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texazzpete:
I'm not your friend, buddy!!!!

i thought "buddy" meant "friend".

lekside44:
sure, 286 was around 2 decades ago, but many brought it into the country about 10 years latter. back then, computer is computers because they are not much in he country as we have now and anything goes.

we've had a 286 since 1987. im not clear if this is a rebuke or just a restatement of wot you said earlier.

lekside44:
sure, multicore computers are not related to how vista performs but they support multicore processors. the os split operations of the programs among the rmulticores processors thus saving time and gainning speeds.

again, the thrust of your point is lost on me; no one ever said vista does not support multicores. even xp supports multicores. but if multicores do not speed up vista performance without the benefit of apps coded for the core architecture, and you admit same, i fail to see your point.

lekside44:
we ar yet to have programming lang that are meant for multicores.

liar. C and C++ can code for the architecture, its just procedurally harder to do because concurrent threading and farming it out to multiple cores is bloody difficult. Compilers can deconstruct jobs and farm them across the cores, but its managing these jobs (tasks, if you will) and accessing RAM and disk that is difficult. so, in C++ you use threads for tasks, and locks for storage access, but the problem is your overhead of managing all those threads and locks rises simultaneously with increasing number of cores.  schedulers like ULE or compilers like Cray's Chapel make it easier even for new programmers. if one can dig in and get to grips with good memory manaement (especially with x64) and task scheduling its doable. besides, Grand Central  from Apple makes it darn easy to code across multiple cores, and its still Objective C-based.

lekside44:
o/s 2, win1,2,3,3.1 are basically ms dos with gui. microsoft saw the limitatins of their old and outdated ms dos and plan to redesign dos and its micro kennel. this they did with win nt4. but to ensure compatibility, they plan transistional os starting with win 95, down to win 2000. thus from win 2000,we are more or less using the enhanced or redesigned ms dos with gui. take it or leave it, that is the truth. you may not be aware or this because they have not sold the character users interface version of that os.

FAIL!! DOS was completely stripped out of Win 2000, which has the NT kernel. all we have is a layered implementation of similar DOS functionality in what is called COMMAND PROMPT. this, being a very basic shell, was given enhance capability in its windows 7 reincarnation as the PowerShell, which supports scripting (finally). see screenshot of a PowerShell session below.

look, dont start this windows history or foundation wit me because im more grounded in the subject than you are.

ucomeoga:
This is Uche I.S.M. Omeoga founder of CITCI. Well, XP (Experience) nothing to compare with it in line with Microsoft OS designs, especially SP II. Please, know this, Windows Vista is not bad itself. But I prefer Vista Premium.

you're way behind in the times. there already exists a service pack 3 for xp, which further solidifies the OS. windows XP, in comparison to other OS before it, has immense strengths and appeal. but as compared to vista, it is a bit weak. its dominance over vista is speed and performance. its greatest weakness is security, or lack of it, and poor networking capabilities. but windows 7 is by far and without question the best windows in terms of speed, performance, efficiency, networking, security, ease of use, features, and memory footprint.

texazzpete:
Apparently i needed to be on iTunes 8.2 first. Why didn't anyone tell me?

dumbass.

lol "ex neoteny", how daft in an original way.

well, my game got put on hold because (1) its time consuming and (2) i need a new GPU; saving to buy a new Nvidia, but my board probably wont take it.

@lungwun

some of us are easily offended by images of the stone age

@Flyuche

er, i wasnt talking about speed there, mate. im talking about the ease of use, stability, eye candy, features etc. besides, most Dell XPS and ASUS machines out there beat the Macbooks in specs and hardware, but like i always say, its not always the machine, its how the OS works on that machine.

