Add the following to your Meteor application for Facebook Login compatability with the latest 1.3 update.
[raw] App.configurePlugin(‘cordova-plugin-facebook4’, {Finally add this to your cordova packages. Edit .meteor/cordova-plugins
[raw] cordova-plugin-facebook4@https://github.com/jeduan/cordova-plugin-facebook4.git#5f66097f998f64cdf8594965f8d058b5da88faddThese quick changes increased my battery life from 5-6 hours to well over 10 hours with a Thinkpad X250. I would highly recommend these for any mobile Ubuntu install.
[raw]sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linrunner/tlp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tlp tlp-rdw
(For thinkpads continue with)
sudo apt-get install tp-smapi-dkms acpitool
[/raw]Now update your TLP file with
[raw]gksudo gedit /etc/default/tlp[/raw]Finally Add Powertop
[raw]sudo apt-get install powertop
sudo powertop –auto-tune
sudo powertop
[/raw]Reboot
If you’re having trouble deploying your Meteor app with the latest 1.3 update there’s a documented but not well known fix for making sure that your latest applications run on modulus.
https://help.modulus.io/customer/portal/articles/1647770-using-meteor-with-modulus
Modulus now requires that meteor apps use the meteor setting under the ministration tab as the deployment environment. If you do not update the setting with the new Meteor 1.3 update you will not be able to play your application.
All deployments now require the NPM module modulus@next
[raw]npm -g install modulus@next[/raw]
The latest from NVIDIA, the Shield has a little known feature called GameStream. This is a first of its kind allowing you to seamlessly stream PC gaming titles direct to your TV via the Shield. You’ll need GeForce hardware and the latest GeForce Experience installed. The Shield supports 4K – so don’t think about using anything less than a GeForce 980Ti. My personal preference is the GeForce 980Ti G1 gaming. Lag compensation is impressive to say the least and as long as you have current hardware you won’t notice any input lag.
The Shield is truly a one of a kind, unique device. Allowing PC gamers to finally easily enjoy the latest titles from the comfort of your big screen. You can play both on a Shield controller or plugin a wireless or wired mouse and keyboard.
Stream is directly integrated with its own app running on the Shield.
Do yourself a favor now and go pickup a Shield for only $179 on Amazon. You won’t regret it.
Starting a review with “although made in 2009” may be appropriate in this case, there are unfortunately few consumer 2.1 THX certified options still available on the market left to review. The Klipsch Promedia 2.1 is a formidable option, well suited for a small home cinema on a budget or a solid speaker system for your desktop or gaming needs. The bass is loud and profound. You can easily upset the neighbors, or control the bohemth bass by a turn of the controls on the left speaker. Purispts might hate the fact there is no remote but I don’t find it to be an issue when paired with an NVIDIA Shield which has speaker control built into the remote. Don’t hesitate now as who knows how long these systems will be available as these speakers are definitely “legacy”. At this point. If you don’t need glitz and glamour options or more than 2.1 – there really isn’t any other option. The only competitor is possibly the Razer Leviathan. Read more details on the Razer system and my impressions here. BestBuy will price match this item, which is currently listed at $149.99 – but you should be able to price match if you watch the deals.
Linux Distro of Choice (GNOME Ubuntu 16.04) – best home desktop experience on Linux today. Competes with LinuxMint, but without all the mintyness.
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-gnome/daily-live/pending/
Windows Distro of Choice: Windows 10 Enterprise, Available with FreeBiz Spark MSDN Access
Mac Distro of Choice : Hackintosh 10.11.4 / Clover Bootloader
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This guide covers how to install the latest OS X Mavericks General Master seed on a Gigabyte z87-N wifi motherboard with a 4870k Haswell processor and Gigabyte GTX760.
Files Required:
OS X Mavericks GM Seed – http://apple.com/developer
myHack Beta 8
Multibeast 5.5.2
Z87n-wifi mavericks 10.9 gtx760 install guide hackintosh
Geek bench score : 18885
Spheroid case
I’m using an H55 water cooler mounted with the radiator and fan above
Format drive mbr
Download mavericks gm master
Run my hack selecting gm master from applications folder
Create 10.9 install disk
Answer no to mbr support
Bios – default, disable secure boot, disable uefi , disable integral graphics
Boot flags installer
GraphicsEnabler=0 dart
Boot flags first boot
GraphicsEnabler=0 dart=0 -v -x -f
Setup account
Reboot with
GraphicsEnabler=0 dart=0 -v -f
Install multibeast 5.5.1 with
Dust free
Audio
Networking
GraphicsEnabler No
Reboot with
dart=0 -v -f
Add dart=0 to smb
Graphic
Switch to second display port
This guide is written to get you up and running with the latest OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 with Clover bootloader. I used to use MultiBeast but it took a while to learn Clover, however the advantages are worth the learning curve. This guide should get you up and running on a Zotac ID91 – a perfect <$400 hackintosh!
