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La Fonera Hacked Again. 0.7.2 Firmware is hackable

March 14, 2007 · 16 Comments

Kolofonium is the new hack for La Fonera routers with 0.7.2 firmware loaded to enable SSH. It is described in detail at Stefan’s website.

The hack is really simple: All one must do is login to your La Fonera and change the nameserver (DNS) of your La Fonera to 88.198.165.155 and reboot. What this does is allow Stefan’s website to send the hack back to your router for you. Meaning you don’t really have to do a thing. After the router reboots you should be able to connect via SSH. This should work with other firmwares, too so please leave feedback. Please change the nameserver according to your ISP or network setup after the reboot.

Working on latest firmware release 0.7.1-2.

To enable just do the following:

  1. connect to web interface of la fonera via “My place”
  2. change the dns to 88.198.165.155
  3. reboot la fonera
  4. Download Putty and Connect via ssh access
  5. change the DNS entry once logged in to the one of your choice ( I suggest OpenDNS 208.67.222.222 )

If you are not familiar with OpenDNS i suggest you go to www.opendns.com I just added it to all my routers :) its very simple and saves time.

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Internal Blu-ray / HD DVD drive for PCs

March 14, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Who has 1200 bucks for a new burner, i mean dvd player, oo no thats not it , i meant a Blu-ray/ HD DVD player for your pc? According to CDRinfo and the projected price is roughly $1200. Hitachi-LG plans to demonstrate the GGW-H10N ‘Super Multi Blue’ drive at CeBIT 2007 show in mid-March. Don’t expect to pick one of these guys up just yet because their is no word on the final release date. The Hitachi-LG GGW-H10N drive can read, record and re-write CDs and DVDs (10x speed for DVD±R, 8x for DVD±RW, 6x/8x for DVD±R DL) as well as playback, read and record single- and dual-layer Blu-ray discs (4x or 3.5x speed), it also can playback HD DVDs. The device is designed for Serial ATA interface. The GGW-H10N can record up to 50GB of data. Surpassing the market standard, LG is providing a 4x recording speed of Blu-ray Discs, which means that it takes only 23-24 minutes to burn a full single layer BD-R disc (25GB), compared with 46-47 minutes for conventional 2x recording. As for me i will just wait. Who really needs ol Blu, when you can get a 500 gig external drive for 150 bucks?

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