Yep, There’s An App For That!
August 28th, 2009 by boogybrenProtect Your Privacy!
August 21st, 2009 by boogybrenOh My!
August 5th, 2009 by boogybrenThere aren’t words to describe my thoughts on this.
Don’t Mess With The Wonder Bread Man!
July 22nd, 2009 by boogybrenHow to Identify a FaBidiot
July 16th, 2009 by boogybrenFaBidiot (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
iPhone JailBreak – Really Cat and Mouse?
July 8th, 2009 by boogybrenI 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
grep -R Alternative
July 2nd, 2009 by boogybrenUgh…
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
- find . -type f tells the command to locate all files
- xargs allows for you to execute whatever command follows (in this case it is grep) on each individual file that the find command locates as if you grep’d each file one at a time
- grep searches for the string where the -i makes the search case insensitive.
Hopefully, this will save you the exercise of RTFM’s
-boogybren
Knockout Fail
June 29th, 2009 by boogybrenReason 428 to use In-Private Browsing Mode
June 24th, 2009 by boogybrenLooking for reasons why you should use in-private browsing mode? Let Dean Cain help you out!
Possible Good Bye to SORBS?
June 24th, 2009 by boogybrenSome frightening news is on the horizon. According to SORBS, the University of Queensland has terminated their hosting agreement.
From SORBS’ homepage:
It comes with great sadness that I have to announce the imminent closure of SORBS. The University of Queensland have decided not to honor their agreement with myself and SORBS and terminate the hosting contract.
I have been involved with institutions such as Griffith University trying to arrange alternative hosting for SORBS, but as of 12 noon, 22nd June 2009 no hosting has been acquired and therefore I have been forced in to this announcement. SORBS is officially “For Sale” should anyone wish to purchase it as a going concern, but failing that and failing to find alternative hosting for a 42RU rack in the Brisbane area of Queensland Australia SORBS will be shutting down permanently in 28 days, on 20th July 2009 at 12 noon.
This announcement will be replicated on the main SORBS website at the earliest opportunity.
For information about the possible purchase of SORBS, the source code, data, hosts etc, I maybe contacted at michelle@sorbs.net, telephone +61 414 861 744.
For any hosting suggestions/provision, please be aware that the 42RU space is a requirement at the moment, and the service cannot be made into a smaller rackspace without a lot of new hardware, virtual hosting is just not possible. The SORBS service services over 30 billion DNS queries per day, and has a number of database servers with fast disk to cope with the requirements.
Thank you for all your support over the years,
Michelle Sullivan (Previously known as Matthew Sullivan)
Although it is difficult to speculate what kind of impact this will have against the war on SPAM it is certain that if SORBS does close it’s operations, their missing presence will be noticed.
Let’s hope that our baysian filtering will pick up the slack!
(as a side note, when did Michael Sullivan become Michelle?)
-boogybren