Upgrading Dopod 838 Windows Mobile 5 to WM6
It's been a year I've own Dopod 838 PDA and I'm start to get bored with it because it's quite old PDA. Other than that, its OS Windows Mobile 5 is very old too, so I search on the Internet to find how to upgrade its OS to Windows Mobile 6.
Note that Dopod 838 also known as HTC Wizards, I found a how to at XDA Developer's wiki, with the article title: Wizard Windows Mobile 6 for newbies. The article in wiki gives us the step-by-step tutorial on how to flash the ROM and install the new OS.
The article didn't give suggestion on what ROM is best to use, so I just browse the XDA forums and pick one. The one I choose is WM6 ROM by mfrazzz, which can be found here.
After upgrading the ROM I notice that my PDA is more stable, before it strangely soft resets it self randomly, but after I upgrade it, I didn't notice any soft resets.
Note: Please do very careful when flashing your PDA's ROM or you'll make it an electronic junk 
Happy New Year 2008
Happy New Year 2008! Wishing you and me has a fantastic, happy, healthy, wealthy new year 2008!
It’s been a while that I’m not updating my story on this blog, mainly because I’m quite busy with my job and had no exciting story to tell about.
After being in the Netherlands for around 2,5 months, I went back to Indonesia on October 2007 and stay for a while before I go to Malaysia to work on an e-learning project there.
Creating /dev/random
Somehow in some Linux Centos installation the /dev/random is missing. The problem is some software needs it to working well. Here is how to create it:
mknod /dev/random c 1 9
Other devices might be missing to such as /dev/urandom, /dev/null and /dev/ptmx if you need those device here is how to create it:
mknod /dev/urandom c 1 9
mknod /dev/ptmx c 5 2
mknod /dev/null c 1 3 chmod +666 /dev/null
Error: “bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0 failed: Address already in use”
Yesterday I setup a Linux Centos server which then having problem with connection refused/dropped when I configuring it via SSH.I check the sshd log file, and see “Error: bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0 failed: Address already in use” error message. Some web page I read said that it’s because IPv4 and IPv6 are both configured to listen SSH, we need to turn off one. Here is how to fix it:
/etc/ssh/sshd_config
Look for
Port 22 Protocol 2 #ListenAddress 0.0.0.0 #ListenAddress ::
If you use IPv4, uncomment this line:
ListenAddress 0.0.0.0
So it look like this:
Port 22 Protocol 2 ListenAddress 0.0.0.0 #ListenAddress ::
For IPv6, uncomment this one:
ListenAddress ::
So it look like this:
Port 22 Protocol 2 #ListenAddress 0.0.0.0 ListenAddress ::
In the Netherlands
It has been a week that I’m in the Netherlands and yet I haven’t time to update my blog. I arrived here on last Sunday afternoon. Ki was picking me up at Düsseldorf international airport. From Düsseldorf to Nuenen took around 40 minutes of traveling by car.
I was very tired, I spent the rest of the day (Sunday) and Monday to have some rest. Then on Tuesday I got sick, I got flu and cough until now. That day I must go to Roermond, where the QnAp new office located. I feel OK in the morning, but in the afternoon I start feeling so tired and I got fever. In the evening I took a nap for a couple of hours and feeling better when I woke up.
Netherlands Here I Come!
It has been more than one year ago since my last post on this category, it was because I already went back to Indonesia. But now I’ll start to post on this category as I’ll leave for the Netherlands tomorrow night.
After waiting for more than 3 weeks for visa – yes, 3 weeks! – I got my visa on last Thursday. I had problem with the embassy that asking for too much legal documents. It’s very different with last year. Last year it was very easy to get the visa and it only need 1 week for the embassy to issue my visa. I think it’s because I’m applying the visa together with 2 of my colleagues, so there are 3 people applying on the same time with the same inviter.
Closing Open DNS Problem on BIND
Today I'm installing new CPanel server which come with BIND on it. After finished installing, I look at DNSReport website and found out that the DNS server have “open DNS” problem.
Here is easy fix for open DNS problem, all you need to do is modify your
/etc/named.conf
file to look like this:
acl "trusted" { 11.22.33.44; 44.33.22.11; 66.55.44.33; 127.0.0.1; }; options { directory "/var/named"; version "not currently available"; allow-recursion { trusted; }; allow-notify { trusted; }; allow-transfer { trusted; }; };
Where all IP addresses are your nameserver IPs, including cluster server IP if you set it.
Bought New Philips Headset
I just bought new headset, it's a Philips SHM6100. I try it directly after arrived at my office. It has a good sound quality and enough bass power for my favorite Jazz songs. The headset has a microphone too, it’s good enough for Yahoo voice call.
Here are the pictures:
In this electronics age, we now have home theater systems in place of plain old TVs and old printers, namely computer printers have now been replaced by old wireless computer printer. The digital cameras have decreased the value of conventional ones.