Bert Boerland

I was one of the first iPhone users in the Netherlands due to a friend who imported one for me from the states. There was no appstore back in those day and to enable the phone in the Netherlands, one had to jailbrake it and remove the carrier limitation. I have been hacking iPhones ever since, sometimes getting in trouble by doing stupid stuff but always able to fix it. Always.

I haven't touched my old iPhone 1 for some years, I have a iPhone 4 now and the 1 model is really running on an outdated iOS that cant be upgraded anymore and feels slow. That is, it should have felt slow. But it didn't when I booted it this morning.

My daughter might want the iPhone, without SIM and Apple appstore credentials, she is nearly 8, just for the games and the camera. So I hooked the iPhone up to the power and when I came back, I saw the message that I had to wait for over 6 million seconds, decades!

After a bit of Googling I found the solution, without going through DFU, rejailbreak and restore. For this to work, you need:

1. A jailbroken iPhone
2. WiFi enabled on the iPhone and still hooked up to you local WiFi (I needed to put the old pass-phrase back on my WiFi encryption)
3. the root password of the iPhone (my second guess was right :-)
4. A computer

Then do the following. Boot your iPhone, go to a terminal of a unix box and find out what the IP address of the iPhone is by doing an
arp -a
and pick the iPhone out of it. Now do a
ssh root@ipaddress
and type your root password. The default one is "alphine". I changed it but remembered it. Now do
cd /private/var/mobile/Libary/Preferences
and remove or move the com.apple.springboard.plist file.
I dont like rm for this so moved it with a
mv com.apple.springboard.plist com.apple.springboard.plist.bak

Now do a
cd /private/var/Keychains
and move the keychain-2.db file
mv keychain-2.db keychain-2.db.bak

Do a hard reset of your iPhone (home power) and when it reboots, it should have no lock and no "wait xyz minutes".

My daughter will be using the iPhone shortly :-)

I use y kinect a lot for Augemented Reality and gesture based control on my mac. And do dig the fact that cheap hardware in combination with open drivers can lead to lots of new creative ways to use a computer or make for example music.

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This IS weird. I have my own protected wifi network. My macs are connected to it. I have a DHCP server giving 10.0.1/24 to wifi hosts. I have a DSL line towards XS4ALL.

Today I installed a ethernet over power out of the box between a fixed IP macmini down and WiFi / DSL router upstairs. When I could not mount a disk from my WiFi network towards the fixed macmini, I started digging... And found out the above picture; I AM connected to my wifi network, however, the DSL router somehow has default gateway towards a network of a neighbour that seems to be connected to Versatel.

Yes, my fixed macs still use my own WiFiconnection. But my wifi macs while using my own network go via the mesh network of the powerlines via DHCP server of the neighbour towards to the internet via my neighbour.

If you thought that stealing bandwidth via WEP Wifi was cool in the late 90ies, this Etthernet of Power breaking will be even bigger.

But.. but.. Surley the protocol running Ethernet of Power is encrypted? Yes. But with a default key! Bothe my neighbour and I shopped the same box at the local shop with the same default key installed. Making our power of ethenret network. Once I "resetted" the key manually on both my devices, I couldnt see my neighbour anymore and it were two networks again.

So
1) never trust anything
2) always change the defaults
3) You will hear about breakins like this in the near future. For example snffing all the traffic via the office next to a political party...

Will put "encryption" on the power network to prevent this... I hope

See bert boerland on weeplaces.

As some people might know, I am a big believer (that sounds stupid) in Augmented Reality technologies, I have a passion for open source and via my employer access to an AR Drone.

Now, checkout ardrone.org where the drone, opensource and augmented reality come to gether.

For some options on how to control the ARDrone via for exampel the wii-mote, see this clip:

Naambellen. Kent u die uitdrukking nog? Ik moets daar aan denken toen ik laatst hoorde dat onze -volgens de GeenStijlGanzenGeneratie- “staatsomroep” NPO uit “uw belastingpoet” de postduiven voerde door NPO.nl te kopen.
Naambellen. Het eenvoudiger maken van een telefoon nummer door deze van “een naam” te voorzien. Op telefoons staond vroeger -in Amerika al sinds een halve eeuw. Op oude dial toestellen stonden per cijfer al 3 letters. In Nederland met de introductie van mobiele telefoons waarmee ge-sms-ed kan worden kortere tijd populair geweest. Zo is het landelijk oveheidsnummer 077 4656767 volgens phonespell het handig te onthouden 07-pi-OK-or-or.

