Step 1: Download patch-graphics from here. (Right-click, save as for best results. You might also have to remove the file extension .html depending on your web browser. You should be left with an extensionless file called patch-graphics)
Step 2: Using SFTP, upload the file to your iPod touch or iPhone to the /Applications/ directory.
Step 3: SSH into your iPod touch or iPhone and run /bin/chmod a+w /Applications/*
Step 4: Run the patch using the following command ./Applications/patch-graphics A bunch of text should fill the screen and you should be returned to the prompt.
Step 5: Success, you’re done. Visit the web with impunity.

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Step 1: [OPTIONAL] Follow my guide to replace Dropbear SSH with OpenSSH.
Step 2: Install Services.app though Installer.app. It will be in the Utilities section. If you can’t find it, make sure you have Community Sources installed.
Step 3: Run Services.app.
Step 4: You should see several switches, Edge and Bluetooth are superfluous on the iPod touch even though they may appear to be on. The switch you’re interested in is the one marked SSH, simply turn it off when you don’t need SFTP/Shell access to your device, which should be 90% of the time. If you see two SSH switches, please follow my guide to remove one of them.
Step 5: You’re done!

You should see a boost in your battery-life if you’ve been using your iPod touch/iPhone with SSH running.

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You can download the new version and get instructions on how to use it here.

Previous iPod touch Articles

Replacing Dropbear with OpenSSH
Uprading to Installer.app version 3.0a
Original command line touchFree guide

Final Steps for Safety

Courtesy of the iTouch Dev Wiki

It is a very good idea to change the default password from “alpine” to something else. This prevents people who happen to see your iPod touch on a wireless network from logging into it and doing nasty things. To do this:

1. Install “Community Sources”, “BSD Subsystem” and “Term-vt100″ packages from Installer.app.
2. Launch Term-vt100.
3. At the # prompt, type “passwd” (without the quotes) and press return.
4. Enter your new password and confirm it.
5. DON’T LOSE YOUR NEW PASSWORD! :) If you do, in order to log into your touch from SSH or SFTP you will have to do a restore and start this process all over again.

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Comcast prevents seeding torrents by sending RTS, or close connection packets to both you and the person you’re trying to connect to, killing the connection before it even starts. A technology that could be illegal due to the fact they’re, in effect, spoofing packets from you. This method is also used by China to keep people from accessing the outside internet.

Read the full guide on TorrentFreak

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Step 1: Ensure you have OpenSSH installed by checking the uninstall portion of Installer.app, and also that you’re running it by rebooting the iPod touch/iPhone after installing it from Installer.app.
Step 2: Connect to your iPod touch/iPhone via SSH.
Step 3: Run the following commands to remove the dropbear files.
rm -rv /etc/dropbear/
rm -rv /usr/bin/dropbear/
rm -v /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/au.asn.ucc.matt.dropbear.plist
Step 4: Before you start, backup this file before editing it. Then download and open /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.update.plist in a text editor and remove any section containing dropbear references. Be very careful when editing this file as it can cause problems if damaged. Then upload the file replacing the original (making sure your backup is intact).
Step 5: Reboot the iPod touch/iPhone. You should now be running just one SSH server.

You should also consider installing Services.app from Installer.app and turning SSH off when you don’t need it, some have claimed that it drains your battery fairly quickly.

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To install the icon:
1. SFTP into your iPod touch or iPhone.
2. Navigate to /Applications/TTR.app/
3. Upload my icon.png over the existing one.
4. Reboot your device by holding the Hold/Reset button at the top of the device until slide to power off appears, then slide to power off, then turn the device back on with the Hold/Reset button.

1337. For advanced users: Alternatively to rebooting you can SSH into your device, use ps -x to identify the Springboard process and then use kill -9 PID, where PID is the PID of Springboard, ex: kill -9 112.

