Blackberry + “A” Key + uo

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You probably have found this post after searching numerous sites… all with the wrong answer.

1. It is NOT moisture
2. It is NOT “dirty contacts” on the keyboard
3. It is NOT the trackball
4. You do not need to wipe your BlackBerry with JL_Cmder and reinstall the OS.

I did all of the above and none of them resolved the issue.

My trackball was failing for a while and at the same time the “A” key was displaying “uo”.

I replaced my trackball with a cheap unit off of eBay and that did resolve the trackball, but the “A” key (and others) were still hosed.

The end result is that I limped by until my phone was up for an upgrade and I swapped out for a Torch.

I found no resolution the problem. I believe the root issue to be around the trackball, and if you note that on newer models they eliminated the track ball completely.

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CentOS: Alias IP Ranges

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cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts

Quick and easy range of ips:

Add this file: ifcfg-eth0-range0

Contents:

IPADDR_START= 11.xxx.xxx.xxx
IPADDR_END= 11.xxx.xxx.xxx
CLONENUM_START=0

If you want to add another range:

Add this file: ifcfg-eth0-range1

IPADDR_START=10.xxx.xxx.xxx
IPADDR_END=10.xxx.xxx.xxx
CLONENUM_START=11

Pay close attention to CLONENUM_START. In the second range it must be a number higher than the amount of IPs adding in range0. For instance, lets say your range was: 10.10.10.1 -thru-> 10.10.10.10. That is 10 IPs, so your CLONENUM-START would be 11 in the second range file.

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Best Exterior Paint For Florida

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If you are reading this then you know how quickly paint is eaten up on the West facing side of your home.

My house is two years old, was painted with semi-gloss “high quality” Coronado paint, and it is ready to be painted.

Update 11/20/12:   Since the above post I have painted my house with Porter ACRI-SHIELD.    Two years later and it looks like it did when I first painted it.

Lesson learned:  CORONADO PAINT IS GARBAGE

 

I am told that these are the best two paints to use in the Caribbean and Florida:

Duron – Weathershield Acrylic
MAJIC – Diamond Hard Acrylic

Majic is spelled correctly. It is not MAGIC.