So, I’m installing a CS-Mars box in the next couple of weeks and wanted to know what’s new in version 6. How to setup version 4 is already document here in this franken cs-mars guide, the thing is to upgrade from 4 to 6 is a re-image of the box. Upon re-imaging my VMWare appliance I realised that the lilo commands linux rw init=/bin/bash didn’t appear to work anymore. As a result I have a v6 mars box I can’t use due to a licensing problem.

To get this working read through both the old instructions, and what I have written.

The init/boot sequence of a mars box looks very much like a centos/fedora boot, so I thought up a cunning new plan. I downloaded the 1st installation CD of centos 5, after booting this CD instead of hitting “enter” and running the anaconda installer I typed linux rescue, this boots my appliance into a root linux shell.

What happened next was a little hit and miss, if you’re lucky you can type

mkdir /mnt/opt
mount /dev/md2 /mnt/opt

you can then

cd /mnt/opt/janus/release/bin
mv pnlicense pnlicense.org
echo "/bin/echo d84f7ceaf50f9c45683e2efb77752d4f:License verified:4:0:0:4" > pnlicense
chmod +x pnlicense

as per the old documentation.

If you’re unlucky this “mount” will fail, in this case ls /mnt/sysimage if you can’t see any files issue mount /dev/md1 /mnt/sysimage otherwise the plan is to change the root password so that we can edit the pnlicense file later.

Using vi edit /mnt/sysimage/etc/passwd, and change…

pnadmin:x:500:500::/opt/janus/release/bin:/opt/janus/release/bin/pnsh

for

pnadmin:x:500:500::/opt/janus/release/bin:/bin/bash

Next, setup your editor variable, and edit the suders file…

EDITOR=/mnt/sysimage/bin/vi;export EDITOR
visudo -f /mnt/sysimage/etc/suders

and add..

pnadmin ALL=(ALL)       NOPASSWD: ALL

Reboot by exiting the shell.

After the reboot login as pnadmin, you should now get a standard linux bash shell rather than the “hardened” cisco one. Change the root password…

sudo su
passwd root

And put /etc/password back to how it was. Now from the “pn shell” you can type expert and your root password will work and you’ll have root access to your mars box. With you new root access you can change the pnlicense file as described before and complete the setup process.

The thing is I have the following questions……..

Why has the address bar been disabled within the web browser?
I can click “more news” which opens a browser session to google news, so why can’t I hit “start” open a “go to” dialog and browse any page I like? Folding would get a lot more of my CPU time if I could watch you tube video withing the “life” interface.

Do the folding developers own a PS3 remote control?
Ever seen this, a bluetooth remote control? It works great with the PS3 media player, I can pause, skip and seek all music and video content, I find it a bit weird how the “life with playstation” application doesn’t support any of these buttons!

Hopefully these are just small gripes which can be easily fixed in the next addition, but the remote control thing is a real show-stopper for me, Folding CPU time is limited to “controller charging” time only for me until I can control my music properly within this app!!

Finding something that can sync between my home linux box and work windohs machine is a real pain so I’m really hoping this will be the answer I’ve been looking for; it’s not that win-linux sync’ing is impossible, it’s just that it’s usually restrictive or so complicated/ un-user-friendly that I never bother.

The only thing the service needs is some WordPress to “public box” integration and the solution is dam’ed near perfect

While I to keep my fingers crossed that dropbox is everything I want it to be, why don’t you try it out?

The point of the plugin is to strip out the path from the cookie so that it can be referenced by other applications; wordpress 2.6 has a whole new cookie structure and this broke the old version, but I’ve been so swamped recently that it wasn’t maintained.

Scott is one of the very few nice people in the world who instead of grumbling offered up a patched plugin, actually I’ve done it a different way but I appreciate his support anyway.

You can download the plugin from wordpress.org, and there is a discussion forum to get community support.

Enjoy!

my Speed Test results!

Thank you to all those who have downloaded and enjoyed my plug-in and all those who have taken to say something nice.

The problem with this error message Missing argument 1 for phpbb_topics() is that I don’t actually know how to fix it. If you look in the source code you’ll see that I’ve tried to trap “empty variables”…

if (is_null($LIMIT)) {
                $LIMIT = 5;
}

Now this approach seems to work on my server(s), and works for some people, but there are a number of people whom is doesn’t work for; unfortunately the majority of the WP community are no more technical than myself and I have never received any feedback on how to fix this.

