Last Day in China

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Today is my last day in China. Today we travel from China back to HongKong, than flying back to Taipei and from there fly to Amsterdam. So my Sunday is almost only filled with flying. Yesterday we visited ‘the great wall of china’ Look at the image I took. Oh b.t.w. this is in Shenshen, a more or less ‘Madurodam’ Park … (all kind of cultural stuff of China in miniature)

Our secret Chinese Project

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This is our business project, Unfortunately I cannot show what’s in the white Pandorra box, We have NDA but I can tell you: it’s moving!

So this is what a corporate weblog looks like when you want to talk about future products. I feel now like a corporate weblogger

My boss is paying my ticket, my food, my drinks, my hotel, my girls, my taxi driver and my samples. Life can be good as corporate weblogger. And working? Is that necessary? Blogging is enough to see what I experience ;-)

KPN Hotspot Schiphol, KLM Lounge

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xs4all usersname ingevoerd, juiste wachtwoord, maar de KPN verbinding vertikte het om mij toegang te verlenen. Met 2 xs4all acccounts geprobeerd om in te loggen: nope…. nou wat is hier jullie antwoord op? ik heb toch recht op 60 minuutjes vrije toegang?

Update: het weinig zeggende antwoord van de xs4all helpdesk. ipv het probleem uit te zoeken dit antwoord:

 

Als u aanmeldt op de KPN hotspot via uw laptop en u een willekeurige
website oproept dan krijgt u de standaard KPN hotspot vangpagina. Hierop
kunt u inloggen vergeet niet om XS4ALL te kiezen in het menu achter
“Direct internettoegang Via:” Hierna vult u uw XS4ALL uw inlognaam
(beheeraccount) en wachtwoord en klik op “Inloggen”.

Op het moment dat u niet kunt inloggen, heeft u mogelijk niet gekozen om
te verbinden via XS4ALL of u gebruikt een verkeerde inlognaam/wachtwoord
combinatie. De inlognaam die u moet gebruiken is hetzelfde als uw ADSL
inlognaam zonder “@xs4all.nl”.

Als u verder nog problemen heeft met het maken van verbinding met een
bepaalde Hotspot neem dan contact op met de KPN Hotspot helpdesk
0900-HOTSPOTS (0900-4687787) of via e-mail info@kpnhotspots.com .

Voor meer informatie kunt u terecht op onze helpdesk Hotspot login
pagina:
http://www.xs4all.nl/helpdesk/mobielinternet/hotspot/login.html

Voor de configuratie van uw laptop kunt u terecht op de algemene Hotspot
pagina:
http://www.xs4all.nl/helpdesk/mobielinternet/hotspot/index.html

Ik hoop u hiermee voldoende te hebben geinformeerd. Mocht u nog vragen
hebben naar aanleiding van deze e-mail dan horen wij deze graag van u!

Met vriendelijke groet,

Landisk Howto fix the device after a failing upgrade

Some users mail me with the question that their LANDRIVE (CHD3LAN, or any other typenumber) is not accessible anymore after the firmware upgrade and/or upgrade of the bootloader.

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Uploading the kernel/web interface does not work or is not possible anymore as the webinterface is not accessible anymore. After a reboot / restart the quick configuration tool still is showing (or even maybe not) that there is a bootloader available (see image above).

To get the LANDRIVE (CHD3LAN) workable again you need to start with following: make sure your IP address of your PC is in the same range as the device: 169.254.0.2. Even if you do not see the loader running: the IP address you can access the device is 169.254.0.2. DO NOT USE a router but connect the LANDRIVE device directly to your PC LAN Card.

If you do not do this and you try go upgrade you will get an error message telling you that “subnet differ, connection fail”

As the loader in this example is running you only need to upload KERNEL+WEB interface to the device.

Use TFTP for this and the commandline will be: TFTP.EXE -i 169.254.0.1 put conceptronic45e-web.bin

the kernel and webinterface will be uploaded through the tftp protocol. After this fast upload wait 1 or 2 minutes. The device (at least the Conceptronic one) is restarting itself. With the Quick upgrade tool you can follow the bootprocess. Finally you will see the kernel NAS-BASIC45 running again.

If you do not see the loader running at 169.254.0.1 you can (or maybe have to) use the MT.EXE tool

Use the MT.EXE tool (available in one of my packages / folder), make sure the target is directed to 169.254.0.1 and upload the bootloader file rom125_2m.bin to it. It’s possible that you will see some wierd messages, upgrade ok, error etc.. but my opinion is that if your IP is in the same IP range the bootloader can be upgraded, you can check with the Quick Upgrade tool the status again. In all circumstances: DO NOT turn off the device within 1 minute.

When upgrading with the Quick Upgrade tool: wait until the program tells you the upgrade was a success or it was failed. The program will always end. Do not force it to stop.

Maybe this howto needs to be changed / adjusted a little: drop your comments ..