Hello,
I’m just going to explain my experience with a vBulletin Big Board and how to get the most out of your hardware by simple tweaks and changes to the software that your site runs. I will break this article down into sections.
What is a big board?
If you’ve had an iPhone since the launch of Apples Application Store, then you most likely have bought the app Mobile Chat. I mean who wouldn’t, just looking at their features http://mobilech.at/features you’d be silly not to pick the only instant messenger on the iPhone. Granted there are Web App versions, but nothing application wise. Here are some of the features.
MobileChat supports the following protocols:
* AIM/ICQ/.Mac/MobileME
* Windows Live/MSN
* Yahoo Messenger
* GTalk
* Jabber/XMPPMultiple Accounts
Google has created its own repositories for its linux software applications.
http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/index.html
At the moment the only software available is Picasa and Google Desktop.
There is now an official iphone-dev.org version of QuickPwn that supports the 2.1 firmware released by Apple on friday.
Some of the popular press and blogs have been backing the opposition. 🙂
While criticism and competition is fine it should be reported correctly, with all the facts. and certainly minus the FUD. Do you guys think we are “less and less relevant with each passing day” ? We don’t think so, and we certainly prefer our hacks to theirs. 😉 Though even if the world deems us irrelevant, the iPhone family of devices is still fun to hack!
There is a very manual tutorial up at xpwn.co.uk on how to Jailbreak your iPhone with the 2.1 firmware:
T14:19 <+geeb> http://xpwn.co.uk/2.1JBtut.txt
14:19 <+geeb> 2.1 3g jailbreak tutorial
14:22 < comm> geeb: has it been tested?
14:22 <+geeb> comm
14:22 <+geeb> yes by me
14:22 <+geeb> and others in #xpwn are running it now
The following are the instructions
Download the 2.1 firmware <--http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content.info.apple.com/iPhone/061-5198.20080909.K3294/iPhone1,2_2.1_5F136_Restore.ipsw
There is a full list of changes and fixes in the new iPhone 2.1 firware on Apples site, which you can read here:
http://www.apple.com/iphone/softwareupdate/
I’ve also included them below:
General Updates
* Decrease in call set-up failures and dropped calls.
* Significantly better battery life for most users.
* Dramatically reduced time to backup to iTunes.
* Improved email reliability, notably fetching email from POP and Exchange accounts.
* Faster installation of 3rd party applications.
Apple has just released iTunes 8 and the iTouch and iPhone firmware 2.1!
You will need to download iTunes 8 in order to get the new firmware. And unfortunately it looks as though iTunes 8 has blocked the Pwnge tool. However the iphone-dev team knows about this and will have a patch
http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/49689803/countermeasures
Enjoy!
I ran into this article about how you can seamlessly run Windows Applications from within Ubunutu. The author is using VMware, rdesktop (apt-get install rdesktop), and Seamless RDP.
http://hehe2.net/thedarkside/microsoft/run-windows-apps-100-seamlessly-on-ubuntu/
I went to pick up a Wireless Router from a local computer shop http://www.a-power.com in hopes of grabbing a WRT54GL or at least a WRT54GS. The main reason being that I could flash the hardware to run DD-WRT http://www.dd-wrt.com which is a third part open source router firmware.
The iphone-dev.org crew has released QuickPwn for Mac OS X, there is a an official torrent for the release.
Here is the long awaited “QuickPwn” for Mac OS X. You’ll see a similarity to the user-interface of PwnageTool, this is because of the great feedback we’ve had since we moved to that interface with PwnageTool 2.x.