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I had left this thread diplomatically and peacefully to ensure the developement of the thread as it were.

@naijafan
Ben Johnson said "Ramp up my genius, be not retrograde;
But boldly nominate a spade a spade.

With due respect I don't appreciate ur jaundiced,phony and unenthusiastic comments, you're unwittingly breaking one of the rules as a Moderator, which will put you in a bad light as a Mediator. Being a conciliator, means your posts should be extemporaneous and thoughtful.
In a popular computer magazine, there was an unconfirmed report that some critisms in a particular forum had largely assisted Apple corp in developing new products.
The posts here are not necessarily meant for you nor for you to adjudge, arbitrate or critize. (nothing personal)

On jailbreaking, I don't always appreciate delibrating on frozen and already footed issues.
you're riding to a point, thanks for the links, they were really helpful, but as logical stated the Android platform is a different ballgame altogether.

My definition never caused a chaos in a forum exclusively dedicated to the iphone.

Pytey, a member of the iphone dev-team had similarly made such a comment telling you that "jailbreaking" has a constrained meaning with respect to the iphone.

I think we're looking more at the Grammer rather than the meaning of the term with its sources and derivatives.

Gilbert burnet in referring to how the use of language can sometimes dissect rather than assist us said "A great error to waste young gentlemen's years so long in learning Latin by so tedious a grammar rather than simply understanding themselves."

Ex Inferis:
@naijafan
Glad to see you back, things were getting out of hand. .

Really, You never told me and i think that's unfair.
Another snow is already behind ur back.

QED

Ex Inferis:
hey, I'm game if he can afford not to go thermal anytime i disagree with him.

Hope we both abide the rules of the game.

@Ex, information is power, and when we have access to more than the right information, then you become more powerful. Yellowsnow was released as and when promised, it would be out. I rest my case.

I'm happy that you now know that we don't enjoy the bickering or getting involved in mudane arguments, and so maybe sometimes you or i or both of us just choose to go lingering.

with all rectitude, i doff for you. Maybe i'll borrow just to get an iphone 3G. thx
I've called it a day here.

If, u want to get serious, then let's go.But many at time you keep beating around the bush and dragging issues and that often pissed me off.

First on the yellowsnow stuff, u got those links from http://blog.iphone-dev.org/, so what's the difference between me posting these links and you geting it from the site to where you were directed on the blog?.
http://apt9.yellowsn0w.com for Cydia, and http://i.yellowsn0w.com for installer

Then again you brought out the issue of time. Ex, it would have been objective of you if you had simply asked me to provide the links at the time, i boasted that yellowsnow was out. That alone would have solve the whole issue, but you simply dismissed my claims and you are now trying to justify yourself on the basis of time. I think no one(the world over, including the dev-team) can stand on your on this issue.

ROT 5, ROT 13,ROT 18 and ROT 47 are all ROT operations. I had simply left it that way as i said "to know how well you understand ASCII." Goodluck

Whether, i own an iphone or not, i wake up everyday to find one on the way. I had followed the developements judiciously and most likely perform some operations you haven't done and that i know you wouldn't dare.

If you don't understand the basics, it is always difficult knowing the intricate. In what ever, i'm interested in, i endeavore to know the basics. I had earlier ask you, to define some terms and that u choose to ignore, you also delibrately decided "not to read in-between the lines of my sentenses". I hold on to my most powerful comment on which i said that "yellowsnow will work on all jailbroken phones" everyother comment revolves around that and if u feel that is blablabla, i concede.

Hope u're enjoying ur new network.

There, you go again displaing your arrogance in public, superciliousness, immodesty and stiff-neckedness altogether (U alone (4 in 1))

What's wrong in simply saying, "Halt! DJCN i dont understand what you mean, kindly explain" or you would have kept mute, if you don't know the solutions. On the contrary in your usual self-peity, despotic and monocratic behaviour you totally dismissed a simple task.

Now Nairalanders will see your sheer unclothedness and that u simply spit up what others say and at the same time lack the basic fundamentals of what you post.

I was only testing your understanding of ASCII(American Standard Code of Information Interchange) along with your ability to "ROT"
As u have earlier explained ROT-13 simply means "rotate by 13 places", which is a substitution cypher, the same applies for ROT-47 "rotate by 47 places". I had simply left all characters in their ASCII equivalent.

If you understand ASCII very well, then this would be no task. as;

%96 "F:4< qC@H? u@I yF>AD ~G6C %96 {2KJ s@8] translates to "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."

