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    • The blog got hacked.

    Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

    The blog got hacked, it seems somewhere around the end of june. That’s what happens when you take a long vacation, both away from your computer and out of the country.
    Dammit !
    My apologies to all those who were affected by this. I’ve since deleted all files and have replaced it with the latest version of [...]

    If Cydia installer jumps back to Springboard - fix

    Saturday, March 15th, 2008

    I recently updated the Cydia package installer, and something went wrong. It crashed back to Springboard while updating itself, and refused to start up again.
    All is not lost however. Remember that Cydia is actually a graphical front-end to the iphone port of apt-get, so you can still install applications via the command line. So drop [...]

    installer.app ‘main script execution failure’ & moving your Applications

    Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

    Firmware 1.1.4
    If you have moved your Applications to your mobile directory (/private/var/mobile/) you might have problems with your installer.app permissions.
    Howto move your applications from your small root partition :

    cp -r /Applications /private/var/mobile
    mv /Applications /Applications.old
    ln -s /private/var/mobile/Applications /Applications

    CD into your now-moved Applications folder and do the following :

    chmod +s Installer.app/Installer
    chown -R root:wheel Installer.app

    This worked for me. [...]

    Firmware 1.1.4 and Ziphone

    Monday, March 3rd, 2008

    I don’t know if Apple is giving up, or if the hackers are getting better and better, but this is following the same hacking curve as that of the psp : the first few firmwares were really hard to hack, and then it got easier, and after it there was nothing to it (at least, [...]

    Unlocking the iphone (firmware 1.1.1)

    Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

    Seems a whole lot of people have spent enormous time on jailbreaking and subsequently unlocking the iPhone. For those who want to know more about this, here are a few links to get you started (please note that these links are valid at the time of writing, and that I am not encouraging you to [...]