@OYB

true talk, but you and i know that vista, even from the betas all the way down to the RTM, was buggy and an immense resources hog. actually the final code was faster than the hell the RC was.

so far, bar one or two idiots, the windows 7 RC is unanimously hailed by realworld end users (such as yourself and yours truly). of course, it still doesnt have anything to trump Mac OS X yet especially with the superb new techs in Snow Leopard, but its still a redemption for the travesty that vista is. granted, there is nothing in win 7 that SHOULDNT have been in vista, all the features are like 3 years old, but at leats its fast and stable.

the one good thing i love in windows 7 is the new windows update which 98% gets you the very few drivers win7 doesnt install by default. ive done many installations of win 7 but i only encountered a failed driver fetch for one toshiba TPM driver for the fingerprint module.

all in all, i think people are going to be pleased. i hate M$, but ths time around they've built windows into what vista should have been.

why do you people keep going on about XP? there are two new OS versions after xp, its old so lets forget it. the rage now is Windows 7 which is more stable, secure, faster and stabler than even XP itself. it performs better than vista even on a 512mb RAM machine.
.

there is no more basis for comparison: xp and vista are old and being phased out; windows 7 is the best windows ever.

iphone 3GS is jailbreakable, and vulnerable to Ultrasn0w.

yep, he's dead. cnn just confirmed it in their text alert.

yep, he's dead. cnn just confirmed it in their text alert.

just got a cnn text alert; he's in coma, not dead.

just google his name right now.


ye prophets of doom.

lungwun:
they should all go back to playing 3d snake!

snake has gone 3D? finally, nokia is making progress!

@OYB

check out my Transformers skin for Xion. cool animations!

Microsoft licenses its OS mostly to networks, who then contract HTC to build the endless torrent of WinMo boxes we see. thank god for companies like HTC and samsung who design cool UIs to dress up the ugliness of winmo.

iphone is not perfect, but it does so many things intuitively you wonder how you ever lived without it.


however the item below, which attempst to hide its monotoniety with widgets (similar to the old WidSets we got in those days) still stinks. i traded the N95 and added some cash, but im calling the deal off. even the stylus is as big as a flash drive.

might as well get a Touch diamond 2 (the old one is broken) or a Touch HD soon as i get some cash, or some old rich uncle dies.


N97 sucks.

do you know how many people outside japan buy japan handsets? none! unfortunately for you, Fly, the iphone is big whereever it is found. the very markets apple expects to make a killing (europe, US, ME) the iphone is still a craze. in just 2 days of launch the phone has sold 1 million units. how many has the N97 sold so far? even the palm pre is yet to hi 500,000.

whether you hate or not, iphone is a phenomenon, and the launch of the 3GS further proves that so far no touchscreen smartphone upsets it in terms of cool or sales. not G1, not Omnia, not the various HTCs, not the nokia 5800 or the N97, not the Myphone, not the Instinct, not the storm, not the Pre, not the Dare, not the F480, nothing!!

Ellyptical:
Hello TexazzPete,
I was looking at the first page of this post where you yabbed Nokia/SE/Samsung that they are iterations of the same thing. Someone told you to wait for the other newer phones from Apple iPhone before concluding and oh! The iPhone ia a worse iteration!
Too Bad!
iPhone = iPhone 3G = iPhone 3G S
No Major changes.
All the same, I raise my hands for apple for bringing the mobile UI revolution. Other manufacturers could not think out of the box like they did.

Thanks.

i was thinking of ways i could respond without being offensive but i couldnt come up with one. im therefore letting your ignorance speak for itself.

@Mendax


yes apple does change icons infact we're in the third change now. also, the icon disappears during calls simply because EDGE, like GPRS, isnt concurrent with GSM call streams, so it gets put on hold while you're on a call. 3G, however, (UMTS/HSPA, not WCDMA) can co-exist simultaneously with an ongoing call.

mendax:
@all

is d 3.0 d software for ifone 3gs?

no, all apple devices running iphone os x have a unique version of the 3.0 OS. the labeling schema is:

iphone1,1 for original iphone

iphone1,2 for 3G

ipod1,1 for original ipod touch

ipod1,2 for the 2nd gen ipod (also known as ipt2g)

iphone 2,1 for iphone 3GS

so if you see iphone2,1_3.0 7A341_Restore.ipsw, it means its 3.0 for iphone 3GS

@OYB

hey, long time bud. im lying if i told you i remember wot that thing is or where i got it from. i just know its wicked cool and gives useful info with nice animations.

lekside44:
i experience the same more than a decade ago when i was trying to run dos on a 286. it drags on and on.

the last time i saw a 286 was almost two decades ago. and DOS runs perfectly on 286, even an 8086. DOS has no GUI and isnt multitasking so besides TSRs there are no reasons for it to "drag on and on". if however TSR stuff or device drivers are loading high in upper memory, you'll encounter some probs which in this case are strictly related to poor memory management as progs load low.

