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Setup a linux computer to act as a bluetooth keyboard/mouse

I want to make my laptop announce itself as a bluetooth keyboard or/and a bluetooth mouse. It would be nice to be able to connect the computer to my phone or my media computer using bluetooth. Does anyone know of a good way to do this?
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How secure is a bluetooth keyboard against password sniffing?

In a situation where an admin will enter sensitive information into a keyboard (the root password), what is the risk that a bluetooth keyboard (ship by default with Mac systems these days) would put those passwords at risk? Another way of asking…
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Will we have interference or reliability issues with many bluetooth devices in a small area

How many bluetooth headsets can exist in a small space without there being interference or reliability issues? We're about to switch our phone infrastructure to IP. New phones are on the way and we just realized 1) Headset support is expensive…
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Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Drivers Missing Would Not Install?

I am building my dev machine with WS2008R2SP1. I consider Windows Server as the best development environment for C# since I tend to focus on server-centric (integration) applications. The desktop flavor of Windows (7) doesn't play nicely with things…
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Is there a way to use A2DP/SCO bluetooth headphones in Ubuntu reliably?

I have a bluetooth headphones that can be used in both A2DP and in SCO mode. Under Windows, I can activate both profiles simultaneously and I can listen to high quality music but when Skype rings, I can answer it right away. Although I can use those…
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How to find a Chromebook's bluetooth address?

I want to quickly find the bluetooth device address (a.k.a. bluetooth address, BD_ADDR, bluetooth mac address) of a Chromebook laptop. So far, the only way I've found is slow and not always reliable - I've posted this answer below, but feel free to…
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Portable, battery-powered, wireless access point, ethernet adapter

I am in need of an adapter that will convert an ethernet port into a wireless access point. I have found a handful of devices, but I'm unable to find a device that is battery powered. Does a self-powered wireless access point even exist? The…
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How to create a windows batch file that sends a file to a bluetooth device?

I'm always sending one file to a device. The device is always the same and the file has the same path and name. How do I write a batch file to do this?
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Office drones want wireless mice. How can I avoid interference?

There were a handful of mice bought before I got here and they've had bad issues with random clicks, movements, and pauses. They've also had some issues getting them synced. They're using 27MHz RF. So, I could use Bluetooth, but there's already a…
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Why Body Area Networks?

Recently a large appealing on Body Area Networks is shown. Even the an IEEE taskgroup taskgroup is started working on the standards. I want to know why we should search for a new standard when we have ZigBee and of course Bluetooth. In other words,…
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What is the point of BlackBerry encryption on the devices?

Our BlackBerry servers require a password to be set on the device, all traffic between the devices and the servers is encrypted, and in addition, we have set the devices to be encrypted when locked. Encrypting the content on the devices when locked…
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How to forbid bluetooth file transfer in centos?

My company uses Centos 6.5 for our destop OS. My boss wants to avoid information leaks. I already forbid usbdisk in Centos, but somebody uses Bluetooth to transfer files. At the same time, some guys need Bluetooth because they use Bluetooth…
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Bluetooth in guest Windows with VirtualBox

How to grant my guest Windows XP access to the Bluetooth device? My host OS id Ubuntu 9, and Bluetooth works there, but Windows doesn't see it.
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How to allow permission via GPO to remove bluetooth devices in Windows 7

We have 'Standard' users who test Bluetooth devices. This involves pairing them to a Windows 7 machine. Unfortunately, each device adds a unique entry to the "Devices and Printers" which 'Standard' users cannot remove (remove is greyed out). How…
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Tell NetworkManager to ignore or not probe rfcomm0

I'm trying to remotely connect to a system via Bluetooth but am running into problems. Here's what I'm trying to do... On the remote device I'd like to have the following running: rfcomm -r watch 0 3 getty -L {} 9600 What that does is: Watch on…
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