Sunday, December 7, 2008
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Friday, November 7, 2008
Hot swapping SATA drive utility for XP/Vista
Supported controller:
Silicon Image SATA Host Controller
Silicon Image SATA-PATA (Parallel ATA) Bridge Controller
SUNPLUS SATA-PATA Bridge Controller
SATA Host Controller
Texas Instrument flashmedia controller driver for vista
The SD reader (TI PCI7411)on my Sony vaio bx546 does not recognize 4gb card in either xp or vista without a driver update, and sony only provided solution for xp but not vista. Fortunately someone found out the driver for HP nc8430 works on Sony:
Getting PS2 keyboard to work
Need to borrow a USB keyboard.
In terminal:
cd /system/Library/Extensions/ApplePS2Controller.kext/Contents/PlugIns/
In terminal:
cd /system/Library/Extensions/ApplePS2Controller.kext/Contents/PlugIns/
rename ApplePS2Mo
mv ApplePS2Mo
mv ApplePS2Tr
Leave ApplePS2Ke
Repair permission
cd /System/Li
sudo rm -rf Extensions
reboot
Disable USB keyboard in BIOS.
Taruga sound patch
Taruga sound card driver patch:
1)apply taruga's ALC882 AppleHDA v0.4b.mkext (no sound yet)
2) patch ALC882M codec dump with AppleHDAPatcher v1.16.
1)apply taruga's ALC882 AppleHDA v0.4b.mkext (no sound yet)
2) patch ALC882M codec dump with AppleHDAPatcher v1.16.
To get ALC882 codec dump, boot with any Linux live CD (I used Ubuntu), in terminal type:
cd /proc/asou
ls
Look for file start with codec#, mine is codec#2
cat codec#2
Copy screen output to a text file and save it on a USB drive. In OSX Drag and drop the saved txt file onto taruga's patcher.
Mac OSX on Thinkpad R61
INTEL CORE2DUO T9300 15.4 WSXGA+, CAMERA, BT
GMA X3100, GM965S-V, PCIE
1GB PC2-5300 667MHZ 1DIMM
ULTNAV(TRACPOINT TOUPAD) FPR
80GB HARDDISKDRIVE 5400RPM
DVD REC 8X MAX ULTRABAY
11ABGWIFI WL LAN
INTEGR.BLUETOOTH PAN
$777 plus tax
Componant manufactur
Ricoh MS/SD/xD reader 1180, 0592/0843/
Ricoh 1394 controller
HDAUDIO modem
WLAN Atheros 168c, 1014
LAN BroadCom 14E4, 1693
PCMCIA Ricoh R/RL/5C476
Conexant HD Audio 14F1, 5045
Disc: Leo4All v2
Install: Plug in a USB mouse, internal mouse does not work during installati
Enable Video QE CI: download Apple Graphics Update package and install.
Enable PCMCIA: use IOPCCardFamily.kext and IOPCIFamily.kext from Chun-Nan
Enable sound: use AppleAzaliaAudio.kext, speaker out only. Use bluetooth headset for private listening.
No solution yet:
Broadcom LAN
Conexant HD Audio (headphone
Touchpad: scrolling,
Built-in card reader
boot -s
/sbin/fsck
/sbin/moun
Mac OSX 10.5.3 Leopard on PC
Mac OSX 10.5.3 with Netkas PC EFI v5.1Abit AW9D Max w/ C2D E6400
Working:
Video: Nvidia 7900GS with NVkush
Audio: ALC882 with Taruga AppleHDA patcher v18
LAN: Dual Marvell 88E8056
Firewire
SiliconImage 3132 SATA
Microsoft wireless desktop 6000
High speed USB (USB2) with Orbyte EHCI driver
Bluetooth SYBA SD-U1BTC2-IS (Dial up networking, file transfer, stereo headset)
WLAN 802.11n Linksys WMP300n v1 (US version Broadcom 4329 chipset)
Sleep, shutdown and restart problem fixed by restoring AppleEFIRuntime.kext
Thursday, November 6, 2008
UPEK fingerprint reader software for Vista
Sony does not provide the buildin upek fingerprint reader support in vista for my vaio notebook. Software from ASUS works just as well, see:
http://for
ATI Radeon Mobility driver for Vista
ATI does not provide driver for their Radeon mobility products. They refer you to OEM maker website to find driver for your notebook video card. If you want to change the OS on your notebook, often you won't be able to find appropriate driver because notebook manufacturer is either too lazy or they just don't care about it. Fortunately some hackers have figured out a way to mod ATI catalyst driver for notebook use, works great on my radeon mobility x700.
