As from today you've the easiest Jailbreak ever for all Iphone 3, 3GS and 4. This Jailbreak assumes you're running IOS(firmware) 4.0 or 4.0.1. There is no need to connect any cable, build any ipsw or run any software, since it's all done via the Safari Web Browser already included on the iphone. You'll just need a Wifi Connection or 3G access, and as long you're connected to the internet, the Jailbreak becomes very simple.

Jailbreak of the iPhone is now Legal in the US, so Europe will be probably adopting the same measures.  Further information and reference: blog.iphonedev.org and http://www.jailbreakme.com/faq.html

Steps below:

1) Double Click  the Home Button and close Safari if opened. 

2) Open Safari Icon and write the address: jailbreakme.com 

3) Slide to continue, and you'll see window which shows the download status
4) Enjoy.

If at Step 4 after Sliding to Jailbreak you get only the background, it's probably because the server is too busy. Try again from step 1 but use the address jailbreakme.modmyi.com

I was able to successfully  build a dsdt.aml for the abit ip35-E (bios v18) motherboard. I was able to get it to compile with no errors or warnings, fixed the CMOS/Bios reset issue, and changed the AZAL entry to be HDEF, so that you can use the Legacy HDA for ALC888 (4outs 2 in) with HDAEnabler. 
You can either try and download the 2 files, one is the dsdt.dsl which is not compile yet and that you can use to edit your own dsdt. Or in the other hand you can use the compiled dsdt.aml and get it under the /Extra folder directly...

Download (dsdt.aml)
Download (dsdt.dsl)

I've currently been using the Google Sync capabilities of Gmail in the Iphone. I wanted to keep my contacts, calendars and Email in a central and safe place, and so far I've found that the Gmail servers do offer that possibility... So, why pay for MobileMe if you can have it for free? The Iphone setup won't take more than a few minutes, and not different of an exchange server setup.  Make sure you create a backup before syncing, and probably importing all contacts and calendars to Gmail will be the first good idea... :)

Follow the URL for further explanation and how to:  Setup your Iphone for Gmail Exchange capabilities

I’ve to tell you guys about my latest try to install ubuntu 9.04. I was so impressed that I thought about writing this article.
For some time now, my wife’s laptop was getting extremely slow running Vista. My first thought  was RAM, since the 2Gb installed were showing up almost at 90% usage. So, I managed to get the Laptop to 4Gb.
Did it changed anything? No… I was still frustrated, my wife uses the laptop to check emails and surf the web, and simple things should be fast.

I've used the iDeneb.Combo.Upgrade.KIT.1057.dmg to upgrade to 10.5.7 and it went perfectly fine. This Ideneb Combo brings the Ideneb 10.5.7 update package, iDeneb.Tool.rev1, and the "Disabled extensions" directory. For some of you, there will be probably a need to copy the "Disabled Extensions" back to the Kernel extensions directory. My personal setup does not require any further changes besides the 10.5.7 combo pkg. I do advise to read the instructions inside before any installation attempt.

Reminder regarding my setup: Intel Q6600 2.4Ghz oc@ 3.4Ghz, Abit IP35-E, 4Gb OCZ 1066Mhz 150Gb WD Raptor10k, Sata DVDRW, ATI HD3870 PCI-E.

I was wondering about NTFS support in the MAC OS and came across MACFuse. Now, being a MACRookie I've installed MacFuse expecting a miracle when connecting my USB Drive which has NTFS. Since it didn't worked out, I didn't wasted  anymore time and googling it again came across NTFS-3G. Now, that's what I'm taliking about, full NTFS support in the MACOS. Plain simple with no pain... Go to http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/ and download the latest pkg. (It requires a reboot)... 10/05/2009 Realized that NTFS-3G installs MACFuse and needs it to run properly, do not remove it. 

One thing I missed in my Mac was a remote controller.  So after some googling, the solution I found fits any Mac with an USB port.
This can even be a good solution for those of you using a Mac Pro, since by default specs does not bring a IR receiver.
Get a Manta TR1 Bundle IR receiver from http://twistedmelon.com/shop/ and buy an original Apple remote. I’ve bought my remote on ebay for 5£ and got the IR + Software for 23£. The perfect match… 

Some of you will probably know about what I’ll be writing, but sometimes I feel that noobs like me need the push to find the rabbit hole.
In other terms,  I came across the need of installing Darwine for MacOS, which is basically a container to run x86 Windows binaries under the MacOS.
To install Darwine I had 2 options, either find the dmg/pkg or compile the latest available source. At this time I came across Macports, for the ones familiar with Fedora/CentOS  Linux distributions it’s pretty similar to yum.
The Macports software will keep an repository of opensource software available through the www.macports.org website, and when called from the CLI will compile and install any dependencies, to get the software you want to install.

This weekend I had to do some firmware upgrades on a very old HP Proliant DL140 G2 server we had at work. For those of you who don’t know this machine, it is a Pizza box style (only 1U height) server with an Intel Xeon 2.8Ghz CPU, 6 Gigs of RAM and 2 160Gb SATA drives.
This server has been our antivirus server for some years now and I was required to upgrade the firmware to cope with some incompatibilities.
The big problem is that this server is that it has no floppy drive nor CDROM!
Since HP’s firmware update files are installed from bootable floppy disks, I had a big problem. Fortunately for me, I came across the article from mataporkoz.com that shows how to setup a PXE boot server.
Using the article as a departing point, I setup on a linux server the TFTP service and copied the pxelinux.0 to the /tftpboot directory.

I’ve been hosting a few websites under my CentOS server and it’s always a good policy to backup your data.  Since I do not have a backup software I thought about building a script that would backup all my websites including the Mysql database.  My other concern is not only backing up but also have a point in time I can go back if needed.

I will share this for those of you, interested in a not fancy solution, with a very simple ksh script.  Just copy the script, and adjust it to your reality and get the script to run in  your root crontab. Click in "Read More..." to see the script... 

Let’s try and get this server running. First thing to do is get the rpms. You can either use yum or try and find the rpms yourself.
First things first, PXE is the short for Preboot Execution Environment. This will allow you to boot using the OS installation from the Network.
This is definitely something to have in a large enterprise, when several OS deployments occur with similar configurations. For home users it's more like a way to learn a bit more about PXE. 

What you’ll need:
-    Xinetd to  tftp-server enabled
-    ftp server, I use vsftpd
-    dhcp configured to allow bootp.
-    A CentOS or RedHat DVD iso, depending in what you want to Kickstart or boot from the Network.

For those hosting their own domains and managing their Web Servers, security is always a concern. Most Firewalls will only close/open TCP/IP and UDP ports, so there won't be any web traffic check made at that level, since http port 80 has only 2 status, either open or closed. So the next step will be getting some level of protection that analyses your incoming http traffic and checks if that request is valid or malicious. That's were ModSecurity comes in, mod_security is an open source intrusion detection and prevention engine for web applications. It operates embedded into the web server, acting as a powerful umbrella - shielding applications from attacks. ModSecurity supports both branches of the Apache web server.You can’t be protected against every attack, but at least will give a higher level of confidence regarding certain types of attacks.
You can get it from http://www.modsecurity.org. ModSecurity by itself does not know what's malicious or not, so make sure you install the core-rules after installing the mod_security since those rule's configuration files will have the definitions of the most common attacks.