Pwned!

Yep, as the title said (and in part thanks to a "little" pushing from a friend), I took the plunge and now my iPhone is officially "pwned" (without the frigging pineapple! yay!).

I have to say, though, that the results were, for me at least, anticlimactic. 

Don't take me wrong!, I respect and admire the wonderful work of the Dev Team on this project but, as I expected, right now there were no reasons for me to "pwn" my phone (except for testing/give support on the software). Everything is working fine (except for the crapload of apps I had installed which, obviously, were wiped during the restore), but it WAS working that way before... I think the fruits of this labor will present themselves when 2.0 finally is out, but for now I see nothing REALLY different (though my bootloader is now neutered). 

From a purely technical point, however, this software (and the Dev Team) raises the bar on iPhone jailbreaking/unlocking and in the future, modding. This. Is. HUGE. And it will get even better: the makers of iLiberty+ are creating an app that will extend pwnage so you can (among other things) preinstall apps on your custom firmware... It will be callled IPSWTool

In a nutshell, I would have to say that the software works beautifully, save for a little glitch where for some reason it failed to see the iPhone at the very beginning and I had to click the "pwn" button several times until it got the iPhone :-(. If you have already used either ZiPhone (successfully :-P), iLiberty+ or similar, and you are in 1.1.4, you won't see any difference right off the bat. In that case, you could wait until you really need it (or you could continue to use your preferred solution...).

I intend to write a longer piece on this later on, along with another that has been buzzing inside my head about all the drama surrounding ZiPhone, i+, iLiberty, iLiberty+ and now Pwnage, but that will have to wait until I figure out which apps do I really need on the phone to get them installed again (laziness....)

Yes, the iPhone future looks very promising...

Update: Well, after syncing my 7.odd gigs o'music, the iPhone gave me the (now familiar) error "the iPhone canceled the Mail syncing"... Why does this happpen? I don't have a clue. Fortunately, the fix (for me, at least) is simple: Install BSD Subsystem and OpenSSH (or Term-VT100). Get into the iPhone and change the permissions on /var/mobile/Library/Mail (the folder and the .plist file inside it) to 755 or 777.

All is working normal now.

An interesting start of the season

Well, a new season is underway... this also marks the start of my blog. My occasional rantings and ramblings in a web page. Cool. As if the world needs another one of these... Anyway... Let's get started!

This promises to be an interesting season for the Dodgers (last one was promising too and we fans know how it ended, but anyway...), the addition of Andrew Jones and Hiroki Kuroda should be a very welcomed one, leaving us "only" with the third base problem (and Juan Pierre, but thats a different story entirely). Joe Torre should bring order and a new direction to the club, which is also welcome, but we'll have to see how the season unfolds.

As of today we are in 2nd place, after winning the opening series (and the opening day game!) 2-1 against the Giants, trailing the Padres by half game. Tonight we start a 3 game series against them in PETCO Park, which could propel us into first place (hopefully) and also allow me to study the team a little more.

Hiroki Kuroda is starting, and the season rolls on...