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Hidden / Unlock tethering using socks proxy on Android

Activating tethering/wifi router (on Android) navigating from your computer doesn’t work. The computer connects correctly to your phone wifi, but you’re unable to navigate. Seems your mobile operator detects you’re tethering and locks your traffic.
To hide/unlock tethering traffic you can use a proxy server installed on your android device, so internet requests are made by your android device and not directly from your computer:

+-------------+     +-------------------------+     +----------+
|  Computer   | --> | Proxy on android device | --> | Internet |
+-------------+     +-------------------------+     +----------+

There is a free proxy for android “Proxy Server” from Ice Cold Apps. Bu last version (v 3.2) doesn’t work, the pc loads the first web page and than returns always a page with 404 error.
So I used another proxy server from Ice Cold Apps the “Socks Server Ultimate”. It’s free as “Proxy Server” and works. Below the configuration steps:

  1. install Ice Cold Apps “Socks Server Ultimate” on your android device from Play Store
  2. open the app and configure a new socks server in this way:
    • server name: a name (let’s set Default)
    • run on port: a port from 1024 to 65536 (let’s set 8080)
    • select option “Start directly when app starts clean” to start this proxy when opening the app
    • exit and save
  3. start tethering/wifi router on your device
  4. start the app “Socks Server Ultimate” (proxy will start automatically)
  5. inside the app clic on “Info” and take note of the address that starts with 192.168…
  6. now we can configure the browser (for example firefox) on your pc: open firefox and configure the proxy in this way: Options >> Advanced >> Network >> Settings… (where 192.168.42.129 is the address of the previous step that is the address of the android device) [the image is on the italian version of firefox]:
    firefox-socks-proxy

Note that this proxy server is a socks proxy not only an http proxy, so it can be used with all applications that support a socks proxy, not only for the web navigation.
Sometimes the application Socks Server Ultimate doen’t work, you have to restart it: use the Exit button and reopen it.
 

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Evernote Importing from LG Memo and from ColorNote Android Apps

I switched from LG Memo and Colornote to Evernote.
The Evernote application imports the enex file format. I created two php scripts that export the notes from Colornote and from LG Memo.
For Colornote is required the file colornote.db that is only visible on rooted devices. For LG Memo the note database is inside the backup backup.nrt that can be created from LG Memo and rooting is not required.
This is lgmemo2enex.php:
https://gist.github.com/nikiink/d94c5e2d3d964740a34c#file-lgmemo2enex-php
and this is colornote2enex.php:
https://gist.github.com/nikiink/aff1e5470db969737c8d#file-colornote2enex-php
these scripts must be run in the same directory containing the files colornote.db or richnote. The scripts outputs the files lgmemo.enex and colornote.enex that could be imported in Evernote.

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Turn on samsung android phone without using power button

To turn on a samsung android phone without using the power button follow these steps:

  1. Charge the phone if full discharged
  2. Remove charger
  3. Keeping pushed home button and volume down connect the charger until you see the download mode on the screen
  4. You will see below Volume down: Cancel (restart phone) [it’s what we need restart the phone]
  5. Release the buttons and disconnect the charger
  6. Push volume down
  7. Phone will restart, turning itself on

download-mode-samsung

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Information and Communications Technology

CKAN common errors

These are two errors and the solutions encountered installing CKAN:
1. Upload error: An Error occurred while sending the job: 500 Server Error: INTERNAL SERVER ERROR
with this error in datapusher.error.log:
OperationalError: (OperationalError) attempt to write a readonly database u’INSERT INTO jobs …
The solution is:
check the configuration parameter SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI in datapusher_settings.py, it should point to a file where the webserver has permissions to write
2. Error: Process completed but unable to post to result_url
with this error in datapusher.error.log:
ConnectionError: (‘Connection aborted.’, error(111, ‘Connection refused’))
The solution is:
check the parameter ckan.site_url in development.ini/production.ini, it should have the correct port and host:
ckan.site_url=http://{ckan_host}:{ckan_port}

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Asus Zenbook UX32V Fan Always On [SOLVED]

I had a problem with an Asus Zenbook UX32V with dual video cards, an integrated intel and a geforce GT 620M: the fan was always on.
I solved this problem updating the bios from version 203 to the latest version. At this time the version 214.

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Kingston datatraveler mini 32gb DTM30 Windows Icons

I created some .ico files for Kingston datatraveler mini 32gb DTM30 Flash Drive:

Kingston datatraveler mini 32gb DTM30 Icon
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Information and Communications Technology

SmartDVB channels export to M3U for VLC

I developed a small utility to export the channels from SmartDVB to VLC.
The utility can be downloaded from:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/suv1b0veerizozp/SmartDVBExportM3U.bin.zip
The source code is here (contains the eclipse project):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0c2vamnjpqm5fzy/SmartDVBExportM3U.src.zip
The application is very very minimal. It requires java.
USAGE

  1. First of all locate the smartdvb.db file. It’s located in the SmartDVB installation directory or in the user SmartDVB AppData folder. (This file contains the channels found by SmartDVB).
  2. Close SmartDVB Application.
  3. Make a backup copy of this file, if something goes wrong.
  4. Extract the SmartDVBExportM3U zip file and open the SmartDVBExportM3U.exe
  5. Choose the path of the smartdvb.db file using the first button
  6. Export with the second button.

