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tezz, i think its good enough YOU want a bible to begin with, im sure god will forgive you, $29 isnt mere peanuts. but seeing as you have a gift card-

@chikeze
i you have already downloaded the 2gig wiki database, extract it and place it in /var/root  and set the folder permission to 755 (0755 if using SSH, still the same thing)

ive not done it before, just dug it up.

finally on 2.0

seems you have to insert your sim in order for the native sim contacts importer to pop up. no wonder i missed it in my first upgrade. sorted out my app store now working on my account.

who remmembers billy zane in The Phantom? crap crappity crap

but phantom 2040 rocks

@ice-zik

thats true

mystikal:
is it possible that the new iphone 3G can be unlocked anytime soon

pay tithe and pray hard

texazzpete:
@logica
There's an app on the appstore called Netshare that allows you to do just that - tether your iphone you your pc to browse with the GPRS or 3G network.

Not sure if it can share via Wifi, though. Can't even test it because Celtel GPRS in Port Harcourt is crap!

@Neoteny
I feel your pain, Negro!

As they say on the IntarwebzYou R LaMe! LoL! You SoXorZ hate ma l33t madskillz! lulz!

i think what logica means is browing on his iphone with his lappy's netlink.

w007! got the 2.0, my speed is back (sort of) but sadly 2.0.1 is now out and pwnage 2.0.2 with installer 4 beta out anytime. oh well, back to downloading 2.0.1

iice:
[color=#9900ff]You iz mocking my form of entertainment
Atleast its not as bad as all those idiotic movies coming out [/color]

which idiotic movies?

earthrealm:
yeah saw vantage point the other day, was cool.nice concept though,

heard so much about wanted, waiting 2 see 2 see the movie[s], [my ares is so slooowwwwwwwwwwwwwww, taking ages 2 download!!][/s]the reviews were fablous, but jolie wasnt looking so hot!!, guess age/motherhood is catching up on her, eiiyah, she ,jessica simpson n christina milan hv always been my fav caucasian females

sry for the interlude

has anyone seen the harold n kumar escape from guantanomo bay?, is the sequel to white castle, very hilarious film,

christina millian is not caucasian

Gamine:
LOL

No!
hehehe

Rolling On The Floor Laughing So Hard My Boss Is Typing My Sack Letter!!

REALLY OUGHT TO FORGET LOADING SUCH HARD MESSAGE BECAUSE ITS TOTALLY MYSTIFYING SOME LOSERS

iice:
[color=#9900ff]Hehehee, i loved the movie, maybe because it was overflowing with testosterone
It was very entertaining jare [/color]

evidently "entertaining" is a very flexible word  

i wont argue the bang-bang-kabooie-badaboom is ok, but then again-(clucks tonque)

Gamine:
ROTFLSHMBITMSL

lets see if i get this right:

ROLLING ON THE FLOOR LAUGHING SO HARD MY BUTT IS TOTALLY MAKING SOMEONE LECHEROUS

did i get it?

iice:
[color=#9900ff]Holy crap!! Plastic man?
Wachowski? rofl, abeg make i see ninja assassin first.
Keanu's not so bad - i mean he passes sometimes if the character doesn't call for too much depth.
I think the only movie i truly adored Nic Cage was Con Air. Put the bunny down

I loved Dark City. I need to see it again, thanks for reminding me. [/color]

we must be on different sides of the equator here: Con Air? fake southern drawl (puut d' bahhny bek in d bawx)?

lawdy, that movie should have been the rejected pilot for a TV series called "Big Bad Men acting like Nancies and blowing everything and everybody up for no apparent reason"

@logica
cool, ITK dey good most times. isnt that why we here?

@texazzpete

I HATE YOU!!!!!!

Gamine:
And to think i once had a Huge Crush on Keanu and Val at the same time!!!
well that was even before da matrix

no problem, some pepole like imperfect characters. you can keep them.

Gamine:
Vesc, LOL

i couldnt believe someone could pit Spiel against Martin

its okay, heretics are everywhere. we the fans of spielberg can accommodate a little balsphemy

Gamine:
@Ex.
i still love me my WILLIE.

did you know in certain dialects of vernacular english WILLIE refers to the male reproductive organ? careful there, girl.

Gamine:
i don't even know whats happening in da Movie world, or any other world at that.[/i]

you are not alone, theres a TV series called LOST.