I’m not a programmer, I’ve never claimed to be a PHP guru; as I don’t know how to fix this problem in the latest version of phpbb-recent-topics I tried to combat the problem by introducing a widget. The widget it aimed at people who don’t know php, it allows you to “drag” the list of recent topics into your sidebar, but for some reason people still prefer to edit their sidebar.php :confused:

I would to remind all readers that it quite clearly states on my announcement :

Support
I’ve always been honest about support, there isn’t any. Basically I write this for my own needs and then publish it for you to use for free. You’re more than welcome to post comments here and if you tag wordpress forum posts with “phpbb-recent-topics” I’ll reply to you there, but we all have busy lives and I make no promises on how quickly I’ll reply to you.

Currently the only solution I can offer to anyone suffering from this error message is to replace phpbb_topics() with phpbb_topics(”5″), if that doesn’t work then please accept my apologies.

If anyone would like to offer a patch for my plugin I would gladly include it and accredit appropriately.

Thanks for Reading!

In order to remove the entire access list, use the clear configure access-list command

Take a look at this debug arp….

CiscoASA# debug arp
debug arp  enabled at level 1
CiscoASA#
CiscoASA# arp-set: added arp outside 192.168.1.122 001e.7000.1234 and updating NPs at 4301321940
arp-set: added arp inside 192.168.1.61 001a.7100.1234 and updating NPs at 4301321940

arp-in: request at outside from 192.168.1.125 001a.3000.1234 for 192.168.1.120 001e.7a51.1234
arp-in: rqst for me from 192.168.1.125 for 192.168.1.120, on outside
arp-set: added arp outside 192.168.1.125 001a.3000.1234 and updating NPs at 4301326660
arp-in: generating reply from 192.168.1.120 001e.7a51.1234 to 192.168.1.125 001a.3000.1234

arp-in: request at outside from 192.168.1.125 001a.3000.1234 for 192.168.1.73 001e.7a51.1234
arp-in: rqst for me from 192.168.1.125 for 192.168.1.73, on outside
arp-set: added arp outside 192.168.1.125 001a.3000.1234 and updating NPs at 4301326660
arp-in: generating reply from 192.168.1.73 001e.7a51.1234 to 192.168.1.125 001a.3000.1234
arp-in: request at outside from 192.168.1.125 001a.3000.1234 for 192.168.1.69 001e.7a51.1234

arp-in: rqst for me from 192.168.1.125 for 192.168.1.69, on outside
arp-set: added arp outside 192.168.1.125 001a.3000.1234 and updating NPs at 4301326660
arp-in: generating reply from 192.168.1.69 001e.7a51.1234 to 192.168.1.125 001a.3000.1234

arp-in: request at outside from 192.168.1.125 001a.3000.1234 for 192.168.1.123 001e.7a51.1234
arp-in: rqst for me from 192.168.1.125 for 192.168.1.123, on outside
arp-set: added arp outside 192.168.1.125 001a.3000.1234 and updating NPs at 4301326660
arp-in: generating reply from 192.168.1.123 001e.7a51.1234 to 192.168.1.125 001a.3000.1234
arp-in: response at outside from 192.168.1.125 001a.3000.1234 for 192.168.1.125 ffff.ffff.ffff
arp-in: updating gratuitous ARP 192.168.1.125 - 001a.3000.1234
arp-set: added arp outside 192.168.1.125 001a.3000.1234 and updating NPs at 4301326660
CiscoASA#

The firewall is replying to arp requests even though both the source & destination of the traffic are on the same (outside) interface, now I haven’t manged to work out why the firewall was doing this, but I did find a fix on the cisco forums.

sysopt noproxyarp outside

Names, IPs & MAC’s have been changed to protect the innocent.

TCP 88,135,389,636,445,1025,1026
UDP 88,389,636 

I think this would be a good use of the system, it would be nice for us gamers to automatically earn some trophies based on some of the games we’ve already played; this idea benefits the publishers too as “friends” will be able to see other users games and may be influenced to buy them

…and DUELSHOCK3 support too please.

Thanks!