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Absinthe makes my iPhone 4s go down smooth!

be3n — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:49:06 +0000

The long wait is finally over. Due to the diligent efforts of EVERYBODY in the scene, (@pod2g, @planetbeing, @saurik, @pimskeks, @p0sixninja, @MuscleNerd, and @xvolks) we can finally jailbreak our A5 devices. iPhone 4s and iPad 2 are now jailbroken and untethered with the latest and most complex jailbreak to date. Works with iOS 5 or iOS 5.0.1. Representing hundreds if not thousands of man hours (it even takes forever to run). Enjoy! i included a donate link at the bottom if you wish to buy them a beer.

Download Absinthe from Chronic:
http://greenpois0n.com

or Dev-Team Tools here: (currently CLI only)
http://blog.iphone-dev.org/

Donate to the combined effort. (despite paypal)

Battery vs Hackery!

be3n — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:29:47 +0000

The battery problems fixed in apple’s latest iOS update (5.0.1) are a very strong temptation. However, I fear it may delay my inevitable jailbreak. I also imagine that this example of a delta update might even aid the dev team and others working to free our phones of tyranny. Ideally I would like to see a jailbreak able to download and patch the update before installing. Thus maintaining the jailbreak through the update. am I dreaming?

siri wrote this post

be3n — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 08:37:06 +0000

When I got my new iPhone, Siri didn’t work at first but now it does. I think that some limit was reached with the number of people trying to use this awesome new feature at the same time. Apple servers must been overloaded. all in all I’m quite impressed with the new phone, however I do miss all my hacks and tweaks. it is my hope that a new jailbreak comes out soon. I hope the dev team is just waiting for everyone to get their devices so they can publish jailbreaks there are you sitting on. this phone has the same boot ROM as the iPad 2.

Day ruined by KVM switch.

be3n — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:27:41 +0000

After ridiculous amounts of trouble all over my new office network. i devoted the day to fixing it. Turns out that most of my problems were caused by a simple KVM. I temporarily replaced it with actually screens/keyboards/mice. Solved all my mysterious problems. hazah! Now if only i can get my drive failures resolved.

JailbreakMe.com is back! This time iPad 2 can play!

be3n — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 06:44:26 +0000

Despite numerous problems and unrelenting deadlines @comex has come through yet again with another fantastic jailbreak! When an unfinished beta of the latest iPad2 jailbreak was leaked, we all new that the window for this exploit was rapidly closing. Apple simply cannot allow userland exploits to exist (for obvious reasons). I am delighted that all the iPhone-dev guys got their act together and released. What are you waiting for JailbreakMe.com.

My software drive crashed!

be3n — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 18:55:56 +0000

i lost all my iOS backups as well as hundreds of gigs of other software backups. Doh! Some things are just too big to back up, but too important to fail. Attempting recovery, but it sounds like a servo malfunction, so i am most likely doomed.

Saved by the Cube!

be3n — Mon, 09 May 2011 22:31:26 +0000

That’s a G4 Cube. I brought it into work today to rescue a G5 from complete rebuild. looks adorable in a machine room.

Retired my router after nearly a decade of service

be3n — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 06:35:49 +0000

For nearly 10 years, all my home internet traffic has flowed through the capable interfaces of Nitrogen. Through the years linux routing grew increasingly more powerful, but this little Dimension PC did not. It’s 700Mhz Celeron CPU and PCI network interfaces (literally nothing onboard) always met my needs. But in these times of ever increasing speeds, i began to wonder. After a few pesky error messages, “eth0: Too much work at interrupt” i knew it was time for an upgrade. From ipfwadm to ipchains, and eventually iptables, this unit continued to teach me the linux kernel firewall. QOS, Network monitoring, intrusion detection, even Tor’s anonymous proxy relay, we’d been through it all together. What am i going to do with him now? Replaced with a newer (but far from new) PC. Rebuilt from the ground up to be tighter, faster, and i don’t even mind saying, prettier. Now i have Phosphorus. This fella will receive the most honorable sendoff i can give it. To be stripped of it’s few remaining useful parts and recycled. No moment of silence for him. He was recognized with a 5 minute internet blackout. While i reset my cable modem.

2011 is the year for ps3 homebrew!

be3n — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 09:19:28 +0000

Nothing more for sony to do but cry. After team fail0verflow’s diligent efforts and geohot’s typical rush to publish something he’d probably been sitting on for months. 27c3 brought news of sony’s epic fail and people almost forgot what geohot had done months earlier. This will be an exciting year. i wonder what sony’s next move will be? i’ll keep you updated.

Boxee is here!

be3n — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 21:05:24 +0000

It finally arrived today and i quickly set it up. i left it scanning my massive media library, however i did note one glaring omission. presently netflix is excluded from boxee’s list of apps. will this be corrected or has M$’s DRM killed netflix for the Linux based Boxee? only time will tell. apart from that, it is totally awesome from remote control to interface and even startup effects. i cannot wait to see what 3rd party developers do with it.