Pre-Requisites:
Latest Clover bootloader from Sourceforge
1. Format an 8gb or greater USB Key with 1 partition – GUID boot loader – and OS X Journled partition.
2. Run the following – replacing XXX with the location of your USB Drive.
[raw]sudo /Applications/Install OS X Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia –volume /Volumes/XXX/ –applicationpath /Applications/Install OS X Yosemite.app –no interaction[/raw]
This will extract Yosemite onto your USB Key
3. Install Clover – with following settings
Now we must mount the EFI Partition and add our Extensions to the 10.10 kexts folder to make things work ootb.
To mount your EFI Partition, use
[raw]diskutil list[/raw]Determine your drive and EFI Partition and mount with
[raw]diskutil mount disk1s1[/raw]Add the following kexts to your EFI/Clover/Kexts/10.10 folder –
AppleACPIPS2Nub.kext
ApplePS2Controller.kext
FakeSMC.kext
lspcidrv.kext
NullCPUPowerManagement.kext
Patched_10.7_AppleRTC.kext
Restart with the new USB Key
Goto Options > Binaries Patching Menu > Kernel PM Patch and hit spacebar to enable it
Boot the installer
Format your boot drive with GUID bootloader and Mac OS X Journaled
Stuck in a reboot loop?
Remember if you restart at this point, the Kernel PM must be enabled each time – until we install Clover on the main boot drive –
Audio:
Incomplete – not enabled yet. Lookup HD4400 HDMI Audio for guides
Graphics: Intel HD4400 Desktop using FakePCIID
Devices>FakeID>IntelGFX = 0x04128086 Graphics>Inject>Intel>ig-platform-id = 0x0d220003
pi-hole adblocking in 5 minutes on debian 8.4
install debian 8.4, setup a root password and first user
login to debian and run updates
Set your IP to a fixed IP that you will use as your pihole. You only need one ethernet adapter as this dns server will sit on the network just as any other device.
Now goto your browser and try to reach the machine at
http://ipofmachine/admin
You should see the admin panel, if not someting went wrong.
Now goto your router, and configure it to point at the new DNS server that is availabe on your network.
Confirm piHole is working by verifying the stats are updating in the admin panel.
Customize your adblock lists by copying the default adlists.default to adlists.list. adlists.default will be regenerated automatically, so only the changes in adlists.list will remain saved.
Uncomment the lines of additional lists like xxx that you like.
Run [raw]pihole -g[/raw] to update your adblock lists.
Now setup DNS on WAN https://community.ubnt.com/t5/EdgeMAX/Change-WAN-DNS-Server/td-p/977885
Enable DNSCrypt https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/wiki/DNSCrypt
Install necessary system packages and reboot
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install build-essential tcpdump dnsutils libsodium-dev
sudo apt-get -y install locate bash-completion
sudo reboot
Build DNSCrypt from the sources
mkdir -p dnsproxy
cd dnsproxy
wget http://download.dnscrypt.org/dnscrypt-proxy/dnscrypt-proxy-1.6.1.tar.gz
tar -xf dnscrypt-proxy-1.6.1.tar.gz
cd dnscrypt-proxy-1.6.1
sudo ldconfig
./configure
make
sudo make install
Configure the system
Preparing resolv.conf:
sudo mv /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resol.conf.ORIG
sudo nano /etc/resolv.conf
Then paste and save the following:
nameserver 127.0.0.1#40
nameserver 127.0.0.1#41 (if adding a second resolver)
Lock resolv.conf file
sudo chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf
Starts DNSProxy in daemon mode automatically
sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/dnscrypt-proxy.service
sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/dnscrypt-proxy-backup.service (if adding a second resolver)
