Software

Yay, after many months-o-slack it went finally live a few days ago. The prototype that is.

Soon in every building ! ;)

Thanks to everyone who helped out! :)

As my last shell has been disconnected in China (not because I was probing websites, but because the building the Guruplug was in got closed) I’m looking for shells. Linux or Unix. With Git installed. I’ll barely use any disk space and it will probe the websites at most once/day (at night, when you won’t notice it).

And not just China, but any country where they tend to censor certain websites.

Jailbreaking my old iPhone 2G (Edge version).

It was a bit hard to find software that would still allow me to jailbreak this 2G.

Soooow, I mirrored all I used.

Bootloader: 3.9 or 4.6

PwnageTool: 3.1.5

Be aware: you will need iTunes 9 (or 8, I guess) – iTunes 10 gives an error: “iPhone could not be restored. An unknown error occurred (1600).”

Follow basic instructions on the PwnageTool (export mode > you need to select the default IPSW) and you’ll get there.

I bricked my Nexus S yesterday, while trying to root it (with an howto for an old Android version). As usual I was trying to do too much stuff with too little time (as I had to catch my plane later that evening).

I had to root it to get OpenVPN, ssh tunnel, or system wide proxies up and running. Things I needed to by-pass the Great Firewall in China on my mobile.

Damn, Google is starting to make nifty movies about their products. Actually got me excited. Even though I know it'll be nothing for me -.-

 

 

Via Pieter Colpaert.

Source.

After upgrading my Guruplug Display from Lenny to Squeeze I came along an odd error; every non-root user was unable to access anything related to the internet.

NTP:

Mar 26 20:31:50 localhost ntpd[1055]: ./../lib/isc/unix/ifiter_ioctl.c:348: unexpected error: Mar 26 20:31:50 localhost ntpd[1055]: making interface scan socket: Permission denied Mar 26 20:35:09 localhost ntpd[1055]: ntpd exiting on signal 15

Regular user:

yeri@gplugD ~ $ ping google.be ping: unknown host google.be yeri@gplugD ~ $ ping 85.12.6.171 socket: Permission denied yeri@gplugD ~ $ ssh localhost socket: Permission denied ssh: connect to host localhost port 22: Permission denied

Got this error on my Guruplug Display after messing with it.

Neither was I able to use su, or any other important command.

After many chmods, chowns, and cursing – check your mount (in /etc/fstab) options… ;)

Be sure / is not mounted with

nosetuid

Reboot and enjoy!