Brian's Experience

Setup SSH Server with freeSSHD

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Lim) — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:15:00 +0000

Last week I was able to ssh tunnel back to Singapore to watch Singapore TV shows at Xin MSN. I decided to create my own for no obvious reason... yet. I was planning to setup using cygwin, but I found a simplier way, using freesshd. Installation was straightforward.

As for SSH client, I'm using puTTY Tray, a modified version of putty with system tray icon when minized the console windows. The setup took less than 15min to complete. There are 2 known problems with freesshd, depends on luck really. If you setup to start freesshd as system service, it will not create system tray icon where you can edit the settings such as add new user. The problems are:

1.) "The specified address is already in use" after clicked OK at freesshd settings. The solution is to stop the freesshd system service. Personally, i'd removed the service, and create a shortcut in startup folder to auto start it as it will give me the system tray icon.

2.) I got 2 test environment, 1 on my laptop and 1 on my HTPC. Then 1 on laptop works fine without any hurdle. On HTPC, I've setup an user with authorization method as Password Stored as SHA1 hash. When I try to connect to my SSH server on HTPC using putty, it prompted Access Denied with the correct username and password. I'd been googling but found no direct answer to the problem. Then I tried the following: at Authentication tab of freesshd, set password authentication as Required, then Public key authentication as Disabled. With no hope of solving it, I got it working, no more Access Denied!

Great Ikea hack for console wheel

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Lim) — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:43:00 +0000

I was looking for a good solution to mount a console wheel that I intend to buy. GameRacer Pro cost around £290 without the wheel. It is good if I got the money to burn. Eventually budget has landed me to this Ikea Hack where the whole configuration set cost less than £60. It does require to drill a hold and several screws to the paddle.

Update: I also came across this wheelstandpro foldable support, cost £85 delivered

Got my belated v-day present, ps3

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Lim) — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:13:00 +0000

Thanks to my wife for getting me a PS3 slim 250gb with uncharted 2 and assassin creed 2. This is my 2nd console, but the first that has competitve gaming title. Started to play incharted 2, the display is awesome.

- Posted from my iPhone

HP MediaSmart EX490 & Snow Leopard

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Lim) — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:37:00 +0000

Got my HP home server today with 1tb of storage. I bought it for £364 to consolidate my 3 external hdd, 2x500gb,750gb. Plan to get another 2tb drive, cheapest at £114 from hitachi.

At the same time I got my Mac OS X Snow Leopard DVD after failing to get a bootable torrent(downloaded 3 times). Hopefully I'm a step closer to build an iPhone app. Going to install the os in vmware 7.

- Posted from my iPhone

Bought my first baby item, Quinny Buzz 4 2009 model

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Lim) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:42:00 +0000

Back in September, I got a little surprise in life. My wife is pregnant. 4 months on, the baby is developing and each day my wife's tummy is growing. As for me, I've been studying what I need to buy for the baby. 1 of the essential item is pushchair. After much research, we decided to buy Quinny Buzz 4 black. I just ordered from Mothercare for £400. I then called them for a price match with Halfords for £329.99.

This is 2009 model and the pushchair can be used up to 4 years old. On top of that, it can mount a Maxi Cosi car seat which I'll purchase in the coming days.

A short promo clips from Quinny web site.

My iPhone has just factory unlocked

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Lim) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:02:00 +0000

I just got a SMS from O2 that my phone is unlocked. Hurray.

-- Post From My iPhone

Free Tales of Monkey Island today only

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Lim) — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 10:38:00 +0000

Free Tales of Monkey Island first episode only today. Get it here.

Something to look forward next year...

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Lim) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:55:00 +0000

Yesterday I got a shock of life, and gave me something to look forward next year. More to come.

EON Free PowerDown while stocks last

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Lim) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:52:00 +0000

If you are EON Energy customer, you can grab both powerdown device for free.

Preorder Championship Manager 2009/2010 for £2.51

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Lim) — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:39:00 +0000

Until late 10th Sep, you can preorder CM 09/10 at whatever you like, but there is an admin charge of £2.50. So the cheapest you can preorder it is £2.51.

Belkin TuneBase F8Z441ea for £41

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Lim) — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:59:00 +0000

I was looking for a iPhone car charger, and the cheapest I found cost around £6. My car does come with a ipod dock, but I'm looking for a iphone holder + fm transmitter + charger as I would like to play FM from abroad (via 3G using Wunder Radio) and listen it using the car stereo. :)

Belkin TuneBase is the best one around, besides Griffin.
The cheapest I found is £51.12 from Amazon, and yet there is a £10 off valid until 16th Aug.

It worked out to be £41.12 and i think it is a good deal.

Update 18/8: I received it yesterday, tested it for 10min, decided return it as it doesn't charge my iPhone 3GS and I could only get noise out from the sync FM. Instead, I placed an order or Belkin Micro Auto Charger for £4, rpp £13.5.

20 pence that worth £100

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Lim) — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:30:00 +0000

My colleague are luck to hold one of these rare coin that worth more than £100 in eBay. What make it valuable is It doesn't has the year printed on both side.

