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I can’t seem to find Fedora 11 packages for jpype (a nice Python-Java bridge). So I built one myself. If anybody else needs it here they are:

• JPype-0.5.4.1-1.fc11.i586.rpm
• JPype-0.5.4.1-1.fc11.src.rpm

Enjoy!

I can’t seem to find Fedora 11 packages for sympy (symbolic algebra package from Python). So I built one myself. If anybody else needs it here they are:

• sympy-0.6.5-1.fc11.noarch.rpm
• sympy-0.6.5-1.fc11.src.rpm

Enjoy!

Here are the pre-final grades for CS 262 this school year. The performance was relatively good. Please take note that quizzes and assignments account for 30% of your final grade while long exams, projects and lab exercises account for the 70% balance.

Don’t panic if you see a low grade on the column for total. This assumes you get ZERO in the final long exam. So those who have good grades even without the final exam stand a good chance of getting great grades at the end of the semester.

Good luck on your final exams!

Due to some minor problems created when moving to GCC 4 for newer versions of Linux Distributions, this release introduces some patches to fix these problems. The binaries and sources can be found here:

http://cng.ateneo.edu/cng/wyu/software/flow-tools.php

Enjoy!

Here is a link to the article from Techcrunch. So it involves updating your iPhone 3G to 2.2 (Baseband 02.28.00), getting both quickpwn to jailbreak your iPhone and then using the iPhone Dev-Team’s yellowsn0w to set your iPhone 3G free!

It has been quite sometime since I blogged. But, here are three flickr links to some pictures I took during some of my latest trips within the year. There could be more but I have yet to sort them out.

More pictures from my April 2008 in Shenzhen, China for the 1st ASEAN CERT Meet trip

More pictures from my October 2008 in the Bay Area, USA for the BlackBerry Developer Conference 2008 trip

More pictures from my November 2008 in Macau for the GSM Asia Congress 2008 trip

Enjoy!

The project called Barry is pretty vital to me as a BB user. Unfortunately, it does not have Fedora 9 binaries yet and does not build nicely too. So, I took the liberty of building them.

Here they are for download:

• http://cng.ateneo.edu/cng/wyu/software/rpm/barry-debuginfo-0.12-2.i386.rpm
• http://cng.ateneo.edu/cng/wyu/software/rpm/barry-util-0.12-2.i386.rpm
• http://cng.ateneo.edu/cng/wyu/software/rpm/libbarry-0.12-2.i386.rpm
• http://cng.ateneo.edu/cng/wyu/software/rpm/libbarry-devel-0.12-2.i386.rpm

And the source RPM can be found here:

• http://cng.ateneo.edu/cng/wyu/software/srpm/barry-0.12-2.src.rpm

And here is the patch that makes it build for Fedora 9 if you get ‘memset’, ’sort’, ’strlen’ not found errors.

• http://cng.ateneo.edu/cng/wyu/software/patch/barry-fc9-includes.patch

Hope this helps someone.

For the love of my friends, I was forced to research high and low for a hack that would allow iPhone’s with versions 1.1.2 and 1.1.3 OTB to work. Fortunately, the iPhone community came out with the appropriate documentation at just the right time.

Downloading the following first:

• Jailbreak 1.1.2
• iPhone 1.1.2 Firmware
• iPhone 1.1.1 Firmware

The I followed the instructions from the iPhone unlock site.

Some strange things that did not work right away:

• Please make sure you are using iTunes 7.4 and not iTunes 7.3. While using iTunes 7.3, I get the dreaded “unknown error (1)”. I am using iTunes 7.4.3.1.
• Instead of using AppTapInstaller.exe to kick the iPhone out of recovery mode. I used jailbreak 1.1.2 and ran the ‘windows.bat’ script. Then I selected “Boot from Recovery”. If you are doing this from a 1.0.2 or 1.1.3 firmware release then it is possible that you won’t get the activation screen. If this happens just repeat the process.
• Sometimes, you have can change *#301# to *#307# to make it work. I had one phone that refused *#301# for some strange reason.
• You need to have a SIM on the phone to do the above sequence. You will get a “please insert valid SIM” error if you don’t.
• If you do something and loose the Phone application, just dial “0″ then answer, then hold, then decline and you should get your Phone application back. If you restart the iPhone just go through the *#301# or *#307# thing again.
• Join a WiFi network using the “prefs:” link. Sometimes, the WiFi prompt in Safari is flaky.
• Sometimes, the “Tap to activate iPhone” in the i.unlock.no site does not work. It just goes back to the Activation screen without restart. You have two options. You can wait or you can reboot and re-visit the i.unlock.no site again.
• After the 1.1.2 upgrade, if you get a cable in the screen instead of the activation windows then some screwy happened. I don’t know what causes this but I had to do the whole thing again from the 1.1.1 downgrade.
• Some CPs like using the alphanumeric character short codes that crash the iPhone. Please install the SMS Fix application to remedy this situation.
• Install the iWorld application to allow use in Smart and Globe SIM cards. If not SMS does not seem to work.

Don’t forget to donate to the people behind all of this. Happy Hacking!

I spent a bit of last night cleaning up this patch to support the option for breaking the First Name Field into Multiple Lines in a GenealogyJ report. This is a wonderful report written by Przemek Wiech that allows people to create nice printable family trees.

Here is the patch file:
http://cng.ateneo.net/cng/wyu/software/patch/genj-20080205-multiline_firstname.diff

Good luck!

I spent a bit of last night cleaning up this patch to support the option for removing dates in a GenealogyJ report. This is a wonderful report written by Przemek Wiech that allows people to create nice printable family trees. Aside from adding the removal of dates option, I noticed that it only colors upto 13 generations. I modified the code a bit to cycle three times to give us 36 generations.

Here is the patch file:
http://cng.ateneo.edu/cng/wyu/software/patch/genj-20080118-draw_dates-support.diff

Good luck!