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Fitbit Charge 3 Weather SOLVED
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My Fitbit Charge 3 was not showing the Weather. This issues is SOLVED.
Continue reading No tags for this post.Active Storage in Rails 5.2 DOES NOT SUPPORT VALIDATIONS
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You have to be kidding me.. I just found out that Active Storage in Rails DOES NOT SUPPORT VALIDATIONS.
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Determining the exact version of Linux you are running is fairly simple. Use this command to find your Linux version.
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THIS was driving me batty. I have Putty running on Ubuntu which runs on an Oracle Virtualbox on a Win 10 machine. I was trying to copy and paste and getting nowhere. The solution turned out to be pretty simple
Continue readingHot phones drain your battery faster.
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Today’s phones will drain your battery faster when they are hot. For example, if you are driving and have your phone on the console where the sun is hitting it, the battery becomes less effective. Another example would be having the phone in your shirt pocket at an outdoor event where the sun is hitting it.
Continue reading No tags for this post.Re purposing an old android phone as a security camera.
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I had been considering trying to use an old android phone as a security/monitoring device. One example of an application would be to be able to check the basement to make sure that the sump pump was operational if I was out of the house.
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There are times when being able to run a virtual machine on your windows box could come in very handy.
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I have a couple of old XP machines lying around. They are old machines with limited resources. Endless Windows updates have caused them to slow to the point where they would lose a race with a drunken snail.
Continue readingCompanionlink stopped working around 10/3/13
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I noticed that Companionlink was failing to sync properly. There is an update to build 5074 at http://www.companionlink.com/downloads/updates.html
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The storage on the phone side of my Samsung Galaxy S3 was almost full. The phone was slowing down dramatically for even the simplest tasks.
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