Ellis Giles

Hiren’s BootCD is great for booting off a CD containing all the necessary software for fixing hard drives, doing virus scans, etc.
http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd
Download:
http://www.hirensbootcd.org/download/

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EVO Links….
Complete guide: How to root, backup, and flash new ROM and kernel on your HTC EVO:
http://www.goodandevo.net/2011/03/how-to-root-backup-and-flash-new-rom-and-kernel-on-your-htc-evo.html
S-OFF:
http://revolutionary.io/
One-click root redux: Unrevoked 3.21 now available for HTC EVO:
http://www.goodandevo.net/2010/09/one-click-root-redux-unrevoked-321-now-available-for-htc-evo.html
unrevoked3: Painless Root and Reflash:
http://www.unrevoked.com/recovery/
How to flash a .zip on your rooted HTC EVO:
http://www.goodandevo.net/2010/09/how-to-flash-a-zip-on-your-rooted-htc-evo-4g.html
How to create a full backup (Nandroid) of your HTC EVO:
http://www.goodandevo.net/2010/09/how-to-create-a-full-backup-nandroid-on-your-htc-evo.html

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Today: Joel Walker Hosts August TEDxNASAJSC Brown Bag Session
Join TEDxNASAJSC for the August Brown Bag Session hosted by Joel Walker, JSC director of Center Operations, today from 11 a.m. to noon in the Building 3 Collaboration Center.
Rob Forbes’ TED talk, titled “Ways of Seeing,” will be the featured talk, and Walker will lead a [...]

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In Adobe Flash / Flex, sometimes in a DataGrid or AdvancedDataGrid, when checking multiple checkboxes a previously checked CheckBox will drop the check mark.  This is really annoying and can cause errors.  It’s a documented bug in Flash player that Adobe hasn’t gotten around to fixing.  You can however fix it yourself by supplying a [...]

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For the following Flex / ColdFusion fault string:

faultString = “Detected duplicate HTTP-based FlexSessions, generally due to the remote host disabling session cookies. Session cookies must be enabled to manage the client connection correctly.”
faultCode = “Server.Processing.DuplicateSessionDetected”
Make sure that session cookies are enabled on the server and that the flex2gateway URL is not rewritten or modified by [...]

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For Flex working with ColdFusion to fix an error like one of the following:
“Error #2048: Security sandbox violation”
OR
faultCode:Client.Error.MessageSend
faultString:’Send Failed’
faultDetail:’Channel.Security.Error error Error #2048: Security sandbox violation:
file:// …….. .swf cannot load data from http://localhost/flex2gateway
OR
Fault faultString=”Send failed”
faultCode=”Client.Error.MessageSend”
faultDetail=”Channel.Connect.Failed error NetConnection.Call.Failed: HTTP: Status 500: url: ‘http://…’”
Check your crossdomain.xml file.

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When attempting to access a URL via the URLLoader, eg:
var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(“some url or uri”);

You get an error:
Flex / Flash Error #2044: Unhandled ioError:. text=Error #2032: Stream Error. URL: …

I modified the code referenced from:
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=170067

To create an URLErrorHandler that will attach to a URLLoader.  So, to easily attach default error handlers to the [...]

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Rewrite all non-secure URLs aside from flex gateways for ColdFusion to a secure https server.  Here’s a sample Apache configuration:
<VirtualHost *:80>
RewriteEngine On
#  Don’t inherit the mod_rewrite options - don’t mess up flex data.
#  Allow all for the document root, but then will redirect all
#  non-flex based data (flex2gateway, crossdomain.xml, etc) to
#  https server which will [...]

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4G Smartphone  Features

HTC EVO 4G

Samsung Epic 4G

2G Network

CDMA 800 / 1900
CDMA 800 / 1900

3G Network

CDMA2000 1xEV-DO
CDMA2000 1xEV-DO

Announced

2010, March
2010, June

Status

Available. Released 2010, June
Coming soon. Exp. release 2010, August

Dimensions

4.8 x 2.6 x 0.5 inches 122 x 66 x 13 mm
4.9 x 2.54 x 0.56 inches [...]

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Since \n doesn’t work, you have to specify the newline code in an escaped manner.
<mx:TextArea text=”Saving. Please wait.” textAlign=”center” />

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