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Installing HP UX

Special drive installation command

The insf command installs special files in the devices directory, normally /dev. If required, insf creates any subdirectories that are defined for the resulting special file.

The lssf command lists information about a special file.

The mksf command creates a special file in the devices directory (normally /dev) for an existing device, a device that has already been assigned an instance number by the system.

PING … bukan blackberry PIN !!!

Yups , 

PING disini bukan sebuah fungsi yang diberikan oleh Research In Motion pada aplikasi Blackberry Messenger nya yang sekarang lagi ngetren di jakarta … bayangin aja , anak SD sekarang udah pada megang blackberry sebagai alat komunikasi …. ( wew, mungkin mereka lagi pada nungguin email dari nyokapnya untuk jadwal hari ini kali yah …. ) ) 

PING yang dimaksud disini adalah Packet INternet Gropher sebuah utilitas yang digunakan untuk mengdiagnosa kesalahan atau error yang terjadi di jaringan baik lokal maupun interlokal ( loch … ) maksud saya internet ( Hehehehe..) … Perintah PING sangat membantu seorang network admin dalam menset route ataupun troubleshooting jaringan … 

Utilitas PING ditemukan pertama kali oleh Mike Muss pada bulan december 1983 ( Berdasarkan search di wikipedia ) sebagai utilitas untuk mendiagnosa perilaku aneh didalam jaringan. Dia menamakan utilitas itu PING, berdasarkan bunyi yang dihasilkan oleh sebuah sonar di dalam sebuah kapal selam. Prinsip kerja PING pun tidak terlalu jauh berbeda dari prinsip kerja SONAR , yaitu mengirimkan sinyal yang kemudian dipantulkan kembali setelah mengenai sebuah target … 

Utilitas PING sangat bergantung kepada service ICMP type 8 ( atau lebih dikenal dengan “echo request” ) dimana bila service ini dimatikan maka yang muncul di layar console anda setelah menjalankan utilitas ini  hanyalah “Request Time Out” atau “RTO”. Utilitas ini biasanya digunakan bersama sama dengan perintah Trace Route , untuk mendiagnosa kenapa jaringan anda terputus atau menjadi sangat lambat. 

 

Tetapi , karena memberatkan jaringan maka beberapa atau mungkin hampir semua provider internet mematikan ICMP request service di router mereka. Dengan alasan keamanan, karena banyak hacker yang membuat jatuh jaringan dengan cara mengirimkan serangan PING ke router mereka atau yang lebih dikenal dengan DOS ( Denial Of Service ) attack yang mengakibatkan router tidak dapat melakukan routing dikarenakan sibuk ngurusin permintaan reply dari ping yang begitu banyak …  :D 

But for local network, ping masih dianggap sebagai utilitas yang sangat berguna untuk network admin kok …

Perintah “trace route” AKA “tracert”

Hi guys …. 

Basic command sebagai seorang network admin yang handal salah satunya adalah “trace route” aka “tracert” , kenapa …. ? karena command ini akan sangat membantu network admin untuk mengetahui atau mendiagnostik kondisi jaringan terputus dimana ….. wew, penting kalo lagi pas genting genting ternyata koneksi internet atau LAN putus tiba tiba …..

Apakah tracert itu ?? 

Perintah trace route akan melacak path network dari suatu paket data yang diatur oleh suatu router internet, ketika mereka dikirim dari komputer kamu ke sebuah alamat tujuan. Jarak atau Panjang dari sebuah koneksi network ditandakan oleh berapa banyak jumlah router yang dilalui oleh sebuah paket untuk mencapai sebuah alamat tujuan.

Fungsi dari trace route :

Perintah trace route dapat digunakan untuk mendiagnosa sebuah koneksi lambat, dimana terletak kesalahannya … apakah ada disisi anda, provider anda atau backbound provider menuju gateway … paling gampang sih untuk mencari tahu kenapa koneksi internet anda putus, jadi waktu pas ditanya sama atasan anda … anda bisa nyalahin provider internet anda dengan bukti bukti yang ada dilapangan ( Hehehehehe ) .

