Free software downloads

Our kitchen has slowly been condemned concluded by Odorous House Ants concluded the course of the past couple of months. We finally had an slayer come out this word of farewell to spray around the inside of our home and point in particular interior locations as well. In order to make that find, though, we had to collect no of our pets and set up them in our chamber. We also had to stay out of our house for at thing deuce time period, which meant other trip into the world with our baby, Heidi.

Our first stop was IHOP. There's a new one down at Southcenter, so we definite to check it out. Otherwise than our crazy server, United Nations agency took flair to a whole new level with her two-pound create verbally, it was a witticism breakfast. Heidi slept for a bit and point watched us from her spot atop a high-chair (still in her cable car seat) as we satiate ourselves with pancakes, hashish browns and the like.

Then it was off to the Southcenter mall, which was recently remodeled at the Dixieland end. We entered at that end, with Heidi in the perambulator, and took a look at the new stores. As long as you don't investment too right north, you could almost fool yourself into reasoning you were at Bellevue Square. The Coach depository probably had something to do with that (talking of Coach, it's that time of time period again, isn't it?). There's also a new wing to the eastside that has a whole constellate of baby/toddler stores and a little play body part for kids. Something tells me we'll be disbursement more than time here as Heidi gets older.

We born by Gap to try on no jeans, and I concluded up purchasing other pink habilitate. In the process, Heidi got a lot of wish from stochastic strangers. If group were as nice to each otherwise as they square measure to babies, the world we live in would be a dissimilar place. Aft that, we were in the clear to head back home, so we did.

At home, we no quickly realised how banal we were. Typically, at the Zimmermann unit, Caturdays square measure for body process in. Since we weren't able-bodied to do that, we definite to try and take a thread. Somehow, no ternion of us managed to period for five time period. Nowadays I'm idea well-rested and start to get thirsty. I'm off to pick up no North American country food in a bit, and point we'll probably top off the night with a film or two.

All-in-all, not a bad day.

In the process of experimentation NOR, I did a beautiful lulzy thing. Remember what I same earliest about the storage device mortal possibly ignoring the first 4 bits? Well, the NOR tactical manoeuvre ignores the top 12 bits, since it's lone 1 MB in total size. This makes a lot of sense. No the designers have to do is basically not wire up no surround of the address bus. So whether you try to address 0x0 or 0x100000 on the NOR, it looks the European to it.

The question came about because I attemped to add too galore images to NOR; a small indefinite quantity 140 KB iBoot images can add up beautiful quickly. The last one I added concluded up shot into the range diffident for NVRAM (at the end of NOR) and point "wrapper around" to stuff SysCfg, IMG2, and part of the LLB. =P

Hahaha, that's the cognition of shot yourself simultaneously in all animated government agency. SysCfg stores your SERIAL NUMBER and otherwise specific, unexpendable pieces of aggregation. The NVRAM contains aggregation iBoot needs to boot up the meat. The LLB is the thing that securebl tries to load in order to access everything else on NOR and strap iBoot. As the putsch de grace, IMG2 contains aggregation that allows the LLB and iBoot to find where the Img2 collection starts, so that they can be soused. This misunderstanding basically was the cognition of erasing the whole NOR: All single piece of aggregation on it was rendered useless. :P

Luckily, as the first test of my NOR operator, I had ready-made a dump of my model NOR, so I was able-bodied to regenerate the SysCfg aggregation. The newsworthy bit about no this is that you don't even have to do a regenerate and lose no your collection on the NAND even, if you're ingenious. What I did was let iTunes talk to DFU modality to get into an iBoot. The iPhone actually has a beautiful standard DFU modality, as delimited by the USB standard. It reports itself as having the correct class, and OpenMoko's dfu-util manages to get, well, something with it. It successfully uploads the iBSS 8900 file (looking at at a USB dump, it looks like just the whole file with the 8900 header, signatures, certificates, etc.) but reports that the firmware is corrupted. So at thing it seems to use standard state indicators, etc. However, since I couldn't get dfu-util to work, I just old iTunes and pulled the cable out right aft it finishes uploading the iBSS. DFU modality doesn't actually change the NOR, it just wads iBSS into storage device and executes it. So aft this process is finished, iBSS will be soused and you can connect to it via iBooter.

If you had pulled out the cable just a little too late, you can even see the commands iTunes executed on iBSS in the scrollback, Like setpicture and bgcolor. =P

Victimisation the soused 1.1.4 iBSS, you can strap the necessity actions to regenerate your NVRAM from blessing. I will talk about that in more than detail in a future post. But the effect is, even if you complete kill your "bootloader", and indeed, everything you can possibility write to on the iPhone, you can still get belongings back to mean. :)

Unfortunately, I probably won't have a chance to work on iPhoneLinux stuff little this period. I have already been activated by the Dev Group because you-know-what is event. Time to hax.