- Detach all USB devices from the host.
The Recovery CD installs the ESXi image on the first USB memory device that it discovers. Unplug all USB devices before you use the Recovery CD to rebuild the ESX image on the internal USB device. - For Dell servers with DRAC 5 firmware, disable the Virtual Flash drive.
- Insert the Recovery CD into the ESXi host.
- Use the system BIOS to change the boot order so that the CD-ROM drive is listed first. To modify the boot sequence:
- Reboot the host.
- While the host is powering on, press a function key or Delete to open the BIOS setup.
- Select the CD-ROM drive and move it to the first position in the list.
The option to open the BIOS setup might be different for your server. You might need to open the BIOS configuration screens to modify the boot setting. As the host continues to power on, the Recovery CD Welcome screen appears.
- Press Enter to continue through the screens.
To cancel the recovery operation, press the Esc key. If you press the Esc key, the host reboots and the data contained on your server’s embedded USB flash remains intact. If you press Enter through all the screens and the recovery operation begins, you cannot cancel or undo the recovery. - Press Enter to reboot the host.
- Remove the CD from the CD-ROM drive.
- Reopen the system BIOS to change the boot order so that the USB flash is listed first.
- Verify that the host boots into ESXi.
Jul 29 2010
How To – VMWare ESXi 4.1 on a SD Card
Jul 29 2010
How To – Install Android OS on your iPhone using iPhoDroid – Update Quadra Version
Update : iPhoDroid QUADRA released !! *Supports iOS 4.x*
iPhoDroid Quadra, new design for Open iBoot for iPhoDroid 1 shot. A new update is planned by the Dev (R13). iPhoDroid 1 shot is a version to install Android with USB.
Here is guide for version R12 for iPhone 3G users who like AndroidOS.
iPhoDroid, the tool that will automagically install Android OS on your iPhone 2G/3G was updated for iOS 4.0. Now you don’t need to install and use MacFuse anymore, and it improves the touch on iPhone 2G.
Here is an installer which will do the work for you and install in 7 minutes Android on your iPhone.
Required
- jailbroken iPhone Firmware 3.1.2 with BlackRa1n or Redsn0w or PwnageTool (does NOT work with Spirit jailbroken)
- OpenSSH installed with default password (alpine)
To avoid any issues, you must disable automatic lock of your iPhone. Go to Settings > General > AutoLock > Never.
Download iPhoDroid
- Unzip the file iPhoDroid_0.6beta_R12d_(for3G).zip and start the installer.
- Select your device.
- Follow the steps.
- Your Mac password is needed.
- Your iP address of your iPhone is needed. Continue reading “How To – Install Android OS on your iPhone using iPhoDroid – Update Quadra Version”
Jul 29 2010
Phones are Giving Away Private Information
In a scan run by Lookout Inc., nearly 300,000 free applications for Apple’s iPhone and phones built with Google’s Android software were tested, and it was found that many of them had software that is secretly pulling private information out of your phone.
This private info includes full details about your contacts, your pictures, text messages, and Internet search histories. This is a huge concern everyone who actively use the free applications available on the services.
In general, this info is used by companies to personally tailor ads to the specific person, the danger is malicious hackers, and can enable people to easily commit the crime and identity theft if the company isn’t careful about the security of the information.
Lookout released the info at this weeks Black Hat computer security conference held in Las Vegas.
Lookout stated that they found nearly a quarter of Apple applications and almost half Android capable applications, had this software hidden within it.
The code used has been written by 3rd parties, and is placed in the applications, primarily for the purposes of the adverts. But the code winds up forcing the application to collect more information than it actually requires. Developers may not even realize that this is happening on their applications. John Hering, CEO of the San Francisco-based Lookout had this to say:
“We found that not only users, but developers as well, don’t know what’s happening in their apps, even in their own apps, which is fascinating,”.
The problem arises when the smart phones don’t inform the users of the data that they are accessing and sending to the company. iPhones only alert the user when the application is accessing their location, not when it is accessing other personal information. Android applications have a wider set of warnings, but most users would go straight through them without properly reading what is being said.
Neither Apple or Google responded when questioned about this topic, it may be best to be more careful when downloading free applications from either service in future.
Jul 29 2010
100 Million Facebook Acounts Exposed
Facebook has taken a lot of heat recently over its security settings and implementation. With the wealth of information some people expose on their profiles for would be identity thieves, it’s a gold mine of information. So when 100 million Facebook pages leak to the web, it’s a security concern.
