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Root on comet

So I used z4root to exploit my t mobile comet and gain root access, used setcpu to enable frequency scaling to improve battery performance and rebooted. Then I mounted the filesystem read write and removed telenav and a bunch of other bloatware. SGS toolbox, astro file manager, autorun manager, root uninstaller, app2sd, superuser, advanced task killer and a few other tweaks and I am averaging 54 mb free of ram on boot. When I purge everything extra but leave the phone fully in tact, I reach up to 72 mb free. Seems pretty awesome considering the annoying apps are gone, it runs faster, and the battery life has drastically improved. I hope we start to see more manufacturers enabling cpu frequency scaling in the future so we the consumer dont have to risk our new phones safety for this must-have feature.

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Postbooks Remote Client Settings

so it’s not the most secure version at this moment (no ssl tunnel, no md5 passwords), but the basic settings required for a client on another machine to connect to our basic ubuntu postbooks server are as follows

edit the file /opt/xTuple/postgres/data/pg_hba.conf

in the IPv4 section add a new line below rgw localhost directive

# IPv4 local connections:

host all all 127.0.0.1/32 md5

host all all 192.168.xxx.xxx/24 md5

edit the file /opt/xTuple/postrges/data/postgresql.conf

set the listen address (line 59) to *

listen_addresses = ‘*’ # what IP address(es) to listen on;

# comma-separated list of addresses;

# defaults to ‘localhost’, ‘*’ = all

double check ports and other settings while you are in the files

restart the server

/opt/xTuple/postgres/bin/pg_ctl stop

/opt/xTuple/postgres/bin/pg_ctl start

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HL Twitter Long URL Link Wrap Fix

With some helpful info I found at Perishable Press, I was able to fix two issues I had with the HL Twitter plugin for WordPress 3.0.x.

For me these were:

  1. Long URLs were breaking themes in the sidebar widget (if you are guilty of tweeting long URLs like me)
  2. links from URLs were opening in the same window. Now they open in a new one.

To do this just two files have to be changed, hl_twitter/functions.php and hl_twitter/hl_twitter_widget.php.

Easy one first: hl_twitter/hl_twitter_widget.php

  • copy the hl_twitter_widget.php file into the root of your themes folder.
  • open the newly created copy in an editor (vi is preferred)
  • find the CSS section labeled “.hl_recent_tweets p”
  • add in the following to that section of CSS
white-space: pre;           /* CSS 2.0 */
white-space: pre-wrap;      /* CSS 2.1 */
white-space: pre-line;      /* CSS 3.0 */
white-space: -pre-wrap;     /* Opera 4-6 */
white-space: -o-pre-wrap;   /* Opera 7 */
white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; /* Mozilla */
white-space: -hp-pre-wrap;  /* HP Printers */
word-wrap: break-word;      /* IE 5+ */
  • save the file
  • done! the url overflow is fixed

Now onto the other easy one: hl_twitter/functions.php

  • enter the plugins/hl_twitter folder
  • open functions.php in my favorite editor, VI
  • change line 178, which should read $tweet = preg_replace(“#(^|[\n ])([\w]+?://[\w]+[^ \"\n\r\t< ]*)#”, “\\1<a href=\”\\2\”>\\2</a>”, $tweet) to the following

$tweet = preg_replace(“#(^|[\n ])([\w]+?://[\w]+[^ \"\n\r\t< ]*)#”, “\\1<a href=\”\\2\” target=\”_blank\”>\\2</a>”, $tweet);

  • Save the file and you have completed this part (opens links in new windows)!
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