Happy Life

It's been a while since I've blogged, been feeling really bad with some illness that needs investigating. Other than that I've been busy coding some IRCD (forked elemental-ircd) however the creator (Sam) other known as Christine has made me actually stop making any more modifications to syntaxircd. Every commit I've made he obviously wants credit for yet not all his work (he takes from plexus and don't credit)

Anyhow, his recent commit was actually so bad it made everyone say they was using webirc client. I took a look at the code and fixed it on my development box. I kindly alerted him that his code was broken his reply was submit an issue. I have actually fixed if but why should I let him use my fix? He won't credit me..... It was a feature from plexus anyhow.

On the happy side of life, Sony dropped prices on playstation TV so purchased one and it arrived today. Streams ok over wireless (ps4 is wired)  but can be a little laggy on FIFA 15 and Ethernet isn't an option. 

I'm off to get ready for lymvegas!

Raspberry Pi2 works well...

So I've had this raspberry Pi 2 a while now, whilst actually not doing much with it other than building a custom kernel and run lighttpd. My girlfriend treated me to a energenie kit which contained two plugs and a pi-mote. So I followed installation guides which failed everytime, after multiple re-installs I contacted energenie who stated it was closed over the weekend. I wasn't going to be defeated, so I thought I would do an upgrade to Jessie and see what happened. Guides showed pins used for raspberry pi not the newer model which actually has more gpio pins. After getting annoyed, I decided to go for a walk with my partner and my boys along the beach as it was pretty warm (makes a change) then visited the parent in-laws.

Upon returning I was determined to fix this and get my remote sockets working. Again I started with a re-install followed by a upgrade to Jessie. Found a how to guide (for Rpi b+) so followed that and bingo. It worked, so I had to put the plugs in learning mode. After a few attempts I finally got it to learn signals on both, at this point I was happy. I done all this testing on my 8GB card, I was confident that I could achieve this on my already working 32GB. I swapped to my 32GB card and powered it up, which gave me nothing but a blank screen and red indicator on the board. So I thought it was the card playing up, so swapped back to my 8GB and guess what same happened with that card. I though the pi-mote board had shortened out and broke my Pi2. After some research i found out it was the SD card, so I kindly re-installed my 32Gb for the 600th time. Everything come back and in working order, but I wanted to remove the unwanted shit like x11 as it's a server not a desktop. I finally got this down to using 500mb space rather than 2GB and with a upgrade to Jessie using around 15mb more I was happy to proceed to installing energenie. Followed the steps again and got it all working on the 32GB card and sockets learnt everything was fantastic.

It came with a script to get sockets paired up etc. Not great if you want to turn sockets off/on at different times. Obviously if you know python it's not a problem, for those who don't I will be uploading a basic script to turn sockets on/off

Mine is controlled via cron, the range isn't great through walls. If you can solder then you can add an antenna (hole pre-drilled) and labelled.

Next project will be the weather station! Coming next month, looking forward to that. My raspberry pi2 is nearly complete when this last project is completed of course another project will appear in the future.

Life of a raspberry pi 2...

So I visited my parents over valentines weekend to see my mum had purchased a 32gb SD card. It cost her £5 which is dirt cheap so I kindly stole it from her, got it home and installed raspbian just fine. Since installation it's had a max uptime of 3days because I can't stop hacking the kernel (using my original 8gb card for testing)

I always try and find other stuff to play with, however next project is remote power sockets controlled via the rpi for when we are on vacation.

Anyhow peace for now

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Sky Fibre router....

So I've been playing with my SkyHub on adsl and managed to get my username/password for ADSL without a problem and gave me access to use a TG582n (DANT-1) however after doing this I've heard those on fibre will be suspended if using a 3rd party router. sky wouldn't have to suspend users if they actually patched the router to prevent thugs packet sniffing details from it. My ISP at my parents allow you to run a 3rd party router and even suggest the home hub 5 (modem/router combined)

So why won't sky allow 3rd party routers? Well this isn't really a simple answer but also may have many answers. The most important answer would be 'supporting 3rd part routers' now anyone with sense would keep the sky hub and slap it in should they get a problem. But my view on sky not allowing 3rd party routers is because if they become faulty you need to dig into that pocket/bank and buy a replacement from them. I'm not sure how much they are but I've seen people say £40. Maybe these sky hubs are prone to becoming faulty and they are thinking 'more money for us' 

I've been actually telling them why my pings have increased on ADSL (as stats state a 15ms delay) which tells me interleaving has been enabled. They argue the case and tell me interleaving isn't enabled. How can an ISP lie? 

