Networking at home

With earlier Nokia PC suite versions it was easy to export your contacts or messages to an excel file, but this functionality was removed from recent Ovi Suite versions. After some research I have found a way to export this information. I have tried it for the SMS messages, but did not do it for the contacts, that should work the same way. First you have to syncronize the data you want to export with Ovi suite. When you do this Ovi suite is storing this data to MDataStore.db3 file which is stored in the Users\yourlogin\AppData\Local\Nokia\Nokia Data directory. This file is a SQLite 3 database and you can download a command line program from www.sqlite.org to handle it. You start the program by sqlite3.exe nameOfYourDatabase and you get a sqlite> prompt. The following commands will help you: .tables - list the tables in the database .schema tablename - list the fields in a database .output filemane - to redirect results to a file in your computer select * from Me...

I have an E220 Mobile Broadband modem and I had some probles getting it installed under Windows 7. After some experimenting I sucessfully managed to install it both under Windows 7 32 bit and 64 bit. The main process is described here: http://forum-hk.huawei.com/jive4/thread.jspa?threadID=330350&tstart=0&orderStr=9 There are 2 additional tricks needed: 1) Before this procedure install MobileConnect or whichever connection manager program form the device (you have to do this before installing the latest driver, because this step replaces the drivers). 2) After this procedure I still had only the Huawei CD device recogized and no serial lines, so from the device manager I had to remove the CD device and immediately after that, the device was recognised as composite USB device and the serial devices were recognized. Good luck.

Last autumn, before installing my Ubuntu home server I had great plans to do network file speed benchmarks between different operating systems to select the best operating system for my home server. The plan was excellent, but after a bit more than one month of testing I realized, that if I ever want to have that server up and running I should cancel these tests and go strait to the installation. In this post I will write about the results in that month. Original intention The plan was simple, I had the new hardware for the server, I had installation disks for Windows Server 2008 R2, Ubuntu, OpenSuse and Solaris. On the client side I had a quad processor 2 gig memory computer with Windows 7 RC, Windows XP and OpenSuse 11.1 and had an older computer with and old Athlon processor running at 2 GHz and 1 Gig of memory. So I intended to install all 4 server operating systems, test them from the 3 client operating system available on the faster client machine and from the XP on the slow...

In the company where I work, we have some very nice Canon ImageRunner copy machines. One of the advantages of these machines is that they have fast and good quality scanning possibilities, so they can be used for scanning bigger quantities. In normal cases you can set up these machines to send the scanned documents to email addresses, or to store them directly on computers, but in my company the email size is limited to 10 megabytes and we have chip card authentication, therefore I can not set up the copy machine to store documents directly to computers. But nothing is lost, because the ImageRunners have a web interface and I have written a small tool, to download the scanned documents from the copy machine to a local folder. The only disadvantage is, that you can only download the documents page by page, the color images in re jpg format and the black and whites in tiff. Here are some tricks what I have used to convert them to PDF documents. Converting TIFF to PDF For this I ha...

I have a relatively complicated network setup at home and wanted to create a frontend to them, where I can easily switch on/off the servers, manage the server and router configurations, see if the internet is up and running ans see how many client computers are connected. After evaluating some options I conluded to use an AJAX based solution, running on the Ericsson W25 3G router. The idea was to have a schematic diagram showing all the computers on the newtork, with buttons on the computers to do management tasks. So here is the result: As you can see there are boxes for al routers and computers, with the power button you can swicth on or off the servers or restart the internet connection. With the setup button you can go to the management web interface for the servers or routers. In the bottom of the picture you see the clients who have got IP address, their status is checked with arping, so even with a switched on firewall you can see the status. In the information field for the ser...

I have just bougth a new HW to replace my pretty outdated home server and decided to install Ubuntu server on it. The hardware itself is a standard desktop PC, with and Athlon II X2 CPU and 4 Gigabytes of RAM. This amount of RAM is only needed because I plan to run Virtual Machines on the server, which is consuming a lot of memory. I have 3 SATA disks in the machine one with 250G and two each 1T. The 250G disk is ment for the system, while the 2 bigger disks will form the 2T data storage part. The basic networking funcions like DHCP, DNS are provided by a Ericsson W25 3G router so this server is mainly to provide storage for the Windows and Linux computers at home. As a server running continuosly consumes a lot of power, this server can be remotely shut down and waken up, to run only when it is needed. So here are the steps of the installation: Install Base System: Download the Ubuntu Server 9.10 64 bit version and do a standard installation. I have used a 20 G install partitio...

On their support forum http://fwt.ericsson.net/ Ericcson made available the Administation manual which also includes the passwords needed to get root access to the 3G router. This gives the possiblility for every owner, to get access to the Linux inside the box, and do some customization like DynDNS, WEB server, speed tests automatic restarts and more.