: 2> 8@:?8 E@ A@DE @? ?2:C2=2?5 gives us "i am going to post on nairaland"

␁[t 4][t 5]␁[t 4]^@ \0[t 5] ␁ will present "␁,E c.,E d.␁,E c./o -_,E d.␁"

That's all

I've always advised you, don't be stone-headed but just try to be your good self, humble enough to learn.
At least i'm vindicated that your yellowsnow worked.

At this juncture, let me resort to the quotation of John Dewey who said "What is sometimes called an act of self-expression might better be termed one of self-exposure; it discloses character—or lack of character—to others. In itself, it is only a spewing forth".

The Posts speaks for itself.

djcn link=topic=206711.msg3292953#msg3292953 ]And now with the just release “yellowsn0w Cydia package “, the long awaited software to unlock the iphone 3g. It becomes easier unlocking ur iphone. That means you can use your iphone with any carrier.[/quote]

Ex Inferis link=topic=206711.msg3292953#msg3292953:
and Yellowsn0w IS NOT RELEASED YET!!!

djcn link=topic=206711.msg3292953#msg3292953:
01110110 01110100 01100001 01100010 01100101 01110010 00100000 00110110
00110001 00110000 00110110 00110000 00110001 00110111 00110100 00100000
The binary trash posted above "simply" means the software can work with already jailbroken phones

Ex Inferis link=topic=206711.msg3292953#msg3292953:
WRONG AGAIN!!!
the binary above means "vtaber 61060174". vtaber is ROT13 cypher for the word "ignore". ROT13 means "rotate by 13 places", which is a substitution cypher. for example in ROT13 your name Djcn is qwpa, in binary that is 01110001 01110111 01110000 01100001
therefore the binary logica gave above means "ignore 61060174".
61060174 is a blog post on the devteams's blog titled "the man ffrom delmonte-he say YES!. that post warned 3G iphone users NOT to upgrade to the 2.2 firmware because the 02.28.00 baseband was then NOT software unlockable by yellowsn0w.
now theres a yellow sn0w update that does unlock 2.2/02-28-00, therefore "ignore 61060174" means "ignore that post, go ahead and update your iphone 3G to 2.2".

djcn link=topic=206711.msg3292953#msg3292953:
@Ex, u always claim to know too much, and i certainly look forward to what u have to offer out off nairaland. If you don't know something you can zip up your 32.
What do you understand by third party applications?
what do you understand by the simple term "Jailbreak"
You fail to explain why we should use ROT 13 in the decryption process because ROT 13 is not the only cipher out there.
Perform a ROT13 and ROT47 operation on these codes below. very simple

%96 "F:4< qC@H? u@I yF>AD ~G6C %96 {2KJ s@8]
: 2> 8@:?8 E@ A@DE @? ?2:C2=2?5
␁[t 4][t 5]␁[t 4]^@ \0[t 5]   ␁

[quote author=Djcn:
@EX, please take a while to re-read you posts, it sometimes contradicts itself and i wouldn't know where to place your level of understanding. ur brags takes u nowhere, I reiterate, the yellow snow is out and u can download ur yellowsnow from
http://blog.iphone-dev.org/
goodies to u all.
Spent too much time here today, i'm out of here.

Ex Inferis:
@flyuche
i HAVE proven him wrong, he has proven me right, and is yet to prove me wrong. and to further prove him wrong:

what you gave:

%96 "F:4< qC@H? u@I yF>AD ~G6C %96 {2KJ s@8]
: 2> 8@:?8 E@ A@DE @? ?2:C2=2?5
␁[t 4][t 5]␁[t 4]^@ \0[t 5] ␁

is utter rubbish, not any code known to man. you want to pass it off as code but sorry its rubbish. it lacks any syntax, structure, pattern and relationship found in any software code. therefore its made up garbage, like most of your post.

Ex Inferis:
and don't tell me yellowsn0w is out, ive downloaded and installed and can confirm its not working with MTN, Glo or Etisalat.

Ex Inferis:
yellowsn0w now working, left my iphone idle and after 15mins i got full service. no 3g yet though.

flyuche:
@Ex. First I said Wal-mart is retailing refurb Iphone for $99, and now at&t, you didn't believe. Djcn said yellowsn0w was out, you said it was a lie. He dropped the download link, you said it doesn't work. Now you said it's working,

@fly dont mind him
His actions can only be best described as a sheer, unmitigated and utter assumption of contemptuousness and presumptousness, psychological miasm and myalgic encephalomyelitis(CFS)
I remain arrière-pensée.

