This is my 100th post I wanted it to be something a little more significant than this. But this greeting will suffice merry Christmas all.
I need a new hard drive I will most likely be on the look out for 1tb to 2tb hdd. I’m looking to get a boat load of bluray movies for my sad collection. A microwave or coffee machine. If I find incredible deals I will post them here.
Imagine for a moment if we lived in a world where other things could get banned. Where at any moment at the discretion of a corporation your device will no longer be as functional as it was when you purchased it. What level of monitoring is necessary to achieve this and is it too intrusive. Should everyone be informed that they are being monitored. Windows genuine advantage checks for guarantees that the user is definitively using a genuine copy of windows. It can be determined whether that copy of windows is genuine. If it fails such a test that person will no longer receive updates from Microsoft. In addition to not receiving updates they will get a notification at start up that warns you that this may be a pirated copy. But what if Microsoft decided instead to disable your hard drive or prevent you from playing movies or music. Perhaps they will corrupt your files. You agreed to the Terms of Agreement when you first installed it. So any subsequent changes thereafter will be the responsibility of the user. They can pretty much do what ever because you the user still want to use it.
Does this sound familiar to you? Yes I am referring to Microsoft’s banning practices for its Xbox360 game console. Fair is fair and playing pirated games on their service is prohibited and subject to violations as per the TOS. However other functionality asides from xbox live services should not be affected. For example many banned users are complaining that the HDD and all save states are corrupted and are no longer retrievable. This includes games that were installed on the hard drive whether they were legitimate or not. Playing games from the HDD was crippled. So the HDD can only be used by formatting it on another console which is not banned.
It can only be assumed that this tactic sounds as though Microsoft is taking this more personally and is angered. Thus taking more extreme measures then the usual force to counter piracy. Hence ensuring that banned customers repurchase the console to get 100% functionality again. Purchases of new consoles will boost hardware sales during this 2009 4th quarter holiday season. Which makes the timing of this all the more planned. With this said in this day and age it is eerie to know that consumers are being monitored so closely and it should be emphasized that anyone who plans on modifying anything and then using that device online should expect to be watched.
Imagine banning Other Things
Don’t forget that if you have been effected by the Nationwide service outage to call T-Mobile and ask for a credit on your bill. More then likely they will try and give you bonus minutes and bonus txt messages because it doesn’t cost them anything. But ask for the credit on your bill.
It seems as though people have been reporting that tmobile’s service is currently down. Both cellular and data. Is this happening to you?
I have encountered a few issues trying to get OSX 10.6 installed on my Dell Vostro but mainly because of the ICH9 chipset causing a panic on start up. This is why most tutorials find it best to use a thumb drive or flash drive to get past any errors in installation. Unfortunately once you get past installation you will still need to be able to boot from that drive without it going into panic.
I grabbed a 250GB drive and installed it into HDD enclosure. I created the partitions I needed in the mac Disk Utility for each partition I wanted to have an install for. The size of which is just enough to hold the image. The remaining space is free for utilities or other files.
To start I did a restore of both my 10.5.6 and my 10.6 images to their respective partitions. Then I patched the drive with EP45UD3P.dmg so I can pick and choose the partition to load on startup. There is an excellent lifehacker guide that you should use as a frame for this guide. After your restore is completed run the file you downloaded and pick the leopard install partition. This will be recognized as a USB Mass storage device instead of a SATA HDD which will allow you to boot with no panic. Boot into your 10.6 partition on the external drive and install Snow Leopard to the same external HDD. Make sure you make space for the OS to intall. Please note that some Dell Vostro users reported success switching from IDE to RAID when their drives are not detected. Some cases not all.
What you will need
1. Hard Drive (Space will vary based on your needs)
2. Copies of each OS you will use
3. Partitions (Based on how many OS you want)
4. HDD enclosure. (For booting HDD when you want to do installs)
5. Time to spare.
UPDATE
This is only partially working. It will boot fine but then it will freeze after a few minutes and shutoff. I dont know if this is happening to others. I will see if I can work around this.
