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Hack the iPhone with a PSP Exploit

Nathan — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:35:51 +0000

Looks like the same Tiff exploit that was used to downgrade the PSP from 2.0 to 1.5 firmware, is going to be used to run code on the iPhone. This news is kind of funny since Sony fixed the Tiff buffer overflow problem a year and a half ago. Guess Apple didn’t get that memo. Ups!!!

Tags: Apple, Hacking, iPhone, OSX, PSP

GeekTool Rss Script

Nathan — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 04:44:52 +0000

Here is a little script a friend help me put together. It it basically a caching RSS reader for GeekTool. I use it to display my Netflix query on my desktop, as well as My MeeVee listing. Just change the LOG, RSS lines and it will pull the title lines out of RSS feeds. If you want more you can change the curl lines. Have fun.

if [ ! -f $LOG ]; then
curl -s $RSS | grep title | sed -E ‘s/<\/?title>//g’ > $LOG
else
age=$(echo $(date “+%s”) – $(stat -t “%s” $LOG 2>/dev/null | awk -F\” ‘{print $4}’) | bc -l)
if [ "$age" -gt 3600 -o $size = 0 ]; then
curl -s $RSS | grep title | sed -E ‘s/<\/?title>//g’ > $LOG
fi
fi
cat $LOG

Tags: Computer, OSX, Programming, script

Bioshock and the Mac Adventure that Ensued

Nathan — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:32:59 +0000

This weekend I bought a copy of Bioshock. A Microsoft only game. This was fine as I thought all I would have to do is install Boot Camp. When I got home I fired up the MacBook Pro and went to installing boot camp. After burning the driver disc I was stuck waiting the the drive to be partitioned. I went to grab a sandwich and came back to find that the partition had failed. OSX said it couldn’t move some file and I would have to reformat the drive before I could partition it. Looks like this isn’t going to be as easy as I thought I said, and went to get out my external hard drive and peruse a reformat. After booting the OSX install disc I went to Disk Utility and made an image of my drive. Then booted back into my system and mounted the image just to verify that all my data was there. All the data was copied, so I reformatted the internal drive. All well and good so far. After the format I went to restore the drive from the image I had created, but to my surprise I was unable to do so. After spending a few hours online trying to figure out how to restore the image Apple.com left me with two options.
One: install OSX on another external drive and boot from that, then restore the internal drive.
Two: boot my Mac into disk mode and connect it to another Mac and restore from the image.

Neither of these options where going to work for me, so I decided I would just mount the image and copy everything to the internal drive. After that was finished I rebooted to find a black error screen. This wasn’t what I had hoped for. By this time my sandwich is long gone and its getting really late, so I say screw it I will just reinstall the OS and spend the next week getting things back to normal. Off I go on another long operation when I find an option that will copy my old system to a folder and reuse my User folder. About and hour later I was sitting at the Log In screen for my user account and everything was pretty much back to normal. Unfortunately I was out of time and didn’t get a chance to try Boot Camp again. But I would assume it will work.

What I Learned.
1. I am going to need to find a better way to back up.
2. Through all the madness I somehow gained 5-10GB of extra data.
3. Games are not always worth it.

Tags: Apple, OSX, Windows

Stylish & Google Reader

Nathan — Tue, 08 May 2007 19:44:09 +0000

I have been using Google Reader since it was updated to the new version about a year ago. Damn it is one nice Rss Reader. Not to long ago I found a theme for it that made the whole experience of reading rss feeds even more enjoyable. The theme is suppose to look like an OSX app but really I don’t know. It’s nice, clean and give the reader more room to read articles. You can head over to http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/ to find out how to install the theme. Works on many browsers. Hope you enjoy it as much as I have.

Tags: Google, OSX, RSS

Apple Fanboy

Nathan — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:55:25 +0000

The other day I was called an Apple fan boy. If you would have told me a few years ago that I would be the owner of a Mac. I wouldn’t have believed you. See I didn’t know much about computers say 5 years ago. Nor did I care to. But it is a different story now. I will admit the reason I got a MacBook Pro was because I could still use Windows. But really after only about 2 weeks I don’t miss Windows. I never really had any problems with Windows, I just thought maybe I should broaden my scope of computers beyond Windows, and very little Linux. To sum up the reason foe getting a MacBook Pro was not to be a Apple fan boy, but really to learn a different operation system, and since OSX is based on BSD Linux, I can learn more commands and great Linux things also. But I don’t guess its really what i think that makes me a fan boy it is what everyone else thinks. So whatever I guess.

Tags: Apple, OSX, Windows

Best of the Interweb 6-30-06

Nathan — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 14:32:25 +0000

Another weeks bites the dust, as well as another Month. Tomorrow we will be moving into July, the month I was born in 22 years ago. July is great, fireworks, birthdays, and great weather. So until then have a great weekend, and see you next month.

Use paper to fix your MacBook. Shouldn’t Apple be fixing them?
Remote control space shuttle landing. Thats all good, but without astronauts, seems like we would be leaving them all alone.
90 days locked up, what shall you do.
Or maybe, you could watch this and prevent that 90 days
Go here, this click “about us”, then click on the pic of the sand duns.
The best of OSX in Ubuntu

Tags: Apple, Best Interweb, Google, Jail, OSX, Space, Video

Best of the Interweb 6-7-06

Nathan — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 14:22:34 +0000

Here you go, a best of what on the interweb on this Wensday June 7th 2006

Fucking whinny gameers
We could get some good pics out of this little collision.
Google I don’t think bringing this to a mac and selling CSI is going to save you.
Damn I wish I would remember this.
See even OSX users want to be like Windows users!
Looks like I will only be around till 2048, as I am scheduled to die at age 63
Now if these would only leap tall buildings in a single bound.
What the hell?
Lets start the stalking of online social sites.

Tags: Best Interweb, Games, Google, MySpace, OSX, Space, Time