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OpenWrt official supported Raspberry Pi. The latest OpenWrt release as of today already support for Raspberry Pi A, Raspberry Pi B, Raspberry Pi B+, and Raspberry Pi models. The Raspberry Pi is supported in the brcm2708 target. Parts:

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Obihai had officially announced Obi devices are supported by Google Voice. With a Google Voice account and a companion OBi device you can make and receive VoIP calls on a regular home phone. Obihai adapters have been around since 2011, with the latest update and the Google Voice official integration, the installation process is easier than before.

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Are you making money with Google Ads as what you expected? Adding Ads at the beginning or at the end of the post will not gives give you improvement on the clicking numbers. However, inject Ads into the post contents after words can boost your CTR rate significantly. Add the code below to your WordPress theme’s functions.php is all you have to do (NO PLUGINS NEEDED!). You will need to replace the Ads code to your own Google Adsense Ads code. You may tweak the number to adjust where you want the Ads appear (after how many characters). The example below will inject the Ads to all posts with at least 600 characters. The Ads will be add after the 590th character.

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Does we still need DOS for somethings? Yes, if you are still using Ghost for backup and restore. Or you need data recovery software work only under DOS. BIOS updates, firmware-updating utilities often require you to boot into DOS and run the utility. However, it is extremely hard to find a floppy disks with MS-DOS or a computer can read floppy disks anymore. If you still need DOS to do some operations, you can create a bootable DOS USB drive. Burning ISO to USB can be a headache for a lot of people, and oftentimes it will split a USB drive into two partitions. Here we have a tool Rufus to do this simple but not easy job for us. Rufus will not split USB to multiple partitions so the remaining portion of the drive can still be used. Download Rufus Rufus doesn’t need any installation so you just launch it after you downloaded it. Rufus Now we can create a bootable USB drive with DOS in a very simple way:

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Firefox, Chrome, and the latest version Internet Explorer now have a built in PDF reader. The built-in PDF viewer is enabled by default. It allow users to view PDF without installing Adobe PDF reader. However, the built-in viewers are not compatible with all PDF files. Some PDF files have special arrangements or contain extra functions would have issues when viewing it with built-in PDF viewer. This viewer might not display all PDF documents correctly. To change the default PDF view in web browsers, follow the instructions to active the Adobe PDF reader plug-ins or add-ons. Google Chrome Open Chrome, Type chrome://plugins in the address bar to open the Plug-ins page. Chrome Plugin Locate the Adobe PDF plug-in, and do one of the following:

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Windows does have a Disk Management tool for simple disk management operations. For USB drive or logical drive, if the drive already has more than one partition, Disk Management will not allow you manage extra partitions on removable storage devices, unless you deleted all of the partitions and make a new, full size partition. Disk Management will not provide delete volume option for extra partitions on USB drives if more than one partition is detected. Diskpart How to combine two partitions or more into one and restore USB drive to it’s original state? To delete partitions on USB drive, you will need to use the command-line utility: Diskpart. Diskpart enhances the Disk Management graphical user interface (GUI). Below guide is for Windows systems only. For MacOS, you can have similar solution here Caution: When you use DiskPart to clean USB drive partition, all data on the USB will be erased.

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Forwards calls to Google Chat is an important option for people who are using Google Voice as free VOIP solution. In order to able to receive calling, forwards calls to Google Chat option must be activated so the VOIP adapter can acts as a Google Chat to receive calling, eg: OBi Devices. Without that, the phone will never ring when people call your Google Voice number. If the Google Voice Account was newly set up, in default the “Forwards calls to Google Chat” option is inactivated. Google didn’t provide any selectable option for adding the option to Google Voice. Google 6502530000

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One critical security hole exist in Unix/Linux based system just got uncovered today. Bash is a Unix shell written by Brian Fox for the GNU Project as a free software replacement for the Bourne shell (sh). A security bug in Bash, could create a bigger threat to computer users than the “Heartbleed” bug in OpenSSL. For many Unix or Linux personal computer, this might not be a really big issue. For Unix or Linux based Web servers, it’s a critical problem. Most of the servers are using Linux system. “Shellshock” Bug detail: CVE-2014-6271 remote code execution through bash which allows unauthorized disclosure of information, unauthorized modification, and allows disruption of service. Vulnerability mostly is exploitable over the network. HTTP requests to CGI scripts have been identified as the major attack vector so far. How to fix/patch Bash? Ubuntu/Debian

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AutoScreenCap is a lightweight Open Source screen capture tool. It is a small software does like what its name describes: auto screen capture. It allows you to make screen shots periodically and automatically save to the folder in JPG format. It is fully customizable, the capture interval can be set from 1 second to 99999 and the JPG quality also adjustable. It can be set to auto hide the main windows and auto start screenshot capture for special purposes. Autoscreencap

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