 

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MCFTec Receiver DVB-T USB Stick Drivers

mcftec_1 mcftec_2I found the drivers for this usb stick. The device has the same hardware of the WideView WT-200U or WT220U distribuited by various vendors (Freecom, Yakumo, Hama, Typhoon, Yuan)
Using the drivers from Freecom the MCFTec USB Stick works. I tested it on Windows Vista 32 bit and Windows 7 64 bit.
http://www.freecom.com/files/Productinformation/EOL/DVBT/Driver/25451-rev3-XP32-Vista3264.zip [<<<<<<< this worked for me on Windows Vista 32bit and on Windows 7 64bit]
Other drivers from Freecom:
http://www.freecom.com/files/Productinformation/EOL/DVBT/Driver/25452-XP-32-Vista-3264.zip
http://www.freecom.com/files/Productinformation/EOL/DVBT/Driver/27442-XP-3264-Vista-32.zip
http://www.freecom.com/files/Productinformation/EOL/DVBT/Driver/25451-XP-Vista.zip
[2019-10-08 UPDATE: files are not available anymore at these links, use this below on dropbox]
I uploaded on dropbox an archive with all those drivers, the driver for the MCFTec on the photo is 25451-rev3-XP32-Vista3264:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/gx737g00k2efcg8/MCFTEC.zip?dl=0
After installing the drivers you can use any software to watch the tv. I tested the MCFTec with SichboPVR and MediaPortal v1.
You can also search the channels with SmartDVB and you can view the channels with VLC using this .m3u playlist for example [i found program=3401 from SmartDVB (Channel properties, PID as <DEC>)]:
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:0,RAIUNO
#EXTVLCOPT:program=3401
dvb-t://frequency=205625000:bandwidth=7
#EXTINF:0,RAIDUE
#EXTVLCOPT:program=3402
dvb-t://frequency=205625000:bandwidth=7
#EXTINF:0,RAITRE
#EXTVLCOPT:program=3403
dvb-t://frequency=205625000:bandwidth=7
#EXTINF:0,RAINEWS24
#EXTVLCOPT:program=3411
dvb-t://frequency=205625000:bandwidth=7
#EXTINF:0,RAI2HD
#EXTVLCOPT:program=8597
dvb-t://frequency=219625000:bandwidth=7
#EXTINF:0,RAI3HD
#EXTVLCOPT:program=8598
dvb-t://frequency=219625000:bandwidth=7

Remote Control

The remote control act as a keyboard. This is the key map:

  • Power: F12
  • MUTE: F8
  • VOL+: F10
  • VOL-: F9
  • CH+: plus sign
  • CH-: minus sign
  • 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0: the same
  • ZOOM: Enter
  • JUMP: ¶

Remote control on MediaPortal

On MediaPortal you can change default keyboard shortcuts to map the keys on the remote control:

  1. MediaPortal Configuration > Remotes and Input Devices > HID: uncheck all checkboxes
  2. MediaPortal Configuration > General > Keys and Sounds
    1. Global Actions: Volume Up, Volume Down, Mute
    2. Windows > Fullscreen TVs: Next tv channel, Previous tv channel

Remote control on SichboPVR

On SichboPVR you cannot change the keyboard shortcuts, the default shortcuts are (visible using F1):

  • + increase volume
  • -: decrease volume
  • Numbers: insert channel number
  • Enter: change channel after inserting channel number

So you can use CH+ to increase the volume, CH- to decrease the volume, the numbers to select the channel and ZOOM to change to the selected channel.

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Run Time Error 28: Out of Stack Space [Citrix]

In response to Fray Quinones for this discussion:
http://discussions.citrix.com/topic/351074-run-time-error-28-out-of-stack-space/
[I was unable to register as citrix user so I write here]
This is the problem:
Hi,
I’m trying to deploy an application from our Citrix presentation server, but every time the application loads it gives the user a message that says: Run-time Error ’28’: Out of Stack Space.
It was working fine until last week.
Thanks,
Fray
The problem was generated by a window update, the KB2922229 update. Uninstalling this update the problem is solved.
Bye.

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Windows Vista CMD slow startup / Windows Vista, avvio lento della CMD

Using Windows Vista, running cmd, makes it hangs for some seconds and then start.
I solved the issue removing any additional keyboards layouts from:
“System Settings->Region and Language options->Keyboards & Languages->Change keyboards”
see http://serverfault.com/questions/26217/win7-command-processor-cmd-exe-really-slow/210961#210961
[ITA]In Windows Vista ho notato un rallentamento dell’avvio della console (CMD). Lasciando un solo layout di tastiera il problema si è risolto