And of course the actual ad (how iPhone is super mega amazing) 🤷🏼‍♂️ but nice to see how they did it. And neat to see how tech evolved since my first iPhone 3G. What they fail to mention is the insane time it takes to film all that, and the post production editing... ;)

• Late 2013 Macbook Pro (15.4" Retina)
• 2.3Ghz i7 (quad core + Hyper-Threading)
• 16Gb RAM
• 512Gb SSD
• Intel Iris onboard GFX + Nvidia GeForce GT 750M PCE GFX
• BE-Azerty keyboard
• €2445,41 in 28 October 2013
• SUPER fast
• Minor scratch in the back of the LCD
• Minor (not very noticeable) corrosion at the right hand
• Weird scratch "smear" in LCD display (only visible on white background; about 2x2cm; to be honest it's not really visible)
• Besides this very decent Macbook Pro, it has been used, but in very good shape for the extreme work it has committed. Taken care of this device as if it was my own child. And did I mention blazing fast?

Specs:

Pictures:

It’s a Macbook Pro !

“Smear” above “AGE” (really hard to see)

Scratch at the back (knocked it against a glass door at night in my old apartment)

Corrosion at the right hand (not left, don’t ask why – probably because I use the touch pad all the time).

More info:

This is what I had to do to compile it on my Macbook Pro;

• Install Xcode, if you haven't, and be sure to select UNIX Dev Support.

Or you'll get this error:

configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables

• Export Xcode's gcc PATH:

PATH=/Developer/usr/bin/:$PATH

• Download wget
• In Terminal: untar it

tar xvzf wget-latest.*

• And compile it

cd wget directory
./configure
make
sudo make install

• In case you had an old (precompiled) wget installed;
  remove that version first (/usr/bin/wget probably).
  By default, this one will install itself in /usr/local/bin/wget which should be in your $PATH as well (in case it's not, make a symlink from the old /usr/bin/wget to /usr/local/bin/wget, or recompile with other installation directories).

Source.

And I didn't even pick the SSD :(

Update:

With my education discount... Not much better :(

1. Get Fraps, record whatever you want
2. Get XviD4PSP (freeware) & install
3. Import your avi files recorded using Fraps into XviD4PSP (drag & drop)
4. Pick the encoding you want on the left. x264 q21 DXVA-SD-Insane seemed to be an acceptable quality.
5. Click enqueue (and repeat 3->5 for multiple files)
6. Click encode
7. ... wait ...
8. This will create .mp4 files; transfer those to your Mac
9. Open iMovie, File -> Import -> Movies -> select the mp4 files
10. ... wait ... A couple of hours
11. Your movie should now be in iMovie, and you should be able to edit it
12. Edit whatever you want to edit, share and export and have fun.

Took me quite some time before I managed to do it, but hey, now I know… ;)

Syncing smart playlists, with “live updating” checked, bugged the playlists on the iPhone (there were songs in the playlist that didn’t belong there). Hoping this bug would be fixed ASAP I tried to ignore it as long as possible… However, it so far hasn’t been fixed.

As I was pretty fed up with unchecking “live updating” for 6 playlists eachtime I synced my iPhone, I tried to play around and find a fix.

Apparently, adding the following rule, solves the issue (don’t ask me why though):

“Playlist - is - Music.”

Add this to all your smart playlists, resync, and your issue should be solved. Don’t forget to check on “live updating” again. ;)

Media kind is music didn’t affect the issue, however, this was an old rule that was already added to avoid getting podcasts into my smart playlists.

Also, if anyone can tell me how to reduce the memory usage of iTunes 9 (using 900+ Mb, coverflow enabled). The only useful work around is either disable cover flow or to put iTunes into Mini Player (shift+Apple+M)…

Too big to be mobile, missing too many key features to be useful.

Actually, I guess Gizmodo said it all.

And besides that, no iPhone OS 4? No working iTunes? Anything truly useful?

What?!?!?!

I'm using Mac OS X (Leopard) as client, and a Gentoo server as server/host.

I both tried Viscosity and Tunnelblick on my Mac as OpenVPN software, and Viscosity is probably somewhat easier to configure (using the GUI), it was shareware. So I ended up using Tunnelblick and it seems to be doing its job quite well.

First of all, make sure Gentoo is set up and working as intended. I used my home router as VPN server (having both eth0 and eth1 (= ppp0).

Using this howto, you'll be able to get the server up and running.

Besides the installation, and perhaps (config) file locations it should be pretty similar on other Linux distros.

