I always wondered about those traffic jams that have no accident to show for it – you just seem to suddenly slow down, stop, sit in a traffic jam and suddenly it dissolves without anything really to show for it.
Seems that the cause is a driver that brakes too suddenly, and this shockwave travels backwards, causing other drivers to brake, which eventually brings those behind you to a stop.
In case you have the following problem scenario on your iPhone, here’s a quick tip :
Then you need to plug in-and-out your headphones. Go on, have some iPhone intercourse !
Do that about 3 to 6 times and normally it’ll start working again. I noticed that my audio output started working again when suddenly my ipod screen came up.
Some people get error 1604 when they are booting their phone.
Here’s the apparent fix for this error, though I’m not sure if you need exactly iTunes 7.4 and firmware 1.1. or if you can do this with all versions of firmware and iTunes.
This is a fix if you get a Unknown Error (1604) screen.
* Turn off the iphone and pull the chord from the computer
* Uninstall iTunes 7.4
* Re-Install iTunes
* Restart your computer if prompted
* Pull the SIM card out of the top of the iphone (Instructional Video)
* Get the Yellow Triangle of Death or The Cable to iTunes screen[Hold the home and power buttons for max 30 seconds]
* Plug in your phone and open iTunes
* Hit Restore(It should be working by now…)
* Re-insert your SIM card into your iPhone.
* Re-activate your iPhone.
* Restore your data from your latest update
Get your iTunes 7.4 from FileHippo.
I just found out that I can no longer sync my photos from the iphone camera to my mac. Grrr. I’ll need to look into this.
More on this when I’ve found a solution.
Update : it worked once when I removed the sync lock file from the iPhone. I noticed that a lock file was present in the current Media directory of the iPhone, while iTunes wasn’t even open. Removing this file worked once, I could sync my camera roll again, but afterwards I had the same problem.
Seems that the official unlocked iPhones you can buy in France are actually only unlocked for the other French carriers.
Beware, oh Ebay buyers !!!!!
It’s very sad news that I read today : Terry Pratchett, 59, is suffering from a rare form of early Alzheimer’s disease. My favourite author who writes comedy zen books, or maybe zen comedy books is suffering from a Alzheimer’s disease, a neuro-degenerative disorder that progressively leads to dementia and eventueal death. The average life-span of an Alzheimer patient is between 7 and 10 years.
I always thought that Pratchet would still be writing books way up into his early nineties, probably until the day he died, forever keeping me looking out for his next new book.
Dying old and healthy will probably be denied to him, and it feels just soooooooo unjust that one of the world’s greatest writers (in my eyes, and it the eyes of a lot of other people as well) will gradually lose his humour, his wit(s), and in the end, himself. I hope it’ll all work out for the best, that something can be done to stop the disease, but you live with the cards you are dealt with.
I sincerely wish him well, that his rare form of Alzheimer’s can be treated, and I hope that he can continue writing.
Update : you can read his original letter of 11 december 2007 and follow-up at Paul Kidby’s site, who is the artist for all the discworld drawings.
Seems that it is possible.
Seems that there is some confusing over this, so for the newb iphone users :
Moving your Applications directory to your /private/var/root partition (aka your MEDIA partition) is all well and good, but when you install python on your iphone, it’s installed in both /usr/bin where the main executable resides and the library modules are installed in /usr/lib/Python2.5 .
So they still consume a lot of space on your root partition. In fact, I finally checked my hard disk space on the root partition of the iphone, and there was a pityfull 4.2 Megabytes left over.
So I moved python over to the media partition using the following commands : I first created a python directory on my MEDIA partition, then I moved the python library directory over there and finally I created a symbolic link from there to where it is expected to be.
mkdir /private/var/root/python
mv /usr/lib/Python2.5 /private/var/root/python
ln -s /private/var/root/python/Python2.5 /usr/lib/Python2.5
After that, ‘df -h’ gave the message that 27 Megabyte was free on the root partition !
Excellent 🙂