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June 17, 2008

Jailbreak Ipod Touch ?

Filed under: Personal, IT in ME, UNIX

Why Jailbreak ?

So that you can install your prefered apps without paying extra cents.

Risky?

Yes if it is not done carefully and well researched you may corrupt the image and need lengthy restoration.

What are the tools I need ?

WinXP,Of course IPOD Touch & wifi connection. If you know Linux command that would be added advantage.

Pre-healthcheck required ?

Yes, ensure your ipod is fully charged. Wifi is enabled and ipod able to detect the signals. Uncheck the auto-lock

Softwares requirement ?

Download ziphone (www.ziphone.org) , the software don’t harm your ipod ur your pc & putty.exe (putty.org)

Steps to jailbreak.

1.Install ziphone on your laptop.

2. Select the option Jailbreak ONLY from the left Panel. Ensure ITunes is running and it is connected to your Ipod.

3.You will see some funny things/noise happening to your Ipod. Don’t get panic. The installation takes less than 5 min . There will be auto shut & Reboot of your ipod.

Next Steps.

This is required to free up some space and move the /Applications directory out of the root partition and move it to /var/root instead. If you are NOT COMFORTABLE WITH SSH COMMANDS DON’T do this STEP.

4.Enable wifi in your Ipod, Go to Settings Wifi and from the configurations, grep the IP address of the ipod ,Should be starting from 192.168.xxx.xxx.

5. Start up your putty, enter the hostname same as your ipaddress. SSH to the IP.

#ssh -l root <ip address>

6. You will be prompted for login id: ( if you see this screen, then you’re safe because the connections works perfectly). Supply the login as root and password as alpine.

7.# cat /etc/fstab
/dev/disk0s1 / hfs rw 0 1
/dev/disk0s2 /private/var hfs rw 0 2

8.# cp -R /Applications /var/root/ROOT_Applications
# rm -rf /Applications && ln -s /var/root/ROOT_Applications /Applications

9. Issue a df -k  command to see the free space.

10. Try hard rebooting your IPOD, Once it is up. Check whether you could see Installer Icon. If you see them then the installation is successful, however more issues might arise, likewise what I encountered.

What issues that I face :-

1. When i try to execute Installer, i encountered error message Main script execution error.

So first thing to do is, ssh again to the same IP. Check the Groups and User permissions for the /Applications Folder.

It should be root:wheel for (/Applications ) #chown -R root:wheel /Applications

I rebooted again and again encountered with same error. SO some research is required…

2. Looks like it is still permission issue , issue the following command to resolve the error..

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

Yes the above fixed the issue permanently.

Now you would be able to Install your apps…happily. Njoy…

January 5, 2008

Guardian Service Processor

Filed under: IT in ME

If you are working remotely and need to power up a HP-UX machine which is completely shutdown, Use the following way. This can save time of travelling to the datacenter and uptime of the server.

1. Go to Console Server
2. Select Server which is always denoted with number
3. When prompter for Console login; press ctrl+b simultaneously
4. You will get Service Processor Login : Just press <enter> key
5. You will prompter for password :  Just press <enter> key
6. You will be able to see gsp> prompt
7. Type he
8. You will see many other options ; select RS to restart machine.

October 20, 2007

RH Linux Enterprise on XP

Filed under: IT in ME, UNIX

It took me 2 hours to setup Linux Enterprise on WinXP w/station using VMware Workstation Ver 6.01. Next will be installing Solaris 10, it will be used for testing, I need to learn Solaris Volume Manager which I’m Zero at . Don’t ever try to install if your RAM/Memory is not even 512MB, it will cause pain to you :)

October 17, 2007

Tivoli Installation for Linux Server

Filed under: Personal, IT in ME, UNIX

I had a big headache with this IBM Linux Machine, the DSM installation was not configured properly..

Found 3 important files was missing, dsm.sys , dsm.opt & inclexcl .

Copied  file from working server to /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin

Configure dsm.sys to point to correct dsmerror.log & scheduler.log & normally it should be there in /var/adm/tsm. If the files are not there, just create em.

#touch dsmerror.log

#touch scheduler.log

#chmod 755 <files.log>

Issue this command #dsmc q sess to test the scheduler.

