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I was expecting that the iPhone firmware update would simply relock unlocked iPhones so that they could only be used with AT&T. I was wrong. As you may know by now, after an unlocked iPhone has been upgraded with the 1.1.1 firmware it will refuse to activate with any SIM. The technical evidence so far [...]

I’ve found a way to activate a brand new unactivated iPhone without giving any of your money or personal information to NSA AT&T. The iPhone does not have phone capability, but the iPod and WiFi work. Stay tuned!
Update:
Magic iTunes 7.3.0.54 numbers:
Offset 2048912: 33C0C3
Offset 257074: 28
Offset 257013: 33C9B1
Add “127.0.0.1 albert.apple.com” to c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
Download Phone Activation Server v1.0 [...]

Stream audio to your AirPort Express
Copyright © 2005 Jon Lech Johansen
Dependencies:
.NET runtime (Mono 1.1.8 or Microsoft .NET)
Latest Release:
Binary: JustePort.exe (MD5: 9e323d74801bd7b9a08667535948c5d4)
Source Code: JustePort-0.2.tar.gz (MD5: a2afb9543905d0bfc4f29b156201551b)
Syntax:
JustePort.exe input ipaddress [volume]
(volume range is -144 to 0, default: -30.00)
Example 1 – streaming a MPEG4 Apple Lossless file:
JustePort.exe ~/Music/song1.m4a 10.0.1.1
Example 2 – streaming a MPEG4 AAC file:
faad -q -w -f [...]

Picture is Copyright (C) 2004 Per Johan Johansen. All rights reserved.
Click here for press picture.
History

November 1983: Born in Harstad, Norway to a Polish mother and Norwegian father
December 1983: First encounter with a home computer: father’s Sinclair ZX Spectrum (picture above is from 1986)
1998: Installed GNU/Linux for the first time: RedHat 5.0 (still have the CD)
September [...]

On a recent trip to San Francisco I bought a Tumi Vista Super Light 20″ Wheeled Carry-On. On the way back to Oslo, having completed the SF-London leg, this happened:

It weighed 10 kgs (they weigh all carry-ons at Stansted) and I mostly used the wheels.
I had heard good things about Tumi and their reputation [...]

This is the 3rd and last post about Steve’s “Thoughts on Music”
However, a key provision of our agreements with the music companies is that if our DRM system is compromised and their music becomes playable on unauthorized devices, we have only a small number of weeks to fix the problem or they can [...]

Some people are upset about the Microsoft-Universal deal that gives Universal $1 for each Zune sold. Some are calling for a boycott. The controversy stems from the reasoning behind the deal. Doug Morris, the CEO of Universal Music Group, has been quoted saying:
These devices are just repositories for stolen music, and they all know it. [...]

The amount of Zune FUD is reaching staggering proportions following Microsoft’s Zune launch.
C.W. Nevius has a blog post over at the S.F. Chronicle titled “Zune Reinforces Microsoft’s Dorky Image“. Nevius links to TechTree that claims:
For starters, in order to download the Zune software, a user’s system has to meet certain requirements; namely, Win XP SP2, [...]

There’s an amazing amount of Zune FUD on the net these days. I’ve owned several generations of iPods and I’m looking forward to the release of Zune. It will be the first portable player to support MP3, AAC, WMA, WMV and H.264 (though apparently H.264 support will be through transcoding at launch; native support will [...]

I’ve reverse engineered the encoding used in the Microsoft NSC format and written a decoder. Here’s how Cisco describes NSC:
A multicast description file is required at the Cisco content engine’s Windows Media Technology Server. This description file, in the form of an .nsc file, is received from a known URL, mount point, or even via [...]