Posted by
kdawson
on from the maze-of-twisty-stupid-tricks dept.
Wolfger writes "Continuing the recent(useful)stupidtheme: I've recently become a BlackBerry user, and I'm in love with the obvious(?) tricks, such as installing MidpSSH to access my home box remotely. But I'd like to know what more experienced Crackberry addicts can share."
From "The Tao of Programming"
by
$RANDOMLUSER
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· Score: 5, Interesting
A master programmer passed a novice programmer one day. The master noted the novice's preoccupation with a hand-held computer game. ``Excuse me,'' he said, ``may I examine it?''
The novice bolted to attention and handed the device to the master. ``I see that the device claims to have three levels of play: Easy, Medium, and Hard,'' said the master. ``Yet every such device has another level of play, where the device seeks not to conquer the human, nor to be conquered by the human.''
``Pray, great master,'' implored the novice, ``how does one find this mysterious setting?''
The master dropped the device to the ground and crushed it underfoot. And suddenly the novice was enlightened.
-- No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
- Winston Churchill
Re:What the fuck?
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Yokaze
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· Score: 4, Interesting
Use the GPS and accelerometer for tracing the trajectory of a rocket.
-- "Between strong and weak, between rich and poor [...], it is freedom which oppresses and the law which sets free"
Re:Don't let the battery run out
by
Farmer+Pete
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· Score: 2, Interesting
There is a policy on the server end that you can have the device wipe itself if the battery gets below X%. I'm not sure who would want to use that, but if some company had it turned on, it could be annoying.
Re:What the fuck?
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sik0fewl
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· Score: 4, Interesting
I have a suggestion. I find these threads quite interesting, but they hardly qualify as news and I don't think we want to see them every day (we're just going to exhaust all decent ideas if we do). Why not do something like this on Fridays instead of the stupid mailbag?
Does anyone agree?
-- I remember when legal used to mean lawful, now it means some kind of loophole. - Leo Kessler
Forgive me if someone's already posted this, but in testing MidpSSH I attempted to connect to my server at home and being the security conscious person I am, immediately noted the IP address that I was connecting from was not from the Blackberry itself, but from one of the many FreeBSD proxy servers I maintain at work. It then dawned on me that since we operate our own BES servers, I attempted to login to the FreeBSD server via it's LAN address and lo and behold, I was actually logging into the FreeBSD server from the BES server's IP.
Regardless of all our security, RSA tokens, VPN access, secure gateways, etc, my Blackberry is now a backdoor into Pandora's Box. When I showed the LAN architect, he immediately freaked out. Since our BES servers aren't in the DMZ and actually goto the internet using NAT via a FreeBSD server (behind a netscreen and a router), the "flaw" is actually inherent to the design.
On a good note, I made $20 bucks on the bet that I could prove I could own the network via my Blackberry.:)
--
To avoid corruption, one must remain dishonest.
Saved searches
by
coathanger
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Saved searches are also a very useful feature.
Messages > Search > Save
You can create a shortcut key to a search that can be targeted at any variety of:
Item type Email account Folder within an email account (mostly using BES) Item status (read state, draft, etc)
For people with a large volume of email and little time, this is a great feature.
Activation without the BES admin
by
aggie113
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· Score: 2, Interesting
If you loose sync (email, contacts or calendar) and are on a BES but don't want to bother with a support call you can try this trick to do your own Enterprise re-Activation. Go to the Options/Advanced Options/Enterprise Activation menu. In the email field type in CNFG while holding the Alt key. After typing this, you should have a new menu appear. From that menu, change the option for Wireless Sync from On to Off and then exit the menu while saving changes. Give the phone about half a minute and then go back into the menu and change the Wireless Sync to On. Exit and save changes again and it should then start the process of Activating. This, as well as taking the battery out and putting it back in will fix 90% of corporate blackberry issues:)
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A master programmer passed a novice programmer one day. The master noted the novice's preoccupation with a hand-held computer game. ``Excuse me,'' he said, ``may I examine it?''
The novice bolted to attention and handed the device to the master. ``I see that the device claims to have three levels of play: Easy, Medium, and Hard,'' said the master. ``Yet every such device has another level of play, where the device seeks not to conquer the human, nor to be conquered by the human.''
``Pray, great master,'' implored the novice, ``how does one find this mysterious setting?''
The master dropped the device to the ground and crushed it underfoot. And suddenly the novice was enlightened.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Use the GPS and accelerometer for tracing the trajectory of a rocket.
"Between strong and weak, between rich and poor [...], it is freedom which oppresses and the law which sets free"
There is a policy on the server end that you can have the device wipe itself if the battery gets below X%. I'm not sure who would want to use that, but if some company had it turned on, it could be annoying.
I've said it before and I'll say it again.
I have a suggestion. I find these threads quite interesting, but they hardly qualify as news and I don't think we want to see them every day (we're just going to exhaust all decent ideas if we do). Why not do something like this on Fridays instead of the stupid mailbag?
Does anyone agree?
I remember when legal used to mean lawful, now it means some kind of loophole. - Leo Kessler
Forgive me if someone's already posted this, but in testing MidpSSH I attempted to connect to my server at home and being the security conscious person I am, immediately noted the IP address that I was connecting from was not from the Blackberry itself, but from one of the many FreeBSD proxy servers I maintain at work. It then dawned on me that since we operate our own BES servers, I attempted to login to the FreeBSD server via it's LAN address and lo and behold, I was actually logging into the FreeBSD server from the BES server's IP.
Regardless of all our security, RSA tokens, VPN access, secure gateways, etc, my Blackberry is now a backdoor into Pandora's Box. When I showed the LAN architect, he immediately freaked out. Since our BES servers aren't in the DMZ and actually goto the internet using NAT via a FreeBSD server (behind a netscreen and a router), the "flaw" is actually inherent to the design.
On a good note, I made $20 bucks on the bet that I could prove I could own the network via my Blackberry. :)
To avoid corruption, one must remain dishonest.
Saved searches are also a very useful feature.
Messages > Search > Save
You can create a shortcut key to a search that can be targeted at any variety of:
Item type
Email account
Folder within an email account (mostly using BES)
Item status (read state, draft, etc)
For people with a large volume of email and little time, this is a great feature.
If you loose sync (email, contacts or calendar) and are on a BES but don't want to bother with a support call you can try this trick to do your own Enterprise re-Activation. Go to the Options/Advanced Options/Enterprise Activation menu. In the email field type in CNFG while holding the Alt key. After typing this, you should have a new menu appear. From that menu, change the option for Wireless Sync from On to Off and then exit the menu while saving changes. Give the phone about half a minute and then go back into the menu and change the Wireless Sync to On. Exit and save changes again and it should then start the process of Activating. This, as well as taking the battery out and putting it back in will fix 90% of corporate blackberry issues :)
MooCow
OMG be careful with Google Sync. You can create a singularity and destroy the universe!
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