I converted the original flv video to a dvd iso image. This is a larger file, but it should be more usable than the flash video: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4351686

I have combed the internet for an hour looking for a torrent to download the complete Saddleback Civil Forum by Rick Warren with Barack Obama and John McCain August 16, 2008, but I can’t find anything. Does anyone have this video that they can put up as a torrent, or know where I can download the video directly? I assumed video.google would have it, but they don’t, and youtube only has snippets.

The video from this torrent does run, but it is splattered with ads from the republican party as well as the faux news banner. None the less, it appears to be the complete forum. I’m transcoding the flv to a dvd iso so it will be easier to use for the masses.. i might try to edit out the republican ad, but i’ve never tried to edit a flv.

1. Original iPhone Released
2. iphone-dev, with GeoHotz (George Hotz) begin the process of unlocking/jailbreaking.
3. GeoHotz gets booted from the iphone-dev team
4. GeoHotz releases his own version of the unlock called “gunlock”
5. Zibri adds an easy interface to gunlock and posts the app - garnering much of the credit in the process - ziphone.org

Fast Forward to July 2008:

1. iphone 3g is released 7/11/2008.
2. iphone-dev and George Hotz independently (but still sharing) develop the 3g jailbreak/unlock process. (created before the release of the iPhone, but not quite ready for mainstream release) 7/13/2008
3. GeoHotz is anxious to get the product out on the network, so he sets up a site taunting iphone-dev that he will release his process on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 @ 11:00am CST if iphone-dev doesn’t release theirs.

Now we wait. Whatever happens, it looks like we’ll have a jailbreak/unlock by Tuesday!

iphone-dev: http://iphone-dev.org
GeoHotz’ taunt: http://yiphone.org

It seems like the iTunes network got a WHOLE lot more than they bargained for with todays roll out of the 3g iPhone. The “official” word was that no one could leave the store until their phone was activated, but that didn’t last long. The store officially opened at 8:00am, and by 8:20, they had only activated 2 phones. The phonecall I overheard with the bosses said that they should let people go home to activate… and now, here I sit. Trying to activate. Does anyone know a *#306# or *#307# hack that will disable the “Emergency Call” screen?

Now I’m realizing it’s time to do a rebuild using some newer hardware and a more efficient build.. with lots less “chmod 777 *” kind of stuff going on. (When I started I discovered that chmod 777 fixes a lot!)

Anyway, here’s the output of my current ab (apache benchmark) profile. I plan to re-post the profile when I complete the server migration to see if I’ve picked up any speed… if I don’t pick up speed, I’m out of the server business! (not really)

This is ApacheBench, Version 2.0.40-dev <$Revision: 1.146 $> apache-2.0
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Copyright 2006 The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking localhost (be patient)

Server Software:        Apache
Server Hostname:        localhost
Server Port:            80

Document Path:          /
Document Length:        599 bytes

Concurrency Level:      10
Time taken for tests:   30.521 seconds
Complete requests:      9100
Failed requests:        7
(Connect: 0, Length: 7, Exceptions: 0)
Write errors:           0
Keep-Alive requests:    9011
Total transferred:      7358059 bytes
HTML transferred:       5451054 bytes
Requests per second:    303.33 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       32.968 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       3.297 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          239.50 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0    0   0.0      0       0
Processing:     3   28 831.6      3   28943
Waiting:        1   28 831.6      3   28942
Total:          3   28 831.6      3   28943

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
50%      3
66%      3
75%      3
80%      3
90%      3
95%      3
98%      3
99%      6
100%  28943 (longest request)

IE has an option on the print dialog that allows you to checkbox for “Print Linked Documents”

Tomorrow I’ll look at writing a plug-in to print linked documents.. a feature that Internet Exploder has had for a long time. Since I’ll never get around to writing it, I encourage you to ask me about it, or provide moral support… since I’ve never (before now) had to look at the FF API.

I have a fiberoptic to the home (FTTH) internet connection, and with that comes IPTV. The IPTV is run through Amino 125 STB’s running Kasenna middleware.

The Amino box is accessible through Telnet. It’s not difficult to connect - I may elaborate later, but once you get the ip of the box, you can use
telnet [ip to box]
login: root
password: root2root

Inside the box is a basic linux directory system and a pretty extensive busybox implementation (Busybox offers basic GNU commands without a complete linux install).

My current issue is an inability to connect my mythtv installation to the IPTV network. I can spoof a MAC from one of the amino boxes using a “hw address” call added to the init script. (more later if you need it).