DD-WRT & Tomato WRT on Buffalo WHR-G54S
Factory firmware does not work quit well, network slows down significantly once someone starts torrent download, and connection is unstable while using encryption.
Flashed ddwrt firmware, succeeded with v23sp2 mini. Standard version always fail, luckily didn't brick the router. So far so good. The router seems able to dynamicall
Update: Network still isn't perfect, even after QoS was setup. With five people sharing, connection
Loaded TomatoWRT,
Grabbing video embeded in a webpage like YouTube
www.orbitdownloader.com
Works great! and it's free.
Gitzo Arca adapter plate GS5160CDT
for new Gitzo square QR only, unfortunately not compatible with all arca style plate, for example, kirk plate doesn't fit.
Rodinal recipe
Solution A
Water, 125F/52C 750 ml
p-Aminophe
Potassium Metabisulf
Cold water to make 1L
Solution B
Cold Water 300 ml
Sodium Hydroxide 200 g
Cold water to make 1L
Mixing instructio
Allow Solution A to cool until a precipitat
ASUS wl-500w as wireless repeater
Flash the router with DD-WRT v24rc7 mega version, instruction:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Installation#Asus_WL500W
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Installation#Asus_WL500W
Repeater setup instructio
http://www
Cracking WEP protected wireless network
http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=simple_wep_crack
Installation notes on OpenSUSE 10.3:
#Wireless card Atheros AR2413 chipset
#install c/c++ and source pkg
#compile and install madwifi 0.9.4
During install if can not stop ath0 and get error:
FATAL: Module wlan_wep is in use.
FATAL: Module wlan_scan_sta is in use.
FATAL: Module wlan is in use
Do following:
sudo rmmod ath_pci
sudo rmmod ath_rate_sample
sudo rmmod wlan_scan_sta
sudo rmmod wlan_wep
sudo rmmod wlan
#madwifi driver patch r3386 does not work, use r2277
# if no client associated with target AP, type 1 attack will not wok (get 0 ARP requests), use fragmentation attack instead:
After fake auth step do:
aireplay-ng -5 -b -h
This will create the xor file for next step.
packetforge-ng -0 -a -h -k 255.255.255.255 -l 255.255.255.255 -y -w
arp-request
This creates an ARP request to be used with aireplay:
aireplay-ng -2 -r arp-request
#use kismet to get client list, c key
#use aircrack PTW to find key.
Installation notes on OpenSUSE 10.3:
#Wireless card Atheros AR2413 chipset
#install c/c++ and source pkg
#compile and install madwifi 0.9.4
During install if can not stop ath0 and get error:
FATAL: Module wlan_wep is in use.
FATAL: Module wlan_scan_sta is in use.
FATAL: Module wlan is in use
Do following:
sudo rmmod ath_pci
sudo rmmod ath_rate_sample
sudo rmmod wlan_scan_sta
sudo rmmod wlan_wep
sudo rmmod wlan
#madwifi driver patch r3386 does not work, use r2277
# if no client associated with target AP, type 1 attack will not wok (get 0 ARP requests), use fragmentation attack instead:
After fake auth step do:
aireplay-ng -5 -b
This will create the xor file for next step.
packetforge-ng -0 -a
arp-request
This creates an ARP request to be used with aireplay:
aireplay-ng -2 -r arp-request
#use kismet to get client list, c key
#use aircrack PTW to find key.
