Recent content by russ_andCent

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    Install Linux Ubuntu on tablet.

    If you only need Ubuntu access from your phone, just install a terminal emulator, spin up an Ubuntu cloud instance from AWS, Digital Ocean etc and SSH into your server. This way doesn't mess with your device at all and all the resources needed aren't dependent on your phone, so you'll have...
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    Crowdstrike affecting samsung tablet

    Don't forget that even domains that don't deploy CS themselves have applications that have dependencies that pull from domains that do. So even if you research a particular domain's tech stack and they don't use CS themselves, the orgs that host their dependencies might.
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    Phone suddenly starts downloading something on its own

    This is normal behavior. I've witnessed the very same event (notification of a download in progress but by the time you swipe down the screen, you only catch a glimpse of the progress bar before the whole thing disappears). By "normal" I mean that events such as this correlate with activity...
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    Apple repairs are a rip off (YouTube video)

    I didn't watch the above video (I actually have likely already viewed it, as I'm subbed to Rossmann's YT channel) but he's published one video that shows someone being told by a "Genius Bar" tech that their mobo was bad and that the total cost of the repair would exceed $1200, it would only make...
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    Can't Transfer Files to PC

    Hi, If you're not into networking, the method I use will probably seem like too much work but I'll offer it up just the same. I'm still using an S4 with 4.4.4 on it btw... There's a utility that's been around for ages called netcat. It's a linux utility that was developed on Linux but has...
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    I can't play online games on my android phone over wifi, why?

    You might need to identify what ports these games use and configure Port Forwarding on your router. Either that or your ISP is blocking traffic that use those ports.
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    Download over mobile data

    A misconfigured firewall could result in that type of behavior.
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    s4 wont recognize pin

    I know this is old but a few months ago, I was entering my lock screen PIN and I knew that I was entering it correctly but after several attempts, I gave up and re-booted. In this case, re-booting was all it needed. I'm assuming you've tried that but just in case you didn't.... do it. :D
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    I can't seem to find the culprit of the random ads showing up on my screen

    A little late reply, haven't logged in here in ages... MyScript Resource Manager is indeed app or at least a process. I have an S4 that I've had forever and for the first time ever, I notice that MSR was trying to connect out to TCP port 80 (HTTP) to an IP address associated with AT&T (I'm a...