Gamine:
I can't really Stand Nic Cage's face, its always

thats because by nature he was born

Gamine:
, never watched Ghost rider, i don't intend to.

bless you for not defiling your soul.

yeah we may hook up someday. hey, i have no bones keanu being keanu (can douchebags be anything else?) but ive hardly seen him in a movie that called for keanu to just BE keanu! who wants him that way? all he does is "whoa" and gape like some kind of retard. INSANE. he coudlnt even give an accurate rendition of emoting over Trinity's death. his facial features are perpually in suspended animation (kindda like Cher) and don't do justice to portrayal of the human condition so requisite in movies at almost all levels. with the glasses on in matrix he looked exactly like an Agent: a mindless drone.

Nic Cage is my fave punching bag (when Uwe Boll is lying low) but i feel his most disastrous  turn has to be in Face/Off. for sheer stupidity, miscasting and total lack of convincing depth nothing beats that dual role he played. heres a question for the fans of Face/Off: Cage is shorter and lankier than the rather husky Travolta. when they swap faces, do they swap bodies as well? (this question earned me a Hall of Fame ranking in www.continuitycorner.com, im registered as Neoteny)

another lemon is KoD, and the rather jejune Ghost Rider which took too much levity with my patience.

sure actors have comfort zones and point proved with the likes of Bruce Willis whose Die Hard roots permanenly etched "Action Hero" on his forehead; or Denzel Washington who considers himself the Method Actor's Method Actor, approaching every movie with all the deep seriousness and zeal of a cut-out from some high school stage project. not a bad actor, but not a pliable one certainly. he needs to loosen up and embrace humor.

now the crux: a great Actor SHOULD  do almost anything and not be wooden at it. point proved with Tom Hanks in rom-com, drama, gangster, thriller, war, toy story (in, um, Toy Story  etc.

I Am Legend. you know, it surely can't be easy being Will Smith (the Average Joe/shmuck of moviedom) and being tasked with carrying a whole movie on your own with only a dog and invisible CGI as company (before Anna and Ethan inexplicably butted in). his trademark lackadaisical approach (putting down dictionary) is watered down in the movie, and i really give him credits for the kiiling-my-own-dog emotion-laden scene.

hey, its Big Willie.

Hancock is a special effects extravanza made to show us some cool wizardry, its okay though.

@vesucci

you'd be absolutely horrid as a salesman, except if you were selling encyclopadias about the natural history of iguanas.

i do agree with yiou that keanu is blessed with the skills of being a complete douchebag withiut so much as self esteem or ego. but then that isnt always acting, he is that way. in constantine the devilry of the plot overshadowed his chain-smoking character which he couldnt deepen, besides that role is something even nicolas cage can handle because it is very akin to what cage played in ghost rider: ie self-abandonment taken to extreme levels. there wasnt room in the script for character development or improv (as tom hanks had in Castaway, say, or dicaprio as howard hughes in the aviator). but that doesnt restrict him portraying the undershades of doom and hell wrapped up in one man (like in the Darkness comics ) as was done to good effect in Clockwork Orange (dr sid?).

the likes of keanu and nic cage are only cut out for 2dimensional roles and they WILL continue being cast as such until they develop that 3rd dimension. maybe Keanu IS the plastic man: but the molded, rigid  type. 

Ron Perlman will not be a suitable candidate for Thor because his butt-ugly face is too marred and jaggy for a Norwegian profile (a divine one at that) except if they invest in some little rhinoplasty and such.

triple-H and the WWF pack are too C-List for the project, and if Dolph Lundgren hasnt sunken to the abyss he may have had a chance, however slim.

how about daniel cudmore (Colossus in Xmen 2)? he seems to have te height and build.

i almost agree with you on realism/sensationalism in movies, but if a movie wanders too close to actual reconstruction and makes reality too much its central focus it becomes dangerously boring and inept. like Zodiac.

i mentioned castaway above: if anybody but hanks had done the job we probably would have dozed off after the crash scene. his wonderful performance made even Wilson believable, and that level of emotion is what made will smit so good in I am Legend.

ever seen Dark City? you will love it.

meanwhile thanks for doing a swell job here.

ok, dark city. although it was filmed sometime around 1998-99 it still remains a classic, one of the best film noirs out there. funnily enough when i saw the matrix my first thought was "ripped off dark city". first, we have a survivor (murdock) who "woke up" from the articifial reality he thought was real life, only to find himself being chased by the cops and some strange men with superpowers. on the run murdock discovers that the strangers are aliens who wanted to know what makes man tick in order to survive, and thus created a virtual city and imprinted false memories and identities in the population. its always night time in the city and every 12 midnight the aliens rearranged the city and altered the populations memories and identities while they slept.

