Reset code for your ipod classic and ipod video

Press and hold the Menu and Center buttons for a few seconds until the apple shows on the screen and lights up. (top of scroll wheel and center button).

If it continually shows an apple but doesn’t quite light up, your battery is probably flat. This is good! Just recharge for awhile and consider trying a dedicated power adapter instead of a USB port. This has happened to me more than once where the USB port could not supply enough power to charge the ipod.

« Ipod Classic 5th gen with 250 Gig hard drive replacement

Ipod Classic 5th gen with 250 Gig hard drive replacement

Yes, 1/4 Terabyte in my hand

This drive fits in the ipod classic, both physically and electrically with no modifications:

Item Title:Toshiba 240GB 1.8″ Hard Drive MK2431GAH

Caveats:

• There’s a physical limitation with the interface (from what I read) that doesn’t allow this drive to work with the newer ipod video 6th gen.
• There’s a file number limitation due to the amount of RAM in the ipod which may make it run slow or choke if you’re running around 40,000 songs. I don’t have this problem because I’m running 125 Gigs, with many books and some videos, so the number of files will not get this high even if my 1/4 terbayte ipod is full.
• no iphone or ipod touch. Not even possible because they don’t contain a hard drive. Even a year later after my upgrade, they still max out at 1/4 the storage of my ipod.

PS. This was a forced upgrade because the ipod dropped and the drive crashed. Another example of a perceived “problem” becoming an “opportunity”

I love the ipod classic because I can run it in my pocket and while driving, it doesn’t require your eyeball attention. In this case I put a stick on dot in the middle of the scroll wheel, so I can feel my way around and run the unit without looking. Handheld touch screen devices can be a disadvantage and a safety concern if you like to listen to music and books while driving.

Reset code for your ipod classic and ipod video »« Cleaning up text using PHP – remove line breaks and paragraphs and tabs and replace with an empty space

Cleaning up text using PHP – remove line breaks and paragraphs and tabs and replace with an empty space

Cleaning up text using PHP – remove line breaks and paragraphs and tabs and replace with an empty space.

Ipod Classic 5th gen with 250 Gig hard drive replacement »« How to tell if your website has a dedicated IP

How to tell if your website has a dedicated IP

http://www.robtex.com/ip/

Cleaning up text using PHP – remove line breaks and paragraphs and tabs and replace with an empty space »« Want to see all the data on you that google has stored?

Want to see all the data on you that google has stored?

https://www.google.com/dashboard/

Login with your appropriate google account and here is your privacy information that is available to google and to you.

How to tell if your website has a dedicated IP »« Cannot see new version of website – updates not showing – sticky cache

Cannot see new version of website – updates not showing – sticky cache

1) Control-R (or Command-R) – Control – F5 does the same thing on Windows

2) Go through your options and empty the cache manually

3) Try another browser

Users do not normally notice the old website hasn’t changed because they are not talking to the developers and wouldn’t know when the website really has been updated. This happens all the time.

Most likely you have a “sticky cache” on your computer.

Here’s the trick: Whether you get to http://yourwebsite.com by clicking this link, or by going through google, once you see http://yourwebsite.com in the top line of Internet Explorer, Firefox or Chrome (The URL or Location bar), do a hard refresh.

Hard refresh is done when you are supposed to be seeing the new webpage that you are having trouble with, and reaching out to your keyboard, while holding the “control” key, tap and letup on the “r” key, then let go of the “control” key. (Ctrl-r)

This dumps the old cached page that is sitting on your computer and tells it to go load the new one from the internet.

This insures that you are seeing the latest changes to your website.

The “sticky cache” issue is common when developing new websites. Usually people don’t notice changed pages so much because they don’t know the page should have changed. It happens more often than people realize.

Note: If you have an alternate web browser installed that you haven’t used lately, just view the website in it, you should see the latest version automatically, since it’s not been “cached” lately. Browsers do not share each other’s cache.

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If you have a really sticky cache:

Log out of WordPress, clear your browser cache, quit and restart the browser and try again. If that does not work, there may be a caching proxy or network cache somewhere between you and your host. You may need to wait for a few hours until this cache expires.

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Note: CSS changes can cause a really sticky cache when background images are changed, they tend not to update unless you clear your cache.

Want to see all the data on you that google has stored? »« Ubuntu root

Ubuntu root

sudo command (you must do this every time you issue a command)

sudo -i command (this gives you persistent access)

If you are launching a graphical app like Nautilus (file manager) use gksudo instead of sudo. This makes it so that your files created in Nautilus, Konqueror, or Dolphin are owned by your user and not root.

If you are using KDE instead of gnome, use kdesudo instead of sudo to launch graphical applicaitons. Example:

kdesudo kate ~/myfile.txt

OR:

Create an Ubuntu root account with password easily.

This post also shows how to create a linux cd root password.

Cannot see new version of website – updates not showing – sticky cache »« SOPA has been stopped

SOPA has been stopped

On the 18th, this website joined google, wikipedia and many, many, many others in a blackout in protest of SOPA and PIPA.

We won this one!

Today on January 20th, 2012 it was announced that the bills are being dropped.

Think we’ll fly the ribbon on the upper right corner of the website for some time more to appreciate that change and direction can come from internet collaboration.

Thank you, one and all who joined in on the protest to keep the internet open.

This is our lifeblood and prosperity.

Ubuntu root »« Find a file on the Android while in terminal or adb

Find a file on the Android while in terminal or adb

find /data -iname “myfile*.txt”

This will look in the /data partition for the files myfile1.txt, Myfile2.txt, etc.

The -iname makes the search case insensitive, which is what windows people are used to, whereas linux people can have two different files with the same name in the same directory! (different case)

Also note that Linux default sort on the Android makes the capital letter directories (folders) in front of the lowercase ones.

So Myfiles directory will not be next to myfiles2 directory!

SOPA has been stopped »« “Permission Denied” while trying to write a file to the Android

“Permission Denied” while trying to write a file to the Android

Mount an Android filesystem read-write

Find a file on the Android while in terminal or adb »« How to change the Touch Wiz Bottom Dock