle of avoiding automatic charges. Getting a free website and hosting from wordpress.com can be quick and easy but … Continue reading

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No Highlighting in PowerPoint

I found this out today and it blew my mind. First, go and try to highlight text in PowerPoint like how you can highlight text yellow. You will find there is no highlight text option and even you try to … Continue reading

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Netflix on Linux

Update! (11/30/2014) Running Netflix in Linux is much easier. More or less, if you have Google Chrome 37 or more, it should run out of the box. Chromium did not work for me but pure breed Chrome did. This just … Continue reading

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Hard bricking a phone by following an Internet forum

Do not believe everything on the Internet! I learned this the hard way by following a seemingly knowledgeable forum. I modified the installation package that I was using to update my CyanogenMod phone to get past an error. It seemed that … Continue reading

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The Agile Samurai Book Review

Having taken a graduate course in Agile Methods, The Agile Samurai book ended up being a great refresher for me. Written by Jonathan Rasmusson, an expert in his field and a friend of multiple authors of the Agile Manifesto, Jon does … Continue reading

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GPG error with public key

When I would run sudo apt-get update I would get and error that made using apt-get useless: Fetched 164 kB in 7s (20.9 kB/s)  Reading package lists… Done W: GPG error: http://download.opensuse.org Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because … Continue reading

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First day in Bitcoins

Bitcoin started in 2009 and have become more popular and valuable as the years progress. If you want to learn more about Bitcoin, I suggest visiting Wikipedia’s article on Bitcoin or Bitcoin’s homepage and then exploring YouTube for some more information. … Continue reading

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Google Voice not forwarding calls on TMobile phones

I hit an issue when setting up Google Voice on my phone that looks to be a common problem among T-Mobile users. During the Google Voice App install, the phone errors and says that it cannot change the call forwarding … Continue reading

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