 

 

Buat yang baru belajar networking … perintah ini penting and sangat berguna .. kalo perlu buat newbie kayak saya , perintah ini nggak terlalu banyak karakter untuk ditulis di buku saku pertolongan pertama seorang network admin yah …. 

Hehehehe…. thanks , and majulah IT indonesia.

How to add .IPA to Iphone without iTunes

Hello to you, iPhone hacker! Hello to you too, iPod Touch hacker…

So it’s not a secret anymore… many iPhone games and applications have been cracked (and still are). Basically, you can get 2 types of files. The “normal” .app file, and the cracked ipa file. We already covered the method to install .app files on your iPhone. Now here is the other method, the most popular one, to install cracked .ipa files such as games and applications on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

As a reminder, this is illegal! I do not encourage anyone to hack or crack iPhone games. Some developpers spend quite some time working on them and they don’t want to see their work ripped off. If you see an iPhone game or application that you like, download it legally through the App Store.

This method works for all firmwares from 2.0 to the current firmware available. The only thing that changes is the MobileInstallation file that you have to install. Each device (iPhone/iPod Touch) has its own MobileInstallation file for each version of the firmware. I started tracking these MobileInstallation files from iPhone 2.1. I do not have them for older firmwares and I do not have them for iPod Touch, although they might be the same as the iPhone’s. I don’t own an iPod Touch, thus I never tried this before on one but some users reported to me it worked great.

By the way, you may want to check my list of cracked iPhone games and applications.

So, how to install ipa files on an iPhone or iPod Touch?

1. You need to be on jailbroken iPhone with Cydia installed. For this, you may useQuickPwn, PwnageTool, or WinPwn. See my tutorials for on how to jailbreak your iPhone or iPod Touch using any of these tools.
2. Install OpenSSH from Cydia on your iPhone. Click on Cydia and then click Install (Sections)>Networking>OpenSSH then click Install>Confirm (if you get a running out of disk space error click “ok”).
3. Log into WinSCP. The first time you try to login you may get a connection timeout error, click retry several times (up to 20 times!) and it should work. If you still get an error, reboot your iPod/iPhone and try again.
4. Navigate to /private/var/mobile/ folder
5. Set the permission of the Applications folder to 777 (make sure reclusive is checked).
6. Stay in the /private/var/mobile/ folder.
7. Create a folder called “Documents” in the /private/var/mobile/ folder. Make sure to spell “Documents” correctly, with a capital “D”.
8. Set the permission to 777.
9. Navigate to the root level and open the /Applications folder.
10. Create a folder called “Documents” inside the /Applications folder and set permission to 777.
11. -——Note: You will only need to create these two Documents folders once———
12. Go to <root> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MobileInstallation.framework
13. Rename the file “MobileInstallation” to “MobileInstallation.bak”
14. Download this patched MobileInstallation file from HERE. Note that you have to download the patched file for the firmware you are running. ie. if you are running 2.1, you need the MobileInstallation 2.1 patched file.
15. Place the patched file into the/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MobileInstallation.framework folder and set the permissions 775 for the patched MobileInstallation file. If there is some type of extension (ie .dylib), then you need to remove that extension.
16. Reboot your iPhone/iPod Touch
17. Download cracked api Games and Apps from Here.
18. Download at least one App from Apple App Store (Free or Paid). What I do is I download one app from the App Store using iTunes, then I sync my iPhone and reboot it. Then I download one app from the App Store on the iPhone and reboot the phone. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT: Otherwise you will get an error! [Only need to do this once]
19. Drag and drop the .ipa file you downloaded into the iTunes Application library.
20. Sync your iPhone/iPod Touch and enjoy!

Errors:

The application “XXXXXXX” cannot be opened

Fix: Reboot your iPhone or iPod

0xE800001 Error:

FIX: Change usb port and reboot your iphone/ipod Touch.

If this doesn’t work try going into: Control panel->System->Device Manager->Universal Serie Bus Controller->Right click Apple Mobile Device USB Driver and update driver.

0xE800013 Error:

You get this error when you already have the app

FIX: Simply delete the .app folder that u have ssh’d and reboot.

taken from the blogs http://www.iphonedownloadblog.com/2008/08/04/how-to-add-ipa-apps-to-your-iphone/ all credit goes to the writer.

