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If you can make the iPhone bigger, you can make it smaller

SystemError51 — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:07:34 +0000

Music is my boyfriend
Music is my girlfriend
Music is my dead-end
Music’s my imaginary friend
…
Music’s my king size bed
Music’s where I meet my friends
Music is my hot hot bed

…my music is where I’d like you TO TOUCH

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Aperture Laboratories’ lesser known basement

SystemError51 — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:48:29 +0000

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Lifehacking: Making a screen cooler

SystemError51 — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:48:16 +0000

Admittedly, I do like the current iMac design a bit. I had a screen lying around, with which I had no idea what I should do with it. So I had the idea to take it apart and do something cool with it. To be precise, it’s a LG Flatron 19-inch widescreen. Looks like this when you buy it:

So I removed the plastic casing, leaving me with the actual monitor unit. I went into a DIY and looked for a frame with at least that size or larger, and found a good one. I took the frame apart, so that I only had the glass. Made some marks on the glass about the size and started cutting. After that, I painted the front plastic shell black, “overwriting” things like the LG logo and the “Flatron” identifier in the top left. Inserting the glass was no problem since it had the correct dimensions.

This is what it looks like now.

Kinda cool eh?

Mounted and ready for prime time. It’s now playing music videos all the time. With the glass in front it suddenly looks far more expensive. =)

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laststep taking another step forward

SystemError51 — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:53:29 +0000

Just real quick and simple. While working on a modified Linux Kernel for my project was good fun and a nice learning experiment, I thought it’s time to push the project a bit deeper. As such I thought it is time to implement my own kernel, written from the ground up. This would give me absolute freedom to do whatever I wanted to do, at that stage I could even implement my own graphical server (which is probably what I gonna do… X11 is pretty heavy, you have to admit that). The trick is make my own kernel, and then get a toolchain ported so that I can compile stuff I need, and from then on in develop things I really want.

I have begun working on such a kernel. So far it doesn’t do much, other than say “Hello World!” \o/ … gotta start somewhere. Obviously the starting point is written in Assembler – because there’s no other way of getting a kernel started. The rest boils down to being written in C. At least the basics. After that, I can probably go and do my own object oriented implementations… I have to see about that.

For my purposes I believe the best way to go is a Microkernel. I’m calling it Aura. Currently I’m implementing IRQs and that stuff. Here’s a map of what the whole Kernel thing should look like.

I’ll update you on the progress.

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How to get full iOS 4 features on iPhone 3G

SystemError51 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:45:51 +0000

While I was fairly impressed at the features of the new iOS 4 for iPhone and iTouch, I was equally as PISSED that people who have older models could not avail of THE most attractive features in the new software for Apple’s mobile devices (apparently you require out-of-this-world CPU to render a wallpaper and some shadows which is why it was omitted on the 3G). Also, I grew a bit tired to boot a VM of XP or boot Vista on the other partition, just to synchronize the phone with iTunes. For this reason, I sat down and wondered if iOS 4 can already be jailbroken.

And yes it can =)

So to make a long story short, follow these instructions and you can be a happy camper – if you care about things that others have on their shiny 3Gs’s and iPhone 4′s. These instructions are FOR THE 3G ONLY!!

WARNING: If you are looking to unlock (remove carrier restrictions), STOP READING HERE!!! This is only for activated iPhones using official carriers.

If you already updated to iOS 4.0.2, you might be out of luck… best to back up your phone before you try this.

1.) Download the IPSW of iOS 4, here.

2.) Download the Redsn0w jailbreak tool, here for Windows or here for Mac.

3.) To be on the safe side, close iTunes.

4.) Turn your phone off completely.

5.) Start Redsn0w and direct it to the firmware you downloaded earlier.

6.) Once the iOS firmware is verified, you’ll see a screen with some options – most of which you will want. Like “enable Multitasking” etc.

7.) Connect your phone. Best with the cable as you need to perform a certain procedure next.

8.) Redsn0w will tell you PRECISELY what to press and when to enter DFU mode. It is a very special technical mode meant for Apple engineers… Once you entered this mode of operation, Redsn0w will do the rest for you.

9.) If everything was successful, your screen will show up something like “Downloading Jailbreak Data…”. This will take a while, so watch some YouTube.

10.) Once it completes your phone will reboot. Everything will be left intact, the way it was! Except that now you have Cydia as additional App Store on the display. Rejoice!!

Cydia is the community powered App Store, in case you didn’t know. It contains thousands of apps that either have not been approved by Apple, or the developers can’t afford the 99$ Developer Membership to officially release apps on the real App Store. Most are free, but some are commercial. Those that are… Have a good reason for it. xPod and iFile for example. No matter what you install, you should get the “Backgrounder” app which enables multitasking for older apps and apps that don’t natively support the Apple way. That one is free.

Once it completes you will probably notice that the phone chose a random image as home screen background… you can change that like you can on the 3Gs and 4G through the settings =)

This is how I did it, and this my iPhone 3G:

Cool eh? Hope this helps some people.

PS: Icon animation with background enabled isn’t as sluggish as you might think.

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Lucid Leopard

SystemError51 — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 10:10:28 +0000

This is not a Mac.

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Time really tells you, who is who

SystemError51 — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:13:43 +0000

You may or may not have read a rather long story I posted back in February about a former friend of mine.

Today I was contacted by the agency that rented the apartment out to them at the time, and they gave me a short but good update on more recent events.

Did you hear that they broke into the aprtment at the weekend and the garda are now looking for them for breaking an entering, funny she sent me a message on Monday sayin im in Hunters all the time tell the garda to come find her.

A very strange couple

Garda = Police in Ireland.

I replied to the agency, stating that if they need further evidence, I still have the images from the night my former friend entered my room without consent (unedited of course, I had to edit the few I posted for legal reasons).

Last time I checked, if a subletter enters the room of someone a room is rented out to without his or her consent is a criminal offense. Cheap webcams and open source can accomplish a lot. Just saying.

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Never forget 10-8-10

SystemError51 — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:10:47 +0000

In a relentless move to gain control of a rare mineral that only seems to be in abundance in Japan, the might of what was the Britannian Empire decided to take over the nation of Japan. Once completed, the Empire would strip the nation of its rights, reshape the flag, and even rename the country itself into a mere designation. From this day forward, Japan should be called Area 11. The campaign to gain control of Japan started on August 10, 2010.

Super powers such as USA could not stand a chance against the military might that is Britannia, and surrendered – thus signing the country and the entire continent over into British ruling. That gave the Empire a nearly unmatched technological superiority. However most military equipment of the Empire relies on sakuradite, which is available in high abundance in Japan.

It is then when Lelouch Lamperouge is disowned by his father, and would soon after meet an immortal witch named C.C. (Shi-tzu), which then bestowes a supernatural power on him – the Geass. It is a power that, when used on others, enforces absolute obedience. People will do as Lelouch commands them. Using this power, Lelouch would soon after create an alter ego, Zero, and then use it to form a movement that would fight the Britannian rule and free Japan of the Britannian stronghold.

In the years to come, The Order Of The Black Knights would form a formidable enemy of the Empire. What began with the idea to defeat the British ruling, nearly became World War III – which could be averted by the elimination of Lelouch/Zero at the end of his “Requiem” campaign a few years after.

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This was a triumph!

SystemError51 — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:16:43 +0000

Because I’m a pretty crazy guy, I decided to put up some Portalism in my room. Here’s the result… The Portals show their respective counterparts like in the game.

Original Portal screenshot

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Damn, where did I park the DeLorean again?

SystemError51 — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 11:35:12 +0000

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