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Monthly Archives: July 2008

fix for pwnage “failed to enter dfu mode” error

19 July 2008

The Twittersphere is going crazy over the new iPhone Pwnage 2.0 tool and lots of people are getting the “Failed to enter DFU mode” error. The solution to this is to open a terminal and run:
mkdir ~/Library/iTunes/”Device Support”
And then Pwnage should run happily.

talk about a “very narrow viewpoint”

12 July 2008

I just came across this boneheaded blog post about Google’s newly open-sourced Protocol Buffers:
They claim they could not use XML because ‘it isn’t going to be efficient enough for this scale’. WTF??? If this statement came from someone else, I would understand, but these guys are supposed to KNOW markup.
Speed in a system in [sic] [...]

i’ve done my part — complaining — and it worked

12 July 2008

Toward the end of my time at Novell, I was looking into a browser sync system for the GNOME Online Desktop. As I am a lazy hacker, the ideal solution at the time for me would have been for Google to open source its nice browser sync extension and then adapt it to the [...]

clearly nyt writers read my blog

10 July 2008

Consumerist (a must-read blog) has a link today to a New York Times article about CSAs, which I mentioned a couple of weeks ago.