While debating whether Jailbroken iPhones are legal, Apple has declared that a compromised iPhone could crash the cellular network.
Archive for July, 2009
Apple declares Jailbroken iPhone a threat to national security
Thursday, July 30th, 2009Vaccine for Colon Cancer
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009Great news was released a few days ago that a drug in trial right now is showing promise as a vaccine for colon and a few other types of cancer. Trials are being held right now with a hopeful closure in 2011.
http://chattahbox.com/health/2009/07/27/new-colon-cancer-vaccine-attacks-emerging-tumors/
Linus Torvalds asked about Microsoft’s latest code for Linux
Saturday, July 25th, 2009Great article / interview with Linus about his comments on Microsoft’s latest release of Opensourced code for Linux. In this interview he touches on some great points about feelings towards Microsoft and why people write opensource to begin with.
Apples new interface: Macbook Wheel
Saturday, July 25th, 2009I know its old, but just saw it for the first time 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0Gzq-QEt0s
“Ill buy almost anything if its shiny and made by Apple”
“The babbling baby asked the aardvark for some absinthe”
SpaceX successfully launches satellite into space!
Sunday, July 19th, 2009Not exactly sure why I didnt see any press coverage in mainstream media or blogs, however, upon checking their website I noticed that they had successfully launched a satellite into space on July 13th! As far as I know this is the first private company to launch a satellite and is very exciting news. Congrats SpaceX!!
http://www.spacex.com/press.php?page=20090715
Very cool pictures of the launch shown here:
Cure for Radiation Sickness – Treatment for cancer?
Friday, July 17th, 2009Some researchers have conducted trials on monkeys demonstrating a drug that can be injected to counter-act radiation sickness. Interestingly enough this may also lead to a very effective treatment for all types of cancer, by dosing a patient with lethal amounts of radiation to kill a tumor, then immediately administrating this drug.
TDMA – Stop email spoofing
Monday, July 13th, 2009Was getting a bunch of spam emails being forged from valid accounts on my own domain. This was obviously being whitelisted as they are trusted sender on my email account. Heres how to block spammers from spoofing emails.
From: http://tmda.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/TmdaTipsAndTricks
On Ubuntu 9.04, open the /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template file as Superuser. Find the “acl_check_rcpt:” string and add the following rule.
# ACL Section:
acl_check_rcpt:
# Block spoofed addresses
deny condition = ${if eq {$sender_address_domain}{$domain}{yes}{no}}
hosts = !+relay_from_hosts
message = Spammers not welcome - go away.
log_message = Spam from sender $sender_address at $sender_fullhost
Save the file and run the following command: dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config
PreBrewFarts – It was inevitable….
Monday, July 13th, 2009After some interesting “discussions” on the internet about the merits of creating such a program, it was put into code by someone. PreBrewFarts…
http://forums.precentral.net/palm-pre/192379-prebrewfarts-v0-1-5-no-rooting-required.html
RC Airplane Fireworks – An unexpected pleasing combination!
Sunday, July 12th, 2009Definitely will have to try this out myself someday. RC plane armed with fireworks!
Quest for Graphics within Palm Pre – WebOS
Saturday, July 11th, 2009I started thinking about how to find a way to allow native linux application to display within WebOS. Most of the graphic intensive applications on the Pre use a Webkit Netscape Plugin to get a native drawable on the phone (Camera, Media Player, Palm Emulator, etc).
So why not create yet another Webkit plugin to provide a FrameBuffer device on the os. The challenge will be to determine what native drawable is presented to the plugin (doubt its going to be X11)
Here is some links of interest:
Pre Dev Wiki research:
http://predev.wikidot.com/browser-plugins
Mozilla’s documentation on drawing within a plugin:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Gecko_Plugin_API_Reference/Drawing_and_Event_Handling#The_NPWindow_Structure
Simply drawing example
http://multimedia.cx/diamondx/