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iRail updates

· iRail, www

We’ve been busy.

First of all, big thanks for all the code and help from Pieter Colpaert.

Updates:

And again, Git repo located here. Feel free to participate. :)

You can very easily fork my Git repository, all working improvements will be merged to the main stream.

iRail.git

· Apple, Linux, Software, iRail, www

iRail source is on Github.

To access the iRail source code;

Be aware you need to be added as contributor before being able to commit changes.

  1. get Git
  2. [browse to some folder] mkdir git
  3. cd git
  4. git clone git@github.com:Tuinslak/iRail.git
  5. cd iRail
  6. git fetch

To edit & commit changes:

  1. git add [file]
  2. git commit -m 'edited [file], added this and that'
  3. git push

To update repo

  1. git fetch
  2. git merge origin/master

To check log

US government legalizes iPhone ‘jailbreaking,’ unlocking

· Misc, Software

And I quote from AppleInsider;

The U.S. government on Monday announced new rules that make it officially legal for iPhone owners to "jailbreak" their device and run unauthorized third-party applications. In addition, it is now acceptable to unlock any cell phone for use on multiple carriers.

According to The Associated Press, the government approved a handful of new exemptions to a federal law that prevents the circumvention of technical measure that prevent users from accessing and modifying copyrighted works. The report noted that every three years, the Library of Congress' Copyright Office authorizes exemptions to ensure existing law does not prevent non-infringing use of copyrighted material.

Four

· Hardware, Linux

Has a year uptime as well! Yay ;)

It's the one at the bottom. Running Ubuntu as OS (Dom0) and several Xen virtual machines (such as the nginx reverse proxy cache of this blog). Four is a dual core Xeon with 8Gb RAM.

iRail station bugs

· iRail, www

Following stations are giving a problem:

  • Aalst,
  • Asse,
  • Brugge,
  • Mechelen
Trying to find a fix.

Issue: All those stations give an additional intermediate page with the question to confirm your station choice.

Old solution: could be by-passed by adding “[B]” to the end of every station name but this has recently changed and is no longer working.

Current solution: none yet. Working with cURL to check the POST data.

Report additional broken stations to bugs@irail.be please.