"Lenovo loads Vista on machines it sells to customers. For its own use, however, Lenovo still runs Windows XP as its corporate standard. Make of that what you will." Dan Lyons, Newsweek journalist, 2008.
Great article about how Microsoft's Vista is so bad, that even its business partners that are desperately trying to sell their hardware pre-loaded with Vista, are still using WinXP themselves to avoid issues. Classic. If you look carefully, you'll also notice the magazine ads that PC vendors have a logo stating "Lenovo recommends using Windows Vista". Shame they won't follow their own advice for their own computers!
http://www.newsweek.com/id/160064
Monday, September 22, 2008
Saturday, September 13, 2008
QuickPwn
Some links on QuickPwn:
http://www.macgeekblog.com/blog/archive/2008/08/21/quickpwn-tutorial-easy-jailbreak-for-202-fw.html
http://www.touchpodium.com/2008/08/21/quick-pwn-your-phone-a-guide-to-quickpwn/
http://www.macgeekblog.com/blog/archive/2008/08/21/quickpwn-tutorial-easy-jailbreak-for-202-fw.html
http://www.touchpodium.com/2008/08/21/quick-pwn-your-phone-a-guide-to-quickpwn/
Entering DFU mode
This is reminder how to enter the DFU recovery mode, for when the iPhone crashes irrevocably.
Sunday, September 7, 2008
What to do if your iPhone cannot surf on Wifi
I just had a bizarre issue with my iPhone - It was on Wifi at home, but could not access anything on the internet.
When opening the built-in apps from Apple like Safari, I got the following error:
I tried restarting it, and even Reset Network Settings in the Settings section. Still didn't fix it. Note that using the laptop and mac mini on the same wifi network was fine going online.
The one thing that I did find useful was to set the Wifi settings from DHCP to Static, and removing the DNS entry there and replacing it with the OpenDNS servers. Type in these IP addresses then try again:
208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220
EDIT: Seems that the laptop and mac mini already had the OpenDNS entries placed into their network settings... explains then why those worked fine!
When opening the built-in apps from Apple like Safari, I got the following error:
I tried restarting it, and even Reset Network Settings in the Settings section. Still didn't fix it. Note that using the laptop and mac mini on the same wifi network was fine going online.
The one thing that I did find useful was to set the Wifi settings from DHCP to Static, and removing the DNS entry there and replacing it with the OpenDNS servers. Type in these IP addresses then try again:
208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220
EDIT: Seems that the laptop and mac mini already had the OpenDNS entries placed into their network settings... explains then why those worked fine!
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Backing up Time Machine
Just spotted a potentially useful how-to about backing up the contents on your Time Machine hard disk to another, so that the internal Time Machine disk can still be used for remote backup of laptops etc. Kudos to MacFixIt for publishing this! :)
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20080829123830927
And here's the full article details copied verbatim for convenience:
How-To: Migrate Time Machine to a new drive.
Users may wish to change their hard drive configurations for convenience in workflow, adding a new drive, or just for the sake of changing things up. In many cases, users may wish to migrate their Time Machine backups to a new, larger drive, but Apple does not provide a good way to do this.
In order to change the Time Machine database over to a new drive, users cannot just copy the files manually, but instead must use a cloning software package to mirror the current TM drive over to the new one. The procedure is very straightforward, as follows:
Obtain a version of Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper cloning software packages. (NOTE: It may be possible to use Disk Utility's "Restore" function for this, but these software packages have been known to work well for cloning drives.)
Turn OFF Time Machine and deselect the backup drive in Time Machine's preferences.
Connect the new drive and ensure it is mounted and available on the Desktop (formatting with Disk Utility does not matter, unless the drive cannot be accessed).
In the cloning software, select the current Time Machine drive as the source, and clone it directly to the newly mounted drive. This might take a while, depending on the amount of data on the drive and the connection speed.
For convenience, change the name of the old drive and then ensure the new drive has the same name as the old drive (ie, if the old drive was named "My Backups", ensure the new drive has that name). The cloning software should take care of this. Temporarily unmount (eject) the old drive as a safeguard to ensure it is not accessed by the system.
With the new drive mounted, open the Time Machine preferences and select the new, cloned drive. Then ensure everything is working by manually starting a backup instance, and invoke Time Machine to ensure old backups are accessible.
When everything checks out, mount the old drive and use Disk Utility to erase or partition it as is desired.
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20080829123830927
And here's the full article details copied verbatim for convenience:
How-To: Migrate Time Machine to a new drive.
Users may wish to change their hard drive configurations for convenience in workflow, adding a new drive, or just for the sake of changing things up. In many cases, users may wish to migrate their Time Machine backups to a new, larger drive, but Apple does not provide a good way to do this.
In order to change the Time Machine database over to a new drive, users cannot just copy the files manually, but instead must use a cloning software package to mirror the current TM drive over to the new one. The procedure is very straightforward, as follows:
Obtain a version of Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper cloning software packages. (NOTE: It may be possible to use Disk Utility's "Restore" function for this, but these software packages have been known to work well for cloning drives.)
Turn OFF Time Machine and deselect the backup drive in Time Machine's preferences.
Connect the new drive and ensure it is mounted and available on the Desktop (formatting with Disk Utility does not matter, unless the drive cannot be accessed).
In the cloning software, select the current Time Machine drive as the source, and clone it directly to the newly mounted drive. This might take a while, depending on the amount of data on the drive and the connection speed.
For convenience, change the name of the old drive and then ensure the new drive has the same name as the old drive (ie, if the old drive was named "My Backups", ensure the new drive has that name). The cloning software should take care of this. Temporarily unmount (eject) the old drive as a safeguard to ensure it is not accessed by the system.
With the new drive mounted, open the Time Machine preferences and select the new, cloned drive. Then ensure everything is working by manually starting a backup instance, and invoke Time Machine to ensure old backups are accessible.
When everything checks out, mount the old drive and use Disk Utility to erase or partition it as is desired.
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