As I have dnsmasq running on my server (taking care of DNS) I added the following to the server.conf:

push "dhcp-option DNS 10.0.0.1"
push "redirect-gateway def1"
client-config-dir ccd
route 10.20.30.0 255.255.255.252

Don’t forget to allow DNS requests over tun0 interface in dnsmasq.conf.

The first line tells the server to hand out 10.0.0.1 as DNS server to its connecting clients (10.0.0.1 being the internal eth0 IP of my server).

The 2nd line, tells all clients to route ALL of their traffic through the VPN. I used the VPN to access a website that allowed only Belgian IPs, and I was in The Netherlands at the time I had to access the site (Skynet’s Rock Werchter stream). So I connected through my server at home.

And the 3rd and 4th line are needed if the client access the VPN is on a private IP subnet (like being connected on a WiFi router, using IP 192.168.178.x).

You’ll have to add, in the client-config directory a file per username connecting to the VPN with something similar to this:

iroute 192.168.178.0 255.255.255.0

I’m not entirely sure if you can add multiple iroutes; something I’ll have to figure out when being on a different network.

This is what my client config looks like (vpn-server-name.conf, located in ~/Library/openvpn/):

client
dev tun
proto udp
remote home.tiete.be 9000
resolv-retry infinite
nobind
tun-mtu 1500
tun-mtu-extra 32
mssfix 1200
persist-key
persist-tun
ca "ca.crt"
cert "yeri.crt"
key "yeri.key"
tls-auth "ta.key" 1
comp-lzo
verb 3

Yeri being my username. Don’t forget to download and add the ca.crt, user.crt, user.key (located in /usr/share/openvpn/easy-rsa/keys/) and ta.key (located in /etc/openvpn/) you’ve created on the server.

If your client asks for “directions”, pick 1.

Start up server and client software.

Hitting connect in Tunnelblick should connect you to the VPN server, and (in my case) giving me an IP similar to 10.20.30.6. You can check this using “ifconfig” in Terminal.

Client:

tun0: flags=8851 mtu 1500
    inet 10.20.30.6 --> 10.20.30.5 netmask 0xffffffff
    open (pid 20551)

Server:

tun0      Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
inet addr:10.20.30.1  P-t-P:10.20.30.2  Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
RX packets:407595 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:574351 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:27473209 (26.2 MiB)  TX bytes:603524377 (575.5 MiB)

Don’t forget; when using “tun” as driver, your gateway/VPN server will always have the IP ending on .1 (e.g.: 10.20.30.1).

Now, if you want to route all traffic throug the VPN, like I did, you’ll have to change some stuff in iptables (as the server is also acting as my home router, I already did have a few rules in it).

Allow all traffic through tun0 interface:

iptables -A OUTPUT -o tun0 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -i tun0 -j ACCEPT

Allow traffic through the external port 9000 (UDP):

iptables -A INPUT -i ppp0 -p udp -m udp --dport 9000 -j ACCEPT

Enable forwarding and NAT:

iptables -A FORWARD -s 10.20.30.0/24 -i tun0 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -d 10.20.30.0/24 -i ppp0 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE

And lastly, as I have Squid running on my server, I want to transparently forward all port 80 requests to the Squid server running on port 8080:

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i tun0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 8080

That’s about it. You should have a running VPN from your current location to your VPN server. And you’re able to use it as a gateway.

You can always traceroute/tracepath to your VPN server (10.20.30.1). It should only find one hop.

From Twitter.

Read the readme for installation howto. :)

Mobistar also said the warranty is two years. No matter what Apple says.

On the phone, the Mobistar employee guaranteed me the repair will take no longer than 5 work days.

In the Mobistar shop: “This is wrong, it will take <at least> 10 work days”.

In the meanwhile, I’ll just bang my head against the wall some more.

As I still have not received the receipt, and no one is able to tell me where it is, or when it arrives (“you’ll have it by next week”, “max 3 days”, “it takes at least 2 to 3 weeks before you’ll have it”), and they told me I could get my iPhone repaired with my MasterCard payment proof (uhhhh…).

Anyway, now that I’ve recieved that payment proof (mailed once per month) I went to the Mobistar shop, saying “Repair nowz plx!” & they already backed off, saying “Well, if for Dynafix this is not enough proof, it’s possible you’ll have to pay for the repair… And once the iPhone is sent, and they think it’s not enough proof, this cannot be stopped”.

I mean… What the fuck.

