Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 9th Feb 2013 01:01 UTC
"Over the last half a week, Apple has been hit with the largest mass-hacking incident in its history. And the perpetrators were the company's own users. Nearly seven million iPhone, iPad and iPod touch owners have cracked Apple's restrictions on their devices using the jailbreaking tool Evasi0n since the tool was released Monday morning, according to the latest count from Jay Freeman, the administrator of the app store for jailbroken devices known as Cydia. That makes the iOS-hacking app the fastest-adopted jailbreak software of all time, Freeman says." Because, of course, only nerds and geeks jailbreak. There's also a technical analysis of the jailbreak.
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RE: Why I won't jailbreak again
by MOS6510 on Sun 10th Feb 2013 16:27
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RE[2]: Why I won't jailbreak again
by darknexus on Mon 11th Feb 2013 10:51
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Lucky I managed to grab the Transmission app before it got ejected from the app store so I can do torrents on a non-jailbreaked iPhone.
Yeah, I wish I'd been in time to do that. Oh well, running a torrent server with an auto-watch folder is a workable solution, though not ideal.
RE[2]: Why I won't jailbreak again
by zima on Tue 12th Feb 2013 18:07
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/24/13 17:26 UTC
So, the Xbox One disaster continues. Microsoft's policy for dealing with the used games market has reportedly leaked - and it's a clear and direct attack to destroy the used games market. Prices for used games will be set at the retail value of a new game, and retailers have to hook into Microsoft's computer systems and comply with Microsoft's terms and conditions.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/21/13 21:38 UTC
At an event earlier today, Microsoft unveiled the next Xbox - the third model, but confusingly named Xbox One. The big focus was TV, integrated Kinect, and all the other stuff we all expected to be forced down our throats. I think it took them 25 minutes to actually come to what should be the core of the story: gaming. Nothing groundbreaking in the gaming department, except for how Microsoft intends to handle the used games market and borrowing games from friends: pay up, buddy!
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/20/13 11:29 UTC
The day has finally come! Jolla has finally announced the launch device for its Sailfish operating system - and by god this is a looker. It's decidedly different from other phones out there, but it has good specifications and carries a relatively reasonably price tag - EUR 399, and it's up for pre-order today, shipping in the fourth quarter of this year.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/18/13 21:33 UTC
Why does Google get so much credit in the technology industry? Why, despite the company's many obvious failings, do many geeks and enthusiasts still hold a somewhat positive view on the all-knowing technology giant? A specific talk at Google I/O this week provides the answer.
Linked by David Adams on 05/16/13 4:23 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/11/13 21:41 UTC
"Windows is indeed slower than other operating systems in many scenarios, and the gap is worsening." That's one way to start an insider explanation of why Windows' performance isn't up to snuff. Written by someone who actually contributes code to the Windows NT kernel, the comment on Hacker News, later deleted but reposted with permission on Marc Bevand's blog, paints a very dreary picture of the state of Windows development. The root issue? Think of how Linux is developed, and you'll know the answer.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/08/13 14:22 UTC
This is one of those news items that's fun to write, fun to read, fun to comment on, and where no one will be able to say anything unkind. It's all just one big ball of awesome fluffiness. TuneTracker, the BeOS radio automation software, has just released something very special: TuneTracker System 5, the first version designed entirely and specifically for Haiku. In fact, it actually includes Haiku in the software package. Better yet, TuneTracker also unveiled several system-in-a-box products - which have Haiku and TuneTracker pre-installed.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/02/13 15:28 UTC
Exactly twenty years ago, a document was published that played a huge role in establishing the web as we know it today. Twenty years later, and this simple and straightforward document is proof of an irrefutable fact: while closed technologies can change markets, open technologies can change the world.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 04/29/13 21:06 UTC
Oh multitasking. That staple of computing that got thrown out the window with many modern smartphones. We got some rudimentary thing in its place - but even as multitasking on phone and tablets improves, its user-visible side remains cumbersome. Windows 8 has a neat implementation, and now it's time Android follows in it footsteps.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 04/24/13 22:24 UTC
They're here! Whether that excites you or not remains to be seen, but the Galaxy S4, which will most likely become the best selling Android smartphone of the year by a huge margin, has been reviewed by all the major sites, and there's lots of interesting conclusions in there - although I think most of you will get the gist.More Features »
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I jailbroke my previous iPhone running on iOS 5.1.1. I have to admit to being disappointed. It's not that the system was difficult to maintain and keep stable (no more difficult than maintaining Debian really) but that there just weren't a lot of apps I was interested in. I'd hoped to find some amazing media players that could play anything I'd throw at them better than the ones in the App Store. I'd hoped to find a terminal that would let me have a CLI without having to do a loopback ssh connection. I wanted to enable full multitasking. What did I find? I've found vlc which, at the time, could only play files transferred to the device (no playing from smb or other remote shares). I found mobile terminal, which didn't even work. Then there was backgrounder which has been abandoned and now causes serious system instabilities (so much for bypassing iOS's multitasking restrictions). I found loads of themes and springboard tweaks which, if used in the wrong combination, not only make your springboard unstable but make your iPhone reboot more often than a pc running Windows ME on bad ram. I found other repositories, many of which are filled with cracked software that's been altered in who knows what way and if you're dumb enough to install it you deserve whatever's coming.
Did I find a few things I liked? Absolutely. Browser changer (Atomic being the default browser in my case) and kill background to add a configurable kill all button to the app switcher. There was also iTransmission, when I needed to download an iso remotely and didn't have my laptop. But, when I ultimately did decide to update to iOS6 I couldn't just run an OTA or iTunes update. No, I had to do a restore from backup which took forever and, on top of that, didn't save half of the settings I would have liked. Not finding much of what I wanted, and the update pain, mean that I probably won't be jailbreaking again any time in the near future. I don't care about crazy wallpapers or themes, springboard tweaks are recipes for instabilities, and there just aren't enough up-to-date apps to make the pain worth the very small gain.