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Free Wifi tether with LG Vortex and Optimus One with out root

Johnny — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:40:16 +0000

This article may be considered way late in the game being that the LG Vortex was release November of 2010 and the Optimus One quite a bit before that, but for those of you who are not a keeping up with the jones’ kinda person, have wanted to use your phone for wifi access but don’t want to commit to the additional charge or rooting your phone the following walk through is for you.

This old bug came back to me when I was out and wanted to get online to make some updates but didn’t want to do it through a touch screen, I figured the bug that this relies on had long since been fixed but as of writing this I know it is definitely still present on the LG Vortex and have been given mixed responses on whether it is still present on the Optimus.

The bug is in how they handle the enabling and disabling of the wifi hotspot in the phones software. The issue is the wifi hotspot application has a few things that is does to let your carrier know that it’s on and to tell them when your using your phone as a hotspot or not. This is a feature you would normally have to have called or sign up for with them explicitly, but with the bug in quick settings this is all gone.

Ok, enough of the past and to the important part that you really want from all of this.

Step One: Goto your phones settings, select “Wireless & Network Settings”

Step Two: Select 3G Mobil Hotspot, Enable 3g Mobil Hotspot (It’s going to tell you that you need to have their service blah blah blah, you can just click ok, it will not be added to your bill automatically or any thing like that.) Once it is enabled you can click “3G Mobile Hotspot Settings” to configure your security password and HotSpot name. Once you have configured this information you can turn the hotspot back off. ( You can short change this entire process if you get a quick settings application but this should do for you just as well.

Step Three: Download any hotspot quick set widget, I use “Hotspot Widget” just cause its small.

Step Four: Add the widget to one of your desktops

Step Five: Click the widget to turn it on, after if is lit green, connect to your phone with your computer, you should now be all set to go.

Last notes: It is possible that this has been patched in later release phones that do not use Android 2.2 Froyo, like I Said I did get mixed reports on functionality on Optimus One. If you get a page telling you to register or add wifi hotspot services to your plan then they patched it as that forwarder is in the phone software it self. If you get a blank page there is probably an issue with connection or the dns resolvers that are being accessed.

7 Good Dropbox Alternatives for Linux

Chris — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:20:01 +0000

Dropbox is probably the most popular online file storage and synchronization tool among Linux users. And as we have seen earlier, it is rather easy to install Dropbox in Ubuntu. But as a Linux user, what really are the alternatives to Dropbox for online file storage? Lets find out.

Red Hat declares war against VMware on cloud front

Chris — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:17:01 +0000

Red Hat declared war on VMware’s Cloud Foundry today, announcing that 65 new companies have joined the Open Virtualization Alliance backing KVM in a month’s time. In May, Red Hat, SUSE, BMC Software, Eucalyptus Systems, HP, IBM and Intel, announced the formation of the Open Virtualization Alliance. As of today, 65 new members have joined, including Dell. Scott Crenshaw, who leads Red Hat’s cloud effort, denounced what he called VMware’s proprietary cloud platform.

GNOME 3 vs. Unity: A Schism in the Making?

Chris — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:13:52 +0000

The face of the Linux desktop is drastically evolving. While the Linux communities struggle to bring more business and home users to the Linux desktop, existing users face choices about adopting redesigned desktop shells or finding suitable replacements. The fallout might well be the start of a Great New Linux Schism.

The Linux desktop has always been rife with choices. The big two in the ongoing contest for desktop environment users is GNOME and KDE. Both recently underwent massive redesigns. GNOME 2 morphed into version 3.0 with a radically different look and feel. KDE 4 is also graphically much different from the KDE 3 lineage. KDE 4′s Plasma Desktop Shell brings considerable new eye candy and performance hikes.

But the XFCE desktop environment is a popular alternative. Plus, LXDE and more bare-bones systems such as FVWM and IceWM add to the growing options list confronting Linux users.

Adobe dumps AIR on Linux. Does it really matter?

Chris — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:06:39 +0000

For all its flaws, Flash (or on of its incarnations like AIR or Flex) is still one of the few ways to create fully fledged desktop style applications that can be run in a web browser, mobile device, or as a traditional desktop application. By simply changing the target device when compiling, your code base can be used by almost any modern personal computing device without any significant changes.The exception however, as announced by Adobe recently, is the Linux desktop.

Unity Grab Handles Are Beautiful, Learn How to Enable it in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal

Chris — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:00:18 +0000

Unity Grab Handles are a fun and aesthetically beautiful way to resize windows in new Ubuntu Unity. Even though they are not enabled by default in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal, you can easily turn Unity Grab Handles on by following a few easy steps.

PlanetLab creates a ‘more advanced sudo’

Chris — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:58:40 +0000

Researchers at the PlanetLab global research network have developed a potential replacement for the widely used Unix sudo tool, called Vsys.

Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 11.04

Chris — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:57:28 +0000

Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on an Ubuntu 11.04 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support.

Rewriting History with Git

Chris — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:56:16 +0000

The Git versioning system allows you to manage large-scale distributed code development projects with thousands of parallel branches. Its powerful checkout, merge, push, and pull capabilities help you work with code branches and clones. Sometimes you, as a contributor, might like to polish a branch you’ve checked out and reduce the number of commits you made before merging it with the master branch. One of Git’s nicer features is that it lets you rewrite history.

Rewriting history is not about changing the end result, but about making things cleaner and clearer. For instance, you can remove commits from the times when you added and later removed debug outputs, or merge the fixes you made to a feature with the commit that added the actual feature. The overall goal is to simplify history for the person who merges your branch into the master branch.

GNOME AND KDE 2011 Conference Call for Participation

Chris — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:54:55 +0000

The Desktop Summit 2011 is a joint conference organized by the GNOME and KDE communities in Berlin, Germany from the 6th August 2011 to the 12th August 2011.

The organizing team is now inviting applications to hold workshop and Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions at the Desktop Summit. Read on for more details and how to make a proposal.