@Tex, i don't actually like directing my posts to an individual especially when we are of dissent views. i know what i post on any forum, and much more imperative is the fact that i understand a subject before making posts or else i save my keypad and that's why you don't see my posts everywhere.    

Ex,is a pious, santimonious and a smug believer in whatever he believes. He falsifies data for his venal and egotistic posts which can be misleading. I dont belong to such cabal and as much as possible right the wrongs.

Now, what's the big deal if someone says the iphone is a toy, a game or something and you believe that's not, must you resort to affronts and insults to prove your point. That is puerile and babyish to say the least.

I've praise the iphone for its applications and it holds nothing more. It cannot serve my basic needs and if you feel it can do you better then you haven't tried your hands on other stuffs(locked) or you keep to your opinions.

For answers to your questions, peruse the dev team blog and interviews. I only made a copied what they said. If you don't mind i can provide u with a superguide for the iphone and so i know what i'm talking about.
I had snipped pages, but they seem to be too large.

http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/67797811/dont-eat-yellowsn0w
http://www.yellowsnow.net/

@EX, pls take a while to re-read you posts, it sometimes contradicts itself and i wouldn't know where to place your level of understanding. ur brags takes u nowhere, I reiterate, the yellow snow is out and u can download ur yellowsnow from

http://blog.iphone-dev.org/
goodies to u all.

Spent too much time here today, i'm out of here.

@Ex, u always claim to know too much, and i certainly look forward to what u have to offer out off nairaland. If you don't know something you can zip up your 32.

I dont want to be scooped into a labyrinth and gratuitous delibrations of your impulsiveness, precipitateness and impetuosity on the iphone and its hacks.

This will only be a squandered, ravaged and atrophied use of my time.

You shouldn't expect me to giving you a chronicle of the whole story cos it seems you're just in the middle of somewhere, cant understand a simple post or just choose to be blunt.

The Dev Team had earlier announced that anyone hoping to unlock their iPhone should NOT upgrade to the official 2.2 release. They finally succeded in jailbreaking ver 2.2 and so retract their statement. What is yor ranting and raving about.

Quickpwn was the first generation iPhone unlocking tool, Apple did plug the exploit which allowed the unlocking with a recent software update. Hence, the need for their announcement. Yellowsn0w, as the unlocking tool has been christened is now able to do the damage.

You are just making an unnecessary tautology and i wonder why you want to show yourself that way.

What do you understand by third party applications?

what do you understand by the simple term "Jailbreak"

You fail to explain why we should use ROT 13 in the decryption process cos ROT 13 is not the only cipher out there.

Perform a ROT13 and ROT47 operation on these codes below. very simple

%96 "F:4< qC@H? u@I yF>AD ~G6C %96 {2KJ s@8]
: 2> 8@:?8 E@ A@DE @? ?2:C2=2?5
␁[t 4][t 5]␁[t 4]^@ \0[t 5] ␁

now using an RSA encryption with and without padding give me the keys of these two codes
hf and `_b

i hope the exercises are not boring.

Apple is known for keeping its under their clutches.
Well, thanks to a set of guys who like me loves freedom. All they do is to make sure everyone is free. They first jailbroke the phone and now unlocked for your use.

Jailbreaking is the term used when you take the iPod Touch (or iPhone), which is normally locked down tight to prevent any third party applications from being installed on it and you break into it and modify it to allow third party applications. In a sense you break it out of being locked up 'in jail' (hence the name).

Jailbreaking is certainly not authorized by Apple. In fact, they've put a lot of effort into stopping people from doing this. They have locked down the OS on these devices very tightly, and provided no documentation on how to access the OS or write applications for it. However, despite this, hackers have been able to not only break into the OS, but to figure out how to write applications for it. I am truly impressed by what they have been able to accomplish.

Jail breaking tools.
http://www.iphone-hacks.com/downloads/category/19

And now with the just release “yellowsn0w Cydia package “, the long awaited software to unlock the iphone 3g. It becomes easier unlocking ur iphone. That means you can use your iphone with any carrier.

