June 2002 Archives

tips and tricks for t68/i

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tips and tricks for t68/i
t68

¤ IMEI:
- Turn on the phone and enter PIN...
- You are now in the mainwindow.
- Tap this buttons: *#06#

¤ Service menu:
- Turn on the phone and enter PIN...
- You are now in the mainwindow.
- Tap this buttons: >*<<*<*

¤ "Fake" PIN-lock:
- Turn on the phone and enter PIN...
- You are now in the mainwindow.
- Tap this buttons: #05#
- Press 'NO' to exit. Secrets in T68:

OK! There has been some changes with the games in the new R2B version. Some of the games has gone, and some new has come. If someone find some secrets in the new software, please post it here.

The old games are not going to be removed, couse users with old software.

¤ Erix:
- Go into Erix.
- Tap this buttons: 123 (some software: 789)
- Play a secret snake game.
- Navigate with joystick.

¤ Erix:
- Go into Erix.
- Tap this buttons: 397
- A message appears.

¤ Ripple:
- Go into Ripple.
- Tap this buttons: 4456
- Play a secret card game.

¤ Tetris:
- Go into Tetris.
- Tap this buttons: 397
- A message appears.

¤ Q:
- Go into Q.
- Tap this buttons: 3*5
- Play a secret block game.

¤ Naval flee

phorum - Dr.Unlock's GSM forum - Re: unlocking T68I got one and want to swap it for a Voicestream account and vice versa.

So I need to unlock the phone. Here are some instructions from a quick search on Google.

To get the phone's IMEI, press:
*#06#
To get the phone's Service menu, press:
->, *, <-, <-, *, <-, *
From here, select "Service Info", then "SimLock" and it will tell you in which ways your phone is locked. In mine the top one ("Network") is the only one locked (ie you can only connect to AT&T!).

Feel free to try calling Ericsson and getting the info straight from them ... also feel free to jump into a time-machine, go a few hours into the future and accomplish the same in the time that passed as you would if you waited on hold for an Ericsson representative. (The answer to the last puzzle is: nothing!)

tirerack.com. I'm in the market

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tirerack.com. I'm in the market for tires. The sites that look the most used are tires.com. which is Discount Tire Warehouse as well as tirerack.com. Like the user feedback there. Also need to check out 1010tires.com which is a Canadian company so the exchange rate is quite good. I particularly like the user reviews at tirerack.com. I'm probably going to get the Bridgestone Pole Position's for our Volvo and then some winter tires as well. On 1010tires.com is some good information about maintaining things. Good point is that you need to rotate tires very 8,000 miles or basically every other oil change.

Customer Sign-Up. I was just in the UK and France with Connie. Amazing how the telecommunications business has changed. Basically, in the UK, from Fresh or Virgin Mobile, you can get 9 or 10 pound phone numbers with 5 pounds worth of minutes (that's 50 minutes). You have to have a universal GSM phone to do this (buy the right one when you sign up with Voicestream, AT&T or Cingular!). Then you either buy a phone card or use IDT's new Debitalk which is a dial back service. That is you call some magic US number and then it rings you back, so you pay US rates for calls which are much lower particularly in France (where it is $0.13 to call from the US, but more like $0.50 to call from France).

Next time you are out there, I'd advise that you...

1. In the UK, go to a Carphonewarehouse to get a local SIM by looking up on their site where they are. This gives you 10 pence per minute to any toll free number of theirs. From there, you can use either IDT's Global Call (but this has a 1.49 per month service charge, but from the Uk it is just 10 pence per minute to call to the US). Set your vmail to say, please call the magic UK number you now have.

2. In France, it is a bit trickier, but you need to get on the web before your visit. Find on sfr.fr, the nearest dealer to get your SIM. I'm not clear if they have a SIM only package, but will research. Then, you use the same trick to call IDT. In France because their phones are more expensive, it probably makes more sense to use the hotel phone since they don't appear to charge 0800 calls from hotels.

ZDNet:IPv6 Tech UpdatePromising trillions of addresses and built-in IPSec security, IPv6 was on the brink of replacing IPv4. After years of development, many vendors and industry experts say IPv6 isn't compelling enough yet for most enterprises to switch. Despite the reluctance to adopt the protocol on these shores, Japan is poised to put IPv6 to work in it burgeoning mobile market. This along with 6bone.net seems to be the active place for IPv6

IP Over Fiber and other

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IP Over Fiber and other IP v6 dreams. It's been a while, but I had to learn about IPv6 for my HP conference call. First trip was to do a search for ip v6 investment opportunities. Then thanks too Google Search right clicking, I got led to all kiinds of acronym explainers like

And then off to a host of acronyms MPLS FAQ. MPLS stands for "Multiprotocol Label Switching". In an MPLS network, incoming packets are assigned a "label" by a "label edge router (LER)". Packets are forwarded along a "label switch path (LSP)" where each "label switch router (LSR)" makes forwarding decisions based solely on the contents of the label. At each hop, the LSR strips off the existing label and applies a new label which tells the next hop how to forward the packet.

The initial goal of label based switching was to bring the speed of Layer 2 switching to Layer 3. Label based switching methods allow routers to make forwarding decisions based on the contents of a simple label, rather than by performing a complex route lookup based on destination IP address. This initial justification for technologies such as MPLS is no longer perceived as the main benefit, since Layer 3 switches (ASIC-based routers) are able to perform route lookups at sufficient speeds to support most interface types.

However, MPLS brings many other benefits to IP-based networks, they include:

Traffic Engineering - the ability to set the path traffic will take through the network, and the ability to set performance characteristics for a class of traffic

VPNs - using MPLS, service providers can create IP tunnels throughout their network, without the need for encryption or end-user applications


Layer 2 Transport - New standards being defined by the IETF's PWE3 and PPVPN working groups allow service providers to carry Layer 2 services including Ethernet, Frame Relay and ATM over an IP/MPLS core


Elimination of Multiple Layers - Typically most carrier networks employ an overlay model where SONET/SDH is deployed at Layer 1, ATM is used at Layer 2 and IP is used at Layer 3. Using MPLS, carriers can migrate many of the functions of the SONET/SDH and ATM control plane to Layer 3, thereby simplifying network management and network complexity. Eventually, carrier networks may be able to migrate away from SONET/SDH and ATM all-together, which means elimination of ATM's inherent "cell-tax" in carrying IP traffic

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