This is incorrect. If you boot the iPhone into DFU mode, you can replace the device's keychain and then jailbreak it from there. This method means you won't be able to decrypt any of the stored passwords on the phone but you do gain access to the user portion of the filesystem.
That's not entirely true. There's a way to jailbreak a locked iPhone by booting into DFU mode and replacing the key chain with a clean one. Then you can jailbreak it as if it were an unlocked iphone. The downside to this method is that you can't harvest any of the encrypted logins and passwords stored on the device, but you do gain access to the user section of the filesystem.
I'm surprised that nobody thinks this is a good idea. To the poster above that said it's like a car with helicopter blades, I have a better analogy: This is like a car with two motors. One motor is street legal and can be driven in all fifty states. The second is a fully modified fire-breathing 800HP monster that can only be used in closed-course racing. When you're driving to work you use the street legal motor, but you can drive the same car to the race track and get the full potential of the second motor.
As MP3 players get more and more storage space, we're going to see scenarios similar to those in desktop computers - Grandma only needs a fraction of that 500GB drive in her new eMachine. The same will be said for Sally the high school student with her 60GB iPod. If that space is available why not fill it with the highest quality music possible so that music is available wherever one goes? I understand that it won't be playable in my iPod but it will be available to hook up to a stereo or computer etc etc at a friends house / party / barbecue.
You're confusing products a bit. The two pieces of Myth that handle non-tv media, MythMusic and MythDVD. These are both plug-ins to Myth and while they do tend to ship with most Myth setups, they are not part of the core MythTV product. I agree with you that they both suck - The UIs and overall management of media are just terrible - But don't poo-poo MythTV because of them. In essence it's like saying Firefox sucks because your Yahoo toolbar has a bad interface.
XBMC is awesome but it's not a replacement for MythTV. It has no mechanism for recording tv shows or hooking to any type of tuner card. What it excels at is, as you said, media management. I modified my MythTV menu to include XBMC, so when I want to watch my DVD ISOs on a Windows box I launch it from the MythTV interface. A quick blurb on how I did it is here.
FWIW, you can add MythTV as a video source in XBMC using the mythtv:// prefix. You can then view recordings as well as live tv, although it was buggy the last time I tried it.
It's a bit ahead of its time but it's hardly far-fetched.
I work in what one would call an enterprise-level data center. We have about a quarter petabyte of usable storage for about 10,000 users, not counting backups. Even though we have several TB in EMC SAN devices, due to the nature of our business we have quite a bit of one-off server builds with local storage. RAID 5 with no hot-swap spare is the economical way to go when you have a theoretical 7 day per week backup schedule. So it's hardly RAID 10 and whatnot, and I don't see us using RAID 10 on any one-off machines for quite some time.
As for calling the 7TB array scenario "trivially testable", it's not. In the Enterprise world, server disks are just now breaking the 750GB barrier and we probably won't see 1TB disks widely used for at least two years. That's not to say that 1TB (and soon to be greater) server disks don't exist, they do, it's just that they're almost prohibitively expensive from a dollar per gig standpoint.
However, that day is coming. 99 percent of our servers are 2U 4-disk servers in RAID 5. Once we standardize on 1TB disks (We're currently only up to 146GB in the majority of cases) we're going to see scenarios similar to what this article describes. It's a bit of a way off for us, but it's definitely food for thought.
I wouldn't call this article trivially testable, I'd call it prescient.
I understand that it was probably in everyone's best interest to produce Nina's body, but I can't help but feel that Hans was essentially rewarded for hiding it so well. His sentence was reduced from 25-to-live to 15-to-life just for leading police to where he buried her.
I don't get it - My "friend's" iphone expired at midnight but guess what, there was an email from the Apple beta program in my "friend's" email telling my "friend" to update their iPhone. Update, start using the phone again.
This is just a sensationalist article using the Dvorak Method (TM) to get more hits.
I love how anecdotal storytelling gets modded as insightful.