Original:

My Replacement:

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Below is a direct guide written by planetbeing, clarified in some instances by me.

touchFree: iPod touch 1-click jailbreak Guide

http://zoo.cs.yale.edu/~yw226/ipod/touchfree5.zip
Local Mirror: http://tragicallynull.com/backend/uploads/2007/10/touchfree5.zip

Note that this version does not depend on SSH, but rather on iPod reboots to trigger certain scripted actions. This should eliminate the “Connection timed out” problems people with bad wireless connections are having.

NOTE THAT .NET FRAMEWORK 2.0 IS REQUIRED FOR THIS APPLICATION

1. Download and extract all of the files in this zip archive.

2. Copy iTunesMobileDevice.dll from C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\bin to the same folder as touchFree.exe (The folder you just extracted).

3. Restore your iPod to a fresh 1.1.1 state (recommended but optional)
3.1 To restore: Hold both the Hold/Reset and Home button on your iPod touch until it resets and displays the Apple logo, then release jthe hold button (still holding the home button) until you see a connect to iTunes graphic, this will put the iPod into restore mode.
3.2 Connect the iPod to your computer (if not already). iTunes will tell you that you must restore your iPod, click OK.
3.3 Once your iPod is restored iTunes will attempt to sync, slide to cancel on your iPod and proceed with the following steps.

4. Load http://jailbreak.toc2rta.com in Safari on the iPod. Safari should exit/crash.

5. Close iTunes and terminate the process iTunesHelper.exe and iPodService.exe from the Task Manager (ctrl+alt+delete)

6. Run touchFree.exe (make doubly sure iTunes is closed, iTunes MUST NOT start during the jailbreak)

7. When prompted to reboot, hold the Hold/Reset switch until slide to power off appears, then slide to power off. Once off, hold the Hold/Reset button until the iPod turns back on. After the springboard (the UI of the iPod) appears on the iPod, push enter in the command window to continue.
(The application cannot detect when the iPod has been successfully booted, so you need to cue it by
pushing enter when asked to)

8. You will be asked to reboot twice at some point. This means turning the iPod off, turning it on,
turning it off again, and then turning it back on before pushing enter to continue.

9. You will be asked to reboot a few more times, do so normally as above.

10. After your final iPod reboot, you should end up with an iPod with Installer.app and Trip1Pogostick installed, and SSH, SFTP enabled.

- Username to SSH/SFTP is root, password is alpine

Before panicking:
- Confirm that you have .NET Framework 2.0 installed
- Confirm that you have indeed visited http://jailbreak.toc2rta.com on your iPod and Safari crashed. A surprising number of people don’t follow the instructions.
Help can be found at the MacRumors forum as well as the #iTouch chat on irc.osx86.hu

When you’re done you should have a fully jailbroken iPod touch with an Installer.app (allows you install 3rd party apps right from your iPod), SSH and SFTP, the same state as if you had followed this guide. Again, thanks to planetbeing and Niacin for their excellent work on getting this cracked.

Added 10:48PM:
Here are some additional safety tips courtesy of the iTouch Dev Wiki.

Final Steps for Safety

It is a very good idea to change the default password from “alpine” to something else. This prevents people who happen to see your iPod touch on a wireless network from logging into it and doing nasty things. To do this:

1. Install “Community Sources”, “BSD Subsystem” and “Term-vt100″ packages from Installer.app.
2. Launch Term-vt100.
3. At the # prompt, type “passwd” (without the quotes) and press return.
4. Enter your new password and confirm it.
5. DON’T LOSE YOUR NEW PASSWORD! :) If you do, in order to log into your touch from SSH or SFTP you will have to do a restore and start this process all over again.

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A Samba server is a Windows shared folder server that allows you to share a directory on your FreeBSD server with your networked Windows computers. For this guide I’m only going to show you how to set it up and make a publicly accessible folder because frankly I don’t understand how to do some of the more advanced user creation and management.

The first thing you’re going to need to do is install the Samba port, then you configure it, then you start it. It’s really quite easy once you get the feel for the FreeBSD Ports system structure.