-- Post From My iPhone

A decade of mobile phone experience

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Lim) — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:12:00 +0000

About 10 years ago, I got my first mobile phone from vodaphone, motorola startac, a month later I traded it for nokia 3210 with a digi line (0162962241). From there I used 8250, 8310 and 6230 with singtel (97823646),n73, n80 and finally n95 8gb with O2. Ever since I bought iPhone, I don't think i will consider a nokia phone in the coming decade.

-- Post From My iPhone

Dev Team release jailbreak for iPhone 3GS

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Lim) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:41:00 +0000

Dev-Team has release the much anticipated redsn0w jailbreak for iPhone 3GS, get the torrent here. Apparently the hole is the same as purplera1n used.

Tales of Monkey Island is about to begin...

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Lim) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:15:00 +0000

Telltale will release Tales of Monkey Island in the coming hours, but before that, they put together a short flash animation. Enjoy.

The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Lim) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:04:00 +0000

I can't remember where to begin, probably back in 1990 when I first got my PC, a 386/486 with a turbo button on it. Monkey Island was my first ever adventure game played. This summer Lucasarts will release special edition for it, I'm glad they didn't release this as a 3D game. This release will be just in time to patch the lost of my childhood music pop icon, MJ.

Apparently there are more progress than just a Special Edition. The guy at Telltale will release Tales of Monkey Island, 3D episodic games. I can't wait to play it soon.

Jailbreak iPhone 3GS is now available

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Lim) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:09:00 +0000

If you can't risk a second to wait for the release version of purplerain, you can try jailbreak your iPhone 3GS now at your own risk using the beta release here. GeoHot you are the man!

I ruined my Mac OS

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Lim) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:51:00 +0000

I'd spent an hour yesterday grabbing a copy of VMWare image that contains Mac OS 10.5.5, then I installed the iPhone SDK for 6 hours! Eventually I'd the software upgrade and installed the 700+MB Mac OS 10.5.7 Combine Update and found that it killed the virtual machine. Total time lost was half a day!

Luckily I got a backup copy of the initial image. That's mean I will have to spent another 6 hours to install the SDK.

Update: The Mac OS image mentioned above is done by Xelabo, however I just came across an image that has 10.5.7 update in it. There is a forum discussing about increase performance and upgrade here.

Hoxton London Hotel for £1

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Lim) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:27:00 +0000

Hoxton £1 deal is back. I'd never lucky enough to grab this deal before, but I can try it tomorrow.

Belkin iPhone 3G Ballistic Nylon Case for £2.99

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Lim) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:52:00 +0000

My iPhone is still in the packaging as I don't want to risk scratching it without a protection. Fortunately there is a cheap case available to buy. I'd ordered a Belkin iphone case for £2.99 from Boffer, best deal I can find since Amazon is selling for £7.99.

Hopefully the case will arrive before weekend.

Tech Spec: The Formed Hard Case adds protection and style to your iPhone by elegantly combining a fitted leather face with a formed, ballistic nylon back.

Belkin Ballistic Case - Case for cellular phone - nylon, leather - black - Apple iPhone.

Condition: Brand new

Warranty: Life Time with Belkin

SGP shield for iPhone 3G & S

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Lim) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:30:00 +0000

I got my iPhone 3GS today, finally I'd decided to move away from HTC Hero after 2 weeks of consideration. But I'll get an Android phone early next year when it has NVidia Tegra chip in the smartphone.

I'd done some research on which case best fit my iPhone, and I bought SGP Shield at eBay from a Korean seller. At first I was looking for an anti fingerprint LCD film, but ended up buying this invinsible shield. SGP shield only comes with a Steinheil Crystal film. Thanks to the generous seller I got anti fingerprint film FOC.

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Hi, may I know is it possible to swap and top up for an anti fingerprint sgp screen protector before you ship? I understand the lcd screen protector included in sgp shield is not anti-fingerprint. Thanks.

- engowen07

<<< hi

thank you for your buy.it is include one clear screen film.Originally, it is impossible...but i will send one clear and one antifinger print film.thank you.

- wowsomethingnew

Zagg's invisibleshield is another popular choice, but I didn't get it as several users complains about the stickiness of it. I hope SGP will not have this problem.

Earn points with purchase in Ebay.co.uk

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Lim) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:22:00 +0000

Ebay has announced a new concept, +Plus; you gain point for each purchase. If you purchase an iPhone for £300, you get 300 points which convert to £3 at the end of September. I like the idea.

Get a HTC Hero for £401

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Lim) — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:57:00 +0000

While I was searching for HTC Hero, I came across this web site, Clove Technology that actually selling it. Too bad I'd already order iPhone 3GS a while ago... which I can still cancel.

Updated 1/7: Get it cheaper at play.com for £399

Apple Iphone 3GS is available on Apple Store UK

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Lim) — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:37:00 +0000

Finally Apple Iphone can be ordered online from Apple Store. You need not to buy it from eBay anymore.

I ordered mine, hurray. It will be locked to O2 provider, which I'm currently using.

Update: I'd cancelled my order as I changed my mine. I'll go for HTC Hero for the same amount of price.

Updated 29/6: I'd reorder iPhone 16gb white.

Michael Jackson has died

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Lim) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:57:00 +0000

I'd booked MJ O2 concert yesterday and planning to see it on 26th July, but was shocked to learn MJ has pronounced dead after suffering a suspected cardiac arrest. A sad sad day for every pop music fan out there.

Edited: O2 will sort out the ticket cancellation, announcement will come later.