I'm not trying to be a troll, mod me down if you must, but, as somebody who actually works with computers, Firewire is slowly fading away. I'm on a brand new Dell Optiplex 755 - No firewire. My home Optiplex 745 doesn't have firewire either. I recently built a dual-core Pentium-based MythTV box, and had to buy a PCI firewire card so I could control my cable box - That's what I get for assuming that firewire is still mainstream. My older laptops,a Latitude D610 and Inspiron 6000 both have firewire ports, but a newer HP laptop I just sold to my neighbor does not.
I like firewire in theory, but it's getting harder and harder to find a reason to use it other than in MythTV.
I went to microsoft.com to download SP2 for Win 2003 server. The links took me to Technet downloads. I was asked if I wanted to try out a Silverlight version of Technet Downloads. I thought, what the hell, I've already installed it, and clicked ok. It brought me to a pretty site that no longer had any mention of the service pack I needed. I clicked on the Downloads link (in the Silverlight page) and it brought me... Back to where I had started! I went around in a circle and this time was not offered the Silverlight beta. I downloaded the service pack and moved on. Good job, Microsoft.
Please explain to me how the RIAA can sue Western Digital in this case. Maybe I've been in a cave and have missed the thousands of RIAA v. Microsoft/Linksys/Apple lawsuits for users who 'accidentally' shared copyrighted materials but I don't think I have.
Now I'm not saying I have, because that would violate an NDA. But whether I have or not, I know that the beta is buggy as hell. And I've been told the same by more than one Apple employee, in person. They can't release it any sooner because it's not ready! It's not like Apple is sitting on this amazingly polished finished product, waiting for the release date. They are busting ass trying to make it ready for prime time.
Jeez, then I have even less sympathy for the hackers!
Let me get this straight - People are hacking their iPhones, then agreeing to install an update, and then complaining that it doesn't work? If you don't install the update does the phone keep working?
To keep my car analogy going: "Hey Chevy, I installed that stock oil filter in my Corvette and it blew up!" "I know I retrofitted it with a Ford motor first, but it's still your fault!"
I'm all for hacking - I still have my modded PS1 and am running XBMC on my old Xbox - But I wouldn't try to get support for the things if they were still within their warranty periods.
This is not a troll post, I swear. I agree that if we own a piece of hardware we should be able to do with it what we want. But, that line starts to blur when said hardware needs a particular network connection to function.
I can hack my (original) xbox or Wii. I just can't connect to their online services or download any updates because, surprise, the updates may brick my consoles. It sucks, since there's no proof that a hacked console is being used for illegal purposes, but that's the way it is. And I can't attempt to get the consoles serviced, because I've voided their warranty. The same policy applies to my Ford Ranger - If I change the chip in the onboard computer, I've voided my warranty.
Where it's a little different in this case is that the iPhone downloads its updates automatically. There's no real benefit to using an iPhone as just an iPod, now that the iPod touch is out. But it's not like you don't have a choice in what phone you buy. There are plenty of other phones on plenty of other carriers. You chose to buy an iPhone, and you chose to hack it to run on another network, knowing full well that it was not only unsupported by Apple, but would void your warranty and possibly brick your phone. If you didn't know that, you shouldn't have been involved in hacking your iPhone in the first place.
For better or worse, the iPhone is a closed system. It's meant to run one OS on one carrier. Am I going to sue Chevrolet because my Corvette got stuck on a mountain bike trail? Of course not. I used the car in a manner not supported (or warrented) by the manufacturer, and now I pay the price.
All this talk of class action lawsuits and people whining about the supposed Apple 'monopoly' of the iPod and iPhone just makes me mad. Nobody's forcing you to buy the shiny, pretty Apple gadget. Go buy a Zen. Or a Treo. Or a Dell. Stop trying to blame the big bad corporation for telling you how to use its product.
When I launch an online game of Halo 3 it complains that I don't have "Open NAT" enabled. I've been in the IT industry for ten years, albeit as a Windows admin, and I've never heard of Open NAT. A google search for the term brings up - surprise, surprise - this xbox support page. According to the page,
* Open NAT means that either the port-assignment policy is minimal or the device has a fully compliant version of UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) enabled by default.