murdock was the renegade who refused to sleep, and had to be stopped. turned out that he too possessed superpowers and was destined to be The One who in the end defeated the aliens and their crony The Hand (whom the aliens infused with murdocks memories in order to find murdock), and altered the city which was actually a colony in space to more closely resemble a real city.

sounds like the matrix to you?

zeal22:
To hell with sony ericsson!!!! Nokia rules and we are very symbian!!! Nokia N96 coming soon (What the hell is i-phone 3G)!!! Check it out on http:// www. youtube. com/watch?v= nyUkNDcD3Lg, http://www. ec21. com /ec-market/nokia_n_96.html

iphone 3G is the phone that is stealing the entire smartphone market. one year of release and already the iphone phenomenon has garnered 27% market share.

be prepared to sell your N96 on ebay.

femzy:
Except for the slider design and the Windows mobile OS; i don't see too much to the phone IMHO

you said it; still a windows mobile 6 with customized panels and an all too common sliding qwerty pad. even the HTC Diamond looks better with a spiffier interface.

@tezz

ive had an ipod since forever besides the iphone, need something new and can't see me buying Rio or such. actually zune is cool, and the zune pc manager is also pretty slick. besides thres a registry tweak to make it appear as an external disk but without a drive letter.

pwnage tool 2.0.2 out any moment. winpwn to follow shortly.

@iice

heres some news to ruin your day:

Keanu Reeves to team up with the Wachowski brothers to film The Plastic Man.

imagine, the most inflexible actor to play the most elastic man.

The Horror.

dr manhattan is nowhere near convincing specifically for what the manhattan project did to him and what he became, but within the alternate universe of The Watchmen i do quite agree that he is the most compelling character besides rorschach/kovacs (funny, nowhere in the novel were they referred to as The Watchmen).

im sorry for being hasty and missing your point: but cmon, Matrix action sequence is SEXY but not really believeable. i mean, dodging bullets, flying, slicing an escalade with a katana-purleeez! its just good ol' simple-minded fun totally out of the realm of physics.

we've been flooded wit action films from day one and i must say the whole thing has become devastatingly mediocre so the just had to spice it up and amp up the "whoa" factor without so much as a thought as to what is phsically possible. see: swordfish (no way your POV will swing and arc like that) , wanted, equilibrium, UltraViolet, and of course The matrix.

its just fun fun fun.

@ iice
300 is cool for the sepia tones and slowed down finishing moves, but the dialog isnt much (compare say Gladiator) and the concept of a megalomaniac bent on taking over the world and having to hack through a bunch of suicidal yet heroic bums is certainly nothing peculiarly original (like Sauron and his quest to rule the world and having to fight a mishmash of characters with his vast army). if you strip 300 of the clever production design and the fight effects, you are left with precious little substance.

actually some of the least believebale films (even some with dire effects) have been the most entertaining. as long as the characters can convince you of their emotions be the movie about Trolls, superheroes, zombies, time travel or even Killer Tomatoes from Hell, its all fine and good even if the effects are so-so and the plot wonky.

@tezz

not just a custom carrier logo, a PERSONALIZED one bang with his name. that means creating his own PNG.

var/root/library/ surprises you? shouldnt, thats where i make my Quran database folder to hold the files as per instructions from zoosware, and it works. and im on 1.1.4.

i see the source of the confusion: i omitted one directory: its PRIVATE/var/root/library, not /var at root level.


but then again you know better as per wikipedia seeing as ive never installed it.

you are bored? count all the different font types on nairaland, or better yet how many times the "shocked" smiley blinks when replying to a post. how about conducting an investigation on how many mouse clicks the average human can make before succumbing to clickritis.

nana:
Media Monkey

Attagirl.

i also love Kantaris.

steven dorf? mira sorvino? who are these people? 

i think i last saw steven, was it in Blade? Mira in Replacement Killers. at least she does better than Paul sorvino, just like Julia roberts left Eric roberts in the dust.

whats that wachoski sibling's project? Ninja Assassin? reminds me of Ask a Ninja on Revver  and askaninja.com   

%^&^&$##^*%$


(unprintable, nearest socially acceptable english equivalents are "repugnant", "repulsive" "reviled" "rotten")

@chikeze

this may not work and it may, no guarantees, chances are it wont. try at your own peril. frankly i wont advise it, best to just make a bootscreen and use winpwn to build a custom firmware if you absolutely must pesonalize your phone with "vanity plates"


this is better done via secure shell but pc suite will serve as well. first i assume your phone is jailbroken. now fire up pc suite and navigate to /System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app/

there should be some PNG files there, lots of them. the ones you need have an underscore in them and are the smallest.
copy them and edit them with Paint. set up your name and save the files as FSO_YOURNAME.PNG but leave the DEFAULT as it is. copy both to the system path above, set permission as 755 (it only needs to read and execute). restart spingboard by SHUTTING down and powering on, don't just hot restart. cross your fingers and pray to your gods.


