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I don't particularly like Facebook's cover photo feature, so I didn't particularly like it when JomSocial followed suit. Here's how to disable JomSocial's cover photo feature altogether.
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Since Blackberry is essentially dead in Japan, I face a pesky challenge of getting Japanese text input to work on Blackberries I receive from our head office. Unfortunately, several other guides on the web explaining how to manually install BB firmware are out of date and no longer work. To make matters worse, the Blackberry Desktop software keeps refusing to use the BB firmware I downloaded and installed.
I think I finally figured it out...
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While Apple technically calls it "iPhone IMEI database whitelisting," it's better known around the web as a factory unlock--a process that allows your iPhone to be used on any carrier's network. Unlike a jailbreak unlock, a factory unlock stays with the phone even if you upgrade iOS, wipe the phone, etc. It saves you from the hassles associated with jailbreaking. Apple makes it clear that your mobile phone carrier is the only one that can officially unlock your iPhone. Therefore, sites offering third-party iphone unlock services are fraudulent "businesses" by definition. Like any black market, the risk of getting scammed is beyond sky high--it's virtually guaranteed. Here are some thoughts if you are pondering the dark path of rogue unlock services.
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I offer some tips on distinguishing lawful online businesses from dishonest ones.
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What follows is an outline I compiled while researching how to tighten security on a Nginx web server.
NOTE 1: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS was used for this.
NOTE 2: This is a continuation of this article: Joomla Running on Nginx and Ubuntu Server - Setting Up
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The Roku media player has Google's free public DNS (8.8.8.8) hard-coded into it. This is great for DNS redundancy, but totally sucks if you use an unblock service to watch Netflix abroad (see this: How to Watch Netflix in Japan). From time to time my Roku would insist on using Google's DNS, so Netflix would no longer work properly. Boooo! There are 2 comparable ways to fix this:
Read more: Roku - Blocking Hard-Coded DNS