01110110 01110100 01100001 01100010 01100101 01110010 00100000 00110110
00110001 00110000 00110110 00110000 00110001 00110111 00110100 00100000

The binary trash posted above "simply" means the software can work with already jailbroken phones.

unlocking tools.
http://www.iphone-hacks.com/downloads/category/17

Well, just like some of the guys who did all of these tweaks, i don't own an iphone. while one of them prefers the Android stuff, One says he die with the symbian line of products.

Please note that the installations of these softwares is at your own risk.
True Apple Lovers should respect Apple and it's policies

Hey! we're not terrorists.

Maybe you can send us an iphone 3G as gifts to prove a point

So should i start teaching u now or something.
Some Guys in PH already gat their phones unlocked.
If i should help you, i'll charge $99 dollars.

Out of here, Go see something on CNN
Goog morning Nigerians

No much talks.
@Bigrover dotes, u made a valid point. Comps are generally categorized into two parts. The hardware and the software.

From 1987 till date, Intel and Microsoft (Wintel) controls the Computer hardware standard because it controls the system motherboard. It not only makes the vast majority of motherboards being used in systems today, but it also supplies the vast majority of processors and motherboard chipsets to other motherboard manufacturers.

Intel also has had a hand in setting several recent PC hardware standards, such as the following:

PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) local bus interface.

Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) interface for high-performance video cards.

PCI Express (originally known as 3GIO), the interface elected by the PCI Special Interest Group (PCI SIG) to replace both PCI and AGP as the high-performance bus for newer PCs.

Industry-standard motherboard form factors such as ATX (including variations such as microATX and FlexATX) and BTX (including variations such as microBTX, nanoBTX, and picoBTX). ATX is still the most popular and, beginning in 19961997, it replaced the somewhat long-in-the-tooth IBM-designed Baby-AT form factor that had been used since the early 1980s.

Desktop Management Interface (DMI) for monitoring system hardware functions.

Dynamic Power Management Architecture (DPMA) and Advanced Power Management (APM) standards for managing power use in the PC.

Intel dominates not only the PC, but the entire worldwide semiconductor industry. According to the sales figures compiled by IC Insights, Intel has about twice the sales of the next closest semiconductor company (Samsung) and more than six times the sales of competitor AMD.

Even though Intel controls PC hardware, Microsoft recognizes its power over the PC from the operating system perspective and has been collaborating with Intel. Together, they have released a series of documents called the "System xx Design Guides"

A very simple question i'll like to ask is what hardware standards have Apple set or innovated? It uses which "horsepower" for it's computing? Which Graphics Card? Which Memory? Which Chipsets? That forms your Computer system and nothing else. Apple is only good in ergonomics, aesthetics and at best conceptual art.
They source all their hardware parts just like DJCN sources hardware for his Whitebook.

Now for the Software, Windows is a "class" of its own having shipped with close to 1 BILLION systems for over 1 decade. The 2 richest guys in the IT sector really needs a break, let them go and sleep.

Now Compare these two operating systems and see the common advantages of linux over OS X

1. Flexibility
If you’ve used OS X, you know it’s user-friendly but not very flexible. You get what you have and there’s not much you can do with it. If you don’t like the layout of the desktop, you can move the Dock to either side, you can shrink it, or you can make it auto-hide. Pretty too bad, I love FREEDOM

2. Open source

3. Command line
Most power users know the command line is crucial to serious administrative tasks. In this department, OS X falls way short of Linux. With Linux, you can do pretty much everything you need from the command line. With OS X? Good luck.

4. Hardware requirements. Everyone should know better.

5. Security
In the most recent “Pwn 2 Own” competition, the OS X machine was hacked, whereas the Linux machine was not.

6 Cost

7 Availability of Software

In all the aforementioned categories, the OS X falls short.
So my bet is the one you know is better.

Know your needs, get the components, fix them up, Fedora is a free Linux OS or Ubuntu. Install and enjoy.
I bet your lappy will be the best.

hey! you didn't mention the cost, your budget or what u wanted to do with it. so should i guess or something I'll pick the aspire model.

Really long posts by naija guys, ve been busy backing up to my capsules and watching TV cos i gat just some few days in here.
There was this Project by a 16 yrs old Japanese guy creating some wonderful gadgets implementing multi-touch tech (on TBS) while we are here envying capacitors and sensors that form the basis of the iphone.

@Ex, It's quite unforshunate that you easily forget the contents of your previous posts which sometimes are in outright contradiction to your later posts or even those yet to be posted.