* Moderate NAT means that the port-assignment policy is minimal, but the device is filtering addresses or ports.
* Strict NAT means the port-assignment policy is aggressive.
It looks like the network needs for Halo 3 are more picky than every other game I've played - WoW, WC3, Halo 2 etc play just fine. Admittedly if I want to host a game in WC3 I need to open a couple ports, but at least Blizzard tells me what ports to open. It looks like Microsoft's strategy is to just throw everything under a uPNP umbrella and call it a day. If they're this lazy with something as simple as port communication, I'm not surprised that they're doing other shady things with their IP stack, causing headaches for network admins the world over.
Mythdora gives you the option of enabling SELinux and the firewall during the install interview. Granted this isn't a perfect solution but a) It's better than nothing and b) It's meant to be an appliance, not a server. I'd hope that it would be on your local network behind a firewall and not wide open to the internet.
My issue, though is your statement, "...but as I had no idea if changing the default password would break functionally, I had to ditch it."
- So, what you're saying is you did zero research, and didn't bother even trying it before you gave up on the idea?
I've had Charter in Massachusetts for a couple years now, and BitTorrent has always been throttled. BitTorrent downloads take forever to download, if at all. I've tested this by connecting to the same trackers with the same client on my old work's Verizon 1.5Mb DSL (I'm running 6Mb Charter at home) and the downloads were exponentially faster on Verizon.
It sucks because WoW updates and several of Microsoft's large downloads are sent via BitTorrent. I have to hunt and seek every time I want to update a new WoW installation.
Slashdot is not a pure news site per se, it's a site supported by and contributed to by its members. It doesn't have to follow the same rules as "real" news sites, and this is a good thing. When I read the original post it made me say, "oh yeah, why did they wait so long?". If that hadn't been in the post I never would have gone into these comments.
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This is incorrect. If you boot the iPhone into DFU mode, you can replace the device's keychain and then jailbreak it from there. This method means you won't be able to decrypt any of the stored passwords on the phone but you do gain access to the user portion of the filesystem.
That's not entirely true. There's a way to jailbreak a locked iPhone by booting into DFU mode and replacing the key chain with a clean one. Then you can jailbreak it as if it were an unlocked iphone. The downside to this method is that you can't harvest any of the encrypted logins and passwords stored on the device, but you do gain access to the user section of the filesystem.
I subscribe to Rhapsody, and save my music offline in my iPod. It's no different playing those songs than it is playing albums I've purchased.
I'm surprised that nobody thinks this is a good idea. To the poster above that said it's like a car with helicopter blades, I have a better analogy: This is like a car with two motors. One motor is street legal and can be driven in all fifty states. The second is a fully modified fire-breathing 800HP monster that can only be used in closed-course racing. When you're driving to work you use the street legal motor, but you can drive the same car to the race track and get the full potential of the second motor.
As MP3 players get more and more storage space, we're going to see scenarios similar to those in desktop computers - Grandma only needs a fraction of that 500GB drive in her new eMachine. The same will be said for Sally the high school student with her 60GB iPod. If that space is available why not fill it with the highest quality music possible so that music is available wherever one goes? I understand that it won't be playable in my iPod but it will be available to hook up to a stereo or computer etc etc at a friends house / party / barbecue.
Am I alone? :-)
You're confusing products a bit. The two pieces of Myth that handle non-tv media, MythMusic and MythDVD. These are both plug-ins to Myth and while they do tend to ship with most Myth setups, they are not part of the core MythTV product. I agree with you that they both suck - The UIs and overall management of media are just terrible - But don't poo-poo MythTV because of them. In essence it's like saying Firefox sucks because your Yahoo toolbar has a bad interface.
XBMC is awesome but it's not a replacement for MythTV. It has no mechanism for recording tv shows or hooking to any type of tuner card. What it excels at is, as you said, media management. I modified my MythTV menu to include XBMC, so when I want to watch my DVD ISOs on a Windows box I launch it from the MythTV interface. A quick blurb on how I did it is here.
FWIW, you can add MythTV as a video source in XBMC using the mythtv:// prefix. You can then view recordings as well as live tv, although it was buggy the last time I tried it.
