More Iphone fun

Found an e-book program that works. Not sure why finding a program on cydia that just reads text files has so far been impossible. But I did find e-books. I have to save things as html which is no big deal. I have Alison Croggon The Riddle on the phone now. Also transferred music files to Dtunes. Pwnplayer lite had problems with some files. Dtunes doesn't seem to. Next is trying to put videos into Dtunes. Using HandBrake.

Freedom from Itunes update

I ran into some problems with the direct file transfer method. For some reason I was unable transfer files larger than 130 megs. I retrenched and I am now sftping with Cyberduck. I am also now using pwnplayer lite. I'm not sure why. But is seems like a good multimeda player. I'm not sure how much I've put on the phone, but I bet I have a lot of space left.

iphone mostly free from Itunes

I did it. I put music on my Iphone without Itunes. Very happy. Open Root then Var then Mobile then Library. Then create a file called Downloads and than you can play things in Dtunes. It requires Netatalk and OpenSSH, but that's it. No need for Itunes. Yeah. Still need Itunes to upgrade even with jailbreak. But the more I can do without it the better. At some point I will clear out what I put on my phone with Itunes, but not tonight. Oh yeah. The music was Superchunk Crossed Wires cd single. very cool.

Election Day

I don't care who gets elected. Not today. Bloomberg, Thompson. It's doesn't seem to matter. Most of the others I've never heard of. I voted straight Working Family, and Dems. It's not like Maine, or the 23rd where the election has some significance. I got run around before I could vote. I also found out my name Jonathan means dove and gift. Cool.

La Hacienda

I've been passing this place every Monday night on the way back from school. Since I was home today because of the election I decided to try it. Not as good as Cocoyoc by any stretch of the imagination. Good atmosphere and service, but mediocre food. Disappointing.

Ultra Wide Band Second Post

I am clearing off an old hard drive for my brother The Hampton Smoker aka Silent Killer. I am using it as a opportunity to test the new connection as the drive is now connected wireless. I just moved twenty megs of stuff in five seconds. One hundred megs in one minute. The Ultra Wide Band makes wireless file movement possible for me. 7 gigs in half hour. Only the big video, music and comics files left all 7 to twenty gigs. At 768 there would have been no point in even trying to move these wireless. My lifetime wouldn't have been enough. On the other hand 8.5 gigs transfered directly eight minutes. So direct usb to usb is still way faster. not as convient. with all the cumbersome wires, but much faster.

DOCSIS.3---- Time Warner Ultra Wide Band- First Post

Techs from Time Warner just left. Anatole and Sheila. Not sure of spelling. Took a while. Just as hard for Time Warner techs as customers to get through. Kind of sad. They also get distorted ear busting hold music. However after an hour and a call to Level 3. I have 51/5 ethernet and 41/5 with Airport Base Station. Sweet. Time to experiment. I know speed test are imperfect and ftp downloads will show truer speeds, but it's still fun to see and with enough results a rough picture will emerge. Browsing and streaming from wireless harddrive confirmed. Super Sweet. Done while also seed with Vuze.

No difference with old speed 15./768 on2Wire page load test. 4 to 5 megs.
Oolka speed demo 43.22/5.21
Rochester showing 26.09/5.08
Argonne 26.15/5.04
speedtest.net 45.51/5.19

update

Many things have happend. These are just a few of them.

Jailbroke my Iphone. Crucial. Added a few pay apps including safari download manager and the 3g unrestrictor. Reality is that the AT&T 3g network is too slow to support video streaming. Even with the unrestrictor it is virtually impossible to maintain a stream. Tried to watch Adam Savage on Digg Nation among other things. The time needed to cache the video and how often briefly it would play means if you want to watch video it would be less frustrating if you saved it to the phone and played it from the harddrive.

Still havent figure out the fill structure or how to put files on the phone ftp. I think it goes to var/mobile/libray/downloads but I haven't tried to place anything there. I will soon. I've installed netatalk as well as openssh so it's just a matter of time. It would be great If I knew some one with a jailbroke phone how was at all tech mined, but everyone I know who has one had someone else jailbreak their phone and set it up for them.

Also on the tech front. Another dead hard drive. This is the second drive that has died in my mac book. I now have a new external harddrive with a time machine backup so I won't be so bad off if things go badly in the future. I also have two attractive Hitachi paperweights.

On the same theme of my slowly dying laptop. I now have a external disk-burner. Apparently it's very bad to smoke infront of your computer. I did for many years and now the internal disk-burner doesn't work. The new drive reads all the discs that the internal used to spit out. It's a lightscribe which could be cool.

In other news. My local Chinese restaurant changed owners so I am very sad. I ate there almost every day. I went on vacation and they had changed hand. Absolutely no warning. Total culinary devisation. It's not like Hempstead had a lot of great food options. Not it has less.


Can't think of anything else except the new Big Star box set is wonderful. Lots of demos and alternate mixes. Not sure what more Big Star fan could want except for live Chris Bell recordings with or with out the band. Hopefully the next post will be in less than two months.