iPhone unlock firm threat

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 25 August 2007 05:00:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

AT&T on Saturday threatened legal action against the company that claimed to have unlocked the iPhon...

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Windows Genuine Advantage Suffers Worldwide
Outage

post from Daring Fireball on 25 August 2007 02:47:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

What a wonderful idea, centralizing “validation” for the world’s monopoly operating system. Bravo, Microsoft.

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orldwide-outage-problems-galore.html

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New Criterion Collection Release of Terrence
Malicks Days of Heaven

post from Daring Fireball on 25 August 2007 02:00:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Lee Kline, on supervising the new transfer:

As we kept moving forward I began to realize how many people just love Days of Heaven. When folks would ask me what I was working on lately, and I told them it was Days, they would light up.

Consider me lit up. (Via Coudal.)

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Palm Centro Photo Leak

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 25 August 2007 01:20:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

What appear to be official product shots of the Palm Centro have been leaked, courtesy of a tip to G...

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PCWiz OSX86 Blog - Networking on Mac OS X in
VMware

post from InsanelyMac Forum Community Blog List on 25 August 2007 11:56:57 AM. © InsanelyMac Forum Community Blog List

I couldn't believe how amazingly simple it was to get networking to work on JaS 10.4.8. This trick has only been tested on 10.4.8 and no other version:

Open your VMX configuration file in a text editor like Notepad
Add the line ethernet0.virtualDev="e1000" to the config file
Boot virtual machine

And now, networking should work. If you have tested this on other versions of OS X please send me a message with your results. If this doesn't work, follow the below method:

Download the Maxxuss driver here
Unzip the file to extract the ISO
Mount the ISO in VMware
Make sure you have Ethernet enabled in VMware (host-only, bridged, NAT, etc.)
Boot the virtual machine (there should be a Maxxuss CD icon)
Open the Maxxuss CD
Go into the MaxxussAMDPCNET folder
Create a new folder called 'network' (without quotations) on the desktop
Copy all the contents of the MaxxussAMDPCNET folder in the CD into the 'network' folder
Now copy just the MaxxussAMDPCNET.kext file inside the Maxxuss folder to your home folder (/Users/<yourusername>)
Open a terminal window
Type in the following command and press Enter

sudo Desktop/network/install.sh

When prompted for your password, enter it
If all goes well, the command should silently complete with no messages on the screen and it should return to a blank command prompt
If you see some sort of error, write it down and send me a message or post a topic in the forums
Now, reboot the VM and networking should work!

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http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?automodule=blog&blogid=146&showentry=280

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PCWiz Blog - Networking on Mac OS X in VMware

post from InsanelyMac Forum Community Blog List on 25 August 2007 11:56:57 AM. © InsanelyMac Forum Community Blog List

I couldn't believe how amazingly simple it was to get networking to work on JaS 10.4.8. This trick has only been tested on 10.4.8 and no other version:

Open your VMX configuration file in a text editor like Notepad
Add the line ethernet0.virtualDev="e1000" to the config file
Boot virtual machine

And now, networking should work. If you have tested this on other versions of OS X please send me a message with your results. If this doesn't work, follow the below method:

Download the Maxxuss driver here
Unzip the file to extract the ISO
Mount the ISO in VMware
Make sure you have Ethernet enabled in VMware (host-only, bridged, NAT, etc.)
Boot the virtual machine (there should be a Maxxuss CD icon)
Open the Maxxuss CD
Go into the MaxxussAMDPCNET folder
Create a new folder called 'network' (without quotations) on the desktop
Copy all the contents of the MaxxussAMDPCNET folder in the CD into the 'network' folder
Now copy just the MaxxussAMDPCNET.kext file inside the Maxxuss folder to your home folder (/Users/<yourusername>)
Open a terminal window
Type in the following command and press Enter

sudo Desktop/network/install.sh

When prompted for your password, enter it
If all goes well, the command should silently complete with no messages on the screen and it should return to a blank command prompt
If you see some sort of error, write it down and send me a message or post a topic in the forums
Now, reboot the VM and networking should work!

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http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?automodule=blog&blogid=146&showentry=280

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Itso

post from Daring Fireball on 25 August 2007 03:00:00 AM. © Daring Fireball

A neologism for your consideration:

itso — noun, pl. itsos : typographical error involving the use of it’s for its, or vice-versa. You have an itso in the second paragraph.

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X-Rite Buys Pantone

Jeff Gamet, The Mac Observer:

X-Rite announced on Friday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to buy Pantone for US$180 million. X-Rite is known for its color measurement and matching products, and Pantone is recognized as a world leader in color design and is also the creator of the industry standard Pantone Matching System, or PMS.

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Regarding Engadgets Story on iPhoneSIMfree.com

Ryan Block at Engadget:

It’s high noon, Apple and AT&T — we really hate to break it to you, but the jig is up. Last night the impossible was made possible: right in front of our very eyes we witnessed a full SIM unlock of our iPhone with a small piece of software. It’s all over, guys.

Really? What’s over?

The iPhoneSIMfree.com team called us up to prove their claim that they cracked Apple’s iPhone SIM lock system, and prove it they did. (No, we don’t have a copy of the unlock software, so don’t even ask us, ok?) The six-man team has been working non-stop since launch day, and they’re officially the first to break Apple’s SIM locks on the iPhone with software. It’s done. Seriously. They wouldn’t tell us when and how they would release it to the public, but you can certainly bet that they’ll try to make a buck on their solution (and rightly so).

I believe that Block witnessed a demo. But if it’s not released, how does that qualify as “done”? Wake me up when it’s released.

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http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivit
y-august-24-2007/

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Java Needs an Overhaul

Russell Beattie:

I like Jonathan Schwartz a lot, but I think that unless some drastic changes are made to Java, the move to JAVA as Sun’s ticker symbol is going to be as relevant as changing it to COBOL.

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http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/java-needs-an-overhaul

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