The file, which weighs in at 2.8GB, was compiled by a hacker from Skull Security and, according to thinq.co.uk, used a program to harvest data from Facebook’s open access directory. This directory lists users who have either forgotten or neglected to change their privacy settings to remove them from search engines.
The total file contains over 1/5th of all the users on Facebook which just recently hit 500 million members. But to call this a hack is somewhat misleading as the it’s actually data harvesting from users who didn’t change their security settings.
This default open access has become a hot topic, raising questions about Facebook’s need to change its practices to set the default settings to private. But, as Facebook needs this data to feed to marketers to make money, it’s a tough call between user privacy and the company’s bottom line.
It should be noted that what Skull Security has done is not illegal. They have simply gathered public data and compiled it into a torrent file.
Jul 28 2010
iOS 4.1 Beta 2 – redsn0w 0.9.5 BETA
Here are some features and a download link for the iOS 4.1 Beta 2
Download iOS 4.1 Beta 2 and SDK
Update 1 : All iDevice unlockers MUST stay away from iOS 4.1 BETA 2 if they want to keep their unlock!
Update 2 : iOS 4 beta 2 Change Log :
- Signal Bars fixed and taller.
- New Baseband (02.07.01).
- Game Center is back with new look .
- Camera Switch and Flash buttons reposition in landscape mode [iPhone 4 only].
- You can now choose to add Favorite as voice or FaceTime.
- Spell Check can be turned off in Settings.
- FaceTime and Game Center Parental Controls.
- Full Bluetooth AVRCP Support.
If you’ve updated to 4.1beta2 on iPhone3G or iPod2G(non-MC), you can use this redsn0w from June to jailbreak. Just point it at the 4.0 IPSW (the public one, not the developer GM one).
(Yes – point it at the 4.0 IPSW even though you’re at 4.1beta2).
Don’t do this if you need the ultrasn0w carrier unlock!!
Note 1: This won’t hacktivate your iPhone3G – but for those with legit access to the 4.1beta2 this shouldn’t matter. Please don’t pirate Apple software
Note 2: If you’re at 4.1beta2 you’ll probably experience network problems after jailbreaking. Until a new version of redsn0w is released, you may need to rely on afc2 access (such as FunBox-like file browser programs) to manipulate your filesystem.
Note 3: This is recommended only for power users who can deal with the problems that will pop up as the JB apps fall further behind the beta firmwares.
Jul 28 2010
Why Money Makes You Unhappy
“Money is surprisingly bad at making us happy. Once we escape the trap of poverty, levels of wealth have an extremely modest impact on levels of happiness, especially in developed countries. Even worse, it appears that the richest nation in history – 21st century America – is slowly getting less pleased with life. (Or as the economists behind this recent analysis concluded: “In the United States, the [psychological] well-being of successive birth-cohorts has gradually fallen through time.”)
Needless to say, this data contradicts one of the central assumptions of modern society, which is that more money equals more pleasure. That’s why we work hard, fret about the stock market and save up for that expensive dinner/watch/phone/car/condo. We’ve been led to believe that dollars are delight in a fungible form.
But the statistical disconnect between money and happiness raises a fascinating question: Why doesn’t money make us happy? One intriguing answer comes from a new study by psychologists at the University of Liege, published in Psychological Science. The scientists explore the “experience-stretching hypothesis,” an idea first proposed by Daniel Gilbert. He explains “experience-stretching” with the following anecdote:
I’ve played the guitar for years, and I get very little pleasure from executing an endless repetition of three-chord blues. But when I first learned to play as a teenager, I would sit upstairs in my bedroom happily strumming those three chords until my parents banged on the ceiling…Doesn’t it seem reasonable to invoke the experience-stretching hypothesis and say that an experience that once brought me pleasure no longer does? A man who is given a drink of water after being lost in the Mojave Desert may at that moment rate his happiness as eight. A year later, the same drink might induce him to feel no better than a two.
What does experience-stretching have to do with money and happiness? The Liege psychologists propose that, because money allows us to enjoy the best things in life – we can stay at expensive hotels and eat exquisite sushi and buy the nicest gadgets – we actually decrease our ability to enjoy the mundane joys of everyday life. (Their list of such pleasures includes ”sunny days, cold beers, and chocolate bars”.) And since most of our joys are mundane – we can’t sleep at the Ritz every night – our ability to splurge actually backfires. We try to treat ourselves, but we end up spoiling ourselves.”
Read more at Wired
Jul 27 2010
Why Does God Reveal Himself to Some People and Not to Others?
“Doesn’t it seem likely that the reason all of us can’t see God is because there is no God?
If God exists… why isn’t his existence obvious?
And is “free will” a good answer to this question?
