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Archive for July, 2008

Hwawei E169 Light Indicator

Jul-27-2008 By miketeo

This is a re-production of the manual that comes with my Hwawei E169 HSDPA USB modem. It illustrates what the various color of the light indicator on the Hwawei modem is showing.

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This rattle records my experience in getting the SingTel Huawei E169 USB modem to work on my laptop running Fedora Core 8 (2.6.25.10-47.fc8). The process is straightforward and the Vodafone Mobile Connect application eliminates the need for complex pppd configurations.

You will need root and internet access to your machine and some basic skills at running commands on a shell. Before attempting the following procedures, you should ensure that your modem and your SingTel BroadBand on Mobile account is working on Windows XP or Vista first.

Update on 22 Jan 2009: Fedora Core 10 supports the E169 out of the box through NetworkManager. Just select the given Huawei device and enter the settings when you click on the NetworkManager applet on your gnome taskbar panel.

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If you are using using Dojo and Meteor Javascript library, you could be facing random Javascript errors when your web application runs in Internet Explorer. Your web application is likely to work well on the first page, but may fail when it moves to the second page or refreshes. Errors that surface can include Javascript error warnings from the Internet Explorer, or no connection to the Meteor HTTP service by the Meteor Javascript library. And weirdly, your web application seems to work fine in FireFox.

The Javascript errors seems to be an Internet Explorer specific issue. Fortunately, it can be resolved with a small modification to the Meteor Javascript library. Read the rest of this entry »

Ajax + Comet on BlackBerry 8820

Jul-13-2008 By miketeo

If you are wondering if Ajax and/or Comet are supported on the web browser on BlackBerry, the answer is probably as what you have expected. THEY DO NOT WORK! :-)

FastCGI’s HTTPS in nginx

Jul-10-2008 By miketeo

If you find that your FastCGI is redirecting your web browser from HTTPS to HTTP URLs, you might want to try adding this parameter in your nginx host configuration.

fastcgi_param HTTPS on;