HowTo - General

Hack your iPhone or iPod touch with QuickPWN

Want to find a quick solution on how to JailBreak your iPhone (edge/2G),  iPhone 3G or iPod Touch? It’s very simple with QuickPWN!
Why hacking your iPhone / iPod touch ? To put Cydia package manager or installer!
This HowTo is for educational purpose only. I’m not responsible if something goes wrong!
First, make sure you have the [...]

Use OpenDNS as your DNS everywhere!

DNS are the Dynamic Name Server. They are use to resolve domain name as IP.
You ISP DNS may be slow (resolve domain name slowly) so the Internet appear to be slower. Also, DNS from ISP are not being update very quickly, so it can take 24-48 hours to resolve a new domain from there DNS.
The [...]

HowTo - Linux

Force umount on Linux

Did you ever had a problem to unmount a drive/share on a linux system? Maybe the mount share is not accessible but the mount still there.
Example:
umount /mnt/blah
unmount error 16 = Device or resource busy
Refer to the umount.cifs(8) manual page (man 8 umount.cifs)
You can do the following:
umount -f /mnt/blah
If it doesnt work, use the lazyness method:
umount [...]

Howto kill and logout users on Linux

Type the following command to kill the user:
# skill -KILL -u theuser

HowTo - Windows

A-Patch for Windows Live Messenger 9.0 Wave 3

A-Patch is a nice patch that remove ads and other annoying stuff from your Windows Live Messenger software.
It’s very nice! Try it now
http://apatch.org/
Download
Version: 1.43 (build 2)
Compatibility: Windows Live Messenger 9.0 (14.0.8064.0206, 14.0.8050.1202)

Installing Windows Live Messenger 2009 on 64-bit XP

Since Microsoft’s own installer refused to acknowledge WindowsXP 64bit as an appropriate platform to install Windows Live Messenger 2009, we have to find a few tricks to get around the limitations.

Download the MSI file here
Download the Segoe UI Font here
Download Windows Live Communcations Platform here
Download Microsoft Visual Studio Runtime here
Download Microsoft Application Error Reporting (32-bit [...]

News

Try windows 7 RC 7100

Want to try windows 7 RC 7100 ? Easy! go download your free copy to
http://windows7.com/

It supposed to be the latest Release candidate!
Enjoy!

Ubuntu 9.04 is out!

Sorry about my lazyness! Im late on the news but… Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 is OUT!
Also,we can now have a netbooks versions call Netbook remix
Enjoy!
Download

http://Ubuntu.com

Opinions

Apple add safari on the automatic update on windows

I’m outraged! I hate iTunes but i hate more Safari. That browser is not even rendering page correctly on Windows and what i found this morning.. They put safari as a push on the automatically updates from apple software. What will happen? people that only have quicktime will be asked to install safari without knowing [...]

Geek definition

A person who is interested in technology, especially computing and new media. Most geeks are adept with computers, and treat the term hacker as a term of respect, but not all are hackers themselves.
From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek

Reviews

Metric release their fourth album: Fantasies

Metric release their fourth albums on March 31st, 2009 on iTunes.  It was released on April 7th in stores.
Metric is a Canadian New Wave/indie rock band. Originally formed in 1998 in New York City, they are currently based in Toronto, Ontario, Montreal, Quebec, Los Angeles, California and Brooklyn, New York.  (source: wikipedia)
I was septic about [...]

MX Lookup Tool

I’ve just found that nice website that allow you to verify MX on a particular domain. It also check your IP on 122 black lists
Try your domain : http://www.mxtoolbox.com/

HowTo - Mac OS X

How to start VNC remotely on a Mac OS X

Once you get SSH’d in you can change the VNC password and start the VNC service using the following command:
sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -activate -configure -clientopts -setvnclegacy -vnclegacy yes -setvncpw -vncpw VNCPASSWORDHERE -restart -agent
So have fun remoting your box!  Btw to VNC over SSH just type something like: “ssh -L 5903:localhost:5900 example.com “.  You can then VNC [...]

DeployStudio

Saving time is a daily concern for system administrator, especially with the increase of minor interventions requested by end-users: accidentally modified system preferences, third-party applications instability or misconfigured, wrong access rights, viruses, etc…
Mac OS X is stable and robust but the capacity to (re)install completely a workstation or a server in a few minutes following [...]

Videos

Watchmen Original Opening Sequence

Watch the original opening of Watchmen movie! Very nice!
Sorry, they remove the video on youtube…!

Bell Canada Video Store

Hey oui! Bell Canada a ouvert son magasin de vidéos en ligne. Vous pouvez maintenant acheter ou louer un film (en contenu téléchargeable) via leur site web:
http://www.bellvideostore.ca/
Pour environ 3.99$ vous pouvez louer une copie d’un film!
Voilà!