BlueWyvern

well the iPhone or as I like to call it the whyPhone (as in Why did I buy this piece of crap). at the time had the cheapest monthly # of minutes with a so-called unlimited data plan. I don't know exactly what the iPhone itself would run a month as my wife and I are on a plan together now. I want to say the 3G plan was 80 dollars, with unlimited data, and to get that on any other device (Unlimited data that is) would be an EXTRA $80. I think that was my most alluring fact about it, at the time I was giving up my old Windows Mobile phone (HTC Wizard) aka Cingular 8125. which I loved dearly, especially once i added an external Bluetooth GPS and the TomTom Software. One thing I believe that Apple/The whyPhone has that windows mobile devices and blackberries do not is their "App Store" with a bazillion and one apps to waste your money on that you will use for about a week to a month, then delete off your phone. Android is coming close to being a real contender here, one of the reasons I like it tbh. And when I heard it had a built in GPS, I thought well that's just awesome... I can carry one less thing with me and still have a GPS with Turn by Turn Directions. Boy was I wrong there >.> Cut and paste is in the iPhone firmware now but it's very hokey... it's similar to windows mobile in the sense that you keep your finger/stylus in one spot and then size it out to what you want to cut/copy and do the same thing for paste. speaking of text entry/modification that is another thing i really hate about this piece of shit... im typing a name for example, and it corrects it to some other word or some crap, because I didn't stop typing to hit the little x on the suggestion box. I would rather it come up and have the suggestion, but unless i hit it... keep going. I'm sending texts to my friends.. not writing a corporate Memo! My friends don't care if they get "teh" instead of "the"... they know it's a typo and move on with the message. I have yet to find a way to disable this feature... There are some selling points for the iPhone, but the main one being is you enjoy Steve Jobs sticking a little something up where the sun doesn't shine, and twisting occasionally...... I personally did not like the blackberry because it reminded me too much of palm, having their software installed for syncing and all that. Don't get me wrong... the iPhone has it too... but it of course uses iTunes which I already had installed for sorting my music and tagging correction through TuneUp.

I know it is not the encoding of video on the youtube end of things. To test this I created an account on youtube, added the official video that i know i couldn't find in search results to my favorite videos list. went on my phone searched for the video, no dice signed in and searched for it, still no dice went to my favorite videos, hit the bookmark (or w/e you want to call it) and BAM Video Played. It could be AT&T doing this to speed up their network, but a network that filters results is useless to me. aside from that, I put my phone into "airplane mode" to disable the Cell antenna or w/e the heck it does. jumped on my wireless to search again and still no dice... granted this is a youtube video... but still, this is america we are talking about.. Freedom of speech and all that. Very Annoying Indeed...

I could care less about the keyboard... I am having difficulty making an informed decision over which of the two devices is better. I didn't care for the software keyboard at first but now that doesn't bother me. You summed up some of the reasons I had but in addition... The GPS Sucks horribly... it can't locate me in the middle of a wide open field with a clear blue sky. The Phone Lags like a game of Quake over a 28.8 modem and I'm not talking internet connection speeds here... I dropped the phone once onto carpet... CARPET and there have been two cracks forming and getting longer/bigger ever since. Not to mention the back is so scuffed it's ridiculous... Any Case you would buy for the phone makes it feel like crap or removes ability to dock it.. oh and not to mention since it's a piece of 30 cent plastic, but says iPhone on it, it's instantly worth about 30 dollars. Other "High Quality" Apple Branded Accessories are just as cheaply made. The App Store is annoying as all shit, I have had apps on the new version not work and found out apple has to review even critical app updates the same as a brand new app for their store I can't attach files to emails Search results (on youtube for example) are COMPLETELY different from results you would get on a PC. (Perfect example would be to search for "Pork and Beans" trying to find the music video by weezer, on the PC it would be in the top results if not #1, but on the iPhone it won't even come up as a result) I can't record videos without using a 3rd party app (Qik) Whenever I unplug the headphones that came with it after a call, it starts playing a random song from my music library (yes I am on the latest firmware, yes I am jailbroken, yes I have tried restoring) and none of that works. The battery life is the worst I have EVER seen. Talking for approximately an hour Kills about 50% of the battery. 3G data is not much better, to my dismay the only thing that can fix that is to use the phone on Edge >.> The sensor that turns the screen off when you are on a call and the phone is by your ear doesn't always work. for example last night I was making a call and trying to put it on speaker phone, every time I tapped the screen it would go blank instead of activating the speaker. I don't know if this is when it is sitting flat on a desk being the issue instead of me holding it to turn it on. Annoying either way. Bluetooth connectivity gets sketchy at times with earpieces but not with the built in Bluetooth speaker in some cars. I could probably go on... but I'm going to stop here for now.... I attempted to take a picture to show how bad the cracks are (and the scuff too) I have a feeling that by the time my contract expires in august the two cracks will meet and the back of the phone will fall off.

So I have an iPhone 3G... hate it with a passion... worst mistake I ever made. I want to get an android device and I am open to whichever carrier... at the moment I have been debating between the Motorola Droid and the HTC/Google Nexus One I hear that theres random issues with the Nexus not getting 3G all the time, but wanted to get the opinion of my fellow hak5 fans. Thanks

Thanks, I just finished adding my resume to monster and dice. I appreciate all the help you guys are giving me.

CV = Resume? and right now mine is on careerbuilder, you are suggesting i add it to monster and jobsite? any others you could reccomend? Thanks

Well some of us have to deal with it at some point... we all get unemployed... I was wondering if anyone knew of a "better" site to search for jobs in the IT field in the USA. The sites I have been using are careerbuilder.com and indeed.com, but currently I find many of the "Work from home! MUST HAVE A COMPUTER!" Jobs Thanks in advance guys

I don't know about any peticular Command line based FTP server for windows... the free one that I used to use is Filezilla http://filezilla-project.org/ for those that don't know they do have both a client and a server application. Giving you freeware for both sides of the coin. You could depending on your version of windows install IIS and use the built in FTP server, but I've no experience with that tbh. best of luck!

