Free cell phone service in California

If you are low income and live in California, you are eligible for a free cell phone and service. Totally FREE! (Paid for by the federal government) Talk, text, and data. If you are not low income, try freedompop. By network (in order of best coverage to worst in Nevada County): Verizon  Blue Jay Wireless: Read more about Free cell phone service in California[…]

How to perform a carrier reset on a Sprint phone. –> ##72786#

##72786# A carrier reset is almost always necessary if you’re activating a device or if you’re having trouble receiving voice, text, or a data connection. This reset sends your device’s new information to the network so that you can get service. Note: If unable to perform reset over WiFi, disable option in settings and connect to Read more about How to perform a carrier reset on a Sprint phone. –> ##72786#[…]

Ubuntu Windows Wallpaper + MacOS theme

Ubuntu Windows Wallpaper: https://technology.desktopnexus.com/wallpaper/740933/ MacOS Unity Theme: sudo apt-get install unity-tweak-tool If it fails to run see: http://askubuntu.com/questions/449943/unity-tweak-tool-fails-to-start-with-the-error-com-canonical-unity-webapps-sche Zukimac Is a Flawless Mac Theme for Ubuntu (If You Like that Sort of Thing)

How to mount a Google Cloud Storage bucket as a drive in Ubuntu 15.10 wily using FUSE

From: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/gsutil_install#deb Install gcloud # Create an environment variable for the correct distribution export CLOUD_SDK_REPO=”cloud-sdk-$(lsb_release -c -s)” # Add the Cloud SDK distribution URI as a package source echo “deb http://packages.cloud.google.com/apt $CLOUD_SDK_REPO main” | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-cloud-sdk.list # Import the Google Cloud public key curl https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | sudo apt-key add – # Update and install the Read more about How to mount a Google Cloud Storage bucket as a drive in Ubuntu 15.10 wily using FUSE[…]

How to mount a Google Drive as a drive in Ubuntu 15.10 wily using FUSE

From: https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse Install sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alessandro-strada/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install google-drive-ocamlfuse Use google-drive-ocamlfuse mkdir google-drive google-drive-ocamlfuse google-drive It can take a while for the drive to mount with all your data. Create Unity launcher apt-get install alacart alacart create the menu entry Use this icon: http://img05.deviantart.net/02bb/i/2012/115/9/1/google_drive_icon_by_jasonh1234-d4xke8r.png search for your new entry using Dash Drag Read more about How to mount a Google Drive as a drive in Ubuntu 15.10 wily using FUSE[…]

Can I put DDR3L RAM in a DDR3 slot? (Also PC3L to PC3)

The answer, unfortunately is not definitive.  Usually, yes. But, because of no strict standardization enforcement it may not work. I’d say better to order DDR3 if that is what originally came with your motherboard. More info below. From: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2252958/ddr3l-ddr3-slot.html DDR3L modules are backwards compatible with DDR3 by design. Manufacturers use the same integrated circuits for Read more about Can I put DDR3L RAM in a DDR3 slot? (Also PC3L to PC3)[…]

Toshiba Portege 750/780 Internal Microphone broken Ubuntu Wily 15.10 [SOLVED]

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Laptop/Lucid/Reports/DellLatitudeE6410 5) Internal microphone 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 06) The internal microphone does not work after a default install. Append the line “options snd-hda-intel model=dell-s14” to file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf, reboot and adjust the mixer levels. Thanks to lidex on UbuntuForums: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9448177  

Using LTSP on Ubuntu 15.10 wily [Solved]

LTSP does not work out of the box on Ubuntu 15.10 wily with –arch AMD64 or i386 & thinclient or fatclient. You will get this error: chroot: can’t execute ‘/usr/bin/test’: Exec format error overlayfs: missing ‘workdir’ mount: mounting overlayfs on /root failed: Invalid argument mount: mounting /dev/ on /root/dev/failed: No such file or directory No Read more about Using LTSP on Ubuntu 15.10 wily [Solved][…]