1. In what country, do they repair stuff for you, before you even agree to the repair cost?!

2. WTF is Mobistar doing in all this. They told me it’s proof, so what on earth has Dynafix have to say.

3. Sheesh, check the freaking serial/imei number, yes, check my address & name, yes, figure out… THINK FOR JUST ONCE. I. have. bought. it. legally. online. on. the. fucking. mobistar.be. site.

4. AAAARGH no one, but really NO ONE has any clue about this whole iPhone. It’s an unorganised last minute “hey pick me, pick me Apple, yes, we r so pr0, we have 40% 3G coverage, pewpew & are customer mindeth”. Not a single person knows, for 100% sure, what to do. “You might try X… But…” or “You have to wait for the receipts, that will arrive in less than a month”. YES!! I’ve got time, with one freaking year of warranty, when it should be two.

The iPhone cannot be used with iTunes because the information required for activation could not be obtained from the iPhone. Check that the SIM card is inserted in your iPhone and that it is not PIN-locked.

English: Win - Mac

French: Win - Mac

German: Win - Mac

Spanish: Win - Mac

The download is 2.04Gb (on a Mac), I haven’t started the download on a Windows yet.

And yes, you will still need a beta invitation before being able to login!

You’ll find me under Tuinslak or Isazi on the EU beta realm.

As for the character copy, it was done within 10 minutes. Just 5 hours left on the download. :(

Edit: same size on a Windows - 2.04Gb. The download contains the setup.exe and the installer.app, so you should be able to copy it to any OS.

Namely is an app that let’s you launch any application by typing in a few letters of that program’s name. Just type in a key combination ([Apple]+E here), and Namely’s window pop ups.

After a bit of Googling I found that it was possible to hide icons from the dock.

First of all, configure Namely, make sure it pop ups if you type in your key combo. If you don’t do that now, you’ll have problems to configure it later.

Once that’s done, quit Namely.

Then go to the Namely.app folder (using Terminal), and add these 2 lines

LSUIElement
1

between <dict> and </dict>

This is what it should look like:

(Nano is the editor I use, but you can also use vi or vim too, depending what’s installed + you might have Namely installed in a different directory)

Nazgul:~ yeri$ cd /Applications/Utilities/Namely.app/
Nazgul:Namely.app yeri$ nano -w Contents/Info.plist

This is how my Info.plist looks like:

< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8">
< !DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">


        CFBundleDevelopmentRegion
        English
        CFBundleExecutable
        Namely
        CFBundleIconFile
        Namely
        CFBundleIdentifier
        com.asagoo.namely
        CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion
        6.0
        CFBundlePackageType
        APPL
        CFBundleSignature
        ????
        CFBundleVersion
        2.5.1
        NSMainNibFile
        MainMenu
        NSPrincipalClass
        NamelyApplication
        LSUIElement
        1

Notice line 25 & 26.

And that should be it – double click Namely to start it up, hit your keyboard shortcut, and it should pop up!

No icon in my dock. :)

Makes life just that bit easier!

$date com.apple.launchd[1] (tuncfgd$pid) posix_spawnp("/usr/sbin/tuncfg", ...):
No such file or directory
$date com.apple.launchd[1] (tuncfgd$pid) Exited with exit code: 1
$date com.apple.launchd[1] (tuncfgd) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

tun is (trying) to restart every 10 (!) seconds. I tried updating Hamachi’s tun/tap drivers, without any success. It kept restarting the process every 10 seconds.

After a bit of Googling, it seemed to be a known problem. So I decided to uninstall Hamachi & the tun/tap drivers.

sudo rm -r /usr/bin/hamachi
sudo rm -r  /usr/bin/hamachi-init
sudo rm -r  /usr/sbin/tuncfg
sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/tuncfgd.plist
sudo rm -r /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/tuncfgd.plist
sudo rm -r /Applications/HamachiX

This should solve the restarting problem. You might want to reboot to be sure.

When uninstalling the drivers, HamachiX will be gone; there will be no way to use it. You can decide to ignore the spawning-processes, and keep using Hamachi as-is, but the spawning processes might slow down your computer. But HamachiX should work (although it often crashed here).

I tried reinstalling the tun/tap drivers, but the same happens. I guess I’ll have to wait for a fix. :(

On the other side, I’ve tried the console version of Hamachi (so no HamachiX) which seems to be working fine (so far). Just missing out on the handy GUI. Edit

Nick, one of the posters, wrote an article I totally agree with. It really reflects why I’m using Mac instead of Windows now.

Read about it here (Dutch), or here (Google translated, far from understandable)