Now creating the script file :-

/etc/rc2.d 

#cat > /etc/rc2.d/S23Tivoli

/usr/bin/dsmc sched > /dev/null 2>&1 &

<control+D>

<control+D>

# chmod 744 /etc/rc2.d/S23Tivoli

# /etc/rc2.d/S23Tivoli start

Once that is done , issue the command to startup the script

#S23Tivoli start

# ps -ef| grep dsm

you should see /usr/bin/dsm is running :)

Now enable the backup for the server & it is done !! :) But it took me 2 days to clean the whole mess.It was a huge mess :( Anyway happy that it is running fine now, worth the effort :)

July 28, 2007

Worlds smallest Website

Filed under: IT in ME, News

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh The Worlds smallest Website http://www.guimp.com/  :)

May 3, 2007

RedHaT SaTelLite Issue or my issue ??

Filed under: IT in ME

Working night shift today, it was raining cats-dogs , nevertheless the road was slippery and cars was going on slow with headlights oN. I could hardly see the dark road. I have never experienced such a heavy rain before at Night. Many thoughts disrupted my mind, i felt the sense of peacefulness is gawking, my heart is empty…..or am I just insinuating things on my own… Many thoughts.. -ve thoughts reciprocating in mind…

Stepped in to office, i switched on my Laptop, there comes a storm on my head, RHSS is having issue, unable to kickstart, with just 2 engineers I pondered how am i going to manage if there is sudden surge in the incidents. I handed this over to Mr.SingaUtara, he did a good and excellent job in coordinating. On the other side Jason is giving his utmost support from Penang while chilling with beer in his hand. And yes as expected issues was solved, i was at peace as this impacts the global issue..

However…. the Mind boggling issue that disrupting my mind continues.. I still find it hard to digest, it is 5:13am Friday now.. emoticon, I took a slow walk to corridor , inhaled fresh morning air that snoozes all the weak veins running in my body. The strong chilled air spiked through my spinalcord and hit on my brain , sending electric signals down to me.. to go back to my cubicle… which I just did.

April 22, 2007

New DigiCam Canon Powershot A640

Filed under: IT in ME

During the last PC fair i decided to get a Digicam. Saw this booth that is offering Canon for good deals.Powershot A640 for $1250. Although it is on bulky end (because of the batteries) i decided to get it. It has some good feature’s life Macro, AP, image stitching etc..etc.

I got mini tripod + 1GB MM Card+ Cap + Cover + Free photo develops + Internation warranties.

Today I got my collegue Jason to teach me some skills. Wow he explored and showed me some good results.. Using Macro, shutter speed and Aventure Priority. Well now I need to practise more and try to make use of all the modes and shoot like PRO !! emoticon

 

 

 

 

 

March 4, 2007

Photo Shots

Filed under: IT in ME

Please visit http://vilves.fotopages.com

February 11, 2007

I Got back -Samsung HDD Portable 40GB Hardisk

Filed under: IT in ME

As all of you aware i gave the faulty to my bf to get it fixed..to my amaze, he bought a new one and gave it back to me yesterday. emoticonAlthough i lost all my data, i manage to recreate a whole new lot of data but without a external disk, i felt my arm is broken.To extract the data might cause RM500 which is damn expensive and I will not waste penny on tht.He touched my heart deeply ..as he came all the way to my office to give my new disk. GREAT MAN !! emoticon.. not only that he bought KANK VCD which i wanted to watch for many months.. just felt very touched when u have someone so caring towards you and gave importance to your needs.. felt very Lucky. Joie Allevous voie,.

January 20, 2007

Ubuntu in VMWare

Filed under: IT in ME

I got the news on my assessment, tensed but however im getting myself prepared. I have setup vmware player (latest ver) and downloaded the browser file. It is running perfect but slow when switching to XP, because it is using partial of the memory 512MB ram.emoticon

But i loved the interface, damn cool and interactive..So now i have downloaded the iso image to install as secondary OS to XP.. i can setup my test machineemoticon. Also now SUN is giving out Sun OS ver 10 for free in DVD, i have put the order’s so now i will have 3 OS running.. but there is a bottleneck..my Sun knowledge is very very bad.. but i can learn, need a lot of browsing for the technical tips…emoticon

Samsung HDD Portable 40GB Hardisk

Filed under: IT in ME

emoticon My portable hardisk is gone in the air… Felt very sad about it not because of the hardisk but because of the data in stored. I bought it during PIKOM fair last year December, thinking it will be my Bday Gift!! emoticon It was damn expensive.. but anyway my bf promised to get it checked in Low Yat and even getting new one for me.. but i rejected the idea.. he has already spend $$$$ alot for me this month, i got a new watch Espirit , MArks & Spencer & Padini blouse .

So now im waiting whether i would be able to rescue the data else :( …keeping my finger’s crossed.






















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