Phuket Information Technology Blog

CAT Telecom supplies Zyxel Prestige routers from an old batch

admin — Sat, 12 May 2012 11:18:55 +0000

CAT Telecom still installs the Zyxel Prestige black routers that we believe are from a very old batch (I don’t think Zyxel makes these anymore). These routers have a known problem of the capacitors degrading with time. Degradation probably happens even if the routers are sitting in stock unused. The symptoms are: random loss of LAN connections or random loss of ADSL connection. The router in question might work just fine when a single computer is connected, but lose connections when more devices are attached.

We just saw this problem with a router that a CAT technician brought in as “new”.

Here is the link to the fix of the problem, but of course it’s easier and cheaper to replace the router!

A1243 keyboard startup keys not working on iMac A1173

admin — Fri, 04 May 2012 15:15:51 +0000

Looks like a never USB Apple aluminum keyboard is not fully supported on older iMacs. It works fine inside the OS but not working on the booting stage. Ordinary USB PC keyboard did the job!

MacBook Pro A1229 – “You need to restart your computer”

admin — Thu, 03 May 2012 06:23:22 +0000

Installed OS: Snow Leopard

First try to reset PRAM. If it does not help:

Boot in the single user mode
Mount the filesystem in read/write mode
Go to /System/Library/Extensions/
Delete or move kexts: ATI*, AppleIntelGMA*

GSM Gateway: Thai mobile number call forward to SIP, SMS to Email

admin — Wed, 02 May 2012 06:52:56 +0000

For people who have a well-known Thai mobile number, leaving abroad and want to receive the calls made to this number on their SIP phone without paying the premium price for roaming. Receive call notifications and SMS by email.

The device is stand-alone and requires reliable power source and internet connectivity.
Hardware for one sim card: 5000 baht.
Multi-SIM configurations possible.

Please contact us for more details.

Similar functionality:
SMS2Email Buddy for Android phones

Dell XPS M1330 Battery not charging on AC power

admin — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 07:11:52 +0000

If your M1330 gives you a warning about unrecognized power adapter on startup, and in Windows you see the message in the tray when pointing on the battery icon “Plugged in, not charging”, then upgrade to BIOS version A15.

Enabling SATA interface on HP ProLiant ML350 G4p Server

admin — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 06:13:01 +0000

If your server does not recognize connected SATA drives, check the jumper at the rear side of the motherboard. There are two of them: NMI and SATA_MODEL. Jumper the lower one as shown on the picture:

Nice SSH Client for Windows

admin — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 18:34:13 +0000

Found a nice modern SSH client for Windows: XShell 4. Free for home use.

PCI Serial Port, Vendor ID 8086, Device ID 1C3D

admin — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:30:22 +0000

For this device download and install Intel AMT Driver

Dovecot – prevent users from deleting emails over POP3

admin — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:12:19 +0000

Use acl plugin

Reporting routing, POI and other map errors for Thai Street Map on Garmin

admin — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 07:21:06 +0000

This is the page where you can submit the feedback:

http://www.gpssociety.com/EN/Pages/problem.aspx