Posts Tagged ‘technology’

05
Aug
17:10

Making AZTECH 600E do what Bezeq doesn’t want you to do

So I got me this router, AZTECH 600E provided by my new ISP in Israel. The idiots however figured out that nobody really wants to use anything other than Window$ and put a “dialer” on a CD, which you were supposed to install.

Needless to say, it came only as an EXE.

I spoke to a tech support rep on the phone who said he doesn’t support Mac and that my router is apparently not a router but a modem even though the interwebs disagrees. It’s time for some RL haxx.

And so I casually ask, “by the way, what’s the password for 10.0.0.138?”

“Just type in Admin password Admin.”

Yes, it’s that easy. Admin/Admin is the default password for the Aztech.

The next tech support rep said something along the lines of “I’M SORRY YOU HAVE A MODEM NOT A ROUTER I CAN’T TELL YOU HOW TO MAKE IT INTO A ROUTER BECAUSE THIS CALL IS RECORDED AND IT’S AGAINST THE POLICIES YOU WILL HAVE TO COMMIT TO US FOR 2 YEARS TO GET IT”. I hung up, though I should have just shot him in the face with my laser vision because he was an asshole. That laser vision sure is useful.

The next tech rep I called when I wanted to find out what my password was and also figure out the VPI/VCI values. He told me “kk sry i don’t speak mac lol go talk to these guys” and gave me another phone number. It had nothing to do with Mac, but sure, have it your way, silly tech support.

Tech support went something like “how do i shot web”. The values themselves I found on Bezeq’s website (!!) in another guide for a different router with an incredibly similar GUI. These are the settings I’ve used as they appear in the device’s interface after you click Quick Start:

TL;DR: 10.0.0.138. Username Admin, password Admin, click Quick Start, put above info spare the username and password which are meant to be your own.

Enjoy.

12
Jan
22:09

No 3rd Party Application support on iPhone?

Now this is strange.

Apple releases this brand new product, which they proudly present as a smartphone, but not just a smartphone, one hell of a smartphone. They pack it with awesome features, put a lot of money and effort into it (apparently two and a half years) and guess what – the shoot themselves in the leg by not letting the iPhone run 3rd party applications.

It could have been a great PDA, but guess what, they ruined it. Come on, Apple, you can do better than that! Third-party applications are what keeps a platform alive. Seriously. Didn’t Steve Jobs thank third party developers for their great job on migrating to universal binaries? Ridiculous.

Is Apple trying to make their own products fail on purpose? I don’t get it!
There’s no way I’m buying an iPhone (or whatever they’re gonna call it after losing the lawsuit) if it can’t run 3rd-party applications.

21
Nov
12:17

Automatically set X display to client machine when SSHing

At home I have a server running Linux and a MacBook.

Every now and then, I want to run an X11 program. VNC takes up my whole screen, and therefor it’s counter productive, but there’s another way.

Mac OS X has an optional X11 server. After installing it, programs could connect to it and coexist in the Aqua environment.

The thing is that while my server doesn’t change IP, my MacBook does, since I often alternate between wi-fi and ethernet, and even then I can’t be bothered to set it every time. So basically, the IP always changes.

For this purpose, I made this useful script. I’ve tested it on zsh, but it should work in Bash as well, I believe. I put the following lines in my .zshrc:

if [ $SSH_CLIENT ]
then
export DISPLAY=`echo $SSH_CLIENT | sed 's/ [0-9]* [0-9]*$//'`:0
fi

Basically, if the variable $SSH_CLIENT is defined, it takes that variable, nips the last two figures (one being the source port and the other being the destination port), which leaves us only with the IP of the machine we’re SSHing from. Pretty useful. Now all you need to do is put xhost the_ip, where the_ip is the IP of the machine you want to connect to you, in your .xinitrc to automatically allow it to connect to you.

It werks!