UPDATE 2
Ok I have it fully functional now from the USB Drive as I am posting this update from snow leopard. What I did differently this time was I installed it directly on top of an existing OS X install opposed to a fresh install. Next I will take this out of the enclosure an put it back in the dell to see if it will boot with out usb.
UPDATE 3
Ok none of my SATA drives are being detected. Causes Panic when connected without usb enclosure.
If you have an entertainment system or you have a computer media system it tends to become heavy on the wires thus making it look untidy. What can be done to clean up the looks? Well there are a variety of methods that can be used. Twist ties work well but still you can see each wire, same for the Velcro ties. But if your get cable zip cords they clean up your wires in one shot. They take a bunch of wires and make them into one giving you a clean simple looks for your entertainment or computer system. Here is a before and after of what my system looked like.
These can be purchased at your local staples. Although I have seen them in other places.
What would make someone flash their perfectly fine router with software that’s created from third party sources. How will you know this stuff will be better than what’s already installed stock, or worse what if it bricks your hardware. Well to tell you the truth the software included on most routers are fairly basic standard stuff. In some cases the standard stuff can cause more issues then one would expect. So dont be stuck with this lackluster firmware support where they make updates maybe once a year hoping you will buy their new model instead of fixing the old one. Well dd-wrt is a third party firmware that can be flashed to specific hardware in order to bring additional functionality not initially intended for by the manufacturer. For example bridge/repeater support and additional security measures. This makes your old cheap router into a more expensive networking powerhouse. My initial impressions have me highly impressed. It has so many features It will take me a week to get to them all. It includes a bundle of addons compared to the original linksys software.
Hook your router directly to your computer for this. Do this the same way you would if you had the official firmware. I would recommend not uploading it with wifi, just to be on the safe side. I didnt change anything to dynamic to static I simply left it dynamic.
Ok now in my case I have a Linksys WRT54G v2.2. When attempting this please make sure that you know what model of router you have. It can be a bit confusing navigating there site but the do have a wiki and faq. If you dont have a compatible router I honestly cant say anything good will come of it. Make sure you look at the compatibility list for supported devices . I have attached below a video of the procedure which in my case and model was as easy as an official update.
Latest stable release download section
Have you been using your unlocked iPhone on tmobile hoping to save some of your dollars on data useage. Did you run from your first months AT&T bill to another carrier in order to avoid expensive rates. Well it looks like tmobile is not allowing unlocked iPhone users to connect with their inexpensive data services. While trying to browse I get this splash page telling me that I cannot connect using this plan and that I will need another plan to access data.
Why should tmobile care what phone I use on their services. Tmobile is a service provider and I paid for service that I can no longer use. Tmobile never has and from my knowledge never will begin to manufacture phones. So they should continue to be just that, a service provider. It’s interesting that when I call they always ask what phone are you using, when they already know.
Update:
It appears that when you remove the data settings from the iPhone and reenter them without guest as username and password it works again. Strange very strange.
I got my iPhone 3G S yesterday and of course I had to open it up and risk destroying it on day one. Well it all turned out very easy since the process has become extremely simplified. One word of caution before you begin the process. It would be wise to make your own back up for now if you know how to ssh into the phone. Copy your contacts and your sms and save it for later to restore back when your complete. When your finished jailbreaking don’t restore from back up. Setting your iphone as a new phone will prevent some small 3g bugs. Its better to start fresh anyway, trust me I wasted much time so let me save you some time here. Then ssh back and your message and contacts will be back the way it was. In the video I am comparing it to my 3G as you can see nothing changed in size. Overall in my opinion the “S” for speed is true. It loads everything significantly faster than previously. Especially cydia which started to take an eternity to load. And this is with all my repos back.
iPhone 3G S Unlocked out of box from Encript on Vimeo.