Installing Samba From a Port

Step 1:Type the following into your shell prompt to change your directory to the samba 3 ports directory:
[john@freebsd /]$ cd /usr/ports/net/samba3
Step 2:Type the following into your shell prompt to install the samba port:
[john@freebsd /]$ sudo make install

With any luck samba is now installed, but installation is only half the battle… Configuring it can be difficult but we’re going to go with the simplest configuration possible to get a publicly accessible folder on your network. From there you can seek more advanced resources for user control and printer sharing.

Configuring Samba After Installation

Step 1: Type the following into the command prompt to copy the default configuration file to the usr/local/etc directory:
[john@freebsd /]$ sudo cp /usr/local/share/examples/samba/smb.conf.default /usr/local/etc/smb.conf
Step 2: Now change your directory to /usr/local/etc:
[john@freebsd /]$ cd /usr/local/etc/smb.conf
Step 3: Now open up your configuration file in pico:
[john@freebsd /]$ sudo pico smb.comf
Step 4: Find the line that says “workgroup = MYGROUP” and change it to whatever your workgroup is. The default Windows workgroup is “WORKGROUP”, so I changed mine to “workgroup = WORKGROUP”.
Step 5: Find the line that says “security = user” and change it to “security = share”, this will make your share somewhat less secure, but much easier to configure and you’ll be limiting by IP address anyway.
Step 6: Find the line that says “; hosts allow = 192.168.1. 192.168.2. 127.” and uncomment it to look like “hosts allow = 192.168.1. 192.168.2. 127.”. This will limit the access to your share to local computers only, if you’d like it to be even more secure you can just add specific IPs to the list.
Step 7: Find this block:
;[public]
; path = /usr/somewhere/else/public
; public = yes
; only guest = yes
; writable = yes
; printable = no
and change it to:
[public]
path = /usr/home/john/share
public = yes
only guest = yes
writable = yes
printable = no
Step 8: Close and save the file with Ctrl+X, then type “y” then hit enter to save over the file.

You should now have a properly configured Samba server… Create the directory.

You need to make the directory and change the ownership to make it writable.

Create Folder

Step 1: Type this into the command line:
[john@freebsd /]$ mkdir /usr/home/john/shared.
Step 2: Change the ownership to “nobody” by typing this in the commandline:
[john@freebsd /]$ sudo chown nobody /usr/home/john/shared

Last step, start the server.

Start the Server

Step 1: Type this into the command prompt:
[john@freebsd /]$ sudo pico /etc/rc.conf
Step 2: Find this line sshd_enable=”YES” and add under it samba_enable=”YES”.
Step 3: Close and save the file with Ctrl+X, then type “y” then hit enter to save over the file.
Step 4: Now you can start the Samba server with:
[john@freebsd /]$ /usr/local/etc/rc.d/samba start.

Yeesh that was long… You should be able to get on your Windows computer and look in your network places and use your Samba share like any other Windows share. I’m sure I’ll have to revise this so if something breaks let me know.

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For example, I entered…
# sudo chsh john

This should bring up your user file with various information about your account, the only thing you need to worry about is the line that says “Shell:”, here’s what mine looks like:
#Changing user information for john.
Login: john
Password: [removed]
Uid [#]: 1001
Gid [# or name]: 1001
Change [month day year]:
Expire [month day year]:
Class:
Home directory: /home/john
Shell: /bin/sh
Full Name: John Stone III
Office Location:
Office Phone:
Home Phone:
Other information:


To edit this file you’re going to need to use your arrow keys, press down until you get to the shell line, then right until you get past the first /. Then use the delete key to remove all of the stuff after it. Then press “i” and type “usr/local/bin/bash”. Then press escape, then “:x” and hit enter to save the file. If at any time you mess up you can press escape then “:q!” to exit without saving changes, the you can try again with the command above.

