A few days ago I posted about a get of jail free card, restoring your Motorola Xoom from the original disk images, available from http://developer.motorola.com/products/software/. I noted that you should download the bundle that matches your country of residence. Well, I’m in Australia, so naturally I would select (and was selecting) the Australian bundle (Build […]
Motorola Xoom Final Rescue!
Oh no! Your Motorola Xoom is Bricked (or is it) You’ve tried everything you can think of. Hard reset, soft reset, factory reset, factory restore, factory wipe and erase. Nothing works! I thought that too! Please read this entire article before trying anything! So long as you can still reach the ‘Starting Fastboot Protocol Support’, […]
Mounting /tmp and /var/tmp as a separate file system
After installing ConfigServer Security and Firewall, many of us try to achieve as many ‘green’ results as possible. The often tricky one (or two) options to achieve, is mounting /tmp and /var/tmp as ‘separate’ file systems. On a bare metal linux installation (no virtualisation) this is easy to achieve by creating a file system (partition […]
Upgrading PHP on CentOS/RHEL
Click Here if You are Looking for an official ‘CentOS’ repository to perform the upgrade, instead of a compatible repository. Upgrading PHP (from 5.1 to 5.3 for example) on a variety of common RPM based linux distributions (CentOS/RHEL, Whitebox, Fedora, etc) can be a tricky process. After some searching and playing around, I come across […]