There is something very wrong with the wireless module on the DELL Precision M4300 I am currently using - after a while files begin to get corrupted and Windows will fail to write the event log. I have just had the motherboard changed by DELL last Monday. In the office I did not have any [...]

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I don’t know what people are thinking, this modem has the management control panel wide open from the Internet, and set to use the default TM password.
I bet the user doesn’t even realize this.

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I was going after a moron who was disturbing my wife’s blog and reached an IP number. Utilizing nmap, I found out that port 80 on the IP is open.

-(~:#)-> nmap -A -T4 XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
 
Starting Nmap 4.11 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2009-02-09 23:52 MYT
Warning: Giving up on port early because retransmission cap hit.
WARNING: RST from [...]

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I have been terribly busy lately and my energy seems to be drained out completely once I reach home. It’s time to write something.

For no apparent reason I was browsing the Internet when my eyes caught on the words Intel and Penryn. I was curious. Really curious so I Googled the words.
The results of my [...]

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A funny story. I just bought myself a 4GB flash drive to substitute my old 128MB Imation flash drive. So I was trying to format the Imation drive when I found a big loophole to the software.
The Imation flash drive comes with a firmware that automatically creates an executable to run the Imation Disk Manager [...]

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I just realized that when things get so easy, I get confused and lost. Last Saturday a friend asked me to help in installing one of these at his home:

There was an installation CD with SmartWizard®, which Netgear said should be “effortless”. Sure, it should be, and yet I was thinking in low level networking [...]

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My 17-days old Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 300GB disk was giving a lot of error two days ago. There were a bunch of errors in my syslog:

ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0×51/40 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0×3/11/04
ata1: status=0×51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
ata1: error=0×40 { UncorrectableError }
ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0×51/40 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0×3/11/04
ata1: status=0×51 { DriveReady [...]

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I am so frustrated by 3G providers, Malaysian and abroad. I have a Merlin U530 from Novatel Wireless with me now (not mine), and tried to use it for Maxis. Of course, it wouldn’t work as the card was bought in Hong Kong. The provider is Hong Kong Three :-(.
The problem is the data card [...]

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My journey to Low Yat plaza last weekend (or was it the weekend before that?) was worth it. I installed new disk brackets and fans to cool off my system and the temp actually dropped quite significantly:

Cooler disks!
*The fluctuation you see is because I can’t keep my air conditioner turned on 24 hours [...]

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