Category: General

Some Apple Geniuses Restoring Bricked iPhones

Paul

You know damn well that when you unlocked your iPhone, it’d only be good until the next software update. Don’t kid me. You knew it.

Now your iPhone is an expensive paperweight and Apple says you voided your warranty. Try to take it to an Apple Store or send it back to Apple and you’ll get denied. Lucky for you, some Apple employees working the Genius Bar have compassion and will restore your iPhone back to its original, locked state. Hey, be grateful and take what you can get.

No word yet if the restored iPhones were even originally bricked. Some people are even claiming that Apple employees are straight up swapping units with brand new ones for customers. If your iPhone got bricked from the updated, I highly suggest running to your local Apple Store(s) and getting it fixed before store managers come down on employees with great fury.

Oh I bet Apple isn’t happy about this!! I hope the people at the Genius bars aren’t going to get fired over this.

Happy Birthday Graig Crossman and Thank you

Paul

Last night I email Craig to say Happy Birthday and he was giving away presents to all his loyal listeners so I ask him to send me something. I do not know what but I’d be willing to guess it’s the Keyboard and Mouse! 😉 He didn’t give it away to anyone last night. 😉 I do so hope so it would make a nice thing for me to use with this laptop so I can make my own base station. 🙂

http://www.computeramerica.com

I do know that he said one the second hour around 3 mins into it that a podcast listener wanted something and it was a gentle man so I am guessing that is me!! 😉

Five ways Linux is better than Vista

Paul

A user or sysadmin posts about problems with a brand new Vista PC on a support forum. Within minutes, a “helpful” soul suggests a fix: “Install Linux!”

Enthusiasts have always touted Linux as the best operating system, and they’ve become more strident and shrill since Vista’s launch. Despite Microsoft’s optimistic predictions and fervent proselytising, Vista has received a chilly reception in the marketplace.

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/62060,five-ways-linux-is-better-than-vista.aspx

Yes someone actually thinks Linux is better than Vista. Oh I think Windows is losing battles with itself.

Review of Ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy) new features and changes

Paul

Startup and shutdown screens won’t blink any more, so no more watching of a boring black screen even for a second. Desktop theme received some minor updates: some pixels changed at the mouse cursors to make them more eye pleasant. Evolution is now displaying popup at the tray in case of a message arrival. In the file manager an image thumbnails will be automatically rotated if they were taken with a camera. Buttons of the ‘windows list’ applet in Ubuntu 7.10 will stay they original size despite a change of a window title, for example in case of web browser tab change. The very impressive Deskbar applet is initially activated. Microsoft ntfs file system support should be available for reading and writing by default (by ntfs-3g driver using FUSE). Additional set of utilities for manipulation with ntfs partitions such as format, resize, undelete and etc. is accessible via ‘ntfsprogs’ package.

http://tech.tolero.org/blog/en/linux/review-ubuntu-710-gutsy-features-changes

I love the updates they are talking about with Gutsy, I hope it does all it says. 😉