Courage, persistence and hard-work will always make the impossible, possible. Took me about 6h30m hours of unprecedentedly (nano)hardware fiddling, with soldering skills I wasn’t aware I had (no needles, that sucked too), but fuck, I did it. Geohot‘s method, fully unlocked, not the silvercard/supersim crap. Works. Check the gallery. off to bed now.

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Geohot’s accomplishment is all over the web my now so I won’t comment on it any further but this MSNBC live interview with him is worth watching. George is an remarkable hardware guy but above all, it’s his motivation and his ethics that are worth mentioning. He’s a true hacker.

I and a few friends actually followed the whole story on IRC live, when he wrote the step-by-step tutorial on the Blog. In fact, we were so intoxicated with the story, that we decided to do an unlocking marathon later at my place. The result was a disaster, do not attempt to do this unless you’re a soldering expert, really (see this pic for a good idea on the size of these circuit tracks). I’ve modded a few consoles in the past and I was very confident but what I saw was insane. And by the way opening the iPhone wasn’t easy too. So we were stuck in step 3 and wen’t back to the drawing board. Idiots. We have a video of this, I’ll edit it and post it soon, for your amusement.

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Ok guys this is warning. Lots of iPhone related posts will follow. I know it’s sick and you’re not interested but there’s just too much fun going on here, sorry. This is your chance to unsubscribe this feed or drop this blog.

This post is dedicated to João Pavão and João Pedro. These two (img1, img2) images are self-explanatory. :p

Two nights struggling with pre-alpha software, sparse docs and a couple of problems due to my “non 10.4/10.3 environment”, and I finally managed to get the iPhone toolchain, cross-compiler and frameworks working, after which compiling “my” first native application for the iPhone was easy.

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I just joined the club of those in Portugal who have an iPhone and can actually talk about it, sort of.

This is not a review, I’m tired of pointless opinions about the device. No matter how many defects you find, this toy is truly amazing stuff, specially the software and the OSX foundations.

STILL, the one only thing that really pisses me off is that it does not support 802.1X. So for now, forget about seamless authentication on many WIFI networks, including some public nationwide soon-to-have ones. I really hate having to go through those webpage redirects to get logged in.

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I’m a huge retro-gaming and arcade machines fan. Put that together with my passion for hacking and electronics, and this is gold for me. I just shed a tear. wget –mirror rocks.

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This is me using rfc2397. It will work if you’re on >Firefox2, Opera or Safari3 and IE7 if you install this plugin. Won’t work with IE6, like if anyone with this virus would visit my Blog.

What’s the point of this and what’s the relation to iPhone ?

Two points:

1. Here at SAPO we recently struggled to get a way to dynamically generate inline images on a web page, in all browsers. And it’s not for the faint of heart. I’ve lost the status of this effort with our js guru but I know we all wished IE7 supported data:. But Redmond’s code monkeys are hopeless when it comes to standards.

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If you live in Germany, from today on you might just get arrested for making an Hacker Tool. And pretty much anything call fall into this category, even “ping -f” functionality could get ping’s author into trouble. Amazing.

But don’t get too amazed, in Portugal a very similar law was introduced recently. It came and was approved so smoothly and so under the radar that it makes me think about the whole law approval process in Portugal, the lobbyists, and how people are disconnected and uninterested in politics. Or at least until they take on our basic liberty principles, like this is the case, but then it’s too late. And that’s generally the point when Portuguese complaint, like me.

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Quando tudo parecia perdido eis que de repente se dá um milagre e em semana e meia se vai tentar recuperar a Campus Party mais histórica de .pt. Suddenly powered by SAPO/PT. Ajudai-nos :p

update: “Caros amigos:

Infelizmente não vai ser possível realizar o BragaCampusParty, previsto para os próximos dias 25 a 29 de Julho. Conseguiram-se alinhar as vontades institucionais necessárias, incluindo os apoios da PT e do Sapo, cujo empenhamento era naturalmente auspicioso. As questões das redes físicas estavam também asseguradas em tempo útil. Mas durante o dia de hoje (terça feira) criou-se uma situação que tornou inviável a logística de realização do evento. Com um planeamento quase sem folga, um contratempo logístico tornou-se rapidamente inultrapassável. Fica assim comprometido o esforço de recuperar para Braga um evento deste tipo, aproveitando a disponibilidade do material da Cisco que estava previsto para a Batalha.

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Everything has been said about Hackday London already, so I’ll skip the detailed description bit. This is just a quick note to say that BBC and Y! rocked. We had loads of fun and learned a lot too.

The hack that we submitted didn’t won any prize, so we were clearly robbed there (maybe if the timer guy hadn’t shut us down during our presentation, bah…) but still a very big thumbs up to anyone on the list, to the jury, the winners, and to ourselves too. .pt rules.

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Bought the iWoz book in London last weekend and read it all during my trip to Seattle (more on this later, I promise). The book is sort of a biography from Steve Wozniak, his relationships and life, entrepreneurship, and a big emphasis on the Apple I and the Apple creation.

The book is as easy reading as it gets, and because of the simple and sincere way Woz exposes his personal fears and secrets it’s really passionate reading for geeks of all ages. Plus it has so many parallels and similarities with myself and my still young career and life and what I went through, yes, including the Phone phreaking part, if that’s what you’re wondering.

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