February 6, 2012
January 9, 2012   112 notes   

Linux “root” tweaks

Tired of always being afraid someone will hack into your linux computer/server?

One of the most important steps is to make sure the attacker can’t log in with the “root” account.

In order to do this, you have to:

  1. Make sure you can “switch user” to root (you will need to be able to control your system, after all)
  2. Make sure that nobody can log in with root, neither remote nor local.

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January 5, 2012   174 notes   

Flash your Cheshire Cat boot animation and splash image

After almost a year since I’ve modified the Ceshire Cat wallpaper to be turned into a splash image and a boot animation, I’ve decided to take the ten minutes I needed for creating a flash-able zip file.

The animation looks like this:

Animated Cheshire cat

Grab the file from here:

Requirements:

  1. Stock HBOOT (or a HBOOT which supports splash1 partition)
  2. 480x800 resolution (For example: HTC Desire)
  3. Your ROM has to support /system/media/bootanimation.zip

What this file does:

  1. Flashes the splash1.img to your splash1 partition
  2. Copies bootanimation.zip to /system/media/bootanimation.zip
  3. Changes the permission of bootanimation.zip to 0644 (read/write owner, read group and read world)

If you also want a matching wallpaper, please see this post.

November 27, 2011   1 note   

Top Twelve Must-Have (free) Android Apps

Every time after flashing my phone, there are some apps I have to install in order to be happy with it. This is the top ten eleven twelve list:

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October 12, 2011   4 notes   

jQuery Mobile Tumblr Theme

I have decided to share with the world the mobile theme I’ve developed for Tumblr.

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September 22, 2011   86 notes   

Bypassing the mobile ISP proxy (BMI)

Article target: web developers

For details about what it is, you can see this page.

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