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Huawei E3276 reviewed
I got my hands on Huawei E3276. It is a 4G LTE USB-stick. The model I tested appears to be a model s-150. According to 4GLTEmall.com it has following frequencies available in FDD: 800 MHz, 900 MHz,...
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Supermicro SuperServer 5015A-EHF-D525
I needed a new rack-server to fit in a standard 19" telco-rack. Your average rack-mounted server is 60 to 100 cm long. A rack-server may be really thin. 1U (4,5 cm) or less, but really long. Then...
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AMI BIOS iKVM (Asus Z8PE-D12) failing to open console redirection
I was trying to see the remote console of one of my servers:It said: "Could not create token for this session. Max session limit might have reached". This was yet another reminder that Asus iKVM isn't...
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It's alive! Printer ran out of paper
This one really made me laugh. The entire situation was like from T-2: "Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m."My new printer ran out of paper and it sent me an...
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Using own SSL certificate in Cisco ASA
Yesterday I was mighty pissed about Oracle's Java breaking my stuff. Then it occurred to me: I shouldn't be using self-signed certificates in the first place! See my post about Certificate Authority...
View ArticleCisco ASA protected SSH-connection hangs - [Fixed]
Couple of my users were complaining, that their SSH-connection dies when idling for a while. The client does not notice, that server is gone. It cannot regain communications and dies only after a...
View Article3 Italy firmware for u-12
I got a comment from Mr. nos_com71 about 3 Italy's firmware for u-12.The download link is to Mediafire, which definitely is not my favorite place to pick up something I'd like to run on any of my...
View ArticlePolkomtel firmware for s-12
An active contributor for this blog, Mr. nos_com71 was kind enough to notify me about a firmware he found. It is from Polkomtel, a Polish telco. You can download the package from this link @ Norton...
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APC Smart-UPS battery change
My home Linux box is always on and to make sure it stays on I have an uninterruptible power supply for it. APC is very well supported in Linux by open-source apcupsd. Pretty much all other UPSes are...
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B593 firmware version numbers
I got a comment about the firmware version numbers. How can you tell which one is a newer and which one is older? Well ... Huawei really does make this one difficult. I'm guessing all this has to do...
View ArticleGerman Telekom SP104/SP105 firmware for u-12
I got a comment from John, he told me that a telco in Germany called Telekom has SP104 firmware out for B593 u-12. They seem to call it Speedport LTE II. The download link to the firmware is...
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Huawei B593 different models revisited: u-12 vs s-22
This is something that has been bugging me since November. In my post about different models, I stated that I have a u-12 (and still do). Last year I did setup a s-22 to a friend and got to see that it...
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Extracting /var/curcfg.xml from NVRAM [Solved!]
John do, a reader of this blog made a serious break-trough! Via SSH on B593 prompt, he found the flashtest-command. Before this I had no knowledge about such command, but see what I can do with this...
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Telia Sweden SP102 firmware for u-12
Jevgenij dropped me a comment about new firmware. It is from Telia Sweden and you can get it from here...
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Replacing Compaq 615 hard drive with a SSD
This is a HOWTO instruction for replacing a spinning platter hard drive with a modern faster solid-state drive. Since Compaq 615 has Windows 7 Home Premium OEM installed, I'll blog about the Windows...
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Running AT-commands on your B593
This is something I've wanted to do for a long time. Ever since I got my B593. Jevgenij has been hacking his B593 and dropped me a comment that he found command /bin/lteat from his box. Obviously I had...
View ArticleHuawei B593 u-12 firmware spreadsheet
Since there has been no updates for Mr. Bjørn Grønli's spreadsheet, I chose to continue his work.The link is...
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Replacing iPhone 4S battery
I really don't understand why people complain about iPhone screen size being too small. Personally I'd rather carry a phone, not iPad. Also it happens that iPhone 4S is one of the best phones Apple...
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Password encryption
A fellow B593 hacker Mr. Ronkainen from blog.asiantuntijakaveri.fi informed me about his findings regarding /var/curcfg.xml password encryption. This is something I did already spit-ball with him in...
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B593 u-12 /etc/ PEM-files explained
During the quest of hacking my u-12, Mr. Ronkainen from blog.asiantuntijakaveri.fi insisted, that the certificate files in /etc/ are actually used. My personal belief was, that the purpose of having...
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