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.