HACKING THE CANON BG-E3 BATTERY GRIP
When purchasing my Canon Rebel XTI (a.k.a. “Canon EOS 400D” in Europe or “Canon EOS Kiss Digital X” in Asia), I also ordered the Canon battery grip BG-E3. When I was playing with the camera for the first time in a shop I found that (compared to the EOS 20D/30D/40D), the body of the XTi is too small for my hands. Not that I have huge paws, but it just felt too unhandy, especially using some of the heavier lenses, e.g., the Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L IS USM.
So, when buying the BG-E3, I also got a better grip for the camera – it’s a great enhancement for the handling, not to mention the vertical shutter button and of course (the main reason for a battery grip) extended battery life when using two Canon NB-2LH batteries inside the grip instead of only one in the camera.
ONE HUNDRED PUSH-UPS (WEEK 2, DAY 1)
I might be seeing the first results. This exercise wasn’t as hard as the previous one.
Status: 12 – 12 – 9 – 7 – 10 (+8)
ONE HUNDRED PUSH-UPS (WEEK 1, DAY 3)
This exercise was a tough one.
Status: 15 – 13 – 10 – 10 – 15 (+0)
SMTP/TLS ISSUE WITH NOKIA E71
Overall, I must say I really LOVE the Nokia E71. It’s a great smartphone with lots of useful (and also totally useless but entertaining…) software available.
Nevertheless, the SMTP/TLS implementation of the Nokia e-mail software seems kind of broken. It works fine with GMail but I’m not able to authenticate with my very own mail server (running exim4) during an SMTP connection:
SMTP protocol synchronization error (input sent without waiting for greeting): rejected connection from H=ip-xx-xx-xxx-xx.web.vodafone.de [xx.xx.xxx.xx] input="\026\003\001"
Anyone has an idea how to fix it? I mean, obviously the client would have to wait for a greeting but doesn’t. Can I perhaps modify the WAIT interval in exim settings?
Update: Thanks to the help of Melle (here on my blog) and Jan-Piet on vowe.net I installed stunnel and am currently redirecting traffic through the SSL port (465) on my exim machine to port 25 (SMTP) there – works perfectly. Thanks!