Hacked Iphone goodness

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

As promised here is some iPhone screenshots!!!. (more…)

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Iphone Fun

Monday, October 29th, 2007

I have spent the last couple weeks breaking the Iphone in every way possible. I Now have it running as a mail server. One of the great things about the iphone is that it is running mac os x leopard, which is just version 9 of the darwin kernel. That means that once you get out of the ch-rooted environment on the phone, you can install the BSD subsystem. The BSD subsystem basically just adds back all the unix tools we have come to know and love. After that it is just a matter of compiling an embedded version of apache or your web server of choice. Next you can use NFS shares to mount more available storage. I will post some pictures here of some interesting screen shots. The arm cpu in the phone is actually quite fast. This of course is all just for iphun ( pun intended) however it is nice to have shell access on the phone. I do a lot of networking for a living and it is nice to have ssh and telnet on my phone. This makes it much easier to program routers and do many other things

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MIT student arrested for fake bomb

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

An MIT student was arrested in Logan intl Airport for wearing a sweatshirt with a prototyping board on it and a 9 volt battery which lit up some led’s that said MIT course VI which is the numerical designation for computer and electrical engineering majors. The shirt which she has and has been wearing for a long time, was something that a class of students made as a project. The police surrounded her in the airport with automatic weapons and arrested her, then commented that she was lucky to be alive. As you can see from the link to the article below anyone who has half a brain can see that it is a piece of techno art. However I just wanted to post this to solicit your opinions about the fear of electronics in this country and the sad state of affairs. This is even worse considering that MIT is known for its research in embedded computers in clothing and the airport is right around the corner from MIT! Also she walked up to the airline desk and asked when a flight was coming in because she was picking up a friend. She did not even try to get through the security checkpoint.

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/21/mit-student-arrested.html

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2 m Moxon project.

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

I am in the process of designing a 20m moxon antenna. I like the moxon so much I decided to make a quick moxon for 2m tonight. I built it out of twine and 2 dowel rods. I wanted to see how cheap I could build one, and the total cost of this antenna is $4.28. Not bad for an antenna on the cheap. The moxon is a great antenna and the reason why it is well liked on HF is because it exhibits the gain of a 2 element yagi antenna with the s/n rejection of a 3 element yagi! This antenna is easy to build and hand holding it you can tell which direction the local repeaters are. As you rotate the moxon away from the repeater, the signal disappears completely!

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Call of Duty 4

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007

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Life the Universe and Everything

Monday, July 9th, 2007

Today I realized that even though the world is cruel and unfair, irony is not lost. I realized this while I was sitting on hold with my ISP, and the rep came back on the line and told me the reason why I had to hold a little longer was because he himself was on hold…… 5 minutes later he hung up on me while transferring my call….?

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Open Solaris 10 sandbox

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

Thanks to those friendly people from Digg.com who decided it would be fun to bring my Solaris box to its knees by forking and other things to DDOS my Solaris zone. I have learned many ways of enhancing the security of Solaris zones. I have limited the Sandbox zone to 1% of total CPU usage. I have limited the total number of processes to 1000 and I have installed the Solaris Jass security hardening script. I plan to post many of my discoveries in the future. Work has been busy lately and it is on the burner of things to be done along with part 2 of solaris zones.

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First Production ZFS server today

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

I have plenty of small business clients and sooner or later they all face one big challenge. They all outgrow the initial 80GB tape drives that we put on their servers. The problem is that most of these are small businesses and most of them could just afford the initial network, and asking them to pony up $2000+ for a new tape drive or worse yet autoloader is out of the question.

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TV Networks Just Don’t Get it

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

I t seems to me that the big four tv network either don’t understand what people want or simply don’t care. If you look at the cable networks you have stimulating things to watch like Nip Tuck, Dexter, Sleeper Cell, Battlestar Galactica, Monk, and too many other good dramas to mention. However when you turn to the major networks they simply show one copied worn out reality show after another.

Until recently I assumed they just didn’t get it, but then I found out that it cost the networks on average 4 to 8 times as much money to produce a script based show. Kind of makes you think doesn’t it?

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