iPod Nano Recovery Mode
After discovering James Whelton’s SpringBoard.plist hack for the 6G iPod Nano, Steve Throughton-Smith decided to play around with his Nano to see what else he might find. Steve may very well have stumbled on some kind of DFU-like recovery mode, much like the recovery mode that allows customized firmware (or jailbreaking) to be injected into [...]
Rebooting Linux Magically
If you have ever had a filesystem fail on you in Linux then you are quite aware of that “bottom of the pit” feeling you get in your stomach, especially if you are remote to the server and have no physical access to it. What to do if the system can’t load the reboot or [...]
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Microsoft kills Skype
Well not technically, Microsoft’s Windows Update caused a reboot of a substantial amount of Skype’s authentication servers. “Normally Skype’s peer-to-peer network has an inbuilt ability to self-heal, however, this event revealed a previously unseen software bug within the network resource allocation algorithm which prevented the self-healing function from working quickly.” — Skype Heartbeat Blog – [...]
iPhone unlocked, almost
The almighty iPhone is quickly crumbling under the pressure that hackers world wide have been putting on it. The iPhone Dev Team has been able to extract the content of the radio memory. They now have the main key to truly unlocking the iPhone and making me one happy Canadian with a full working iPhone. [...]
