Tag: apropos

iPhone Dual Boot

March 17, 2008 by Jason

How would you like to have two iPhones in one? NerveGas of iPhone Dev Team reveals that the team has been using dual-booting to jailbreak the iPhone for months. The team has decided to release the hack enabling iPhone users to boot multiple versions of the iPhone software/OS “from” the handset.

This should present iPhone users with quite an advantage once the 2.0 firmware is out, meaning they’ll be able to have a bootable jailbroken software version, as well as a non-jailbroken software version available at the same time on their device. Partition-making is involved: Read More»

Learning Linux Commands

May 17, 2007 by Jason

If you are a complete newbie to Linux, or if you “know enough to be dangerous, then here are some pointers that may help.

One of the great things about Linux is that, even though the operating system is extensible through the addition of arbitrary commands, there are standards for documenting such commands. Because of these standards, not only is it easy to find out what a command does and how it works, but its easy to find out that these commands exist in the first place, even if you don’t know their names. Read More»