ps: you may have to edit displaysettings.plist to move the icons a little if your PNG is more than six letters.

as for wikipedia ive never installed it, best ask tezasspete. but im guessing the payload goes to var/root/library/wikipedia (you create the wikipedia folder at path end)

. i dont know, ask pete and logica.

media monkey of course! supports plug-ins, syncs better with ipod/iphone and other digital players, and retrieves ID3 Tag and album arts for free from freeDB, whereas with WMP 11 u manually have to paste album arts or get them ffrom Urge or Media Guide WHEN you buy music.

since you are a watchmen diehard, i guess you find the idea of dr manhattan entirely plausible. look at it this way; if you are doing a sci-fi about time travel, id want the REASON for the invention of the time machine convincing, or the effects to be convincing (none of that "whoosh" stargate thing). maybe you are doing a fantasy: your trolls, orcs, Uruk-hai, Elfs (sorry gamine), pixies dragons gargoyles whatever better be convincing-otherwise cheap animatronics or claymation will earn eternal damnation. if its action the fight sequences (not necessaarily the narrative, like the matrix) better convince me that serious ballistics are going on.

in all, i don't care for realism if im well and truly entertaiuned.

on the other hand no matter the realism, i don't give a hoot if it fails to entertain.

thats the purpose of cinema: entertain.

tell me you Rooted FOR 300 because o the plot and narrative. ha! its the fight effects and hyper-real setting that does it.

okay
one accounted for, nine still missing

@iice

speaking of known actors, can you tell me whwre the following are?

1. mel gibson
2. sharon stone
3. michael keaton
4. dennis spade
5. mickey rourke (though he is B-list)
6. danny glover
7. sean connery
8. tom arnold
9. val kilmer
10. roger moore

tey seem kindda lying low or somefin

@tezz

seems all ive said is lost on you. since my HD has gone the way of Davy Crockett im having no option but to DL that fw mother right off the net, the shite is my link breaks off, slows down, gallops up to speed etc and that fw is a fickle baby. any slight error and you get "error 1401" or somesuch from itunes without wning. try pwning and neither winpwn nor pwnage recognize it as valid. will put up the screenie so you see what i mean.

almos every single download is mangled EXCEPT the 3G fw.

Installer beta is out already? wonders.

@iice

we said SCANDINAVIAN-LIKE and SCANDINAVIAN-LOOKING, not a real scandy. haba!

why bother spending all that money on prosthetics, hair coloring, etc wen they can just enrol a fitting actor, probably one of the Unknowns?

anyway, see ice_zik wanting batman to be real, when the character was based on a comic and cartoon series. if people cant afford to suspend belief for one and half hours then they should just stick to documentaries and biopics.

@ice zik

dude, you are not meant to be convinced, you are meant to be entertained. d'uh.

if you want reality go watch Mamma Mia.

but i do agree that all th rorschach posters look great.

@texazzpete

winpwn 2.0.0.3 and pwnage tool 2.01 keep telling me the iphone 1,1_2.0_5a347 restore.ipsw is unknown (winpwn) or invalid (pwnage).

ive downloaded 2 already, both 218mb from

http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content.info.apple.com/iPhone/061-4956.20080710.V50OI/iPhone1,1_2.0_5A347_Restore.ipsw


and iphone1,2_2.0_5A347_restore (which is for iphone 3G) from

http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content.info.apple.com/iPhone/061-4956.20080710.V50OI/iPhone1,2_2.0_5A347_Restore.ipsw

but only the 3G fw is recognized by both tools, and i can't use that on a 2g phone. i used a download manager and after md5 checksum in Terminal i found that the hash does not match the one posted in iphone-hackz. that means my Dl manager fukked up my download. im now downloading an alkready customized fw from

http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4305453/iThor__s_iPhone_2.0_Custom_Firmware_Vanilla_(5A347)

its a torrent with like 122 leechers so understandably its slow as molasses.

have already pwned and neutered the phone, on bl 4.6.

or perhaps you can CD your custom 2.0 and mail it to me. my link is atrocious these days, just got off the phone with he ISP. 27kbps as against the promised 1mbps top limit. its a fraud.

@chikeze

no offense but this is a forum, post your problems here and somebody might help if i can't.