See my other article here [https://robpickering.com/?p=1025] for instructions on how to
root the Nexus 7 under OSX in the first place. Some of those instructions are
repeated in this
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I got a Nexus 7 last year and have been playing with it on and off since then.
Recently I upgraded to JellyBean 4.2.2 and it toasted my Root. I went
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I got into a discussion the other day around the merits of Evernote versus
Dropbox. Just about everyone has heard of these two services and I wanted to
explore why you’d use
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I’ve been on a bit of a productivity kick recently. My newfound passion with
productivity was a direct result of a guy I work with (thanks @DigitalPeterson)
hassling me about dusting off
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Keeping your system up to date is the single most important way to prevent
security and malware issues. Ubuntu provides nice tools for maintaining your
system, but if you manage it via a
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I run an Astaro Security Gateway (ASG) from Sophos (now called Sophos Unified
Threat Management [http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/unified/utm.aspx] (UTM))
for the bulk of my firewall needs at
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In managing Unix systems, you will often have occasion to have a process or
action performed at boot time.
There are several ways of accomplishing this goal, but the right way is to
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WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platforms on the Internet. One of
the first things I do when I setup a new WordPress installation is harden it.
You can read about
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iCloud debuted Tuesday for all iOS 5.0 devices. On Friday, the iPhone 4S was
released. You’d think that would be a banner week for us. However, there is
disharmony afoot in
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> Here's to the crazy ones.
The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
They're not fond of
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WordPress [http://wordpress.org] is an extremely popular web platform with about
7% of all websites
[http://wpcandy.com/presents/a-look-at-wordpress-market-share-numbers] running
WordPress. That large a population means that attackers have a rich
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This article is about the NOOK Color and how to convert it from a stock device,
make modifications to enable additional features, and finally convert it into a
full-blown Android tablet (running either
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On March 25th, 2011 at 2:38 p.m. in the afternoon, during an emergency Caesarean
section, my son, Robert Alan Pickering III (Trip for short) was born. The
pediatrician that tended to
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My first VaultPress [http://vaultpress.com/] backup was completed at 7:03pm,
Fri, February 25. I felt safe. I had been playing with various WordPress backup
solutions, including AWB
[http://wordpress.org/extend/
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