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SysAdmin Apprecation Day

Friday, July 30th, 2010

Hey Ya’ll,

it’s SysAdmin appreciation day. you’d better appreciate your SysAdmins…otherwise, they’ll shut down your systems, turn your email box into a spam-trap, and tell the FBI that you’re investigating “patriotically questionable websites”

in the interested of being appreciated, I will be leaving early. Actually, it’s because of an Angel’s game. Go Angels!

and…Jailbreak!

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

Almost 2 month’s ago I finally gave in and bought an iPod touch. I have held out against the whole Apple products for a long time, but finally realized that an iTouch was exactly what I needed in my geek arsenal. Having had a Dell axon for 8 years, it was finally time to upgrade to something more powerful, modern, an versatile.
Enter the iTouch. A device with 64Gb of space, plenty of power, a gorgeous touch screen, and of course no monthly fee. Having help out for over a year hoping an Android phone would come out that I liked, I went with an iTouch since it fit the bill better.There’s a few gripes I had about the device, that is until Spirit came out to jailbreak my 3.1.3 iTouch (it came preloaded with he latest firmware which until this point couldn’t be jailbroken).
What’s amusing to me is how many little things jailbreaking lets me do on the device that I would have expected Apple to allow in the first place. But that’s Apple, gorgeous proprietary hardware,that’s often overpriced a d locked down. True iPhoneOS 4 comes out soon and allows some of the features seen on jailbroken devices, but the true innovation still comes from the minds of those hackers who started jailbreaking. I for one do not plan on upgrading to OS 4 until I’m sure it can be set free.