A few weeks ago, in this very publication, I posed the question, “Why did God create atheists?” If God reveals himself to religious believers, in visions or revelations or other spiritual experiences… why doesn’t he do it with everyone? Why are those revelations so contradictory — not to mention so suspiciously consistent with whatever the people having them already believe or want to believe? And why doesn’t everyone have them? If God is real, I asked — if religious believers are perceiving a real entity with a real effect on the world — why isn’t it just obvious?
Why is God playing hide and seek?
When I wrote that piece, I addressed (and dismantled) two of the most common responses to this question: “God has revealed himself to you, you’ve just closed your heart to him,” and, “God doesn’t care if you’re an atheist — as long as you’re a good person, he doesn’t care if you believe in him.”
But I neglected to address one of the most common religious answers to this question:
Free will.”
Read more at AlterNet
Jul 27 2010
FlashFXP v4.0 build 1457 BETA (Preview Release 1) Released
This release is available to users who currently own a FlashFXP license via Live Update from within FlashFXP, from the main menu > Help > Check for new version.
Everyone else can create an account on the flashfxp website <Sign Up> (if you don’t already have one) or <Sign In> and then Download FlashFXP v4.0 Preview release 1
This release will be posted on the main download page in the next couple days.
Here’s a breakdown of some of the changes.
1. The skip list
The skip list has been completely redone, Each skip list rule has a scope of where it can be applied. name of file, name of folder, path of file, path of folder, and any. You can define per site skip lists.
When you import your v3 data files your skiplist is converted to the new format and if you had the “skip list applies to directories” option in v3 checked then all existing skiplist entries are set with a scope of any.
That means it will match name of file, name of folder, path of file, path of folder. You can multi-select and right click to change multiple rules at once. Rules containing a open bracket [ will be escaped as \[ see below for an explanation.
Please make sure your rules are set properly.
The pattern matching system has changed in v4, We now use a subset of the regular expression rules for pattern matching.
Matches a subset of regular expressions (* ? and [])
* Matches zero or more of any character
? Matches exactly one character
[<char set>] Matches character from <char set>
[^<char set>] Matches character not in <char set>
where <char set> can include multiple ranges and escaped characters \\ matches a slash \, \[ matches a open bracket [
Only characters within <char set> need to be escaped, with the exception of the [ character, If you need to match a [ then it must always be escaped.
Example:
Pattern "[a-z0-9_]bc?*c” Filename “abcabc” Match = True
2. The task scheduler.
The task scheduler uses Windows scheduling service to run the tasks, there’s email notification and lots of different options that is sure to suite your needs.
You can assign individual selective transfer rulesets to each task.
The old queue schedule is available for people who want to do one time scheduling and this is now moved to the right click queue menu.
Continue reading “FlashFXP v4.0 build 1457 BETA (Preview Release 1) Released”
Jul 26 2010
Wireless Logic Website Downtime
Seems like the website wirelesslogic.co.uk (one of the companies that Peter Jones from the Dragon’s Den TV Programme) is currently down.
Whether it was hacked or DDOS we are not sure, but I think its a bit embarassing for a company with such power (leading network technology in the UK) to not have solutions for failover/recovery and security.
Peter if you are reading this, please make sure your guys fix it asap.
Its interesting to know that the following websites are currently hosted side by side with wirelesslogic.co.uk [which of course means that they are all currently down]:
-This was first noticed by SmootHosting Ltd.
Update: Websites are now up and running
Jul 26 2010
Jailbreaking is Legal
Today, The WashingtonPost is reporting that a US court has ruled that it is not illegal to jailbreak the iPhone.
Owners of the iPhone will be able to legally break electronic locks on their devices in order to download software applications that haven’t been approved by Apple Inc., according to new government rules announced Monday.
The decision to allow the practice commonly known as “jailbreaking” is one of a handful of new exemptions from a 1998 federal law that prohibits people from bypassing technical measures that companies put on their products to prevent unauthorized uses. The Library of Congress, which oversees the Copyright Office, reviews and authorizes exemptions every three years to ensure that the law does not prevent certain non-infringing use of copyright-protected material.
In addition to jailbreaking, other exemptions announced Monday would:
- allow owners of used cell phones to break access controls on their phones in order to switch wireless carriers.
- allow people to break technical protections on video games to investigate or correct security flaws.
- allow college professors, film students and documentary filmmakers to break copy-protection measures on DVDs so they can embed clips for educational purposes, criticism, commentary and noncommercial videos.
- allow computer owners to bypass the need for external security devices called dongles if the dongle no longer works and cannot be replaced.
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