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Using the Nintendo Wii LAN Adapter on a PC

Using the Nintendo Wii LAN Adapter on a PC Recently My Ethernet LAN Network Card couldnt find the Drivers and wouldnt work; so, Im using my genuine Official Nintendo Wii LAN Adapter as my PCs Ethernet Network card. And Like all PC Hardware under Microsoft Windows, Mac OSX, and even Linux Distributions; They require Hardware Device Drivers. When you Plug an USB Device in to Windows Itll register in the "Windows Device Manager". When Device Manager Runs itll detect the LAN Adapter as "AX88772", It cant find the Driver Software so youll have to download an Installer Manually; Dont worry I already found it on the Manufacturers website, and will add a Link to the Web Site in this Post. And remember these drivers are only for Nintendos LAN Adapter for the Wii; the Wii U LAN Adapter may use different Hardware. And other Vendors like Datel for example will use different Hardware/Drivers. A used Nintendo Wii LAN adapter isnt expensive; Gamestop sells them for around $12 USD....

Using WRITE SECURE SETTINGS permission on non system apps

Using WRITE SECURE SETTINGS permission on non system apps I happen to frequently use an app that doesnt work if USB Debugging - ADB (Android Debug Bridge) is enabled. It is very cumbersome to go to settings and enable or disable the setting every time I need to use the app. I checked if there are any widgets that could do this in a click and returned empty handed. So, I did what every developer would do - build it myself! In order to change the adb settings, I had to use WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS permission. But there was one major problem! This permission is not available for non system apps!! The easiest solution to this was to move the apk to /system partition. Except that I didnt want to do this as I frequently keep flashing /system partition. Another solution was to use pm and grant permission to the app like this: adb pm grant <package name> android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS This was great! However I didnt want users who were gonna use the app to go through all this...

Using OpenCV with Eclipse plugin CDT on Ubuntu

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Using OpenCV with Eclipse plugin CDT on Ubuntu OpenCV is written natively in C++ and has a templated interface that works seamlessly with STL containers. OpenCV library therefore, is extensively used with C++. Here, we will see how to use Eclipse with CDT Plugin on Ubuntu 14.04. We will use  OpenCV-2.4.11  and  Luna Eclipse for C/C++ developers . We start with downloading Eclipse and then configuring it with OpenCV libraries. We will also implement an a OpenCV program. I will assume that you have the OpenCV-2.4.11 installed on your Ubuntu System. However, if you do not have it installed or you are facing problems getting it done, you can refer to  Installing OpenCV-2.4.11 on Ubuntu . Lets start! Before we start, were going to need to download Eclipse. I use OpenCV with C ++, Then Im going to download the specific release to C / C ++ of Eclipse Luna: Eclipse IDE for C / C ++ Developers. Keep referring to the screenshots as you keep progressing through tutorial. T...

Vanna White Turns 60 � Get the Details on Her Las Vegas Birthday Bash!

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Vanna White Turns 60 � Get the Details on Her Las Vegas Birthday Bash! Vanna White"s first Wheel of Fortune appearance Share! Share Tweet Pin it Vanna White is 60 and stunning! The Wheel of Fortune star recently rang in the big 6-0 in Las Vegas alongside her boyfriend, John Donaldson and now Vanna"s friend Pia Zadora is exclusively dishing the details of her birthday bash to Closer Weekly! MUST SEE: Vanna White as a Young Girl See Throwback Photos of "The Wheel of Fortune" Star! According to the Pia, Vanna and John who works as a building contractor went out to upscale Italian restaurant Pieros to see Pia"s weekend cabaret act. "I joined them for dinner," the 63-year-old singer told Closer. Vanna and Pia have been friends for more than 30 years. They first met back when they were neighbors in LA. "We were both pregnant at the same time," the "Let"s Dance Tonight" songstress added. MUST SEE: Are Pat Sajak and Vanna White Ma...

