Tunstall 400 Lifeline connection

Posted in Telus POTS & ADSL on October 22nd, 2010 by admin – Be the first to comment

There are 3 jacks in this device, one 8 pins(RJ-45), two 6 pins(RJ-11, To Wall and To Phone). I tested the 8 pins jack, it does not work as a standard 8 pins alarm/lifeline jack. However, the other 6 pins jack work as one in and one out.

Shaw email client setup with Telus Internet

Posted in Telus TV on October 18th, 2010 by admin – Be the first to comment

SMTP: mail.telus.net

POP3:mail.shawcable.com

How it works? let’s think about the real world mail system. when you send a regular mail, you don’t have to go to a dedicated post office, you can drop your mail to any red mail box or any post office. However, if you need receive a mail, you have to provide your address, based on your address, postman must delivery your mail through a certain post office where close to your address.

let’s go back the question above: if you have Shaw email, mail.shawcable.com is the post office close to you, you need tell the computer it is your post office for receiving email. And mail.telus.net is one of the red mail box or post office somewhere.

If you have Shaw Internet, you can set up SMTP as : mail.shawcable.com, but with Telus Internet, the port 25 is blocked, only mail.telus.net’s port 25 is open, that is the only choice you have.

Updating computer motherboard

Posted in Client Side, Uncategorized, Windows on November 26th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment

Usually, it is no problem to update Intel motherboard for Windows XP system. For example, if you have a Windows XP installed on an Intel motherboard, if you want update it, just simply replace the old motherboard with the new one, it will work for most of case. Some need you do Second repair to fix the system to fit the new hardware. However this one, there is a little tricky inside, I write this down because it is a good experience to share.

The old system is Intel board D915GMH running Windows XP SP3, actually, the original installed OS was Windows XP without any Service Pack, it was gradually updated to SP1, Sp2 and finally SP3.

The new motherboard is Intel DP55WB, of course, the CUP and RAM are new too, they are Intel Core i7-860 and DDR3 respectively.

Now, the problems are:

  • With the new system(Intel DP55WB), it comes blue screen with 0x0000007B error: STOP: 0x0000007B(0xF741B84C,0xC0000034,0×00000000,0×00000000)
  • Second Repair does not work because the Windows XP was updated from no Service Pack to SP3, None of Windows XP install CD works (I tested Windows XP, XP SP1, XP SP2 and XP SP3).

Fortunately, Microsoft provides a solution, it works:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314082/en-us

The blue screen has gone, however, it brings a new issue:

DP55WB does not have PS2 ports, I have to use USB keyboard and mouse, but the system can’t not pickup USB stuff automatically. So I put the hard drive into another system with PS2 ports, it is Intel DG41TY, however, there is nothing in Device Manager.

And again, Microsoft has another solution to solve this problem:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;311504

Then, everything goes smoothly, it picks up USB stuff and eventually, the whole system work on DP55WB system.

NOTE: when I do the test, I always use ghost to copy a backup hard drive to do so.

Windows – no disk Exception Processing Message c0000013

Posted in Uncategorized on November 24th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment

I just simply disable windeamon from startup, this nuisance thing has gone.

However, here is the better way to solve this problem:

http://www.consumingexperience.com/2007/11/windows-no-disk-exception-processing.html

A weird story

Posted in Uncategorized on November 24th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment

This is very strange, let me write down all the details as much as I can.

A friend told me that his computer can not access some websites, like Yahoo, Google, IBM etc, but he can access other websites like Shaw.ca, cibc.com etc.

He use Shaw Internet without router, the IP address is obviously public. The OS is Windows XP professional SP2 Traditional Chinese Edition. The IE version is 6.0.2900.2180, 128bit.

Without doing any configuration for this computer, we moved it to my network environment: Telus Internet plus a router, so it gets private IP address, like 192.168.1.x, but now every websites can be accessed.

[Not finish yet]

Remove Hijack.Windowsupdates

Posted in Client Side, Windows on November 18th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment

Run Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware  and  find

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\BITS\ImagePath (Hijack.WindowsUpdates) -> Bad: (%fystemRoot%\system32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs) Good: (%SystemRoot%\System32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\wuauserv\ImagePath (Hijack.WindowsUpdates) -> Bad: (%fystemroot%\system32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs) Good: (%SystemRoot%\System32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.

It will come again even after you remove it. Some people discuss it here

http://www.malwarebytes.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=23844

By the time I write this post, it did not solve the problem. However, I find an easy way to remove it:

Delete all the Quarantine items from all anti-virus program running on the computer and it works.

Install Tomcat 6.0.18 on CentOS 5.3

Posted in CentOS on November 8th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment

It is super easy, just download, extract and run it.

  1. wget http://archive.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-6/v6.0.18/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.18.tar.gz
  2. set JAVA_HOME to point at the jdk location I found with “export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jdk1.6.0-17/ (see here)
  3. tar zvxf apache-tomcat-6.0.18.tar.gz
  4. cd apache-tomcat-6.0.18/bin
  5. ./startup.sh

Install JDK 6 on CentOS 5.3

Posted in CentOS on November 4th, 2009 by admin – 1 Comment

Download from

http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp

Then execute these commands:

chmod +x jdk-6u17-linux-i586.bin

cd /usr/local

/root/jdk-6u17-linux-i586.bin


Cisco ASA 5505 Transparent Firewall only allow specific IP access SSH

Posted in Uncategorized on October 27th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment
  1. Define some groups
    1. object-group network sysadmin
    2. network-object host <IP>
    3. exit
    4. object-group network webhost
    5. network-object host <IP>
  2. Build access-list
    1. access-list inside-out permit tcp object-group sysadmin object-group webhost eq ssh
    2. access-list inside-out deny tcp any object-group webhost eq ssh
    3. access-list inside-out extended permit ip any any
  3. Apply to interface
    1. access-group inside-out out int inside

Outlook express does not remember the windows size

Posted in Client Side on October 26th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment

This is just a reminder, if you maximized the message window, the Outlook express would not remember it, please see:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/190277