Root Amazon Kindle HD 6 Fire tablet

Why? Install Google Play and access that universe of apps.
How? Don't reinvent the wheel: Gather information from the following sites and see what works.

Developer Mode: Kindle Fire for Kid

Android Debug Bridge (ADB) and files: Bilal El Tayara

Root: Android MTK

Prevent breaking root: Groovy Post

Very cool video

Good luck and enjoy.

AsynHttpClient and SpiderOnFire Augmented Reality app

I am using this code to affect faster uploads without locking the main UI for the app at SpiderOnFire

Bypass a Password Locked PC

Recently, a customer became confused when AT&T was assisting her with resetting a password. Why they were resetting a password is a mystery. But the net result was that my customer could no longer login into her PC with the old password nor the new. She was locked out.
Here is how I helped.
1. Turn on laptop and hit PF2 to access bios set up.
2. Change the boot order to have the USB port at the top.
3. Turn off PC, insert Hiren's boot USB, and then turn on PC.
4. Boot into Windows Mini XP
5. Search programs for a Password program that will create a new Administrative account on the PC.
6. Create the administrative account and turn off the PC.
7. Turn on the PC, log in to the new administrative account and navigate to User Accounts.
8. Select the original user account and remove its password.

XAMPP and Bootstrap

After successfully installing an Apache server on your rig (see previous post), now install some webpage templates via Bootstrap

Here is how I did

At first blush, Bootstrap looks like a directory structure that can be copied into c:/xampp/htdocs (this is where I installed XAMPP). So I just downloaded the source code files, unzipped and moved to the c:/xampp/htdocs directory. Did this work right out of the box? No.
That is because, I copied the standard "Hello World" html from Bootstrap into a file called bs1.html and typed

 http://localhost/bs1.html

into the browser.
Viewing source and debugging, I found that certain files in the directory were not found, so I just moved them to where the HTML expected them to be.
Kind of clunky, no?
Yes, so I installed

node.js

bower

and

git.

To be safe, I navigated to the

c:/xampp/htdocs

directory before installing.
Then I ran

bower install bootstrap

from inside the

c:/xampp/htdocs

directory.
Now after studying the directory, I found that

http://localhost/docs/examples/jumbotron-narrow/index.html

opens up a nice little template.
How is using Bootstrap any different then just modifying CSS files? I do not yet know. More may be revealed.

XAMPP on Windows 10

After installing XAMPP, any attempt to start Apache from the control panel was met with port blocked.
The solution is to right click and run as administrator. Then click the shell button and type: sc stop w3svc.
____________Screen shot shell_____________________________
Setting environment for using XAMPP for Windows.
sal@MYA55 c:\xampp
# sc stop w3svc

SERVICE_NAME: w3svc
TYPE : 20 WIN32_SHARE_PROCESS
STATE : 3 STOP_PENDING
(NOT_STOPPABLE, NOT_PAUSABLE, IGNORES_SHUTDOWN)
WIN32_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
SERVICE_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
CHECKPOINT : 0x1
WAIT_HINT : 0x4e20

sal@MYA55 c:\xampp
#
____________End of screen shot shell_________________
Now typing

http://localhost

in your browser should yield:

Windows 10 HP Envy 4500 Printer Offline

Resolved here.
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X509 Trust Manager Interface Resolved

My Android app WAR had been using an imported version of the Application Crash Reports for Android (ACRA) library that was implemented incorrectly. The external JAR was acra-4.2.3.jar, which I automatically assumed to be outdated.

Therefore, I downloaded and copied acra-4.8.2.jar to the app/libs directory in Android Studio. Here are the series of steps that I took to find that updated ACRA jar file.

Started with a Bing search on acra-4.2.3.jar

SERP came back with

https://code.google.com/archive/p/acra/wikis/ACRA3HowTo.wiki

This led to

https://code.google.com/archive/p/acra/

Then to

https://github.com/ACRA/acra

Which pointed to

https://github.com/ACRA/acra/wiki/BasicSetup

Then

http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Cch.acra

And finally arriving at

https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/ch/acra/acra/4.8.2/acra-4.8.2.zip

After unzipping and copying the jar file to Android Studio app/libs directory, I modified the build.gradle file as follows:

dependencies {

    compile files('libs/httpmime-4.1.1.jar')

    compile files('libs/acra-4.8.2.jar')

}

Mission accomplished for now at least; however, I certainly realize that I may have just added to my tech debt, but if it's working now, I won't risk introducing new bugs.