lekside44:
my advice to all is if you do not have a dual core with at least 2gb ram, stick to xp.

multicore is not directly related to how vista performs, more like how apps were designed to utilize multicores. even if you have a dual quad core but your apps were coded for a single core system, all those extra cores wont help one bit. indeed, they may even slow down system performance.you need apps designed for multicore systems to enjoy the benefits of multicore.

lekside44:
what you all should understand is that most of the os we use today are dos with enhanced graphical users interface.

really? give an example of such an OS besides OS/2, Windows 1.0, Windows 2.0, Windows 3.0, windows 3.1, windows 3.11, windows 95 etc. these essentially have DOS as their foundation, but microsoft let go of DOS in NT, and fully in Windows 2000.

jesus. the ignorance of some people is mind boggling

lekside44:
vista is the lastest version of os from microsoft which added the advantages of the improved hardware technology (memory/speed e.t.c) many people however trys to run these new os on older systems and they compalain. i experience the same more than a decade ago when i was trying to run dos on a 286. it drags on and on. my advice to all is if you do not have a dual core with at least 2gb ram, stick to xp. what you all should understand is that most of the os we use today are dos with enhanced graphical users interface. vista requires so much memory that i still consider our present computer hardware as insufficient. i am even looking forward to an os that surpass visa in terms of memory requirement. i enjoy the zooming tech introduce in vitsa, the fast display from the task bar e.t.c. i often do imagine what new feutures will come with future os,? can't wait to see it. if you think what you have now is ok, stay put. bye

vista is the current version of windows. the latest is windows 7 which is set for general release october. ive been using the release candidate for close to 2 months now and its faster, smoother, stabler, more beautiful than vista. see the screenshot below from my desktop. it is the best windows ever.

@Mendax

laptop wifi radios are stronger than the stuff you find in mobile phones. however that doesnt mean your phone isnt faulty (could be software glitch, could be hardware).

try updating to a newer OS.

the small blue and white icon denotes EDGE connectivity, though on 3.0 you get an "E" icon.


as for Orbit, ive never had that problem, but probably the existence of a prior download manager can create issues. uninstall all DMs and reinstall Orbit. for me at leats, its the best DM out there.

@pcguru

flash, as you are well aware, is eyecandy on the web. its not something essential like, say, javascript. the main reason apple did not implement it (just like palm with the palm pre) is because its prone to crashing mobile browsers particularly ones running the webkit engine. very few mobile browsers support flash because mobile browsers do not aim to supplant desktop browsers. even the very few that do support flash are either buggy or slow; point proved with SkyFire.

and you cant sandbox it like you can applets.


@Dentale

if the problem persists with just one network, try going to Settings>WiFi, tap the arrow icon beside the wayward network, click "Forget This Network", retry connecting. these things happen.

as for upgrading to 3.0, download the update from the link i gave Doyn1 in the previous page, also grab Redsn0w from the link of the same page. go through the process you did before when upgrading to 2.1 (i.e shift, select Update). when done, run resn0w and follow the instructions just like you did with Quickpwn.
now connect to a wifi network, go to Cydia or Icy, go to sources, add the follwoing: http://repo666.ultrasn0w.com. search for Ultrasn0w within Cydia/Icy, install.

place your sim, reboot. you'll find all your data is intact because you did an UPDATE, not a RESTORE. if however you feel better backing up before you start, connect your phone to your pc, open itunes, right-click the iphone icon on the left sidebar, select Backup.
when you're done, restore from the backup when setting up the iphone.

then go back to Cydia/Icy, add the following source: http://cydia.hackulo.us. go to Hackulo in the Sections tab, install Appsync, reboot. install one free legit app and then sync all your cracked warez.

you've done an upgrade before, so this shouldnt be any difficult

ultrasn0w is out. you can now unlock all your 3Gs.

@logica

its twitter



@tezz

well, i said NL's. still a first.

all coding on ultrasnow is done, all that remains is packaging payload with loader and testing.

ladies and gentlemen, i present nairaland's first Windows Mobile 6.5 device!!!

extracted the original radio (1.65.24.36) just in case and used it. works flawlessly. seems SPL 3.56 the ONLY way to avoid a brick.

now my Tytn 2 looks like a Zune HD!