A point of correction: reuters doesn't feed VOA and CNN as CNN retract its contract with reuters more than 18 months ago. BBC have a partial contract with Reuters doesnt feed up to that % that u claimed.

Even if we accept the claim that reuters ("your new best friend" feeds news agency like CNN and the likes, you had previously dismissed reports by these news agency when we discussed other issues. Brother, Your approach to issues can sometimes be incongruous.

Now to reuters, this was the a report from them yesterday on Apple Inc, hope you ll enjoy. http://www.reuters.com/article/apple/idUSTRE4BT4IL20081230

Well, it is ridiculous that you searched the entire WWW and couldn't find other reports on Nokia and it's implementation of Linux, the story is a very long one and i cant start give an exegenesis into all of that.

http://www.nokia.com/A4136001?newsid=1274570
http://www.nokia.com/A4136001?newsid=1185531
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/21/nokia_not_linux/
http://blogs.zdnet.com/cell-phones/?p=347

The NYT (US) and Guardian (UK) also gave us some hints on this issue but can't remember the exact issues.
I hope that will end all the tiff, squabbles and contretemps on that issue.

In as much as i try to be objective in my posts, it's a fact that some of your points are incontestable, while in others you are just being opinionated and hell-bent.

Dreamsy and Jane are cousins of mine who lives in Cupertino, California and just came around to chill out in Naija, "Apple fans they claimed", we read your posts together and they have this to say "The guy is fantastic and whimsical, but he lacks the panache to prove the nitty-gritty of Apple's products". Hope you dont mind their reports.  

The mac will be celebrating its silver Jubille xt yr  , dont want to talk much on comps here but lets see what the conference has in store for us come January.

@Ex, Brother not all of us went to skul like u did as some of us is yet to obtain our SSCE, so don't mind the English. It's neither our nor ur language.

I don't want to be involved in a rigmarole of debates or comparisms between Apple and Nokia since i know where u stand.

Your citation of reuters publication on the adoption of Linux for Nokia phones has been dismissed by Nokia Press.
There's more than enough information on that issue on the net or u can check nokia's website for more details, as such your statement could only be termed a rumour, an unverified report and an idle speculation.
Nokia firmly holds on to Symbian OS and it's promotion.

Most likely you subscribe to macworld, which stands out as the No 1 magazine for the promotion of Apple and it's products, if u do then u should know better that the iphone was not a success as expected by Apple. Macworld July, Sept, Nov 2008.

It's better we prove facts within the facts of facts.
The iphone was a conceptual art.

Pls, Simply tell us why ur phone is very unique, why it is the best to u?
Then tell us the xt phone u'd like 2 have.
No Challenges.

I use the Nokia 1200 and the HTC Touch Diamond.
The Touch Diamond is the only phone that duplicates a real diamond.
It gat all the features that i want from a mobile, really making me mobile.

I use the nokia 1200 for it's long talk time, searchlight incase of PHCN and because of the bad boyz

Maybe I'd like 2 have d N97

Would have been better, but some boards doesn't have sata disable option.
Even when u install, u would still need the drivers to enable SATA and AHCI support when rebooting.

I make my own lappies and believe this, they are the best.

Thx ralvy 4 the links.

I got no such blog.

Your posts tends to be much more of an attack and personal rather than technical. You make fine posts but wonder why u're very passionate with technical issues rather than facing issues squarely. As i've always said learn to be tolerant and factual.

I don't always like posting or stressing issues, but just to make some facts clear and make sure you use the right expressions when posting. It is very obvious to a newcomer that u've always FAVOURED the APPLE line of products even if it involves falsifying details.

Now for your information, On December 2nd, 2008, Nokia completed its acquisition of Symbian Software Ltd as part of its plan to enable the creation of the non-profit organisation Symbian Foundation. Promoting what will be useless isn't it?

All OS has it merits and demerits including the OS X and mind u will eat ur words that N97 will be the last high powered phone on the Nokia series. Thanks Guy.

No Qualms, Time will tell.

Options
1. Take the laptop to an Engineer
2. Get an external floppy and get sata drivers into it.
3. Get Win XP SP3 from the market, if not urgent i could send u one.
4. Integrate any version of win XP with SP 3 following the steps below

To create your own bootable Windows XP SP3 CD, you’ll need the following:

A bootable Windows XP CD (any service pack level, Home or Professional)
Windows XP SP3
Bart’s Boot Image Extractor
Nero Burning ROM
CD Writer

create a folder structure to hold all the necessary files on your PC locally before you burn them to CD, then create two subfolders: XPSPCD and XPSP3

Copy the entire contents of the XP CD to XPSPCD, but first make sure that hidden files and folders are visible and that protection of system files is turned off via Windows Explorer.

