Want to know what dd is doing?

From another terminal type kill -USR1 $pid, where pid=`pidof dd`. This causes dd to spit out data speeds and amounts transferred so far. you might wrap it up in something like:   pid=`pidof dd`  while [[ -d /proc/$pid ]];  do kill -USR1 $pid && sleep 5;  done Apparently pidof is deprecated or something?? If you…

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High Impedence Burnt Out My Soundcard?

So one channel on my laptop’s soundcard has gotten faded volume levels with no bass.I recently got a pair of KRK Rokit 8s but they are hardly the problem if functioning correctly no?I also did start using my AKG K601 headphones a little which have a high impedence @ 120 Ohms. Could this be the…

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Bricked my Galaxy Note (Soft Brick Phew!)

Very intense day today as I luckily only soft bricked my GT-N7000. Got stuck in bootloop after an unsuccessful rom upgrade when returning to nandroid backup. And no i didn’t use stupid stock ICS kernel. Reflashed stock rom with Odin and it decided to fail :-O, redid it and felt very lucky when it worked!…

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Web Spider

Grab a website with all links. First get GNU’s wget if you don’t have it installed already.I used this to grab a copy of my router’s GUI: wget –http-user=”” –http-password=”1234″ –recursive –convert-links -e robots=off 192.168.1.1 Obviously replace usr/pwd and URL where necessary. This grabs all pages and links that 192.168.1.1 leads to. For websites with…

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Taking Apart a Microsoft Wireless Keyboard 800

I got some beer or cider under a couple of keys on this keyboard. seems like a lot of screws to open it, i count 13, seems excessive. I googled, as opening these things can get tricky, but couldn’t find any guides, hence this post, so i’ll let ya know if ya need to take…

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