@Logica

i know, but raising people's hopes and doing a demo when you're far from ready just aint cool, even if you're doing stuff for free. lots of people updated to 3.0 in anticipation and ended up with locked devices. and the devs dont even bother giving updates, just "no ultrasnow ETA". how scary is that? im reduced to using nokia (the horror), the old iphone (EDGE, ugh!!), and tinkering with WinMo.

im just saying.

done flashing the tytn2.

next up: ultimate x2 v3 ROM.
if anyone needs help flashing any HTC device to a custom OS ROM make your requests here.

essentials:

1. you need the nerve to cowboy up to a nuked device because this involves a 3-step flashing session, all of which is risky.

2. you must be running at least stock WinMo 6

stuff used:

1. activesync (WinMo Device Center on vista/win 7)

2. KaiserRUU Custom wrapper

3. HardSPL 3.56

4. JumpSPL 1.93

5. Olipro SuperCID (Hermes CID unlocker works just fine, ut better on SPL 3.28)

6. cooked radio 1.6 (anything lower and you may get messed modem and dead camera)

7. HyperDragon 4 ROM (any 6.1+ ROM for the Kaiser works. its best to try until you hit the one you feel ok with)


so, while waiting for ultrasn0w, im going to be experimenting with different ROMs and helping out anyone who needs help with their iphone.

lungwun:
Hi,
I'm back! couldnt stay off for more than one day. seems ultrasnow might just be the proverbial pink elephant.

tell me about it. if the sh1t wasnt ready, why demo it and set a release date? waited 3 days, ive given up. have reverted to n95 8gb.

either there is poor zain network in your area (try other sims) or your phone has genuine hardware probs.


@Logica
planetbeing has finally found the memory address for the AT commands they intend to fire at the BB. he says now he's writing a loader which shouldnt be more than 15 lines of code. when this is done, ultrasn0w shall be unleashed, proably today-ish.

i find it funny that even with IDA it took them so long to find it. i know i cant do it because i cannot disassemle or reverse, and my AT command k nowledge is pretty limited to pinging cell (AT+CIND?, works in motorola phones) but wtf? this is the devteam! they're losing steam.

first, some user had to fnid the vulnerability for them, and they have to use the vector found by geohot. all they did was code the payload for YS (which still is a few line of modem commands).

shame.

Doyn1:
Ex-inferis, thank you so much,  I am going to update to 2.2.1 now but how do I do that because the only update I have on my itunes now is the 3.0, please do you have any direct link to 2.2.1 so I can shoot immediately,  Thank you bro,  Just help me through lol

here you go.

http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content.info.apple.com/iPhone/061-5830.20090127.Mmni6/iPhone1,1_2.2.1_5H11_Restore.ipsw

best drop that in some download manager.

however since version 0.7.2 redsn0w is stable and includes icy (icy is a cydia replacement; cydia and icy allow you to install patches, fixes, unsigned apps etc. you need one or both if you want to love-vendor your phone or install cracked apps), why not just go straight to 3.0?

get the file here:

http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content.info.apple.com/iPhone/061-6580.20090617.XsP76/iPhone1,1_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw

after downloading, place it somewhere convenient (like your desktop), connect your phone, fire up itunes (you need to be online), hold shift, click RESTORE, select the file wait. when its done you'll get the itunes logo and a locked screen. run redsnow to activate, jailbreak and unlock. since your baseband is updated as well, you'll need to select the unlock option in redsnow.

get redsnow here:

http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/4967908/redsn0w-win_0.7.2.zip.4967908.TPB.torrent

Doyn1:
my modem firmware here, its 04.04.05_G.

that is the firmware version for 1.1.4. what you need is 04.05.04_G, which is the firmware version that comes with 2.x. think of the modem firmware as device driver for the modem; obviously if you have comm problems, upgrading the modem driver helps.

cabali:
Upgrade ur firmware from 1.1.4 to 2.2.1. . . . DO IT!!!

slight technical point of correction: upgrade your OS from 1.1.4 to 2.2.1.  .   .   .  DO IT!!!

actually "firmware" refers to the software portion that runs the modem. you can upgrade OS to a higher version (i.e 2.2 to 2.2.1 on 3G   ) without updating the firmware by using an option in mac osx pwnagetool. in the original iphone, the firmware version is the same across 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.2.1, 3.0. that is, any upgrade to a higher OS does not upgrade the baseband.