Randomness Redefined

I’m heading to Clarksville, Tennessee (its on the outskirts of Nashville BTW) later today to visit my good friends Andy and Crystal for a going away party for Andy. He is preparing to be shipped out to Afghanistan by the US Army in a few weeks and he is expected to be deployed anywhere from 16 to 18 months. He should be ok over there as his analyst duties should keep him on base most of the time, I hope they do as he and Crystal recently had a baby boy Darien.

I’ll have picture and whatnot up on my Flickr account after the trip if your curious about how it goes. I wish the trip as longer but I could only get today off from work so I’ll be back on the phones at SAVVIS on Monday, such is life I suppose. Everyone take care and have a great weekend!

I discovered this trick after much googling but it worked instantly for me after applying it.

1. Log onto your wireless router and find the page that lists the IP addresses for all of the computers on your local network.
2. Look for the name of your iPhone and write that IP down or paste it into your text editor of choice.
3. Fire up Terminal.app or Putty.
4. Type ssh root@ and hit enter.
5. You should now be prompted for the password for our iPhones root account, by default this is alpine.
6. Next, you should be prompted by your computer if you wish to accept the RSA key for the server your connecting to, type yes.
7. Type in cd /var/mobile/Library/
8. Type in chmod 777 Mail
9. Try launching Mail on your iPhone

If this works you should now sync your phone so that the permissions carry over to your backup. This trick worked for me but I don’t know if it works for everyone. I discovered this trick here. Please let me know if you have any issues with this, next up on my list of things to do isto figure out why Yahoo won;t connect on my iPhone. . .

“So with hardware accelerated 3D graphics, an integrated database API, tightly integrated performance monitoring tools, and a highly specialized version of the Cocoa framework tweaked just for the iPhone and rechristened as Cocoa Touch, the iPhone’s just-announced SDK sounds like a winner.”

I’m pretty excited about the SDK release today! For developers its a pretty awesome deal as Apple will not change a hosting fee, a credit card processing fee, or a marketing fee for the $99 you pay for becoming an iPhone developer. Also, developers get 70% of the revenue off of each sale so this is great for smaller developers! Also, the SDK is totally free to download at developer.apple.com if you wish to check it out!

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“Will Wright’s amazing Spore is coming to a handful of platforms on September 7. Check out Joystiq’s detailed coverage of Spore Creatures on DS, with brand new screenshots and details on the portable version.”

From what I’ve read this is version focuses on the creation and care of creatures. The closest example that I can think of os Pokeamon but does a whole lot better. I don’t think I will be purchasing this version but I thought people might want to know about it if they don’t already.

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“But most of all, I came away thinking that Maxis could pull off Spore’s overwhelming scope. This game could actually live up to Will Wright’s intent, shipping on September 7. Through Spore, he could change gaming again.”

Just another really excellent review on this title. I know it is confirmed on PCs, Macs, the DS, and mobile phones and supposedly the next platform will be the Wii. Depending on how different the different platforms are this is one game that I will probably purchase multiple copies of.

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