While the jury's out on whether the bricking is intentional or not, it's clear that something in the update process is incompatible with the changes made by unlocking.
The solution is to reverse the changes before updating. There is a preliminary guide to doing this at:
The duopoly on submarine telecoms cables in Australia is mainly just due to the insanely high costs of laying and maintaining them. The only companies that are willing to invest in this sort of infrastructure are those that can justify an investment that won't pay-off for decades.
Luckily, there is a third cable being laid at present. A group of Australian telecoms companies have come up with the idea to lay a cable to Guam, which can then peer with US cables there. This should introduce some more competition into the market, and will hopefully drive down prices significantly.
Here in Australia, we have had download quotas since the early days of broadband. This is necessary due to the extremely high costs associated with international data links here (there is a duopoly on submarine telecommunication cables linking Australia to the rest of the world, so prices are high).
While nobody in Australia really likes the download quotas, our ISPs at least spell out the limits in detail, and allow users to check their current usage in real-time. A variety of Internet plan options are available, so heavy users can opt to pay extra to have a higher download quota (e.g. see iiNet's plans and Internode's plans).
Comcast seem to be introducing quotas without really going all the way. I guess they view this as being more "gentle" than actually imposing hard limits, but I'd say that it's just more confusing. Users need to know what their quotas are and how much they have downloaded, otherwise, the whole system just seems arbitrary.
I can see how US ISPs might want to impose some usage limits on their customers. Data connectivity is cheap there, but it isn't free... and people are getting ever-faster home connections. However, if they are going to do this sort of thing, they need to spell out exactly what the limits are, and what the consequences are for going over those limits. Vague statements like "30,000 songs" don't really help anyone.
Provided that Microsoft keeps licensing this plugin and giving it away for free, this is good news for Mac users. The plugin is a much better option than Windows Media Player, allowing you to play Windows Media files in a nicer GUI.
Microsoft probably didn't want to update Media Player to be a universal binary, so decided upon this option. They are distributing the plugin on their website for free, so this is a win-win situation.
I imagine that they they didn't sleep well that night...
MISSION CONTROL: "Hey guys, have a good night's sleep, and by the way, the Space Station is slowly depressurizing, and we can't work out why. Oh well, see you in the morning.".
MythTV looks like a good start, but the effort required to get it working is significant, and it doesn't do anything BUT timeshift and record. It can't playback your DVD, VCDs, SVCDs, or Divx CDs, it can't save your recorded shows to CD/DVD, it can't playback music or display images, etc... Once MythTV/Freevo gets all these features, then this current software won't be that impressive.
MythTV has most of these features as add-on modules. MythTV's modular design means that there are an ever-growing number of modules that can be used to extend it's already rich feature-set.
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Yeah. With an ID under 50000, you can't have waited more than a few months to create an account.
;-)
Originally, there was actually a bit of resistance to creating accounts, so a lower ID is just a sign you "caved in" earlier.
While the jury's out on whether the bricking is intentional or not, it's clear that something in the update process is incompatible with the changes made by unlocking.
The solution is to reverse the changes before updating. There is a preliminary guide to doing this at:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/09/24/how-to-relock-your-iphone-before-the-firmware-update/
Of course, this means that your phone is no longer unlocked.
The other option is to just not upgrade.
The duopoly on submarine telecoms cables in Australia is mainly just due to the insanely high costs of laying and maintaining them. The only companies that are willing to invest in this sort of infrastructure are those that can justify an investment that won't pay-off for decades.
Luckily, there is a third cable being laid at present. A group of Australian telecoms companies have come up with the idea to lay a cable to Guam, which can then peer with US cables there. This should introduce some more competition into the market, and will hopefully drive down prices significantly.
Here in Australia, we have had download quotas since the early days of broadband. This is necessary due to the extremely high costs associated with international data links here (there is a duopoly on submarine telecommunication cables linking Australia to the rest of the world, so prices are high).
While nobody in Australia really likes the download quotas, our ISPs at least spell out the limits in detail, and allow users to check their current usage in real-time. A variety of Internet plan options are available, so heavy users can opt to pay extra to have a higher download quota (e.g. see iiNet's plans and Internode's plans).
Comcast seem to be introducing quotas without really going all the way. I guess they view this as being more "gentle" than actually imposing hard limits, but I'd say that it's just more confusing. Users need to know what their quotas are and how much they have downloaded, otherwise, the whole system just seems arbitrary.
I can see how US ISPs might want to impose some usage limits on their customers. Data connectivity is cheap there, but it isn't free... and people are getting ever-faster home connections. However, if they are going to do this sort of thing, they need to spell out exactly what the limits are, and what the consequences are for going over those limits. Vague statements like "30,000 songs" don't really help anyone.
Provided that Microsoft keeps licensing this plugin and giving it away for free, this is good news for Mac users. The plugin is a much better option than Windows Media Player, allowing you to play Windows Media files in a nicer GUI.
Microsoft probably didn't want to update Media Player to be a universal binary, so decided upon this option. They are distributing the plugin on their website for free, so this is a win-win situation.
I imagine that they they didn't sleep well that night...
MISSION CONTROL: "Hey guys, have a good night's sleep, and by the way, the Space Station is slowly depressurizing, and we can't work out why. Oh well, see you in the morning.".
This article is over three years old. It was published in June 2000.
As much as I like Nethack, this isn't exactly a new story.
MythTV looks like a good start, but the effort required to get it working is significant, and it doesn't do anything BUT timeshift and record. It can't playback your DVD, VCDs, SVCDs, or Divx CDs, it can't save your recorded shows to CD/DVD, it can't playback music or display images, etc... Once MythTV/Freevo gets all these features, then this current software won't be that impressive.
MythTV has most of these features as add-on modules. MythTV's modular design means that there are an ever-growing number of modules that can be used to extend it's already rich feature-set.
This is AU$800 - about US$400, so the ebay PIXes aren't cheaper.