Using Archives on Linux

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Using Archives on Linux USING ARCHIVES ON LINUX Archives like tar,gzip,bzip2,rar,zip pack in a number of files in a single archive and further compresses them using various algorithms thus making the files occupy much less space as compared to original files. Linux provides a number of options for compressing the file , in the article we look at various options available under Linux and using them describing the command line tools and graphical front-ends like Ark and File-roller. gzip (GNU Zip) gzip can be used for compressing a single file , it is not meant for compressing entire directories as other file formats do . The default extension used bu gzip archives is ( .gz ) . gzip filename.ext This would create a file name filename.gz and replace the existing filename.ext file with filename.ext.gz file which is compressed gzip archive , the gzip command retains the files attributes the modification,time stamp, access etc. The compression level of the file can be varied by using opti...

Valves OpenGL debugger for Linux game devs created on Ubuntu

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Valves OpenGL debugger for Linux game devs created on Ubuntu It seems like Valve is not done yet when it comes to Linux and gaming. According to this recent blog post by Valves own Rich Geldreich, they are actively working on an OpenGL debugger aimed at Linux game developers which will also be open source.  VOGL: Valves OpenGL debugger for Linux OpenGL debugging has always lagged behind DirectX, mainly because of the excellent graphics debugging tools shipped with Visual Studio. But all that might change very soon with Valves active interest in the development of an alternative OpenGL debugger called VOGL.  The entire code for VOGL is written and tested on Linux, on Kubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 12.04 and Linux Mint to be exact. Valves VOGL debugger was shown off at the Steam Dev Days conference held on 15th of this month at Seattle.  And the debugger will be open source. According to Rich Geldreich, "Were going completely open source - GL is just too large of an API (and changin...

Using Rom Collection Browser to play NES games on XBMC 12 with Ubuntu

Using Rom Collection Browser to play NES games on XBMC 12 with Ubuntu XBMC is by far my favorite IPTV software. I run it in my living room and use it to play my music collection and easily watch my entire DVD collection without ever needing to pop in CDs or DVDs. All my media is stored in a hard drive on my home server. I had toyed around with using the Rom Collection Browser plugin to play Nintendo games, but getting it working right is not a trivial task. After a lot of messing around I finally have it working right. These instructions are using XBMC 12 on Ubuntu 13.10 and fceux for the emulator. First things first. Never run with the version of XBMC packaged for Ubuntu. Team XBMC keeps an up to date version in their ppa at https://launchpad.net/~team-xbmc/+archive/ppa. You can set it up with the following commands. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install xbmc Next we need fceux to act as our NES emulator. You could install fceux wi...

Verizon disables GPS on BlackBerry

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Verizon disables GPS on BlackBerry Just switched to Verizon, which is great for voice quality but wow, had no idea that GPS was disabled on this phone. According to Verizon, their navigator program uses cell phone triangulation Heres my chat with one of their reps: Please wait for a site operator to respond. You are now chatting with Ennis Ennis: Hello. Thank you for visiting our chat service. How may I help you today? JS: why does GPS on my new blackberry 8830 ONLY work with Verizons navigation system? JS : are there any plans to open this access to other services (like Loopt and Google maps) Ennis: I would be more than happy to assist you with that information. JS : ok . . . Ennis: Verizon disables the gps navigation system and uses VZ Navigator. The only difference is vz navigator uses cell towers instead of satellites. JS : so VZ Navigator is different from other navigation systems that also cost $10 per month and use GPS? And therefore is only accurate to 1000-2000 ft??? why would...

VIDEO Wizkid – Joy No Woman No Cry Bob Marley Cover on 1Xtra

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VIDEO Wizkid – Joy No Woman No Cry Bob Marley Cover on 1Xtra VIDEO: Wizkid � Joy / No Woman No Cry (Bob Marley Cover) on 1Xtra Watch Starboy, Wizkid perform Joy/No Woman No Cry cover for BBC 1Xtra, shot on location in Lagos, Nigeria. http://notjustok.com/?wpdmact=process&did=NS5ob3RsaW5r http://goo.gl/QDyJKo download  file  now

Using AppleScript for workflow automation on Mac

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Using AppleScript for workflow automation on Mac I see a lot of people talking (or writing) about workflow automation on Mac OS X. Most of them (almost all) talk about Automator. In my opinion there is a much better way to automate your workflow on OS X. AppleScript. AppleScript is basically the technology underlying Automator. But instead of clicking and dragging and not understanding the Automator menus, you write clean code that does exactly what you want it to do. Automated workflow using Automator Take me for example. I like how Dropbox offered to upload my phones photos automatically. The second I hook up my phone, the photos are being imported into Dropbox -> Pictures -> Camera Uploads. After a while however, I realized that this was starting to take up much more space than I actually had and I kept manually moving the photos to a different location. For a while, every time I hooked up my phone I manually moved the pictures. Of course, I wanted that to change. So I had a l...

