Motorola Xyboard 10.1 Charging port issue (MZ615-16)

12/15/2013 Android Hardware How To 2 Comments
If you have a Motorola Xyboard MZ615-16 10.1″ tablet and have been experiencing charging issues (with the tablet, not the charger) then this is a little bit of info for you.  I found this while doing some googling for a solution to the tablet charging issue I have. The quote below outlines ‘tightening’ the connector, as you may have a loose connection when charging. Repairing integrity of a micro USB cable receptor This procedure is…

Samsung Epic 4G (Nexus S) running on Ting.com

05/18/2013 How To Thoughts & Rants Tinkering No Comments
So my dear brother down in Knoxville, is all psyched up about ting.com a branded reseller for the Sprint network.  The beauty behind ting.com is that they charge you for ‘what you eat’, not some stupid package from AT&T / T-Mobile / Verizon that barelly starts at ~$50. My brothers bill is about ~$23 a month with regular usage and that is with a Samsung Galaxy SII with full messaging, data and voice minutes (you…

A3M Updated and Re-factored to use Twitter Bootstrap

02/06/2013 CSS GitHub Javascript PHP No Comments
Well it took a lot of work, and some holiday time (over Xmas) but I squeezed together time to tackle gutting the aging A3M application. My initial commit of what I am calling ‘A3M – Bootstrapped’ is available for forking @ Github here: https://github.com/donjakobo/A3M If you haven’t had any experience designing with Twitter Bootstrap, I would suggest you give it a look, as it is a sleek, intuitive, and powerful front-end framework for faster and…

A3M Updated to latest CodeIgniter v2.1.2 named PB&J

07/24/2012 GitHub In the News PHP 2 Comments
As of tonight I’ve happily updated the long idle A3M project on github. You can check it out here: https://github.com/pengkong/A3M-for-CodeIgniter-2.0 Also, I will be updating the official A3M guide later (as its almost 3am as I write this). Check it out, and enjoy. Feel free to fork and offer bugs, enhancements and suggestions to make it even better!

Adding a non-standard WIFI card into an IBM T61 laptop

07/04/2012 Apple How To SysAdmin Thoughts & Rants 4 Comments
If you’ve the owner of a Lenovo IBM T61 7XXX model, and ever tried upgrading the internal mini pci-e card to something like 802.11BGN (N) you will find yourself running into an error that says: Well this error is because IBM added a whitelist to its BIOS, which basically means you are limited to only a few authorized mini pci-e devices, so the moment you see this error it means you cannot get past it.…