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HTC Touch Diamond as an UMTS Modem

dietrich@kr8.de (Dietrich Kracht) — Mi, 13 Mai 2009 13:29:41 GMT

More and more people I know use their mobile telephone to connect to the internet and use various services there, like web surfing, RSS feeds, mobile boading card for air travel, live video or audio streams...

I was hesitant to do this on my mobile because of the enormous costs that are charged for UMTS connections with "normal" (i,e, voice) SIM card rates. But for testing puposes I can now use my flat rate UMTS data card SIM and put it into the mobile phone.

My first test scenario is:

Disconnect my notebook computer from the internet
Put my SIM card with UMTS data flat rate into my HTC Touch Diamond mobile phone
Connect the mobile (cell) phone via USB cable with my notebook computer
On the mobile (Windows Mobile 6): Start > Programme > Tools > Internet-Freigabe and set
- PC connection to "USB"
- Network connection to "VF DE Web" (or VFDE live! or VFDE Push or Vodafone MMS or Vodafone Web)
- Finally tap on "Connect"
On the Windows XP notebook you now can see in the "Device Manager" under "Network Adapters" a new device called "Windows Mobile-based Internet Sharing Device"
Now my Notebock computer is connected to the internet via the mobile phone using UMTS
I could now surf the Internet (Web), connect to my company via the VPN I always use etc. etc. on my notebook through the cell phone
Great!

Buffalo LinkStation Live - Larger Harddrive

dietrich@kr8.de (Dietrich Kracht) — Mi, 13 Mai 2009 13:29:32 GMT

I managed to upgrade my 320 GB Buffalo LinkStation Live (ARM9) with a 1 TB harddisk.

Step 1: Partitioning of new disk

The new disk was mounted as a USB disk on a Windows PC and partioned with GParted like this:

First patition: Primary EXT3, 196 MB mounted on "/boot"
Second partition Primary XFS, 486 MB mounted on "/"
Third partition: Extended partition with rest of the disk space
- LINUX Swap: 133.3 MiB
- Data partition EXT3 (instead of XFS) : rest of space, mounted on "/mnt/disk1"

root@HS-DHGL522:~# df -h

Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on

/dev/sda2               481.7M    244.3M    237.3M  51% /

/dev/ram1                15.0M    120.0k     14.9M   1% /mnt/ram

/dev/ls_disk1_1         281.0M     14.5M    252.1M   5% /boot

/dev/ls_disk1_6         464.6G     62.1G    402.5G  13% /mnt/disk1

/dev/ls_usbdisk1_1      916.9G    399.8G    470.6G  46% /mnt/usbdisk1

/dev/ls_usbdisk2_1      303.8M     10.0M    278.1M   3% /mnt/usbdisk2

Step 2: Kloning the old disk

The image of the original LinkStation Live disk (partition 2) was copied to a file.
The new disk is connected via USB with the buffalo LinkStation Live.
This file then was copied onto partition 2 of the new disk.

root@HS-DHGL522:~# dd if=/dev/ls_disk1_1 | gzip >/mnt/disk1/share/system.img.gz

594342+0 records in

594342+0 records out

root@HS-DHGL522:~# gzip -dc /mnt/disk1/share/system.img.gz | dd of=/dev/ls_usbdisk2_1

594342+0 records in

594342+0 records out

Step 3: Shutdown the LinkStation Live

Step 4: Open the LinkStation and exchange the disks

Step 5: Start the LinkStation Live

RSS with the Buffalo LinkStation

dietrich@kr8.de (Dietrich Kracht) — Mi, 13 Mai 2009 13:29:32 GMT

When you start writing your notes in form of RSS feeds, you need a place to publish them. A NAS disk running 7x24 hours is an ideal possibility to host private RSS feeds, that should only be accessible in the home LAN.

We need the following ingredients:

An RSS authoring software for creating and publishing your RSS feeds (I use Absolute RSS Editor)
An FTP server as the target for publishing (I use an extra share on my Buffalo LinkStation with FTP enabled for it)
An HTTP server to host the feeds and make them accessible to RSS Readers or e.g. Internet Explorer

Ad 2 - running an FTP server on the LinkStation shared folder (say "xyz") is standard functionality

Ad 3 - running an HTTP server (Apache) is also standard on the Linkstation. The only extra trick needed is to put the shared folder "xyz" under the DocumentRoot of Apache by adding some lines to the configuration file "httpd.conf". To manipulate the file /etc/apache/httpd.conf on the LinkStation you need a telnet or even more practical, a SSH connection to the LinkStation.

My objective was to have my electronic notes with me on my mobile. This is now possible with "RSS Hub for Pocket PC Version 1.0" by Ilium Software, which is standardly installed von my Windows Mobile 6.0 Smartphone. When I connect the smartphone via WLAN to my home network, I get my RSS feeds on the mobile device.

For details see: http://www.kr8.de/wiki/index.php/Buffalo_LinkStation

Netgear Digital Entertainer for Windows Error 10022

dietrich@kr8.de (Dietrich Kracht) — Mi, 13 Mai 2009 13:29:32 GMT

I have a Netgear EVA8000 device that runs in conjunction with a piece of software called "Digital Entertainer for Windows" (DEW) on my Windows Vista PC in my local network. DEW starts up with the Windows start, and is then accessible by right-clicking its icon in the taskbar. DEW now crashes with the error message: "Error 10022 - line 215, .\receiver.c".

