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 [...]
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’ [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The actual cost for shipping the brand new Google Phone / Nexus One to Singapore
The Google Nexus One is finally out, after half a month of rave rumours (which are surprisingly accurate). Here’s some figures for potential buyers in Singapore.
Cost of the phone $529
Cost of shipping: Approximately $26.65 by DHL
Import taxes and duty at Custom: 7% GST on Cost of phone + Shipping inclusive
The whole cost would come up [...]
I have to struggle with this whenever I had a new Debian installation. SCIM does not work out of the box in Debian, so there’s some minor configurations to do. But I failed to note it down anywhere, just happily relying on Google.
So yet again, I have a new Debian Lenny installation on my new [...]
Recently got a mini usb bluetooth dongle. Sad thing is that I found that it doesn’t play well in the latest version of Ubuntu. Did a quick search on Google and found that it’s because of the new btusb kernel module in the latest kernels. The old kernels were using hci_usb.
I booted up Debian with [...]
The need for speed is never satiable. I was running Windows XP in Virtualbox with 1 VCPU all these while. Speed was acceptable for me to do my office related stuff like Exchange and Office.
My CPU was a Core2Duo with HyperThread. So technically, I have 4 VCPU to play with. So I decided I could [...]