Bold or Storm? Thats was the question …

Research in Motion (RIM) has been a beehive of activity as of late, releasing a veritable cornucopia of handsets to appeal to a wide range of consumers with different needs. Its two latest offerings, the Bold and the Storm, hold top spots on two competing networks and are vastly different: how do you choose?

Well, quite obviously, you’re choice of handsets will be largely be a selection of the carrier currently offering one of the two. The Bold is touted by AT&T, while the Storm is carried by Verizon. I’m going on record by saying the ideal network for just about any mobile handset, if price isn’t a factor, is Verizon.

But don’t think for a second that I’m going to recommend the Storm because it’s available on a strong network. To the contrary, I’m going to tell you stay about as far away from the Storm as you can, whether you’re a weathered Blackberry user or a newcomer to the RIM arena.

Having a friend who just purchased the Storm, I spent some time playing with it, just waiting to be wowed and awed by RIMs beautiful touchscreen offering. The wow never came. In fact, after a short time I found myself forcing the handset upon its owner, afraid that my experience with the Storm would taint my impression of RIM and other Blackberrys.

The entire concept of the Storm is based upon one premise: that, unlike the iPhone or other touchscreen handsets, instead of rewarding a user’s touch with haptic feedback, the Verizon provides an actual click. That click is executed by a screen that is an actual button you physically click, called Surepress.

It sounds fantastic, really. In execution, it’s poorly done. The screen is actually uncomfortably difficult to suppress. Sure, I’ve spent time using real tactile keyboards, and actually switched from an all-touchscreen Samsung Behold back to a Blackberry Curve due to the superiority of the Curve in the keyboard department. But the Storm’s Surepress is uncomfortable to use for anyone who wants to do more than maybe cue up a contact and hit call.

And you can forget texting or entering anything with the virtual qwerty keyboard. Something about the Storm’s shoddy speed and predictability of operating system coupled with the click screen make entering letters downright unpleasant. After trying to type a text that would normally take a few seconds on any real qwerty handset, I found myself getting a bit tight in the chest, like the stress of the affair was about to bring on a panic attack or something.

Aside from the keyboard, the OS suffers as well. Plagued by terrible lag, I consider the OS close to unbearable and unusable. The battery life isn’t anything to brag about, either.

The two upsides to the Verizon Blackberry Storm are its screen, which is quite vibrant, and full HTML browsing. But that’s where the upsides to the handset, as far as I can see, end.

On the other side of the table is the Bold. It’s surname should be the Beautiful. The handset is by far the best Blackberry to ever hit the market.

The screen outshines (in every sense) the Storm, and in my opinion, the iPhone and any other handset I’ve seen. The battery life is very impressive. The handset has a sturdy, hefty feel without being overly cumbersome.

The back of the handset has a faux leather finish, which adds a nice grip and texture. Aesthetically, the Bold lives up to its title.

The OS and GUI is, again, the best offered by RIM to date. Even the most powerful Blackberrys have been known at time to suffer from lag, but the Bold doesn’t suffer. In fact, it is delightfully responsive.

The keyboard, at least to me, is the most attractive offering of the handset. The keys are large and ergonomically designed to offer the most comfort to those of us that live and die by the feel of a qwerty. As I and many other Blackberry addicts are veritably glued to our keyboard, I can tell you this will sell you on the Bold even if you never powered it up.

All things considered, the Bold is the best Blackberry ever built. The Storm is a good idea badly executed.

One last thought: why on earth is AT&T still winning the best handsets? In my opinion, the best smartphone right now would be the Bold, where the title of best touchscreen still falls to the iPhone. Even Verizon, widely considered to be a much-superior network to AT&T, couldn’t get its paws on the Bold. What is wrong with the world?

Anyway, if you’re looking for a touchscreen handset, I’d still go with the iPhone (or perhaps the G1 if you like your touchscreen and real qwerty), and if you’re looking for a smartphone, I’d go with the Bold, both of which are on AT&T. I’m not recommending you side with the horrible carrier that is AT&T…but maybe we’ll all have to sell out eventually.

Article taken from tech.blorge.com

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