Ste Packaging

I made it to 50, yesterday. You know what? It doesn’t feel old, at all. :)

-ste

Whenever I add a new package (not an update), I have to update a database table, so that the package will show up on the package stats page. It seems I forgot a few lately. Their downloads were being tracked, they just weren’t being displayed. The following packages now show up on the stats page:

• Alert
• AppFlow
• English-German
• German-English
• PhotoDial
• Pool
• ShowTime

-ste

FDCServers just emailed me and said:

“we`ll be adding new additional carriers to our network mix tonight around midnight CST. While we do not expect any downtime however there might be some packet loss and routing issues”

-ste

I realized, after yesterday’s failed attempt to move the log processing to a Xen Virtual Machine with an image file as its “disk”, that I needed to rebuild the base system that the virtual servers will run on. I’m working on that and will have the Cacti monitoring back up and running soon.

As for package updates, there will be more  this evening. I was up until 4:00 AM working on the above and didn’t get up until Noon. Since then I’ve been working on updating my resume, since I really do need to find a job ASAP. It occurred to me that managing this blog and repository is a job and needed to be added to my resume. Not only will it show I’m not sitting around idly, but that I am also learning new skills, and thus making myself more marketable (one hopes), in the process. Plus there was a bit of consulting I did for someone, earlier this month, that needed to be added as well.

-ste

As reported by Erica Sadun over at TUAW, Apple has released the 1.1.4 firmware. No sooner had I posted [a comment on her blog entry] that I thought folks should wait to see what Zibri came up with for a 1.1.4 jailbreak, as I thought his was technically the most correct of the various 1.1.3 jailbreaks, Erica reported that Nate True had run Zibri’s existing 1.1.3 jailbreak on his 1.1.4 iPhone and it worked. Jailbreaking works, but he has not tested activation or unlocking yet, both of which he suspects are broken until Zibri updates “ziphone” for 1.1.4. This is all great news. I recommend that everyone just hold off a little bit, until Zibri has said he’s updated it for 1.1.4 and then go for it. If you check his blog, you’ll see he’s working on doing that, right now. :)

Nate reported that after jailbreaking it, Installer.app thought OpenSSH was still installed, even though it no longer was, and that he couldn’t uninstall it (main script execution failure). I have released an update to OpenSSH that anyone with this issue can update to. If you update to it before you jailbreak your 1.1.4 iPhone, then you should be able to uninstall it ok, via Installer.app, even though it’s gone, as it will now ignore the error it gets when it tries to stop the now-missing daemon. You can then simply reinstall it. If you already jailbroke it and can’t uninstall it, just upgrade to the new version and you’re all set to go. Nate says the root password is still “alpine”.

UPDATE: In comment #132 on Erica’s blog entry, mentioned above, Zibri says:

“I already found everything..
I just need to recompile, check new offsets, do a test and release.
Expect a new version in a day.”

-ste