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Make sure you got rooted phone.

• Install Android SDK (for basic command line tools, such as ADB)
• Add Android tools to the PATH
• Turned on USB debugging on Phone
•  Connect with USB Cable, USB Drivers must be installed (with SDK etc)

Open Command Terminal and enter the following:

adb shell
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

adb shell
sqlite3 /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db

Then you’ll see:

sqlite>

Then enter the following to alter the limit

INSERT INTO gservices (name, value) VALUES('sms_outgoing_check_max_count', 101);

(change 101 to your new limit)

I didnt try altering the limit so I hope it works for you guys.. but I can confirm this next one works. It completely turns off the limit altogether.

To turn off the limit enter:

INSERT INTO gservices (name, value) VALUES('sms_outgoing_check_interval_ms', 0);

ORA-28002: the password will expire within 7 days
Cause: The user’s account is about to about to expire and the password needs
to be changed.
Action: Change the password or contact the database administrator.

Reference: Oracle Documentation
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“Don’t tell anyone that I’m free”

WinSSH

Update (10/July/2016): OpenSSH (7.2p2) Server for Windows (7.2p2 is latest version of OpenSSH)
OpenSSH (6.4p1) Server for Windows (Previous version of OpenSSH)

General Features:-

* Security, if you want to access your Windows Machines cmd shell with full security.
* Windows NT Service Support
* Full install about 12mb, installer under 8mb (Including Cygwin dependencies)
* Windows Command Prompt support for SSH Terminal
* SCP/SFTP server support (secure file transfer)
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Installing MinGW/MSYS
http://www.mingw.org/wiki/HOWTO_Install_the_MinGW_GCC_Compiler_Suite
http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS

Install MinGW (before MSYS)

Download the MinGW Installer from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Installer/mingw-get-setup.exe/download

1. Select Save File when prompted.
2. Open the downloaded exe.
3. Click Yes when Windows asks if you want to allow it.
4. Click Next > on the Welcome screen.
5. Select Download and Install and click Next >
6. Read the License Agreement and click I agree
7. Select Current to install the current MinGW package and click Next >
8. Check the MinGW base tools and g++ compiler click Next
9. Destination Folder should be C:\MinGW
10. Click Next >
11. Leave the default folder and click Install
12. When Installation is complete, click Next >
13. Click Finish

Install MSYS:

1. Download MSYS
   • http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/MSYS-1.0.11.exe
   • Click Save
2. Run the downloaded exe.
3. Click Yes when Windows asks if you want to allow it.
4. Click Yes you want to install in the Setup pop-up.
5. Click Next in the Welcome Window.
6. Read the License Agreement and click Yes
7. Read the Information and click Next >
8. The Default Destination of C:\msys\1.0 is fine, so click Next >
9. The default folder of MinGW is fine, so click Next >
10. Click Install
11. A cmd shell will pop-up asking if you want to continue with the post install, enter y enter
12. Answer y you do have MinGW Installed.
13. Enter c:/mingw as the path where MinGW is installed.
14. It should confirm that you have make.exe installed, press any key to continue.
15. Click Finish you are done the installation. (It is up to you if you want to open the documents.)

OpenSSL

OpenSSL is a library for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols, and cryptography. Some tools require openSSL, if so, here are some instructions:

I downloaded an openssl installer from: http://www.slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html

I installed into /mingw/openssl/. I then linked the includes:

cd /mingw/include
ln -s ../openssl/include/openssl openssl

That's it.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 power users have many ways to launch a command prompt or Windows command processor (cmd.exe) with administrator privileges, rights or credentials. It’s a security feature in Windows Vista and Windows 7 that comes with User Access Control (UAC) that all processes will launch in restricted mode unless users specifically accept the elevation confirmation. For command prompt, the commands may refuse to run or have access denied error. So users need to launch command prompt will full admin rights and permission state. Here’s a few ways and methods the elevated command prompt can be opened and ran as administrator like this :-

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There are times that it would be nice to mount a drive in Windows and set it to read only to avoid accidentally over writing data on that drive. After some Google searching this is what I found. This will only work on Windows XP sp2 and later and Windows 7. I have not tested it on Vista although I assume that it will work.

Step 1
Open regedit.exe
Start > Run Type regedit.exe
Click OK

Step 2
Navigate to the following registry key.  It may not exist there for you will have to create it.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies

Step 3
Next create a new DWORD called WriteProtect and give it a value of 1

Step 4
Now plug in your USB drive and you will not be able to write to the device.

To make it writable again you will have to change the WriteProtect DWORD to 0 and unplug and replug in your device.