It's a bit ahead of its time but it's hardly far-fetched.
I work in what one would call an enterprise-level data center. We have about a quarter petabyte of usable storage for about 10,000 users, not counting backups. Even though we have several TB in EMC SAN devices, due to the nature of our business we have quite a bit of one-off server builds with local storage. RAID 5 with no hot-swap spare is the economical way to go when you have a theoretical 7 day per week backup schedule. So it's hardly RAID 10 and whatnot, and I don't see us using RAID 10 on any one-off machines for quite some time.
As for calling the 7TB array scenario "trivially testable", it's not. In the Enterprise world, server disks are just now breaking the 750GB barrier and we probably won't see 1TB disks widely used for at least two years. That's not to say that 1TB (and soon to be greater) server disks don't exist, they do, it's just that they're almost prohibitively expensive from a dollar per gig standpoint.
However, that day is coming. 99 percent of our servers are 2U 4-disk servers in RAID 5. Once we standardize on 1TB disks (We're currently only up to 146GB in the majority of cases) we're going to see scenarios similar to what this article describes. It's a bit of a way off for us, but it's definitely food for thought.
I wouldn't call this article trivially testable, I'd call it prescient.
I understand that it was probably in everyone's best interest to produce Nina's body, but I can't help but feel that Hans was essentially rewarded for hiding it so well. His sentence was reduced from 25-to-live to 15-to-life just for leading police to where he buried her.
Still, glad to see this soap opera is over.
I don't get it - My "friend's" iphone expired at midnight but guess what, there was an email from the Apple beta program in my "friend's" email telling my "friend" to update their iPhone. Update, start using the phone again.
This is just a sensationalist article using the Dvorak Method (TM) to get more hits.
Or if you have a cable box with firewire ports you can jack directly into it. 0.21 has huge fixes for firewire.
I love how anecdotal storytelling gets modded as insightful.
I'm not trying to be a troll, mod me down if you must, but, as somebody who actually works with computers, Firewire is slowly fading away. I'm on a brand new Dell Optiplex 755 - No firewire. My home Optiplex 745 doesn't have firewire either. I recently built a dual-core Pentium-based MythTV box, and had to buy a PCI firewire card so I could control my cable box - That's what I get for assuming that firewire is still mainstream. My older laptops,a Latitude D610 and Inspiron 6000 both have firewire ports, but a newer HP laptop I just sold to my neighbor does not.
I like firewire in theory, but it's getting harder and harder to find a reason to use it other than in MythTV.
It's not just the chipset per se, it's the chipset + embedded graphics. You're getting good Aero performance because you're running an AGP card.
I guess he thought that they had had enough of putty knives
I went to microsoft.com to download SP2 for Win 2003 server. The links took me to Technet downloads. I was asked if I wanted to try out a Silverlight version of Technet Downloads. I thought, what the hell, I've already installed it, and clicked ok. It brought me to a pretty site that no longer had any mention of the service pack I needed. I clicked on the Downloads link (in the Silverlight page) and it brought me... Back to where I had started! I went around in a circle and this time was not offered the Silverlight beta. I downloaded the service pack and moved on. Good job, Microsoft.
Please explain to me how the RIAA can sue Western Digital in this case. Maybe I've been in a cave and have missed the thousands of RIAA v. Microsoft/Linksys/Apple lawsuits for users who 'accidentally' shared copyrighted materials but I don't think I have.
Now I'm not saying I have, because that would violate an NDA. But whether I have or not, I know that the beta is buggy as hell. And I've been told the same by more than one Apple employee, in person. They can't release it any sooner because it's not ready! It's not like Apple is sitting on this amazingly polished finished product, waiting for the release date. They are busting ass trying to make it ready for prime time.
Sorry, but the great scientist Gary Larson documented this phenomenon years ago. See http://www.curiosities.com/sp/CD6044.asp?afID=goocd6044&img=L (Sorry, I couldn't find a better link)
Jeez, then I have even less sympathy for the hackers!
