Posted by Pepijn Oomen
Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:09:00 GMT
Hold infinity,
within the palm of your hand.
Buffer overflow.
Posted in general
Posted by Pepijn Oomen
Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:15:37 GMT
After my recent upgrade of machines on my home-network, I discovered that the Mac mini showed Remote Disc in the Finder, suggesting it uses the same EFI boot as the Macbook Air.
Sure enough, booting it with ⌥ pressed, shows the boot-menu as mentioned in the Apple documents describing booting the Macbook Air off of the network, i.e. showing an Airport network pop-up list, but it failed to show my NetBoot server.
Using Remote Install Mac OS X.app did work, so I reverse engineered the communication involved.
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Posted in tech | Tags macosx
Posted by Pepijn Oomen
Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:11:46 GMT
Here is the trace from an order placed on Apple Business Store, delivered by TNT (3 days ahead of Apple's original time-schedule):
- 26 Jun 2009, 11:42, Oslo, SHIPMENT DELIVERED IN GOOD CONDITION.
- 26 Jun 2009, 08:10, Oslo, OUT FOR DELIVERY.
- 26 Jun 2009, 06:13, Oslo, SHIPMENT RECEIVED AT DESTINATION DEPOT.
- 25 Jun 2009, 18:17, Helsingborg Hub, SHIPMENT IN TRANSIT.
- 24 Jun 2009, 21:08, Hannover Road Hub, SHIPMENT RECEIVED AT TRANSIT POINT.
- 24 Jun 2009, 21:07, Hannover Road Hub, SHIPMENT IN TRANSIT.
- 24 Jun 2009, 05:58, Nuernberg Hub, SHIPMENT IN TRANSIT.
- 24 Jun 2009, 05:57, Nuernberg Hub, SHIPMENT RECEIVED AT TRANSIT POINT.
- 23 Jun 2009, 22:53, Prague, SHIPMENT IN TRANSIT.
- 23 Jun 2009, 19:01, Prague, SHIPMENT IN TRANSIT.
- 23 Jun 2009, 19:01, Prague, SHIPMENT HELD IN WAREHOUSE. FOLLOW UP ACTIONS UNDERWAY.
- 23 Jun 2009, 08:41, Prague, SHIPMENT HELD IN WAREHOUSE. FOLLOW UP ACTIONS UNDERWAY.
- 22 Jun 2009, 20:50, Prague, SHIPMENT RECEIVED AT ORIGIN DEPOT.
- 22 Jun 2009, 20:50, Prague, SHIPMENT IN TRANSIT.
Posted in tech | Tags apple, imac, mini
Posted by Pepijn Oomen
Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:00:45 GMT
Booting a MacOSX machine from the network provides for an easy way to install and re-install the operating system. On MacOSX server, this feature can be enabled from a GUI, but the same effect can be achieved using open-source tools. One of the essential elements is a properly configured DHCP server.
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Posted in tech | Tags macosx
Posted by Pepijn Oomen
Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:30:00 GMT

Posted in tech | Tags iphone, unlock