Thanks Duncan from Orcon

Thanks Duncan from Orcon
I have a phone again, amazing! My internet has only failed 3 times today (it is of course only mid morning, but that's cool.

And in reply to the comment about how retro I am still having a phone line, think of it this way, it comes with the net and it means that relatives who are still more analogue don't have to pay me, but there's a thought, maybe the ones I don't care to hear from won't lol.

Very slack proof reading at Vodafone
... and by poor proof reading:


- from the Vodafone website.

It's been up there for a few days since they changed their little advertisement blocks into images...

Court orders spammers to pay US$236M to Iowa ISP
Couple bombarded ISP over a four-month period, says judge

REANNZ seeks trans-Tasman cable
New 1Tbit per second cable specified

Microsoft Windows Mojave
So you complain about Windows Vista but actually never used it? Maybe what you need is Microsoft Windows Mojave.

In summary, a set of people were asked what they think is bad on Windows Vista. Their answers were recorded.  They were then shown "Microsoft Windows Mojave".

One of the subjects in the study even said "Wow", the word Microsoft used in the "The wow starts now" campaign for Windows Vista.

Microsoft then revealed "Windows Mojave" and "Windows Vista" are the same one.

I know a lot of Linux and Mac OS X users who bash Windows Vista without ever having touch a computer running the OS. How can they "know" so much? Or perhaps they don't.

Isn't this a big perception problem?

All the details here.

UPDATE: The Mojave Experiment results are coming on-line!

Symantec to buy email security vendor MessageLabs
MessageLabs holds a 29.7% share of the hosted security services market

Jailbreaking iPod touch 2.0 with WinPwn
It took a while, but I'm finally at it - iPod touch 2.0 now jailbroken for me, using WinPwn.



You'll need:

• WinPwn (2.0.0.3 is what I used, since some bugs were apparently fixed)
• Your iPod 2.0 restore file (please note that it must be 5A347)
• iTunes 7.7
• Some patience

Step 1

Open up WinPwn.

Click "Browse .ipsw" and find your original iPod touch 2.0 restore file.

Step 2

Click "IPSW Builder"

You don't really have to do anything here, but you can select "Install Cydia" if you want it.

Step 3

Click "Build .ipsw", save to a location, and wait a while.

Step 4

Once the whole process is complete, click "iPwner" and click OK to the confirmation message.

Step 5

Open up iTunes, and put your iPod into DFU mode.

I tried to do this a few times, but having a counter on hand is best.

• Connect iPod to PC
• Turn off while connected to PC
• Press Sleep/Wake and Home buttons for exactly 10 seconds. Leave iPod connected.
• After the 10 seconds, release the Sleep/Wake button. Continue to hold the Home button. Leave iPod connected.
• Windows will now see the "new hardware", and iTunes will give a message that it has found an iPod in recovery mode.
• Click OK.

Step 6

In iTunes, hold Shift while pressing "Restore".

Find your custom restore file and Restore. And wait for an extremely long time.

Step 7

Afterwards, iTunes may prompt for a backup restore.

It worked for me, but I'm not 100% sure if this affects anything, but if you don't mind, you can set it up completely from scratch.

The restore took around 25 minutes. Maybe it's because of my apps, but expect to wait.


... and now you should have a jailbroken iPod touch with Software 2.0!


There was one problem - Cydia always hangs when downloading or installing software. A hard reset is required. (Hold Sleep/Wake and Home buttons until it shuts down, then start up normally)