Tag Archives: Samsung

AT&T / DirecTV via Internet Has A Brain Fart

Posted on 25 October 2016 by E.M.Smith

A brief tail of woe about DirecTV, an ap for that, or not, the Chromebox, and customer non-support. Continue reading →

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Well This Sucks – Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 No Keyboard Lockout

Posted on 6 June 2016 by E.M.Smith

My Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 is demanding the unlock code, but will not give me the ‘soft keyboard’ on which to enter it. It looks like “wipe to factory and start over” is the only option to fix it. I can’t recommend using a device with this failure mode for anything important. Continue reading →

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From my new Galaxy note 10.1

Posted on 30 June 2013 by E.M.Smith

I’ve bought a new Galaxy Note 10.1 both for some work purposes and for more light weight web use. It also can run Linux, so I’m going to be exploring how to set it up to be a reasonably secure communications platform (i.e. NOT using Android that Google just loves to pack full of ‘sharing’ features…) Continue reading →

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