The problem is that the amino box uses specific network paramaters to request DHCP and I’m having trouble (lots of trouble) getting them right. I telnetted into a running box and set a static interface to mimic the directives (bcast, address, netmask) (I did not specify gateway as I can’t find it again - though I did see it in the config files on the STB).

The bonus is that the config files are all available in simple config scripts available on the STB. If I pull it off the closed Kasenna network I can give it my own DHCP and explore it all day long.

There is a LOT of info on the VLC forums about using these boxes, but like I said, I’m not interested in the box, I’m interested in connecting myth to the iptv stream.

I’m going to add a directory listing of the rc.d files to try to attract some traffic to what I’m doing. If I can find even one person to commit to working with me, I’ll be glad to set up a wiki and do some in-depth documentation.

./init.d:
drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root            0 Jan  1  1970 .
drwxr-xr-x    7 root     root            0 Jan  1 00:00 ..
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Jan  1  1970 CVS
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          319 Jan  1  1970 mountscript
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          989 Jan  1  1970 rc
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          922 Jan  1  1970 rc.STBremoteconf
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          323 Jan  1  1970 rc.ami_wm
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          276 Jan  1  1970 rc.av_router
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         1124 Jan  1  1970 rc.bootmcastbootd
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          475 Jan  1  1970 rc.ca_app
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          493 Jan  1  1970 rc.ca_kmod
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         3503 Jan  1  1970 rc.checkforupgrade
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          483 Jan  1  1970 rc.cookies
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          566 Jan  1  1970 rc.daemon_app
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          454 Jan  1  1970 rc.davincistb_gfx
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          338 Jan  1  1970 rc.davincistb_os_core
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          613 Jan  1  1970 rc.dvbttx
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        11009 Jan  1  1970 rc.ethernet
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           94 Jan  1  1970 rc.final
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          831 Jan  1  1970 rc.finalise_upgrade
-rwxrwxr-x    1 root     root          481 Jan  1  1970 rc.gpio_driver
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         1166 Jan  1  1970 rc.ir_driver
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          662 Jan  1  1970 rc.js_management_pages
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          499 Jan  1  1970 rc.linkstate
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          302 Jan  1  1970 rc.norflash_driver
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         2335 Jan  1  1970 rc.ntpclient
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          338 Jan  1  1970 rc.opera
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          689 Jan  1  1970 rc.osk
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          558 Jan  1  1970 rc.remote_login
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          499 Jan  1  1970 rc.smartcard
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          288 Jan  1  1970 rc.telnetd
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          450 Jan  1  1970 rc.tira
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         1456 Jan  1  1970 rc.tistb_av_core
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Jan  1  1970 rc3.d
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Jan  1  1970 rc5.d
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          743 Jan  1  1970 rcS

Your comments and help are appreciated.

Config (Testing):
1. Set the mythtv MAC to an Amino mac: “ifconfig eth0 inet hw ether ##:##:MA:C#:## up” (you will have to take the network down first.

Since I didn’t want to break his site, and since I’ve got hardware, I built a minimalistic 7.10 server with only the bare essentials. I added apache2, php5, mysql-server, php5-mysql, libapache2-mod-php5, and php5-curl. I installed moodle 1.9.1+ (weekly build) from download.moodle.org.

I was concerned that I wouldn’t be able to replicate the problem, but lo and behold, no Public Key was generated. It was actually a simple fix: I installed SSL and restarted apache - suddenly there was a key! All that work, and my first hunch was absolutely correct. They should pay me to do this.

The code:
sudo apt-get install openssl
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

ALL Done!

Before:

After:

I had a great idea today, it works like this..

1. create a database with fields representing major data regarding student performance in school: discipline points, referrals to guidance, absenteeism, state test performance, end-of-year grades by subject (That represents 12 fields or 12 factors in my situation, it may vary for yours)
2. The hard part - fill the database with the data.. in my school of 1000 students, that represents 12000 unique pieces of data in lots of different places.
3. Do a factor analysis on the 12 factors to determine the weight of each.
4. Calculate a Z-score for each of the factors and multiply it by the weight of that factor.
5. Sum the weighted z-scores for that student’s scheduling rank #.
6. Place the students in order of rank, and do a “number off” to place them in a class or team.

Thanks to Barrie Woods for suggesting the z-score sum idea!

I wish I had some way to demonstrate that on the blog - i may create a sample table to show it … the idea is awesome in my head!

Go here to see the page - look for the Macintosh 10.5 drivers for the RTL8187L chipset, or download it directly from this link.