Let me get this straight - People are hacking their iPhones, then agreeing to install an update, and then complaining that it doesn't work? If you don't install the update does the phone keep working?
To keep my car analogy going: "Hey Chevy, I installed that stock oil filter in my Corvette and it blew up!" "I know I retrofitted it with a Ford motor first, but it's still your fault!"
I'm all for hacking - I still have my modded PS1 and am running XBMC on my old Xbox - But I wouldn't try to get support for the things if they were still within their warranty periods.
This is not a troll post, I swear. I agree that if we own a piece of hardware we should be able to do with it what we want. But, that line starts to blur when said hardware needs a particular network connection to function.
I can hack my (original) xbox or Wii. I just can't connect to their online services or download any updates because, surprise, the updates may brick my consoles. It sucks, since there's no proof that a hacked console is being used for illegal purposes, but that's the way it is. And I can't attempt to get the consoles serviced, because I've voided their warranty. The same policy applies to my Ford Ranger - If I change the chip in the onboard computer, I've voided my warranty.
Where it's a little different in this case is that the iPhone downloads its updates automatically. There's no real benefit to using an iPhone as just an iPod, now that the iPod touch is out. But it's not like you don't have a choice in what phone you buy. There are plenty of other phones on plenty of other carriers. You chose to buy an iPhone, and you chose to hack it to run on another network, knowing full well that it was not only unsupported by Apple, but would void your warranty and possibly brick your phone. If you didn't know that, you shouldn't have been involved in hacking your iPhone in the first place.
For better or worse, the iPhone is a closed system. It's meant to run one OS on one carrier. Am I going to sue Chevrolet because my Corvette got stuck on a mountain bike trail? Of course not. I used the car in a manner not supported (or warrented) by the manufacturer, and now I pay the price.
All this talk of class action lawsuits and people whining about the supposed Apple 'monopoly' of the iPod and iPhone just makes me mad. Nobody's forcing you to buy the shiny, pretty Apple gadget. Go buy a Zen. Or a Treo. Or a Dell. Stop trying to blame the big bad corporation for telling you how to use its product.
It looks like the network needs for Halo 3 are more picky than every other game I've played - WoW, WC3, Halo 2 etc play just fine. Admittedly if I want to host a game in WC3 I need to open a couple ports, but at least Blizzard tells me what ports to open. It looks like Microsoft's strategy is to just throw everything under a uPNP umbrella and call it a day. If they're this lazy with something as simple as port communication, I'm not surprised that they're doing other shady things with their IP stack, causing headaches for network admins the world over.
Took a 45 minute nap in my car during my lunch break. I felt way better the rest of the day.
I don't like to go to sleep because it just means I have to go to work in the morning, which is why I'm posting on slashdot at 12:48 AM.
Updating Mythdora 4.0 to use SchedulesDirect
Updating MythTV to use SchedulesDirect
From one of the comments (I assume c/s is Cracks per second?):
Mythdora gives you the option of enabling SELinux and the firewall during the install interview. Granted this isn't a perfect solution but a) It's better than nothing and b) It's meant to be an appliance, not a server. I'd hope that it would be on your local network behind a firewall and not wide open to the internet.
My issue, though is your statement, "...but as I had no idea if changing the default password would break functionally, I had to ditch it."
- So, what you're saying is you did zero research, and didn't bother even trying it before you gave up on the idea?
I've had Charter in Massachusetts for a couple years now, and BitTorrent has always been throttled. BitTorrent downloads take forever to download, if at all. I've tested this by connecting to the same trackers with the same client on my old work's Verizon 1.5Mb DSL (I'm running 6Mb Charter at home) and the downloads were exponentially faster on Verizon.
It sucks because WoW updates and several of Microsoft's large downloads are sent via BitTorrent. I have to hunt and seek every time I want to update a new WoW installation.
It's not news, it's Slshdot.
Slashdot is not a pure news site per se, it's a site supported by and contributed to by its members. It doesn't have to follow the same rules as "real" news sites, and this is a good thing. When I read the original post it made me say, "oh yeah, why did they wait so long?". If that hadn't been in the post I never would have gone into these comments.