I think that tool is a little dated, might want to try one of the ones off the new hiren's boot CD http://www.hiren.info/ I assume that the hard drive is connected via Sata and that may be the issue

Microsoft Europe has stated that they want "Natal" to be an impulse buy item... So I would wager under $100 USD. and no I don't mean $99.99 as far as playing games with it.... for Call of Duty, Halo, etc etc I would want something in my hands... even if it's a single gun with a scope for sniping or w/e and have buttons on it for switching weapons, etc etc all the other controls can be taken care of by the motion sensing... run back forward, crouch, etc... if you are using that to move around but still have to hold a regular controller then it's pointless IMO. Definitely excited about this addon though edit: Found some links http://www.xbox-scene.com/xbox1data/sep/Ek...kFFdnnKQGAK.php http://www.xbox-scene.com/xbox1data/sep/Ek...yAAOLZLupFe.php

I personally own both systems, and I can tell you that my favorite is the Xbox 360 for several reasons. #1 Xbox Live: I feel it is easier to navigate when you want to get added content or classic games for the system #2 Controller: The Xbox controller fits better in your hands (or at least I think so) It feels more natural holding it than the playstation controller. #3 Controller #2: the 360 you can either use AA batteries or buy a play and charge kit. whereas yes you have to pay extra for a rechargeable battery but the main key here is that it's replaceable. Sony I believe gives you instruction on how to replace the battery for their controller, but I have no idea where you can buy a new battery for a PS3 controller. #4 Games: Right now the BIG titles are on both systems, the number of exclusives for the PS3 are significantly less than the 360 #5 Communication: You don't need Xbox Live Gold ($50 a year) to be able to send messages to your friends, access facebook or twitter, or even use the MSN messenger service on the unit. / flip side... the PS3 has a full functional web browser whereas the 360 does not. #6 Breaking: You will hear the eternal flaming of The 360 has the RRoD high failure rate and claim the ps3 never fails. The Bluray drive on the original PS3 was the #1 failure point. I had both my systems die on me. each with the issues described here. Microsoft at least took care of my system for me. Sony told me there was nothing they could do. I suckered a gamestop employee into thinking the unit was working back when they had the trade in your fat ps3 to get a slim. #7 Zune Marketplace: gives you access to an incredible amount of video and music and even movie rentals, granted it's all pay services, but the ps3 pales in comparison. so yes I agree metatron & WhollyMindless if you have friends and want to play online go 360... if you want to watch movies streamed from the PC orBlu-Ray movies go with PS3... just a side note about streaming though.. the xbox can do it too...the ps3 just has more native video file support.... best of luck deciding!

can you put the file on megaupload or rapidshare, etc, etc somewhere we could take a look at it? I know to determine file type sometimes you can open a file up (given it's not monstrously huge) and you have enough ram in a program like notepad or edit.. Personally I like Notepad++ and the very first thing you would see is what type it should be. it doesn't always worked... but for telling if a file is a rar, zip,7z, etc worked for me before when some idiot removed the extension, it might work for you in this instance. edit: i forgot to mention your file might just be uuencoded http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uuencoding

well i'm not certain if it will do that, but jDownloader has surprised me time and time again with what it can do. get it at http://jdownloader.org/

the blackberry operating system is not linux based and cannot technically be "rooted" what is it that you want to do with the device?

what about this topic was a question again? don't get me wrong the first video was funny... thanks for sharing but seriously pick the right forum next time

just to verify did you forward on these ports and protocols? TCP 80 UDP 88 UDP 3074 TCP 3074 UDP 53 TCP 53

I think the song you are looking for is Coder Girl by Dale Chase http://dalechase.com/

yeah the little box we are using to run ESXi has (thankfully) a compatible sata controller. And yeah haven't had the time to move the drive over. Thanks for all your help guys!

awesome, thanks!

so here's an interesting question that my boss asked today. we went ahead and set up a ESXi server and now he wants to add some storage to it. we have a 1TB hard drive that has alot of his data on it already and the million dollar question is, do we have to reformat the drive and make a new datastore and put all his data into a vmdk before the Virtual machines can use it, or can it be used just as it sits coming out of his old PC?

well.... does it use the built in software in windows to establish the connection? what protocol does it use? PPTP, IPsec, etc etc... does it use PAP or CHAP authentication? do you use a security token to log in? the more detail you provide the more we can help find a linux alternative. *edit* short of giving out your username and password that is.

just out of curiosity, how cheap are you needing to build this for, and where are you planning to cut corners for this machine if need be? servers don't often happen on the cheap unless you start with an older machine that was refurbished, in which case it's try your luck with refurbishing houses in your country/state/city.

Thanks I'm snagging it now to give it a whirl, they actually have a pre-built VMWare Image for it too. Pretty Snazzy!

Hello again all, something I was tinkering with lately is finding software or a driver or w/e that is compatible with my WUSB600N USB adapter to work like a wireless access point (instead of simple ad-hoc mode). I am trying to achieve the same thing as the "Wifi Max" Product without actually purchasing it. I'd even be willing if someone knows how to do it using a vmware player machine running linux for the routing. Thanks!

Whenever I needed a DB25 I would just slip down to my local electronics store and buy a new one.. something like this http://www.google.com/products/catalog?rlz...IwAw#ps-sellers I couldn't find it on radioshack.com but I believe they have them. I would try to find a "Mom & Pop" Local electronics store as they would probably be cheaper and might could give you some guidance as to other things you may need.