LeeNukes

OK, I’ve heard that if you eat passion fruit before you goto bed it will give you fantastic dreams. Well there were some reduced at the shop, 25p each so I thought why not.

Now, I’ve never had one before, it was odd once I was into it, no effort in eating, its not the prettiest though, like eating snot and pips but its tasty, very acidic though.

So, now for the scary part, when you finish eating it, its like something out of predator:

Well, I went to login to my excite based email this morning, which I have had for coming on for 8 years now I think. And I was greeted by this message:

“eXcite email scheduled maintenance

We are currently conducting unscheduled maintenance on eXcite email. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you, and thank you for your patience. We expect to have service restored in a few hours.”

Oh, ok I thought, I’ll take a look at their main page, see if there is anything on there:

Oh, ok fair enough, its currently 8:20am GMT so I thought it can’t be long until its back, then I noticed the date, odd I thought.

The EST time is currently: 3:20am on the 14th.

Oh oh, me thinks Excite are having problems.

Thomson TG585v7

This is quite possibly the worst router I’ve had to deal with, maybe not the worst but its certainly up there, top 5.

The issue I had was I wanted to forward ports 80 and 443 through it to a web server. So, I did as you’d expect, used its interface, Applications and Gaming (urgh, I hate this on a router used in a workplace) and set to forward HTTPs and HTTP to the server. Well, HTTP worked but HTTPs was a no go. I tried again, this time using the Secure Web Server option which was also there but mapped the same ports for 443. Still no go.

After hours, almost a full man day I found out I needed to telnet into the device (after creating myself a different admin account so I know the username and password) and then run these command:

service system ifdelete name=HTTPs group=wan
saveall

I’m assuming that what this does is turn off the web interface listening on port 443 on the wan interface which stops bypassing my attempts to forward it.

And before anyone mentions it, no there isn’t a way to do this in the web interface, or change the management ports.

I hate Thomsons.