To check this, go to Tools/Folder Options/View, check the radio button for “Show hidden files and folders” and make sure the checkbox next to “Hide protected operating system files” is unchecked.

Next, copy the SP3 standalone file (windowsxp-kb936929-sp3-x86-enu.exe) to XPSP3. To extract the contents of the file you can use a file archiver like WinRar, but more simply just go Start/Run and type in: XPSP3\windowsxp-kb936929-sp3-x86-enu.exe –x

This launches an extraction dialogue box. Extract the files to XPSP3, and once that’s done you can delete the original SP3 file as it won’t be needed any more. Place the extracted SP3 files. Extract the Boot Image

Download BBIE and extract the files to a local folder. Then, open a Command Windows, navigate to BBIE and run the following command:

bbie x:
(Where x: is the optical drive with the XP CD.)

BBIE will search the CD for any available boot images, and extract them using an image1.bin, image2.bin, etc naming convention. There should only be one boot image on the XP CD. BBIE also can extract boot images from ISOs – just change the command to:

bbie x:\cdimage.iso
(Where x: is the folder containing the ISO, and cdimage.iso is the filename.)

The image1.bin will be stored in the active folder (BBIE).

To integrate the service pack, go Start/Run and enter the following command:
XPSP3\i386\update\update.exe /integrate:\XPSPCD

Slipstream the SP3 files
Note that there’s no space between /integrate: and D:\XPSP2CD. The upgrade program will launch and install the service pack into the locally cached CD, and confirm once it’s done.

Create a bootable CD
Launch Nero Burning ROM and create a new bootable CD compilation. When the compilation properties window comes up, select the Boot tab.

Click the “Image file” radio button and Browse for the image1.bin file which BBIE extracted. Then under Advanced, tick “Enable expert settings”. Change “Kind of emulation” to “No emulation. Make sure that “Load segment of sectors” is set to “07C0” and change “Number of loaded sectors” to 4.
Set the bootable compilation properties
Hit OK, then add the contents of XPSPCD to the compilation project. Burn the CD and you’re done. Add the slipstreamed files to the compilation

Most Windows updates can be slipstreamed into installation media via the same process, so it’s worth keeping the folder structure and saving the Nero compilation so that you can just keep adding to the local cache. Using a rewritable CD will avoid wasting media, or it works just as well when updating a network install location.

Hope it works.

Many at time when i hear of the iphone, i ask is it really a smartphone? Is the phone just being overhyped by naija guys?

Apple has spent so much on its advertising campaigns of the iphone and its applications and that gave it a rush for many customers of the product. myself not exempted. Well the phone is really cool with its wide range of applications. But sometimes Apple and its fans take it too far and that is why the Phone have suffered advertising bans in the United Kingdom for overhyping and have received adverts warnings in other countries afters consumers made series of complains which did not meet their demands as promoted by the adverts. Which way forward for the iphone, sure still freaks, but just as it is, simple and cool and nothing more.

Nokia continues to be the leader in the mobile market and The Symbian OS is the market leader open operating system for mobile phones. Nokia is not ditching symbian for any linux stuffs and even if a new OS is to be implemented in high end nokia phones is no indication of the limitation of th Symbiam OS. Sometimes, i wonder how we think and where we get our reports from?

Symbian OS has a microkernel architecture, which means that the minimum necessary is within the kernel to improve robustness, availability, and responsiveness. It contains a scheduler, memory management, and device drivers, but other services like networking, telephony, or filesystem support are placed in the OS Services Layer or Base Services Layer. The EKA2 real-time kernel has been termed a nanokernel, containing only the most basic primitives and supporting an extended kernel to implement any other abstractions.

Symbian OS v9.5 is the result of continued deep collaboration with Symbian OS licensees, the world’s leading handset vendors, and its user interface platform partners MOAP, S60 and UIQ. With over 110 million Symbian smartphones shipped, high smartphone growth in developing markets and increasing mass market requirements, Symbian’s addresses high end user needs.

They currently 50% of the market share of OS abd that is expected to rise.

Operating Systems in use today include the ubiquitous Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, Over 350 distros of Linux, SunOS,BSD and variants, Netware, DEC UNIX/VAX/VMS, Network Computing, IBM UN/A(IX) and some few others.

