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Jensen VM9214 Parking Brake Bypass

Buddy of mine just picked up a Jensen VM9214 head unit for his vehicle. One of its features is that it plays DVD movies but it requires a pink wire to be run to the parking brake so that (by Federal Law) … Continue reading

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Decent Collection of Laptop Service Manuals

Needed this a couple of times now. http://tim.id.au/laptops/ likebot_bgcolor = ”; likebot_url = ‘http://www.hogville.com/blog/?p=221′; likebot_type = ‘horizontal_thumbs’;

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CPU Benchmarks

Been using this a lot lately, thought I’d share: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php likebot_bgcolor = ”; likebot_url = ‘http://www.hogville.com/blog/?p=219′; likebot_type = ‘horizontal_thumbs’;

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Passwordless SSH

I always seem to lose this note and I know it was on my WordPress site that now sleeps with the fishes. ssh root@serverB ‘mkdir -p /root/.ssh’ cat /root/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh root@serverB ‘cat >> /root/.ssh/authorized_keys’ likebot_bgcolor = ”; likebot_url = … Continue reading

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Vista/Win7 Monster Control Panel

Some call it God Mode. Basically whatever you want to call it before the period works. I like ‘Monster Control Panel’. Anyways, this allows you to see all options in Control Panel. 1)      Create a New Folder on your Desktop. … Continue reading

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2010 Theme

Diggin’ the new Twenty Ten theme. Finally get to use my panoramic mountain shot for something. likebot_bgcolor = ”; likebot_url = ‘http://www.hogville.com/blog/?p=195′; likebot_type = ‘horizontal_thumbs’;

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W3C Validator

I know so little about HTML it took me almost 30 minutes to fix my homepage. All 20 lines of it. If you need to, this helps to tell you what’s wrong and gives you hints as how to fix … Continue reading

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Connectify.me

Very cool (yes, -w, I made sure I wanted to call it “very cool” first) app that lets you setup a hotspot on your Win7 system and share your Internet conenction with nearby wireless devices. Good for those hotels that … Continue reading

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Google’s Free Wireless

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Showing Hidden Devices in Device Manager

I always forget this so I wanted to put here where I’ll also forget about it. You should be able to tell from the font that I ripped this from Technet.  At the command prompt, type: set DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES=1 From the … Continue reading

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