I have been a proud owner of an INQ Mini 3G phone for about 6 months. It is easily the best small 3G handset that I have ever used. It has social networking features jam-packed inside (Facebook, Twitter, MSN, Yahoo, Bebo, Google, Skype), plus all the standard 3G handset feature such as HSPDA 3G web […]
O2 broadband – cannot sent outbound emai
I was helping a friend who has recently installed O2 (UK) broadband at his premises. He was using Microsoft Outlook and the first thing he noticed was that – he was unable to send/relay emails via his own SMTP server setting, although his incoming emails were unaffected. My initial diagnostic on his PC, was to […]
Clock drift problem in VMServer’s guest
I have been scraching my head over a prolonged problem with VMWare’s free VMServer, where I have been using VMServer (version 1.4). I have guest OSes (Win2K3 and Linux) running and these guest OSes have been experiencing a drift in their system clocks. The symptom is that: when the host and guest OSes are booted and started, everything […]
My PC
My PC has been out of action for over a week – due to bad capacitors on the old montherboard. Apologies for not having any updates becasue of it. I’ve just replaced it with a new ASRock N68C-S motherboard. Based on nForce 630a chipset, It is very nice that it is AM2 and AM3 compatible, and […]
Unlocking and upgrading the Huawei E5830...
I was looking to buy a 3G MiFi Modem and this great article [http://dailyvend.blogspot.com/2010/03/unlocking-and-upgrading-huawei-e5830.html] summarised the procedures to unlock and modify the firmware. Clear and precise! Thanks very much, James.
Installing TrueCrypt on Ubuntu 8.10
Still being an Ubuntu newbie and learning, today I was looking for instructions to install the latest version of truecrypt. http://www.truecrypt.org I mentioned in my previous blogpost that I installed Ubuntu 8.10 on my Dell Mini 9. This is a guide for beginners such as myself so please forgive me for being long-winded. In order to […]