You know, I really hadn’t given the MobileMe service from Apple much thought. Why? Honestly, its just one more thing to pay for that I will never use. Or will I? This guys story made me think twice about it.
An incredible stolen Mac story without a final chapter.
~dub
There aren’t words to describe my thoughts on this.
FaBidiot (FaceBook Idiot)
-noun
1. a FaceBook user who is too lazy to properly read your status/comment and therefore reacts/comments inappropriately
2. a FaceBook user who has a holy freakout when your comment on their status is off-topic
3. a FaceBook user who has always has to be right, even though they are incredibly wrong
4. a FaceBook user who posts comments to your wall under their kids profile, pretending to be them but reveals their true identity in a myriad of different ways
5. a FaceBook user that complains in their status but doesn’t want advice nor does anything to fix their problem(s)
6. a FaceBook user that always has to one-up your comment
7. a FaceBook user that tries to find hidden meaning in your comment rather than take it literally
8. a FaceBook user that has nothing better to do but take FB quizzes all day long
9. a FaceBook user that has a status such as “worried…” and ignores all queries as to why they feel that way
I am very grateful to all those who contribute without compensation, many hours of work to provide us the ability to jailbreak our iPhones with the latest firmware/hardware. Without much consideration, I have defaulted to the idea that this is really a cat and mouse game where these good folks find vulnerabilities, then Apple plugs them up.
I know longer think this is the case. Let me esplain…
With the release of the new 3.0 software came numerous bugs. Knowing that Apple will be releasing 3.1 with fixes and features, the iPhone Dev Team was averse to releasing a jailbreak solution for fear that they would be handing the exploit to Apple on a silver platter leaving them stuck when it comes to jailbreaking future firmware releases.
Made sense to me…
This evening, I stumbled across the blog of George Hotz who was a part of the team who first unlocked the original iPhone (I believe he was 17 at the time). In somewhat of an arrogant fashion, George let the cat out of the bag and released purplerra1n. In doing this, the exploit(s) used to jailbreak the 3GS/3.0 firmware is now visible to Apple.
In his cockyness, he made me think on a couple of things:
- Software is never perfect, perhaps he is right in suggesting that there will always be an exploit. It might start requiring more work on the hack side but we should be able to continue to jailbreak.
- The exploit that enables the iPhone to be jailbroken has been out for some time now. Many Apple updates later, still not plugged.
Considering the latter, does Apple really want to *fix* our ability to jailbreak our phones?
Some reasons to plug the hole:
- Lost revenue from unauthorized apps?
- IP infringement?
- Prevent unauthorized carrier use (unlocking)?
- Other…
Some reasons to not plug the hole:
- How many more people are buying the iPhone because it can be hacked? Hacked or not, people
a. still have to buy an iPhone
b. still could provide revenue to an authorized carrier
c. still would purchase from iTunes and AppStore
- Free advertising (of the best kind – word of mouth)?
- Other revenue generating reasons…
The world may never know but from this camp, I am leaning towards the latter.
-boogybren
Ugh…
I have worked with unix/linux now going on my twelfth year. However, I am still pretty green with AIX as I have only dabbled in it for about two years now.
Although I have grown to enjoy their implementation of logical partitions and other value adds, I have always felt that their OS is old and stuffy. I was reminded of this recently when I could not perform a recursive grep. There are a lot of archaic command line switches in this stodgy old OS, not to mention all of the new and cool commands that are missing.
If you find yourself needing to do a grep -R in AIX or in any other *nix OS, here is an alternative command for you using find:
find . -type f | xargs grep -i <string>
For example, if you wanted to find any file that contains the word “voova” in your current working directory and all of the child directories, you would issue:
find . -type f | xargs grep -i voova
Hopefully, this will save you the exercise of RTFM’s
-boogybren
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