That’s a G4 Cube. I brought it into work today to rescue a G5 from complete rebuild. looks adorable in a machine room.
Category: hardware
Retired my router after nearly a decade of service
For nearly 10 years, all my home internet traffic has flowed through the capable interfaces of Nitrogen. Through the years linux routing grew increasingly more powerful, but this little Dimension PC did not. It’s 700Mhz Celeron CPU and PCI network interfaces (literally nothing onboard) had always met my needs. However in these times of ever increasing speeds, i began to wonder. After a few pesky error messages, “eth0: Too much work at interrupt” i knew it was time for an upgrade. From ipfwadm through ipchains, and eventually to iptables, this unit continued to teach me the linux kernel firewall. QOS, Network monitoring, intrusion detection, even Tor’s anonymous proxy relay, we’d been through it all together. What am i going to do with him now? Replaced with a newer (but far from new) PC. Rebuilt from the ground up to be tighter, faster, and i don’t even mind saying… prettier. Now i have Phosphorus. Nitrogen will receive the most honorable sendoff i can give it. To be stripped of its few remaining useful parts and recycled. No moment of silence for this one. It was recognized with a 5 minute internet blackout. While i reset my cable modem.
2011 is the year for ps3 homebrew!
Nothing more for sony to do but cry. After team fail0verflow’s diligent efforts and geohot’s typical rush to publish something he’d probably been sitting on for months. 27c3 brought news of sony’s epic fail and people almost forgot what geohot had done months earlier. This will be an exciting year. i wonder what sony’s next move will be? i’ll keep you updated.
Boxee is here!
It finally arrived today and i quickly set it up. i left it scanning my massive media library, however i did note one glaring omission. presently netflix is excluded from boxee’s list of apps. will this be corrected or has M$’s DRM killed netflix for the Linux based Boxee? only time will tell. apart from that, it is totally awesome from remote control to interface and even startup effects. i cannot wait to see what 3rd party developers do with it.
All the tools are out!
Or should i say toys? Pwnage Tool is added to greenpois0n and limera1n. So now anyone can update their iOS devise without updating the baseband. Apple TV 2 even added to it’s mighty pwnage!
Limera1n on our parade.
in typical geohot fashion, he released his new jailbreak limera1n out of nowhere without consulting the rest of the scene (or even much testing). At the time of this post, there are already four updates to his tool. Chronicdev and Dev-team are quickly updating their own tools to use the limera1n exploit. This way, they can save SHAtter for a later release. Limera1n and SHAtter are bootrom exploits. This means they cannot be patched out with a software update. However, they themselves are tethered jailbreaks. They rely on the hard work of @comex to patch the kernel and make it untethered. Limera1n does have the advantage of supporting more then just a4 devises (new bootrom 3GS owners cheer). Unlockers beware, updating to an unmodified ipsw will break your unlock possibly for a long time.
iPhone is about to SHAtter!
Ever since @pod2g discovered a new bootrom exploit we’ve all been patiently waiting for an update to our favorite tools. Well, @MuscleNerd announced today that a beta of PwnageTool has already been developed to utilize the exploit. @chronicdevteam has tools in the works as well. Though i anxiously await the release of @greenpois0n, it is PwnageTool that will allow me to update my iPhone4 without endangering my baseband and killing my unlock.
What does this mean to you? well, i’ll tell you since you asked. It means that EVERY iOS devise ALL A4 devices (iPhone 4, Tough 4g, iPad, Apple TV 2) will be jailbreakable regardless of iOS version. This is good news for anyone who “accidentally” updated or who purchased their device after apple fixed the jailbreakme.com exploit. Now although this exploit cannot be fixed with an iOS update, it is still very important to back up your shsh blobs to ensure that you can utilize the tools that all these guys have worked so hard on. Don’t get too excited. No new baseband exploit has yet been announced, so all you unlockers running 4.0.2 or greater are still doomed. lets hope they’re sitting on one for 4.2 or it’s going to be a cold and lonely winter.
Farewell Carbon, Hello Potassium!
I finally retire my long time file server. After years of service, it’s hardware just wasn’t supported anymore. Anyone need a top shelf G4?
Updates Ho! Updates: No!
new iOS and PS3 updates today! keep away if you like jailbreak. iPhones may loose unlock forever (or until a new baseband exploit is published). iOS at least gives us some features while PS3 update is nothing more the jailbreak stopping.
Apple Announced. . . blah blah blah whatever.
Those of you who don’t know, apple announced a few new toys a couple of days ago. my lackluster post is due mostly to the underwhelming release. Mostly announcing features that have been obviously lacking since the iPhone first hit the scene over 3 years ago.
Among their offerings is Apple TV: a cheaper apple tv with a smaller footprint and no storage. Designed to promote more rentals from the apple store, most of the exciting features are “Coming Soon” undoubtedly to coincide with iOS 4.1 or 4.2. New iPod Touch with everything you’ll find on iPhone 4 except for GPS, (because that might actually be useful). Cool to see FaceTime on the iPods though. New Shuffle combines the inovations of the last model with the usability of earlier ones. The Nano was a mixed bag. joining the iOS family with this version they remove it’s camera and video playback capability. It is unclear if it will ever get the benefits of iOS such as apps. Touch screens are cool, but if there aren’t apps, i’d rather have buttons and play videos. Lastly, iTunes 10. As if iTunes wasn’t a bloated POS already, now it is it’s own social network: Ping. Caught between wanting to be blip.fm and last.fm, Ping offers me nothing but more iTunes Store Spam. At least i hear they’ve finally added some threading. My biggest complaint about previous iTunes is that it does so much and often gets a little shall we say “Pinwheely.” It’s usually when i’m importing new tracks or syncing/restoring an iDevice. Of all it’s many features, the ONE thing i EXPECT itunes to do is control my music! at that, it often fails. Let’s see if this new version will improve their already abysmal record.
Jailbreakers or Unlockers Note: iTunes is safe, but you will want to hold off on the inevitable iOS updates. if you saved your blob you can always go back, but not with your baseband, so unlockers should especially be careful.