And paste this content:
Then reboot the RPI
sudo reboot
Test DNSCrypt
sudo journalctl -u dnscrypt-proxy
You should have a similar output:
Feb 26 22:13:43 raspberrypi dnscrypt-proxy[6130]: [INFO] + DNS Security Extensions are supported
Feb 26 22:13:43 raspberrypi dnscrypt-proxy[6130]: [INFO] + Provider supposedly doesn’t keep logs
Feb 26 22:13:43 raspberrypi dnscrypt-proxy[6130]: [NOTICE] Starting dnscrypt-proxy 1.6.1
Feb 26 22:13:43 raspberrypi dnscrypt-proxy[6130]: [INFO] Ephemeral keys enabled – generating a new seed
Feb 26 22:13:43 raspberrypi dnscrypt-proxy[6130]: [INFO] Done
Feb 26 22:13:43 raspberrypi dnscrypt-proxy[6130]: [INFO] Server certificate #808464433 received
Feb 26 22:13:43 raspberrypi dnscrypt-proxy[6130]: [INFO] This certificate is valid
Feb 26 22:13:43 raspberrypi dnscrypt-proxy[6130]: [INFO] Chosen certificate #808464433 is valid from [2015-09-11] to [2016-09-10]
Feb 26 22:13:43 raspberrypi dnscrypt-proxy[6130]: [INFO] Server key fingerprint is 164E:1AD6:4356:777D:2019:F2F9:D389:2DDB:BC75:8AF0:9172:8E0C:A874:10C7:3BE8:423B
Feb 26 22:13:43 raspberrypi dnscrypt-proxy[6130]: [NOTICE] Proxying from 127.0.0.1:40 to 77.66.84.233:443
The last line is important and should look something like the above!
Change your DNSMasq config
Change DNS resolver in DNSMasq config
sudo nano /etc/dnsmasq.d/01-pihole.conf
Edit this section and point to dnscrypt-proxy
# Add other name servers here, with domain specs if they are for
# non-public domains.
server=127.0.0.1#40
server=127.0.0.1#41 (if adding a second resolver)
Reboot your Pihole
sudo reboot
suggested hardware :
Voila!
The location of zipalign required for building mobile meteor apps has been updates with the latest 1.3 release.
New Location:
[raw]~/Library/Android/sdk/build-tools/23.0.1/zipalign
[/raw]
This couldn’t be easier, if you already have NPM installed on your Mac. Please install here.
[raw] sudo npm cache clean -fNow if you’re feeling adventurous update all NPM packages at once!
[raw] sudo npm update -g
Battery Life means everything. Without it, the party is over.
Ever wonder what model of Thinkpad has the longest battery life/runtime?
Here is the list:
Up to 8.2 hours
BATTERY 4 cell (29 Wh) − up to 8.9 hrs 6 cell (63 Wh) − up to 9.9 hrs 9 cell (94 Wh) − up to 14.8 hrs 6 cell (57 Wh) Slice Battery − up to 24.9 hrs with 9 cell and 6 cell slice
Upto 17.4 Hours (with 3 cell battery (23Wh) + 6 cell battery (72Wh))
Battery Up to 20 hours and available with 6-cell Power Bridge 72Wh battery
Integrated 3-cell 23.5 Whr + (center + sign) ThinkPad® 68 Battery (3-cell 23.5 Whr) ThinkPad 6-cell 47 Whr Battery ThinkPad 68+ Battery (6-cell 72 Whr)
More than 10 hours of battery life???
The winner? The x230 with 24.9 hours. But the deal and steal is the X220 – now priced for around $200-300 on Ebay with an IPS display, if you can spare the 1 hour difference (you won’t even notice). Pick one of these up before they are all gone.
Better than ever Untangle has released 12.0 with updated Reports amongst other features. Congrats to the team and Enjoy the release!
Untangle 12.0 x64 USB
Untangle 12.0 x64 CD
Untangle 12.0 x64 VMWare
Untangle 12.0 x32 USB
Untangle 12.0 x32 CD
Now in development over one year and with no signs of stopping in site – one of the best mail servers around is Mail-in-a-Box. Z-Push support and Encryption as a blown out feature and is a much needed improvement over the aging iRedMail. Make sure you have considerable hard drive space as the secure backups will eat a VPS in a few days. Bare Metal is what real men use anyway.
Follow along on Github too
https://github.com/toleda/audio_RealtekALC
[raw]bash audio_codecdetect.command
bash audio_realtekALC-100.command.sh
