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  • Nitek Plus problem ?

    My Dive Rite Nitek Plus follows me on every dive the last 2 years. Today i show something strange. After a small repeated dive (just 3-4 meters) it correctly displays the dive but it give a 0 C temperature. Strange ? Yes.

  • Dreambox DM7000

    Starting from today i am a proud owner of a DM7000 ๐Ÿ™‚ It was on the whishlist for a long time. The box came with a 80GB hardisk installed=plenty of room to store recordings. First thoughts: The box is more than perfect. Channel Switching is really fast. I cannot compare it with my old skystar…

  • Sveasoft Talisman Firmware

    Yesterday sveasoft released their new firmware. A lot of changes if you compare it with Alchemy, and a really nice interface The only problem is that pppoe doesn’t work. I cannot get an IP from the DHCP server. Probably they will fix it in a day or two. I will keep you posted.

  • Solaris 9 on Sparcstation 5

    I had some spare time and i tried to install Solaris 9 from media 09/04 on my Sparcstation 5, solaris 10 wasn’t and option since Sun dropped support for sun4m architecture. It was the first time that i was decided to start the install using the Install CD insted of the usual Software 1/2 CD.…

  • Gmail: April Fool or true

    New features again from gmail. Fonts, bullets and highlighting. Also on every refresh my account increases. Will it reach the 2GB limit ? The infinity ?….. ๐Ÿ™‚ ๐Ÿ™‚

  • Solaris 10 and sun4m architecture

    I was just about to download Solaris 10 for my little/old Sparcstation 5…. Sun dropped support for the sun4m architecture on Solaris 10 ๐Ÿ™ From the Solaris 10 Release Notes: [url]http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-0552/6mgbi4fh8?a=view[/url] [quote]The following servers that are based on the sun4m architecture are no longer supported in this Solaris release. SPARCstationรƒฦ’รขโ‚ฌลกรƒโ€šร‚ยฎ 4 SPARCstation 5 SPARCstation 10…

  • ethereal and securemote

    Today i updated my securemote/secureclient to version R56 Build 619. After the upgrade my ethereal stopped working. The problem was with the winpcap driver. It didn’t return me any interface for capture. Upgrading the winpcap from version 3.0 to version 3.01a solved my problem.

  • Debian drops Sparc development

    The Register has an article about the decision of Debian release manager Steve Langasek to drop some architectures… Sparc is one of them. [url]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/14/debian_reduced/[/url] Could somebody please explain me what i i will run on my sparc machines (beside Solaris of course) ? Let’s hope that they will reconsider it again….

  • The Abyss Club

    We are open and we are waiting. TheAbyss club is open. [url]http://www.theabyss.gr[/url], for divers and non divers (yet). Only in Greek language for now. Greek Divers come on and register yourself in the forum [url]http://www.theabyss.gr/forum[/url]

  • kernel 2.6.11

    Or maybe it is 2.6.11.1, or it is 2.6.11.2 or it is 2.6.11.3 ? Edit: 14/05/2004 I think today they desided that the latest 2.6 kernel is the 2.6.11.3 ๐Ÿ™‚ I was thinking to upgrade my machines…. NO, I will stay with the 2.6.10. Read why… [url]http://kerneltrap.org/node/4827[/url] Remember the kernel numbering has changed…. The *.x.y…

  • LAND attack

    Do you remember those funny days 8 years ago, where you could crash your win95 colleague pc with a nice Blue screen of Death ? Microsoft hasn’t forgotten you. Now you can still do it on Windows XP SP2 and Windows 2003. Have a look at securityfocus: [url]http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/392354/2005-03-02/2005-03-08/0[/url] Thank you microsoft

  • New gmail features

    More gmail features: a) Now we have a selection for the Gmail view: A basic HTML view in case we don’t have a fully supported browser and the usual standard one. b) We can also login to Gmail directly from Picasa and send the photos from your Gmail account

  • Firefox 1.0.1 Released

    Firefox 1.0.1 released to fix a lot of security problems. The good think is that it appears that they corrected (a bit) the problem with rendering the slashdot pages

  • openwrt on WRT54GS

    I found some time today to test the openwrt (again) in my WRT54GS. I desided to drop the sveasoft firmware. The main reason is that every change in the firewall or QoS requires a reboot of the WRT54GS. Building the openwrt firmware and all the packages talk about 2 hours. I provide all the packages…

  • People looking for awstats

    I see a lot of people trying to find out if i have awstats installed on my web site in order to use the configdir exploit. Logged attempts include: /cgi-bin/awstats/awstats.pl /cgi-bin/awstats.pl /cgi/awstats.pl /cp/awstats.pl /awstats/awstats.pl /stat-cgi/awstats.pl /awstats/perl/awstats.pl /cgi/awstats.pl I don’t have awstats guys ๐Ÿ™‚ ๐Ÿ™‚

  • Debrick a WRT54G for the second time

    I week ago i debrick a WRT54G ([url]https://blog.billy.gr/archives/2005/02/12/debrick-a-wrt54g/[/url]) unfortunately it died again. This time it wasn’t so easy. The main problem was that the CFE.BIN was corrupted = NO TFTP to put a new firmware. The solution was to find a CFE.BIN and write it again on the WRT. After finally founding an image, i…

  • DSPAM 3.4.RC1

    I use dspam for its speed and accuracy, for it’s web interface and statistics. I miss one feature. Retrain via History. Why ? Cause i don’t like to bounce messages. Cause you cannot convince your users to do it, and do it properly, cause i use the signatureLocation=headers, and the only MUA that works is…

  • software suspend finally

    After many, many reboots and kernel recompiles i can hibernate ๐Ÿ™‚ It appears that it is an ACPI problem, but if a use a hdparm like this for my disk [b]hdparm -d 1 -A 1 -m 16 -u 1 -a 64 /dev/hda[/b] IT WORKS. Probably that i can read from the disk fast before an…

  • SHA-1 Broken ?

    Slashdot has a REALLY interesting article about SHA-1. It appears that SHA-1 is broken as Bruce Schneier says in his weblog [url]http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/sha1_broken.html[/url] I work in the PKI market for about 5 years. As you can understand if SHA-1 is broken means a lot to me, you and the world.

  • wordpress as a cms

    In the 1.5 version of wordpress we have a really nice feature: “static pages” Now i am thinking to use wordpress as a cms. One of my problems with my site ([url]www.billy.gr[/url]) is that i don’t have a CMS in order to change content as often as i want. I must create a style in…