In Desktop, the major contenders are Windows, Mac OS X and Linux distros. The pendulum keeps swinging and new technology bringing about new innovations. What are the Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and Threats these OS will experience will surface in the next major release of OS to be released in 2009.


Mac OS X has delivered a lot of innovative new features and is rising up With Snow Leopard, the next major version of its line of operating system.
Taking a break from adding new features, Snow Leopard, builds on Leopard’s enormous innovations by delivering a new generation of core software technologies that will streamline Mac OS X.Apple is marketing the idea of there being “no new features” for Snow Leopard and instead promising an overall improvement in how Mac OS X works under the hood.

According to Apple's website features include

Microsoft Exchange Support
Snow Leopard includes out-of-the-box support for Microsoft Exchange 2007 built into Mail, Address Book, and iCal.

Multicore
“Grand Central,” a new set of technologies built into Snow Leopard, brings unrivaled support for multicore systems to Mac OS X. More cores, not faster clock speeds, drive performance increases in today’s processors.

64-bit
To accommodate the enormous amounts of memory being added to advanced hardware, Snow Leopard extends the 64-bit technology in Mac OS X to support breakthrough amounts of RAM — up to a theoretical 16TB, or 500 times more than what is possible today.

Media and Internet
Using media technology pioneered in OS X iPhone, Snow Leopard introduces QuickTime X, a streamlined, next-generation platform that advances modern media and Internet standards. QuickTime X features optimized support for modern codecs and more efficient media playback, making it ideal for any application that needs to play media content
OpenCL
Another powerful Snow Leopard technology, OpenCL (Open Computing Language), makes it possible for developers to efficiently tap the vast gigaflops of computing power currently locked up in the graphics processing unit (GPU). With GPUs approaching processing speeds of a trillion operations per second, they’re capable of considerably more than just drawing pictures. OpenCL takes that power and redirects it for general-purpose computing


Other features include (geek's site)
ZFS support, portions of which come from the OpenSolaris project (along with Sun’s DTrace technology, which Apple uses in its Instruments performance profiling tool). Leopard debuted read-only ZFS features, but Snow Leopard and Snow Leopard Server will provide both read and write support for Sun’s new 128-bit file system. ZFS was designed to provide “simple administration, transactional semantics, end-to-end data integrity, and immense scalability


Microsoft’s Application Features in Mac OS X, System Wide.
Microsoft’s business model of tacking on features hasn’t been a total wash. The company’s desperate efforts to invent novel marketing features for every new release of Windows and Office have pioneered a number of ideas that have later found their way into Mac OS X. One example is the idea of Fast User Switching, which Apple added to Panther. Windows XP pioneered the trick, but built it upon the kluge that is Terminal Services. Ajax web apps and Other Apps which are still kept silent.

Think Small.
Snow Leopard aims below the bloat to accommodate the coming wave of SSD-based systems.Smaller apps.



From the stable of Microsoft, Windows 7 will address current computing needs such as

Windows 7 will pioneer advances in touch, speech, and handwriting recognition, support for virtual hard disks, improved performance on multi-core processors, improved boot performance, and kernel improvements.
• Multi-touch gestures in photogalleries like two-finger zoom, flicking, and panning. Think of the photo app on the Microsoft Surface table.
• Multi-touch paint program where you can draw with 10 fingers
• Multi-touch piano app
• In-depth mapping application that pulls from Microsoft's Live Maps and Microsoft Virtual Earth
For developers, Windows 7 includes a new networking API with support for building SOAP based web services in native code
At WinHEC 2008 Microsoft announced that color depths of 30-bit and 48-bit would be supported in Windows 7 along with the wide color gamut scRGB (which for HDMI 1.3 can be converted and output as xvYCC). The video modes supported in Windows 7 are 16-bit sRGB, 24-bit sRGB, 30-bit sRGB, 30-bit with extended color gamut sRGB, and 48-bit scRGB.

It is speculated that this OS will be a linux-killer when it comes to netbooks and Nettops.

Linux major distributions includes Ubuntu, OpenSuse, Mint, Fedora, PCLinux, Debian, Slackware, mandriva and gentoo are giving out what they can give free and provide support to the extext possible. All with major new releases are serving as alternatives for desktop users and forshunately or unforshunately eating into their hearts.