The root cause is a conflict on TCP/IP port 49156 that DEW is using and which is now used by Windows Vista as well (KB929851).

The workaround is to tell Windows Vista to use a different range of ports by using the netsh command as described in http://forum1.netgear.com/showthread.php?t=34615&highlight=Error+10022

After that you need to restart Windows Vista.

24. April 2009

What does "Deployment" mean?

dietrich@kr8.de (Dietrich Kracht) — Mi, 13 Mai 2009 13:29:32 GMT

In German IT language the word "deployment" is used increasingly often as a "German word", apparently because there is no native German word to express the intended meaning. But what is the intended meaning of word "deployment"?

"Deployment" is typically used to describe the activity of moving something from one environment into an other (source environment - target environment). Very often the target environment is the productive environment, but you also can deploy something into e.g. the UAT environment.

After deployment of some "items" you can use these "items". In German one would say "in Einsatz bringen" or "installieren".

The "items" to be deployed are typically software items e.g. a piece of executable code, a Windows image, or even "content" can be deployed....

In SAP terms one would say "Transport".

In terms of classical Software Configuration Management tools, one would "promote" items...

Could not save Configuration of DVBViewer Recording Service

dietrich@kr8.de (Dietrich Kracht) — Mi, 13 Mai 2009 13:29:32 GMT

I had a running installation of DVBViewer with the recording service on my computer. At some point in time the associated webserver switched from port 8081 to the default port 80 making it impossible to use my "normal" local Apache webserver.

During the configuration dialog I could change the port to something, say 8085, but the changed configuration was not saved - port 80 remaind active.

The reason was easy to find: the configuration file "service.xml" was somehow destroyed with a lot of NUL characters. The solution was to copy an older syntactical correct version of service.xml to the configuration directory (c:/ProgramData/CMUV/DVBViewer/config)

Bookmark Service furl has become part of Diigo

dietrich@kr8.de (Dietrich Kracht) — Mi, 13 Mai 2009 13:29:32 GMT

I am using the social bookmarking and annotation service "furl" to save and annotate bookmarks as well as to have an independent copy of the referred to content.

Now I see that I have to migrate to Diigo by exporting my furl data and....

Error when Viewing PDF documents in the Web Browser

dietrich@kr8.de (Dietrich Kracht) — Mi, 13 Mai 2009 13:29:32 GMT

Today an old problem again occurred: My wiki website heavily uses hyperlinks on PDF documents. Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as Firefox 2.0 came up with the error message File does not begin with "%PDF" and do not show the PDF document in the web browser window.

Buffalo LinkStation as a RSS Server

dietrich@kr8.de (Dietrich Kracht) — Mi, 13 Mai 2009 13:29:32 GMT

When you start writing your notes in form of RSS feeds, you need a place to publish them.

What is meant for the public could easily be FTPed to an existing HTTP Server in the public internet.

Sensitive internal information shoul be kept on a private HTTP server within the home LAN. I have one device at home that is running 24x7 hours, that's my NAS disk, the Buffalo LinkStation. The LinkStation runs an Apache server for administration and configuration. With the help of information from the Web, I have managed to telnet to my LinkStation and identify the Apache DocumentRoot. It's /www. Now it's easy to create a subdirectory /www/feeds and publish my RSS feeds via SFTP to that directory.

RSS Editors to Produce RSS Feeds

dietrich@kr8.de (Dietrich Kracht) — Mi, 13 Mai 2009 13:29:32 GMT

RSS feed readers are wonderful to consume some from the thousands of exisiting feeds.

I now wanted to start writing my own RSS feeds.

What's needed for that are so called RSS Writers or RSS Editors. To find a suitable one is not easy, because this software field is quite new and the RSS formats do differ wildly.

My AlphaCrypt CAM Modul has Arrived

dietrich@kr8.de (Dietrich Kracht) — Mi, 13 Mai 2009 13:29:32 GMT

Looking for "the best" possibility to receive and record DVB-C with my computer, I came across the TechnoTrend TT-connect CT-3650 CI. This fine device has a CI slot. First I thought, this is the solution, but after some googeling a recognized, that a cannot put my smatcard directely into the CI slot, but that a need a "Conditional Access Modul" (CAM) that I can place into the CI slot and can then slide the smartcard into the CAM. The CAM that should do it for me is an AlphaCrypt light, that I got today from a mail order shop.

DVB-C with the Hauppauge WinTV HVR 930C

dietrich@kr8.de (Dietrich Kracht) — Mi, 13 Mai 2009 13:29:32 GMT

Last year I discoverd the "Hauppauge WinTV HVR 930C" in my local computer shop. It was relatively cheap, so I tried it out.

This little USB stick like device worked excellent on my notebook computer and I could watch and record DVB-C from Kabel Deutschland. Without smart card, it was restricted to the fully free TV stations from ARD and ZDF.

Even better: Hauppauge also offers a USB based CI module, that should work together with the HVR 930C in order to see encrypted channels as well.

Studying the internet, I finally decided not do order the Hauppauge CI module, but to change to a TT-connect CT-3650 CI which is a DVB-C receiver with a builtin CI slot.