Bootloop update from CM12 to CM13 without GApps
After upgrading from CM12.1 to CM13 on my OnePlus One (bacon), my phone got in a bootloop. It would start optimizing apps, and reboot, over and over again. I realized that this was because I...
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Remove Visual Studio XML Documentation Comments
I had many XML Documentation comments in my code which were obsolete. These had to be removed. Using a regular expression this is very easy: [[:space:]]*\/\/\/ .*\n Note: this matches every line starting with...
Edit build.prop using ADB
There are many reasons why you may like to edit your build.prop file. I always edit it in order to lower my DPI, resulting in a bigger looking screen. You can edit it on the device itself using...
Convert PPK to id_rsa in Linux
Putty is an SSH client that’s mostly used in Windows. Linux usually has an SSH client built in. Unfortunately Putty uses its own key format which is not compatible with OpenSSH’s key format. This...
Install Bumblebee on Linux Mint 17
I’ve an Asus N76VB with a NVIDIA GeForce 740M graphics card. Normally I always have trouble getting NVIDIA Optimus to work, but when I just installed Linux Mint 17 I had everything fully working...
WordPress, Lightbox and InstantClick
In an earlier post I explained how to speed up WordPress using InstantClick. InstantClick is a great JS library, but it may break some things. This is usually easy to fix, but in WordPress’...
phpMyAdmin fix savedsearches
I’m on Debian Sid (unstable) and I upgraded phpMyAdmin to 4.2.2deb1 (or maybe 1 or 2 versions earlier, according to phpMyAdmin’s documentation since 4.2.0). The problem After the upgrade I got the following error when...
Release APK using Android Studio
I recently moved my Android projects from Eclipse (ADT) to Android Studio. I fixed some bugs so I wanted to update my APK on Google Play. The problem First I lost my key store...
FileZilla SSH Keys (SFTP)
If you have a server with SSH/SFTP that’s accessible from the internet it’s a good idea to disable password authentication and use SSH Keys instead. This is much more secure than password authentication as...
Ubuntu won’t suspend using TLP
I have installed TLP on my notebook with Ubuntu 14.04 to extend my battery life. Before using TLP I had laptop-mode-tools and pm-utils installed with some custom scripts. Both extended my battery life by...
Speed up WordPress using InstantClick
I’m using nginx 1.4.7 + PHP-FPM 5.5.11 with OPcache enabled to host WordPress. This serves pages pretty quick (it takes ~800 ms to completely load a page including all images) but it didn’t feel...
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