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Apple TV - Recover from nothing Take 2

Ok, so I have updated this for Take 2 and Leopard. This is more of a rought draft, but it worked well for me. Please comment if I have missed any steps since I am writing this after the fact. One big change from the original article us you can let Disk Utility do some of the work for you now. Also, I just skipped the restore partition to keep it simple since that was the source of many problems. Connect your Apple TV drive in Leopard. Remember disk1 may not be the name of your drive. From the terminal: Wipe out and re-create the partition structure sudo diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1 sudo gpt destroy /dev/disk1 sudo gpt create /dev/disk1 Create the OSBoot Partition sudo gpt add -b 888872 -i 3 -s 1843200 -t hfs /dev/disk1 diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1 sudo diskutil eraseVolume "Journaled HFS+" OSBoot /dev/disk1s3 diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1 Create the Media Partition Go to Disk Utility and format the Media partition - Name i...

Cingular supports tethering Blackberry 8800 - no extra fee

Read my current post on Blackberry Forums regarding the Blackberry 8800 and Cingular. They told me they do support tethering included in the Blackberry unlimited plan at no additional charge. http://www.blackberryforums.com/524736-post33.html Read and post comments | Send to a friend

Beau's PHP 5 mail() logging Solution for Windows Server 2003

When I set out to stop spammers from exploiting poorly written scripts scattered across various web sites hosted on a Windows server, I had no idea that I was in for such a long journey. I will try to lay out the steps I took in order to solve the problem, which I am happy to report is working well. The Problem: PHP as of 5.2.1 provides no way of tracking which script, or even which web site is the source of an email being delivered using PHP's mail() function. Because so many web applications use it, I didn't want to disable it. Furthermore, the idea of combing through all of the code on multiple sites was not intriguing. Furthermore, I can't change someone else's code and I don't want to start isolating customers by turning their scripts off. The Platform : Using a Windows 2003 Server and PHP 5.1.2, I thought this would be quick. Basically, the fix isn't that difficult, but finding the solution led me to many option...