Using ansible to install Oracle Java on an ec2 box running in the cloud

Using ansible to install Oracle Java on an ec2 box running in the cloud I am writing this down so I dont forget. I started this task but had to stop a few times, and then remember where I left off and at some point, others will need to know how to get started. Install ansible brew install ansible Install Amazon EC2 Ansible integration tool Go here and follow instructions for Amazon EC2 Ansible integration tool. You will run a Python script and setup a few environment variable. It is painless. This will create an ansible inventory file based on your EC2 environment. Start ssh agent with your key $ ssh-agent bash $ ssh-add ~ /.ssh/YOUR_KEY.pem Install ansible Oracle Java install plugin $ ansible-galaxy install ansiblebit.oracle-java Start up an EC2 box tag it as elk=elk However you like, start up an EC2 instance and tag it with the tag elk=elk. This is just the type of box. In this case, I am in the process of writing an ansible setup script for an ELK stack. Test your ansible connec...

Using Rails Gem to Generate a New Project on Ubuntu

Using Rails Gem to Generate a New Project on Ubuntu Using the rails installed by apt-get was a bit confusing because the rails project being generated was not the rails version that I expected. I had installed the rails gem v2.2.2 but the config/environment.rb file showed rails v2.1. I fixed this issue by removing the default rails. sudo apt-get remove rails And then using an alias: export GEMDIR=`gem environment gemdir` export RAILS_VERSION=`gem list rails | grep "rails " | cut -b8- | awk {sub(/)/, "");print}` alias rails=ruby $GEMDIR/gems/rails-$RAILS_VERSION/bin/rails Now when I do rails dool The project uses the right version of rails! download  file  now

Vagrant on Kali Linux!

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Vagrant on Kali Linux!                                               Hey guys in this post ill show you how you can start with vagrant on kali linux! So first of all you need is virtual box, virtual box dkms and linux headers of kali linux so for that purpose run the following command in terminal. Linux headers for kali linux is a dependency of virutal dkms so it will automatically install! After running this go to this Link and download vagrant for debian systems! After this go to the downloads folder and run the following command to install vagrant! this will go and install vagrant in your kali linux! :D Awesome isnt it ? So now just type "vagrant -h" in the terminal to see vagrant! Now as you can see vagrant is working properly in kali linux! So now you can just ...

Using Pig with Accumulo building on Jason Trosts work

Using Pig with Accumulo building on Jason Trosts work https://github.com/medined/accumulo-pig shows how to use Accumulo as a simple source for Apache Pig. (By the way, I havent tested writing to Accumulo yet) After the quick setup, youll be able to read from Accumulo using a script like the following. The character represents a line continuation. Be careful with your security because the password is sent via plain text. And stored in your history buffer. Probably this should be changed to use a property file. pig register /home/vagrant/accumulo_home/bin/accumulo/lib/accumulo-core.jar register /home/vagrant/accumulo_home/bin/accumulo/lib/accumulo-fate.jar register /home/vagrant/accumulo_home/bin/accumulo/lib/accumulo-trace.jar register /home/vagrant/accumulo_home/bin/accumulo/lib/libthrift.jar register /home/vagrant/accumulo_home/bin/zookeeper/zookeeper-3.4.5.jar register /vagrant/accumulo-pig/target/accumulo-pig-1.4.0.jar DATA = LOAD accumulo://people?instance=instance&user=roo...

