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Monthly Archives: October 2007
What to do when you need remote backups for Linux/Unix/Windows/Mac?
I was looking for a solution to backup three of my linux machines that I have running this site and many others. After searching for some time, I didn’t actually need to go with a company. I found a friend that provided me some space. During this time I did find out some useful information.
No more room for your applications on your iPhone or iPod Touch?
Running out of space to place all those Applications you’ve downloaded and tried out on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Instead of using the small OS Partition which is where all the applications are saved, you can use the Media partition instead and continue on the installing spree.
PC World Reviews Apple OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
PC World reviews the newest release of Apple’s Max OSX version 10.5 codenamed “Leopard”. In this review “Edward Mendelson” states one big remark.
“First: despite minor problems, it’s by far the best operating system ever written for the vast majority of consumers, with dozens of new features that have real practical value—like truly automated backups, preview images in folders, and notes and to-do lists integrated into the mail program”.
I have only played with Leopard in the last few days and seen it in action on a co-workers laptop, and I’m starting to thing more and more about purchasing a Macbook Pro!
Featured Download: Folder Size for windows, find out sizes of your folders in Explorer
Have you ever wanted an easy way to view all of your folders sizes, without have to Right Click and select Properties on each one. This application integrates with Explorer in Windows and provides a column that shows the folders size on disk. This is very useful if you’re trying to find where a big file or if you’re trying to free up disk space. An excellent download and a must need for System Administrators/Power users.
gPhone: e28 Rumored to Provide Google Phone Hardware
Just as I was about to hit the sack for the night, more gPhone rumors surfaced. This comes from F. Colton, the editor over at India Street, and a fellow who tends to do his research fairly well, in my experience. He reports this morning that Chinese mobile handset manufacturer e28 is going to be a gPhone handset manufacturer.
Re-compiling MySQL 5.0 with OpenSSL support under Debian
If you’ve ever required OpenSSL support enabled for MySQL Server 5.0 under debian, then you will need to recompile MySQL. Under Debian this is very easy.
Instant Jailbreak for iPhone and iPod touch
Afraid of bricking your iPhone, or not as savy as most to jailbreak your iphone? Well a group hackers have released an instant jailbreak online. You just need to point your iPhone’s Safari to jailbreakme.com/ and follow the on screen instructions.
A crew of hackers (including hdm/metasploit, rezn, dinopio, drudge, kroo, pumpkin, davidc, dunham, and NerveGas) have introduced a one-touch instant jailbreak for both iPhone and iPod touch. The jailbreak opens your iPhone for full disk access and installs Installer.app so you can add pretty much any third party application you like.
Comcast fires employees for talking about P2P filtering
It looks as though Comcast has fired a few employees for talking out of script.
In the wake of the discovery that Comcast is blocking some peer-to-peer traffic (and even blocking some Lotus Notes e-mails), the company is attempting to keep the PR machine well-oiled by giving customer tech support reps some talking points. And if they deviate from the script and admit that Comcast has been using Sandvine to send forged TCP reset packets, they’re likely to lose their jobs.
“Hulu” a join venture of NBC and NewsCorp debuts this month
Although this is the first time I’ve heard of Hulu, I’m sure its not the first time most readers have heard of Hulu. A joint venture by NBC and NewsCorp provide its tv shows, moves and mashups of AOL (TWX), Comcast (CMCSA), MSN (MSFT), MySpace, and Yahoo (YHOO). Some of the shows and movies that will be available are shown on Hulu’s main page of their site. Some include Hero’s, Conan, Arrested Development, 24hrs and Battlestar Galactica. I’ve already signed up to be apart of their beta, you can too by visiting their main page at www.hulu.com
Rumor: iPhone coming to Canada on December 7th?
As the title reads, “Rumour”. However most are thinking it’s a Photoshopped, since the Rogers logo isn’t correct amongst other things.
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