Parallels Plesk Panel 11 RPC API, part 2
My adventures with Parallels Plesk Panel's API continued. My previous fumblings can be found here. A fully working application started to say:11003: PleskAPIInvalidSecretKeyException : Invalid secret...
View ArticleFixing Google's new IPv6 mail policy with Postfix
I covered Google's new & ridiculous e-mail policy in my previous post.The author of my favorite MTA, Postfix, Mr. Wietse Venema offered a piece of advice to another poor postmaster like me in the...
View ArticleMac OS X 10.9 Mavericks .ISO image
Since Apple made a decision not to publish their operating systems as ISO-images on OS X 10.8, everybody has to create their own excitement (the phrase used to mock Gentoo Linux).With Google, I found a...
View ArticleAuthenticating HTTP-proxy with Squid
Every now and then you don't want to approach a web site from your own address. There may be a number of "valid" reasons for doing that besides any criminal activity. Even YouTube has geoIP-limitations...
View ArticleUpgrading into Windows 8.1
Why does everything have to be updated via download? That's completely fucked up! In the good old days you could download an ISO-image and update when you wanted and as many things you needed. The same...
View ArticleRidiculously big C:\windows\winsxs directory
Lot of my Windows 7 testing is done in a virtual installation. I run it under KVM and aim for small disc footprint, I have a number of other boxes there too. One day I came to realize that my Windows...
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Huawei B593 different models
Just to clarify: My exact mode of Huawei 4G router is CPE B593u-12.So my previous writings about 3's firmware and Saunalahti's firmware are specific to that exact model. According to 4G LTE mall...
View ArticleVodafone firmware for B593u-12
I was looking for a firmware for s-22 and bumped into Vodafone's firmware. It seems to be in use at least in Vodafone Germany. The download location for the firmware version V100R001C35SP061 is at...
View ArticleTelenor firmware for B593u-12
I was looking for a firmware for s-22 and minutes after finding the Vodafone firmware, a Telenor one popped up. It must be a really new one, as I cannot find any comments about it from The Net. The...
View ArticleExploit: Running commands on B593 shell
Mr. Ronkainen at http://blog.asiantuntijakaveri.fi/ has done some really good research on Huawei B593 web interface. He discovered that the ping-command in diagnostics runs any command you'd like to....
View ArticleApache configuration: Exclude Perl-execution for a single directory
My attempt to distribute the Huawei B593 exploit-tool failed yesterday. Apparently people could not download the source-code and got a HTTP/500 error instead.The reason for the failure was, that the...
View ArticleVim's comment line leaking is annoying! Part 2
This is my previous blog-entry about vim's comment leaking.It looks like, my instructions are not valid anymore. When I launch a fresh vim and do the initial check::set formatoptionsAs expected, it...
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OS X Time Machine waking up from sleep to do a backup
I was pretty amazed to notice that my Mac actually wakes up for the sole purpose of running a scheduled backup and goes back to sleep. Oh, but why? Going to web with the issue helped, I found Apple...
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How not to process bug reports - The Red Hat way
Over 5 years ago I filed a bug report about GCC crashing during ImageMagick compilation on RHEL 5. Nobody at Red Hat cared about that until couple days ago. Funny thing. At the time I had the issue, I...
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Parallels Plesk Panel: Disabling local mail for a subscription
The mail disable cannot be done via GUI. Going to subscription settings and un-checking the Activate mail service on domain -setting does not do the trick. Mail cannot be disabled for a single domain,...
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CentOS 6 PHP 5.4 and 5.5 for Parallels Plesk Panel 10+
One of my servers is running Parallels Plesk Panel 11.5 on a CentOS 6. CentOS is good platform for web hosting, since it is robust, well maintained and it gets updates for a very long time. The bad...
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Younited cloud storage
I finally got my account into younited. It is a cloud storage service by F-Secure, the Finnish security company. They boast that it is secure, can be trusted and data is hosted in Finland out of reach...
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Windows 8.1 upgrade and Media Center Pack
Earlier I wrote about upgrading my Windows 8 into Windows 8.1. At the time I didn't realize it, but the upgrade lost my Media Center Pack.At the time I didn't realize that, but then I needed to play a...
View ArticleGetting the worst of Windows 7 - Install updates automatically (recommended)
Why doesn't my setting of NOT installing important updates automatically stick? Every once in a while it seems to pop itself back to the stupid position and does all kinds of nasty things in the middle...
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Worst mobile app ever? Danske Bank's mobile pay
Danske has a huge ad campaign here in Finland about the new mobile payment system. You can send and receive money simply by using a phone number. I'm not going to dwell into the security issues of such...
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