VidMate Fast Video Music Downloader on Any Online Services Like YOUTUBE

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VidMate Fast Video Music Downloader on Any Online Services Like YOUTUBE Vidmate is one of the best known applications currently available for downloading videos and songs from online services like Vimeo, Dailymotion, YouTube, Instagram, FunnyorDie, Sex Video, Vine, Tumblr, Soundcloud, Metacafe, and tons of other multimedia portals. With this highly recommended app, you�ll get to download from practically any video site. Latest Version: 2.44 [4.93 MB (Size)] -- updated -- Requires Android 2.2.x and up ALL VIDEOS/MUSIC CAN BE DOWNLOADED ONLINE [that includes NSFW videos Can also stream videos. Download videos/music to quality/format: HD, MP4 360p, WEBM 360p, 3GP 240p, 3gp 144p, Mp3, M4A Download: VidMate - Fast Video & Music Downloader download  file  now

Venkatesh Bodyguard audio Release on Oct 1

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Venkatesh Bodyguard audio Release on Oct 1 As per the latest reports, Victory Venkatesh upcoming film tentatively titled Ganga-The Bodyguard will have its audio release on October 1. Producer Bellamkonda Suresh is planning to release the movie on October 26 on the occasion of Diwali. Gopichand Malineni is directing the film on Sri Sai Ganesh Productions banner. Trisha is playing female lead opposite Venky for the third time after AMAV and Namo Venkatesa. Saloni is acting in an important role in this film. SS Thaman is providing the music for this lromantic action entertainer. This film is the remake of Malayalam super hit Bodyguard starring Dileep and Nayanthara. Recently, the film was remade in Hindi with Salman in the lead role and went on to become blockbuster at box-office.f download  file  now

vCenter Standard and Foundation Enforcement on vSphere Essentials and Essentials Plus

vCenter Standard and Foundation Enforcement on vSphere Essentials and Essentials Plus This brought to my attention thanks to my colleague, Tessa Davis. Previously I mentioned on the different editions of vCenter here.  I did mentioned about the limitation of vCenter Standard and Foundation used to manage Essential and Essential is not possible due to End User Licensing Agreement (EULA).  However starting from vCenter 5.0 Update 1, this EULA enforcement is also a programmatic enforcement.  If you refer to vCenter 5.0 Update 1 release notes here, you will see the below: vCenter now enforces restrictions on which vSphere editions can be managed by vCenter With this feature, vCenter Standard and Foundation is disallowed from managing vSphere Essentials and Essentials Plus host editions. This is disallowed per the EULA already, but was not programmatically enforced until now. The exception to this rule is the �Essentials for ROBO� edition. This is still allowed per the EULA an...

Verizon switches on LTE Advanced in 461 cities is your phone compatible

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Verizon switches on LTE Advanced in 461 cities is your phone compatible   Verizon Wireless is what I consider to be the best cellphone carrier in the USA. Yes, it is expensive comparatively, but you get what you pay for. Both coverage and speed is top notch across the country, meaning you should have a solid experience in many places where you travel.   Today, the carrier announces that its LTE is getting much faster. In 461 cities across the USA, it switches on the speedier "LTE Advanced" (LTE-A). Best of all, many existing devices are compatible. Wondering if your phone, tablet, or hotspot can take advantage? Read on for the list.   "Verizon LTE Advanced uses software that combines multiple channels to speed mobile data over the network more quickly than ever before. The result is 50 percent faster peak speeds in cities nationwide for Verizon customers using one of the 39 LTE Advanced-capable phones and tablets already on Verizons network -- including top-selling Sam...

Using Make for Easy Yocto Builds On Intel Edison

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Using Make for Easy Yocto Builds On Intel Edison This documentation goes though the process of building a Yocto Linux image via simple make files for the Intel Edison board. The make file method for building Yocto images is much simpler than the manual build methods. The make files provided by Intel in the BSP Edison source package wrap the build process with scripts to make building an extremely simple process. Most of the base steps found in this documentation were based on Intels Board Support Package (BSP) User Guide. The BSP User Guide can be found here. Also note, all of these steps were tested in Ubuntu Linux 14.04 x64 LTS. As of this writing, this OS/Version has the most support for doing Edison source builds. I have done these steps in other operating systems, but the process is not as clean due to bugs, script tweaks, etc. Create a Directory for Building the Image This step is optional, but I find it useful to create a directory for keeping my builds organized. If yo...

Video Deep ocean is the largest living space on the planet Hohonu Moana

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Video Deep ocean is the largest living space on the planet Hohonu Moana download  file  now