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.Read the full article at mashable.com
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.
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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 http://jailbreakme.com/ and follow the on screen instructions.
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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.
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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 http://www.hulu.com
Read the full article at newteevee.com
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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.
Read the full article at boygeniusreport.com
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Break a Drupal article/node/blog into separate pages using the Paging Module
If you have ever created a blog, node, page within Drupal that is far too long to be on one page. Or if you’d rather have an article split into two pages, then the Drupal Paging module is what you need.
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Splunk 3.1: A search engine that indexes all your servers logs, scripts, code and message traps
I had the chance to try Splunk out about 3 months ago. The software was rather easy to install, however one thing that did seem to a little hard to use was the interface and the general working with inputs for the software. The search function was really neat, and easy to find errors that were occurring. The free version is limited but still usable, in a larger environment this product would probably be a life saver. Single server deployments, not so much.
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Hitachi launches 3 new sexy slim LCD TV’s – 35mm thick
Hitachi has released their new 35mm thick LCD’s, if you take a look at some of the pictures you will see just how slim this product is. They have released three different sizes of the TV in 32″, 37″ and 42″. Hitachi is now the first company to officially have the world’s first thinnest LCD TV’s.
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KDE 4 Beta 3 – Screenshot Tour
A rather in-depth screenshot tour of the new KDE 4 beta 3 booted from a LiveCD.
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Stephan Binner has released a new version of his KDE Four Live CD. This version uses a recent SVN snapshot and works quite well. While I had some trouble testing the newest KDE 4 Beta release on my test machine, the KDE Four LiveCD works surprisingly well. According to Stephan the version used on this LiveCD is KDE 4 Beta 3 plus a set of recent patches.See the full Screenshot tour