Using Mobinil Hauwei E173 Connect Card with OpenSuSE Linux

November 3rd, 2011

You need to download and install the following package :

http://am4computers.com/downloads/Hauwei/Linux_Hauwei_Movistar3G.zip

The Movistar 3.5G will be installed on your system. It will be invoked as soon as you plug your USB modem. You need to create a profile for Mobinil from Options, Profile Management, New and set the APN to mobinilweb.

And don’t forget to change the type of connection to Modem, not NDIS.

You can also use UMTSmon, which is a tool to control and monitor a wireless mobile network card (GPRS, EDGE, WCDMA, UMTS, HSDPA) in a laptop running the Linux operating system. It handles PIN codes, operator choice (roaming), signal strength and network statistics, sending/receiving SMS . You can grab the latest version from http://umtsmon.sourceforge.net/.

NOKIA Developer Discussion Forum Security Breach

August 30th, 2011

The developer.nokia.com/community discussion forum was offline and under maintenance for sometime now, only for Nokia to officially announce that the forum had had a security breach. I quote :

During our ongoing investigation of the incident we have discovered that
 a database table containing developer forum members' email addresses
has been accessed, by exploiting a vulnerability in the bulletin board
software that allowed an SQL Injection attack. Initially we believed
that only a small number of these forum member records had been
accessed, but further investigation has identified that the number is
significantly larger.

The database table records includes members’ email addresses and, for
fewer than 7% who chose to include them in their public profile, either
birth dates, homepage URL or usernames for AIM, ICQ, MSN, Skype or
Yahoo. However, they do not contain sensitive information such as
passwords or credit card details and so we do not believe the security
of forum members’ accounts is at risk. Other Nokia accounts are not
affected.

Official announcement can be found here :

http://www.developer.nokia.com/Community/Discussion/content.php


				

Google +1 Added to Website

August 6th, 2011

Today, we added the Google +1 Button to our main website, below is the code you need to insert in your page for your website to have the button also :

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script>
<g:plusone></g:plusone>

Google URL shortner

July 19th, 2011

Back in 2009, google launched its URL shortner services, goo.gl. Now, google has acquired g.co , an URL shortcut that only links to google products and services.

Find below post from Google Blog :

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/gco-official-url-shortcut-for-google.html

Disabling Windows Daylight Saving Time

April 29th, 2011
Pease follow the below instructions to deactivate the daylight savings time mode on PCs that run on Windows® 7 and Windows® XP.
Click on the Date/Time area at the bottom right to open date/time settings
Date/Time
Click on Change date and time settings
Change date and time settings
Click Change Time Zone
Change Time Zone
Choose Cairo from the Time zone drop down menu and ensure that ‘Automatically adjust clock for Daylight Saving Time‘ is unchecked
Cairo
Press OK to apply the new changes
WindowsXP
Double click on the Date/Time area at the bottom right to open date/time settings
Date/Time
Click on the Time Zone tab
Time Zone tab
Ensure that the time zone is ‘GMT+02:00 Cairo’
Change Time Zone
Disable the check box ‘Automatically adjust clock for daylight saving changes
Cairo
Press OK to apply the new change

Nice Google Trick to search for free music online

February 16th, 2011

Just copy and paste text below into a google search text area and replace the “artist or song” with an actual artist or song, and enjoy searching for free online music files :


-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size +(wma|mp3) “artist or song”

Free anonymous web surfing site

January 26th, 2011

The new rise in demonstrations in Egypt was followed by the government trying to block a number of popular social websites, such as Twitter and Dambuser. But using a remote free proxy, or a site as below link, you can reach these sites with ease :

http://www.sitesurf.net/

http://freenetproject.org/

http://www.privax.us/

Installing Next Generation Java on Linux and Firefox 3.6 and later on openSuSE 11.1 64bits

January 23rd, 2011

First, locate and download latest Java version from Java.com :

http://java.com/en/download/linux_manual.jsp?locale=en&host=java.com

1. Exit Firefox.

2. Uninstall any previous installations of Java Plugin.

Only one Java Plugin can be used at a time. When you want to use a different plugin, or version of a plugin, remove the symbolic links to any other versions and create a fresh symbolic link to the new one.

Remove the symbolic links (or move them to another directory) to javaplugin-oji.so and libnpjp2.so from the Firefox plugins directory /usr/lib64/browser-plugins

3. Install downloaded java plugin

4. Create a symbolic link to the Java Plugin in the Firefox plugins directory.

Create a symbolic link to the Java Plugin libnpjp2.so file in the Firefox plugins directory:

    cd /usr/lib64/browser-plugins
    ln -s /usr/java/jre1.6.0_23/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so

5. Start the Firefox browser .

Type about:plugins in the Location bar to confirm that the Java Plugin is loaded. You can also click the Tools menu to confirm that Java Console is there.

Offline Windows XP, Vista and 7 password recovery and registory editor

January 17th, 2011

Find below a nice utility to :

  • To reset the password of any user that has a valid (local) account on your Windows NT/2k/XP/Vista/Win7 etc system.
  • You do not need to know the old password to set a new one.
  • It works offline, that is, you have to shutdown your computer and boot off a floppy disk or CD or another system.
  • Will detect and offer to unlock locked or disabled out user accounts!
  • There is also a registry editor and other registry utilities that works under linux/unix, and can be used for other things than password editing.

You can get it from here.

Keep window always on top

January 17th, 2011

Small nifty utility for MS Windows. When enabled, it makes a window always stay on top of other windows. This is useful if you want to copy things from one window to another or if you want to look at two documents simultaneously. Tested on MS Windows XP and Vista.

Download Link : OnTop_10


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