rt73 Aircrack-ng guide
rt73 linux driver for Hawking USB wireless network adapter
http://aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=rt73
http://aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=rt73
Patch for 2.6.27 kernel:
Stock trading related info
Day trade millionaire calculator:
http://www.mypivots.com/calculators/day-trader-millionaire-calculator.aspx
Broker review:
http://www.broker-reviews.us/sitemap.html
Converting Traditional IRA to Roth IRA
http://www.tdameritrade.com/forms/TDA266.pdf
No need to open a Roth account first then transfer the money to it from current traditional IRA. In section 2 after the roth conversion box write down current account number and it will be changed to roth. There is no fee for this conversion.Related IRS doc:
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p590.pdf
Taxes on day trading
http://finance.comcast.net/personalfinance/view.html?x=tax/capital/daytrading
Commercial historical data
http://www.marketdataexpress.com/
http://www.cqgdatafactory.com/
http://www.mypivots.com/calculators/day-trader-millionaire-calculator.aspx
Broker review:
http://www.broker-reviews.us/sitemap.html
Converting Traditional IRA to Roth IRA
http://www.tdameritrade.com/forms/TDA266.pdf
No need to open a Roth account first then transfer the money to it from current traditional IRA. In section 2 after the roth conversion box write down current account number and it will be changed to roth. There is no fee for this conversion.Related IRS doc:
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p590.pdf
Taxes on day trading
http://finance.comcast.net/personalfinance/view.html?x=tax/capital/daytrading
Commercial historical data
http://www.marketdataexpress.com/
http://www.cqgdatafactory.com/
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
485 lawsuit history and other immigration related stuff
PD 3/2005 TSC
I140(NIW) AP 4/2005
I485 RD 5/2005
FP 8/2005
PD current 10/2006
Lawsuit filed 10/18/2006
Summons issued 10/18/2006
Got AUSA receipt 10/21/2006
Summons all delivered according to USPS 10/23/2006
Got TSC receipt 10/25/2006
Got Attorney General receipt 10/26/2006
LUD, 5 emails(3 from CRIS, 2 from USCIS-CSSO). Msg says my I485 received 10/28/2006
Send in the return of (summon) service and certified 10/31/2006
Got DHS receipt 11/1/2006
Called USCIS, a rep gave a ref# and nothing else 12/1/2006
Called US Attorney's Office, they did send in an inquiry for me, haven't got anything back yet. They will respond before the deadline which is 12/19. 12/4/2006
I140(NIW) AP 4/2005
I485 RD 5/2005
FP 8/2005
PD current 10/2006
Lawsuit filed 10/18/2006
Summons issued 10/18/2006
Got AUSA receipt 10/21/2006
Summons all delivered according to USPS 10/23/2006
Got TSC receipt 10/25/2006
Got Attorney General receipt 10/26/2006
LUD, 5 emails(3 from CRIS, 2 from USCIS-CSSO). Msg says my I485 received 10/28/2006
Send in the return of (summon) service and certified 10/31/2006
Got DHS receipt 11/1/2006
Called USCIS, a rep gave a ref# and nothing else 12/1/2006
Called US Attorney's
Received 2nd FP notice, Scheduled on 12/21. 12/6/2006
AUSA requested 30 day extension. 12/7/2006
Went in early for FP. 12/9/2006
Judge granted extension, New deadline Jan 18, 2007. 12/12/2006
LUD no msg change, Emailed AUSA this morning about case status, no response yet. EAD expired today. 01/8/2007
LUD again, still no msg change. 01/9/2007
Agreed to another 30 days extension, AUSA filed the motion in court. 01/9/2007
AUSA proposed another extension, up to 60 days, He was informed by FBI councel that my name check is still pending. 1/13/2007
LUD no msg change,Called USCIS during the day, the lady basically knows nothing more than what online status says. 1/18/2007
LUD and Approved! Current Status: Approval notice sent.On January 19, 2007, we mailed you a notice that we have approved this I485 APPLICATION TO REGISTER PERMANENT RESIDENCE OR TO ADJUST STATUS. Please follow any instructions on the notice. If you move before you receive the notice, call customer service. 1/19/2007
LUD no msg change. 1/20/2007
LUD and Card mailed. 1/23/2007
LUD no msg change. 1/24/2007
Received approvel notice in the mail. 1/25/2007
Card received. 1/27/2007
Lawsuit terminated by voluntary dismissal. 2/4/2007
I129 case reopened due to former employer withdrew H1b, no big deal. 9/28/2008
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Ubuntu Bluetooth Dial Up Networking with Sprint
Ubuntu 8.04
Samsung Upstage
*Edit /etc/default/bluetooth:
Samsung Upstage
*Edit /etc/default/bluetooth:
…
# Change from 0 to 1.
DUND_ENABL
*Edit /etc/bluet
…
rfcomm0 {
# Automatica
bind yes;
# Bluetooth address of the device
device XX:XX:XX:X
# RFCOMM channel for the connection
channel 1;
# Descriptio
comment “Name of the phone here”;
}
*Edit /etc/ppp/p
/dev/rfcom
115200
connect "/usr/sbi
defaultrou
lcp-echo-f
crtscts
usepeerdns
user ""
password ""
*Edit /etc/chats
TIMEOUT 60
ABORT 'ERROR'
ABORT 'BUSY'
ABORT 'VOICE'
ABORT "NO CARRIER"
ABORT "NO DIALTONE"
ABORT "NO DIAL TONE"
ABORT "NO ANSWER"
SAY 'Starting
"" "ATZ"
OK 'ATE0V1'
'OK' 'AT+CSQ'
'OK' "ATDT#777
CONNECT
*In terminal run command
sudo rfcomm bind 0 device-mac
pon ppp0
*In firefox, click file, uncheck work offline, tada! connected!
*To find device MAC and channel info, run command
sdptool search DUN
*When done with DUN, turn it off with command
poff ppp0
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