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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For real?

The black box with two terminals is a 12V battery, and it looks like a lead-acid battery. Is it a DELL? Is it an IBM? Is it an HP? No, it is a Google. That’s right people, it’s a unit of many Google’s server inside its data center containers. It’s a 2U thick server, [...]

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Really? That short notice? I was casually browsing my Google Reader when I stumbled upon this exciting news. Exciting? Not anymore. I don’t know why but the frustration of waiting has made me less interested in iPhones. The time stamp on the news was like 4 hours before I started this entry. Fresh!

Going to into [...]

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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 managed to get OpenVPN running on my DD-WRT v2.2 router, with the instructions from the wiki.
However after a few reboot tests I saw that OpenVPN died immediately after it started, with no traceable reasons.

Sep 12 00:51:10 192.168.xx.xx openvpn[3940]: TUN/TAP device tap0 opened
. . .
Sep 12 00:51:11 192.168.xx.xx openvpn[3949]: Initialization Sequence [...]

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It has been some time that I wanted to upgrade the firmware, but I rarely have the motivation to do so. I ensured myself that I would not brick the router, and reminded myself on how DD-WRT always produces new and exciting features. So today, I did it. It took around 20 minutes to upgrade [...]

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Hey hey hey… looks like MacBook Air’s price has been released in Malaysia. However when I took a glance at Machines Sunway Pyramid last weekend I didn’t see any hint (not even a flier) about MacBook Air.
The least expensive model is priced at RM6,299.00 (~US$1,949.25) - which is actually logical for an Apple notebook. However, [...]

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I can’t believe my eyes when I saw this notebook. It’s as thin as air hence the perfect name is given. At 1.94cm, it is as thick as two foolscap binders stacked on top of each other. The weight of 1.36kg is simply acceptable.
It looks like I made the right decision not to get myself [...]

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Everyday I receive a massive number of emails from many sources and half of them are valid (i.e. not spams). And at certain times I receive huge attachments from friends with pictures or other things. With a normal Streamyx ADSL connection this is fine, but when it gets hiccups my email retrieval process normally gets [...]

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MP3 players today are as common as a discman or walkman used to be. Back then we have to carry a bigger pouch to pack in our CDs or cassettes, and each of them usually can carry only about 17 songs - and that was already considered many.
Today, with a device the size of a [...]

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After 51 year from the introduction of the first hard drive by IBM in 1956 (5MB in capacity), Hitachi has released a 1TB hard drive. For the technical readers, 1TB = 1024GB = 1048576MB. That’s a huge amount of data, and if the hard disk crashes and you don’t have any backups or a RAID [...]

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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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