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What is the difference between a mac and a pc

@ infobaba, u have been commited to solving problems on this land in d phone section, so u continue 2 do ur job, and if u dont mind this thread was not meant 4 u but 4 Ex, so may u take ur leave pls. I assure u Ex, can handle this all by himself as he is a problem solver. I don't know why u are so interested here when many people need browsing tricks on d phone section. U can help them there. Now u solve this, I need 2 know how 2 browse with my phone in my workplace.

@Ex. U claimed 2 be a problem solver but have failed 2 solve d only problem i posted on that thread. Wake up man and learn something new.

@everyone You have a right to make ur freedom of speech or judgement, I have been out of touch with this land for 2 months now due to my present job. So on looking on previous post i found Ex posts to potray that of an ex convict and so i thread 4 him.

@ Ex, Unforshunately 4 u i'm very much alive cos u had wished that i get drown, too bad.
I know u dont have respect 4 others as u have always rubbished the ingenuity of others, even though u have not achieved any feat.

Now, u reveal where i claimed to be an inventor or a genuis if u're not just interested in spreading falsehood.

Now to reveal ur foolishness, u instigated a debate between me and sojio only for u to come and play a fool's game.
Just like smartking who is claimed to have duped others, ur cup is getting to the threshold.

"You are commited to helping nairalanders solve their technical problems" just listen to yourself and feel how it sounds. You're a problem solver, and yet u're locked with myriads of infinite technical problems in a state of superposition.
Thanks 4 been a problem solver.

Sir, no matter how u see urself, it's always best if u sometimes make a reappraisal of yourself and make necessary adjustments, that's the help i want to give 2 u. Make ur necessary replys now and not when i will be retiring back to my work, that's exatly what u did before and it created a black bulb.

Wishing u the best of what u wish urself.

Well, hope ur day is fine as usual as i always wish all men well.

You proved yourself to be an intolerant individual, and bigot minded. Your approach to oppositions reveals ur true self as a snake wanting to release a venom. I cannot but imagine what led to ur attack on me on a post i made 4 close 2 a month before u made a reply, what must have prompted u, u best know urself. What relation does an opinion on an issue has to do with an individual personility U spoke like a traitor and a betrayer.
I told u that i'm off this land for sometime but u went streching already buried issues on my behalf, what are ur benefits?

Know this fact, it's not unusual for u to always attack others and such attacks never really affect the individuals, they dont change the persons, they only end and die with ur posts.

I'm registered with over 10 forums and on some dedicated mac forums where intellectual individuals argue convincingly and with facts but u seem to be in love with fancies and fantacies and doesn't even know what ur mac is made of, but ur surely appreciate the lustre and casings. wake up.

I live based on my IT profession and uploading codes or giving screenshots of my works would not convince u since u are ladded with preconceived ideas that can see no light way and that wouldn't help me either. I don't know why u're so passionate about the system that u use but always fail to mentions facts, Scores of updates have been released for mac but u haven't mentioned a single one, EMG sued Apple for some infringements and a host of other stuffs, but u always prefer to hide these under the cover. I wonder if u work 4 the company or something. U just seem to have been past all intellectual sense on ur thinking ability to reason with others.

Your choice of language proves u 2 be ill mannered, ill behaved, and an ill patterned individual, must i agree with u to be a freind of urs, if that is ur wish, i strongly disagree. I hate sycophants and i'm no sympathesier. I ll always tell anyone what they need to know.

Advice to You. Be focused on ur occupation and stop making much noise, cos u know nothing and from my standpoint u're a nonetity. Stop looking for attention and feeling that u know all cos no one knows all. Pride is before a crash and a haughty spirit sees a downfall.

If u interested i'll invite u to my book launch coming up soon, and that's just 2 let u know that i have no grievances towards u or anyone cos i'm above that.
I'll not forget to wish u all the best.
I'm back 2 base.

Well, Djcn will be in some creeks for some 3 wks and ve been informed that there aint an ISP for internet services there, to all rivals, friends, and all, Post the best, Think the best, Live the best. Thx

@Ex, Have u ever checked the meaning of these words "INTELLECTUAL HONESTY"?

Check the Gordon's Bell's award website and post ur details.

I don't know what it takes for one to post a trick or FBS? These stuffs should be stikky. Forums are for sharing and many persons are in need of these stuffs, honsule, fdigital and others, if u guy has this stuff why not create a thread for it and continually update the thread. If u need assistance we can discuss but i'm not into phones and free browsing cos i've already got a solution.

Thx