Anyhow let's see if my router can stay connected for longer than 18hours. I guess it maybe test socket again for me, but hopefully I can make it a bit better this time without a draught. 

Peace out 

Sky router got sniffed

So I've been with sky nearly a year and the SR102 hub wireless has become pretty fucked up. The wireless signal can be strong yet connection to the internet is very slow or don't work at all. Sky force  customers to use there hardware and suggested I purchase another hub from them at stupid prices. After some research I managed to packet sniff the router and find out my username and password for sky. I've a few PlusNET routers kicking about at my parents house which I'm able to collect this weekend.

Sky say we can use own hardware but won't support it if line fucks up? Guess what I'll plug the sky hub back in and you'll support it.

Anyhow, sky usernames are randomstring@skydsl with a 8 character password

Not sure about fibre, anyone needing help packet sniffing the SR101/102 drop me a comment 

Raspberry Pi 2

So whilst I was joking with my partner about getting another Rpi the following day she actually ordered me one. She showed me a picture and the title stated Raspberry Pi 2? I kinda never believed it as they had only just released the B+? After a little research it was released 2days prior to my partner ordering. It was a deal on eBay from ThePiHut at a price of £52 which included the rpi, case, power, 8gb micro SD, and wireless dongle. The next day it arrived and I was excited to be let down the power supply didn't work (being sent a new one) but for now it can run on TV USB 

The installation

So the SD card come with noobs installed so I decided to go with Raspbian as it's prolly the easier one for me even though I'm good with Linux. So I install it and type free and notice it shows 744mb ram? Swear it was 1024mb. After a little research it was a kernel glitch that was an easy fix and I've patched it and now shows 900 odd. Obviously with limited space i can't do much, I removed unwanted packages and now using 600mb disk space whilst running motion (Sony ps3 eye camera) as a baby monitor all working well so far.

I might release a quick patch for the kernel showing incorrect memory. I'm not sure when anyhow it's 12:31am and sleepy. Oh and ronsor sorry I crashed your IRCD I must be too skilled with just mobile access

Goodnight and God Bless.

Vodafone Smart 4 load average

So my partner purchased me a Vodafone smart 4 last year. It's been a great phone and I've rooted it with Geohot towel root. I've noticed it runs Ubuntu and with terminal installed I've been watching the load average. Obviously my vps load on Ubuntu is normally 0.00  however my phone won't drop below 10.00 and hits around 75.00 at times? Should I be worried even though CPU usage is low. I compared it to my partners Samsung s4 and her load average is higher than mine. I thought it was because I rooted it and installed some additional packages? Anyhow it's a standard smart 4, does anyone know who makes the phone as Vodafone are reluctant to tell me and I'm looking for a stock ROM.

I wanna try and get the original SystemUI.apk to as I've hacked mine and now it won't restore to default if I wipe the phone. Oh well it works and can't fault it apart from battery life.

Let's all from me today.

BT infinity performance

So my parent in-laws had BT infinity installed the other day and when first connect they got a tasty 80mb download and 20mb upload. They should expect between 66mb and 80mb according to BT ADSL checker on impacted lines. We had a power cut here around 8-9miles away from them and I checked my line profile (ADSL) which wasn't effected luckily even though I'm with sky. So I went ahead and checked there infinity IP profile and it's set to 63mb? That's 3mb less than what they should get minimum. So BT can't supply what they tell customers? They are still in the 10days training so will it drop more that's the question.

Freebsd is my life

A few weeks (or months) I mounted freebsd 9.3 on my KVM from 123systems and started to play with it since last time I used freebsd it was 4.x range. After being a Debian till I die fan because they have the mighty apt-get command I found out freebsd has something very similar called pkg which made me smile from ear to ear. I've always used Debian for my network at home running xen with all VMS running either Debian or Ubuntu and my raspberry pi running Debian.

I've since got my head back into freebsd and have setup lighttpd and znc for my own use. It's been stable ever since apart from network (my fault as fuxked of rules) I've now just installed freebsd on my second KVM and kept one as Debian.
My love for Debian has faded a little. Anyhow I'm off to configure my second freebsd box and chill on IRC.

Peace out
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