HUAWEI EC169 3G Adapter

Last week, my friends Weiming gave me a HUAWEI EC169 3G (cdma2000) adapter for a trial. It is very nifty, looks just like a USB thumb drive. I plugged it into one of Dell D630's USB interface, Ubuntu starts to recognize it and configure it without any manual intervention. Soon Ubntu reports there is one mobile connection available, by clicking the connection, one configuration windows appears, simply typed in service provider name "China Telcom", it connected to the network. I saw a "ppp0" connection has been setup by issuing the command "ifconfig". Connection speed is not bad, download speed is 480Kbps to a local server. Overall, this is a very good product and Ubuntu is also excellent at supporting this device!

Google spreadsheets was blocked

I was not able to access my online excel sheets hosted in spreadsheets.google.com, initially I didn't realized that it was blocked by GFW, according to most of articles posted in all kinds of forums, I added below contents into c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

• 64.233.189.101 writely-china.l.google.com
• 74.125.127.100 writely.google.com
• 209.85.225.101 docs.google.com
• 74.125.127.139 spreadsheets.google.com

But it doesn't work either. What I can do is to start Tor and add *spreadsheets.google.com/* into FoxyProxy whitelist, finally it works

Hacking your neighbour's wireless bandwidth

To save cost, we decided not to apply ADSL link from China Telcom or Unicom, instead we contact a gentleman, who provide a wireless solution at a very attractive price. Yesterday, he came to our office, bringing a high power wireless adapter (Realtek chipset), after installing the driver, I can search active wireless AP in the circle of 1.5KM radius around the building according to him. The second step is to crack the password, unfortunately, he can only crack the link encrypted in WEP. By booting the machine from Back Track 3 live CD, and running a program called spoonwep, we successfully cracked two AP password. The first one SSID is guiguan, password is 35363332313137383131313131, the other one SSID is zhenya, password is 6650324356. I know there is way to crack WPA-PSK link also but I won't spend time on it. There is one article talks more details: http://www.laha.cn/2009/06/11/bt3-spoonwep-handbook-pdf.html/comment-page-1/