Naambellen. Een vorige werkgever introduceerde een dienst waarbij je middels je computer -begin 2000- kon inbellen naar een speciaal nummer om een VPN te slaan naar een beveiligde infrastuctuur. Inbellen middels een modem LCDbuis vriendjes. Dat deden sommigen toen nog. Het nummer dat je op je computer moest intypen was netnummer (wellicht 0800 of zo) IKBELIN. Lekker handig, voelt u hem? Moest je dus op je nokia telefoon gaan kijken om te weten welk telefoon nummer je moest bellen op je PC. De zelfde mensen die hier voor kozen gingen ook -geen grap- met polonaise door de gangen toen bleek dat ze voor een grote telco klant een soort “portal” (het was 2000) mochten bouwen en het domain dat ze wouden gebruiken nog “vrij” was; whepp.nl. Ja met wh en dubbel pee... :-)

Naambellen. Domainen die je moet spellen. Ik denk dat deze mensen nu bij de Nederlandse Publieke Omroep werken en denken dat een drieletterige domain moesten kopen. Dat hoeft in 2012 dus echt niet meer, content is water, google de sluis. Maak de eerste en de tweede zorgt dat klanten je vinden. 2012... Een ton voor een domein.

Als je iPhone smelt in Maart... Dan weet je het. het is nu al de beste zomer van 2012!

As many people know, I am a sucker for all things Augmented Reality. I use my kinect for that and do a lot of sketchup integration as well. See for example this video from 31 seconds and later

Soo good to see that the AR Player for sketchup has no been ported towards iOS

See this video as well

Download in the appstore

As Morten announced some time ago, there will be a Frontend Conference in April in Amsterdam targetting all (EU) Drupal themers. Apart from Morten, it is organised by Isabell Schulz, Jesper Wøldiche, Marek Sotak and me.

It will be held at Pakhuis de Zwijger, a rather nice old warehouse in the center of Amsterdam. More information on the conference can be found on frontendunited.org

One of the speakers will be Jeroen Wijering. Who you ask? Well, what Dries is for Drupal, Jeroen is for video on the web. See this whois JW video on Youtube. JW knows all about HTML5, mobile, video and even what browser minor version has what bug and how to get past this. His knowledge matches our themes perfectly:

• Drupal on every device
• Frontend performance
• The Drupal experience
• Getting visual with data

You know you have some expertise in one or more of these field as well. And if this is the case, please do submit a session. The conference is all about people like you ;-) Even if you don't think you can add anything, please to take something. Like a ticket, hopefully the "community support" one to get extra Awesomeness. Buy your fresh ticket with a couple of clicks. Oooh, and do stalk your employer that (s)he should sponsor the conference, see for yourself what the advantages are.

We hope to see you in April in Amsterdam. It will rock!

Enige tijd geleden liep ik met mijn betere helft, Brecht en Aart rond in een duidnengebied bij ons in de buurt, Middenduin.

Grotere kaart weergeven

In dit gebied vinden we een redelijk grote diepe cirkel, gemaakt van beton. De eerste gedachte is dat het een soort van artifact zou zijn uit de tweede wereldoorlog, een geschutskoepel. In de grotere buurt heb je veel bunkers dus onlogisch is het niet. Echter, op microniivo zijn er geen andere bunkers of andere oorlogstuig in de buurt het geen de vondst raar maakt. Verder lag het object ook op het laagste deel beschut tussen oude hoge bomen en met aan alle kanten hogere duinen, dat lijkt me ook niet handig.

Ik heb via twitter geprobeerd het lazyweb te gebruiken om te zien of anderen er meer van wisten, helaas tot de lokale online boswachter aan toe zonder resultaat. Wellicht weet jij wat dit is of was? het is geen geschutskoepel denk ik, zeer zeker geen ijskelder (?) en een waterput is ook niet zeer waarschijnlijk. Weet je wat het is, doe een mail naar bert at boerland dot com of laat een comment achter op een flickr posting. Mijn dank is groot. :-)

A fast scanner prototype I built a few days ago. The software is a slightly modified version of Nicolas Burrus' RGBDemo 0.6.0 SLAM and RANSAC-based Kinect real-time reconstruction code.

Leuke iphone app, morfo booth.

Microsoft changed. It used to be cool. Then became bad and now is just kind of lost

From the old usenet archives, check this description of a job-opening

From the usenet archives, a *COOL* Micorsoft
groups.google.com/group/net.jobs/msg/4f2cf440919eeda9?pli=1

"there is minimal bullshit.."

"never do anything stupid because some manager/MBA/suit-type has power without knowledge. "

"Likewise, there are no "politics", just engineering."

"Your work won't be canceled due to some political/financial upheaval,"

Very cool, very history. MSFT is everything BUT this. A fat enterprise with more suits the nerds and more politics then code.

When you call your product 360. When you have a circle on you controller with lights. When every quadrant of the circle is a user.

What quadrant of this 360 circle will be the first user? The quadrant of 0-90 degrees, right?

No, not for Microsoft. Somehow it made sence to have the first player have the last quadrant (240-360 degrees) . Weird.