YiBi's Life|Live Log

Entries for the ‘The Techie Stuff’ Category

Problem with pam_radius on Solaris 10

I was implementing pam_radius login for some Solaris 10 servers today and I got this error.
Aug 10 20:41:57 server1 sshd[17846]: [ID 801593 auth.debug] pam_radius_auth: DEBUG: getservbyname(radius, udp) returned 0.
Aug 10 20:41:57 server1 sshd[17846]: [ID 801593 auth.error] pam_radius_auth: Failed looking up IP address for RADIUS server radius2
Weird error. Googled and found all kinds on weird solutions [...]

Updating iPhone to iOS 4 in Vmware

While updating my iPhone 3GS to iOS 4, I encountered an error on iTunes saying that my iPhone could not be updated. My phone went into recovery mode after that. This is not the first time I’m doing restore and update with Vmware, so I’m pretty surprise why the update process failed.
A peek into dmesg [...]

Update: Native Tethering To IPhone On Linux

I missed out something important in my previous post on the native tethering on Linux. Turns out my tethering works only after I kick off the tether from Windows (Which resides in a VM on my machine). Further digging led me to the following site.
http://giagio.com/wiki/moin.cgi/iPhoneEthernetDriver
In order to get tethering to work, you need to ‘pair’ [...]

Native IPhone Tethering On Linux (Debian)

For some reason, I can get tethering to work natively on Linux after I did an upgrade on my unstable Debian.
This was not possible previously. Now the kernel detects a new device called ipheth (IPhone USB Ethernet device). This is the magic that made the tethering possible. And the best part is that it works [...]

Free Google Voice for Students

“Google Voice for Students
Google Voice gives you more control over your communications with transcribed voicemail sent via email, free SMS and more. Enter your .edu email address below and we’ll send you an invite within 24 hours.”
I’m not sure if this is also applicable in Singapore, but I suggest just giving it [...]

Google Launches New Social Networking Platform – Google Buzz

Google launched Google Buzz, a social networking platform. This is cool, because I’m an avid user of Google. But I’m wondering at the same time, what’s going to happen to Google Wave? The functions seems to overlap, although Wave seems to be more cutting edge.
Right now Google Buzz is only available on Gmail. I wished [...]

IPhone Tethering – Use and Abuse!

This is the geeky sequel to my last Linux to IPhone tethering episode where we used and abused the IPhone tethering function.
Some background, I’m one of those people who contracted (and got stuck) with the 50G SingTel Mobile Broadband Plan before the days of 12GB IPhone plan. My usage was about 4G per month, so [...]

Linux to IPhone Tethering In 5 Mins

Tethering from a mobile phone is not new to me. I started from the days of having to script the ppp chat scripts to wvdial to finally having Network Manager recognizing my mobile phone as a 3G modem.
IPhone is new. I have been reading about tethering on Linux as soon as I bought it. Painful [...]

Certificate Error When Building Your First IPhone App?

You probably ended up here while searching for the following error message in XCode when trying to build and run your first IPhone app :
Code Sign error: The identity ‘iPhone Developer’ doesn’t match any valid certificate/private key pair in the default keychain
Before you start googling and attempt to move certificates all over, or spend $99 [...]

Getting The Wii Motion Plus? Hold Your Horses!

Wii Motion Plus replacement coming soon in March! A new device that combines the Motion Plus and WiiMote into 1 single controller.