This is what my file looked like after I edited it.
#Changing user information for john.
Login: john
Password: removed
Uid [#]: 1001
Gid [# or name]: 1001
Change [month day year]:
Expire [month day year]:
Class:
Home directory: /home/john
Shell: /usr/local/bin/bash
Full Name: John Stone III
Office Location:
Office Phone:
Home Phone:
Other information:

Now you can exit and when you log back in you should see a lovely new shell prompt.
[john@freebsd ~]$

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Once you have PuTTY installed open the app and type the IP of your server in the “Host Name: (Or IP address)” field ^{Fig 1.} and hit enter. Then you’ll be presented with the familiar login: prompt. Login with your normal user name and password and you should be given your very own shell prompt. ^{Fig 2.}

Footnote 1: If you didn’t install sshd during installation you can easily do so after the fact. Just login as root, bring up the installer by typing sysinstall and hitting enter. Once at the familiar installer go down to configure, hit enter, go down to networking, then go all the way near the bottom to sshd, press space to select it then press o to exit the menu. Then X to exit the configure menu and then x to exit sysinstall. Now you can restart your server using “shutdown -r now” without quotes and you should now have ssh running.

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Ok, so you’ve got your FreeBSD installed on your computer, you’ve booted up for the first time and you’re looking at the login: prompt. You’ll need to login as root to configure sudo to allow yourself to run commands as root from your normal account though SSH. So type root at the login: prompt hit enter and then type in your password. Don’t worry that the letters or *s don’t appear for your password, they’re not suppose to. Once you login you should be at the default shell, something like freebsd#, where freebsd is the host you entered during the installation.

Now, from the freebsd# prompt and type visudo and press enter.
freebsd# visudo

You should have the default sudoers file in Vi. Use your arrow keys to move down the page until you see the line root ALL=(ALL) ALL, with your cursor on that line type o, this should create a new line. From there you can type the following line where [yourusername] is the normal user account you setup during the OS installation without the brackets…
[yourusername] ALL = (ALL) ALL

For for example, mine is…
john ALL = (ALL) ALL

From here you press escape then “:” without the quotes, then “x” without the quotes and then hit enter, this will save the file and exit Vi. And now you know why you installed Pico.

This will allow you to run any command as root, as long as you know the root password thus allowing you remotely administer your system completely through SSH. Now you can type exit to logout at the freebsd# prompt and turn off the monitor. From here we will be using SSH.

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I just successfully installed FreeBSD on the computer. The setup wizard was flawless and configured almost everything automatically. I’m using an entire hard drive so I chose the default partition and mounting schemes. I suggest you do the same to keep things simple. After the mounting screen it gives you the Distribution selection screen, I selected minimal, then went down to custom and additionally selected the Manual Pages (man), and the Ports System (ports).

For my network card I choose no IPv6, yes DHCP because my server will be behind my router. “Host” is similar to the “name” of your computer on Windows, except it has to be a fully qualified domain. If this is going to be a local server, you can enter anything you want with .localhost on the end. For example, I entered “freebsd.localhost”. For the domain just remove whatever is there (if anything) and enter localhost. All of the other fields should have been configured automatically by DHCP. From there you can select which ever services you want it to install, for the purposes of these guides we’re going to say no to everything except ssh.

Next you can choose which “ports” packages you want installed. “Ports” are special FreeBSD packages that are pretty much guaranteed to work. I choose the following “ports” packages from the installation wizard to get started remotely editing the server over SSH.

• Sudo - Sudo allows you to issue commands as root from a regular account. Very necessary since I’ll be handling all of the administration over SSH and you can’t login as root over SSH.
• Pico - To edit files. You’ll definitely want to install this, otherwise you’ll have to use Vi and no one likes using Vi.
• Bash - The default shell is called “sh”, it’s functional, but lacks more advanced and time saving features like tab-completion, which means instead of having to type out cd /usr/local, you’d just have to type /u[tab]lo[tab] and it would finish those for you.
• wget - Wget allows you to pull files off of the internet from the command line.

I’m almost ready to step away from the physical server, but before I do that I’ll need to configure sudo, I’ll show you how I configured my sudo in the next post.

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I’m going to use the minimal boot CD and install over FTP, as I know my network card will be supported out of the box.

Hardware:

Processor: Pentium 4 3.0Ghz “Prescottâ€?
RAM: 512MB Generic DDR3200
Motherboard: MSI PM8M3-V
Hard Drives:
200GB SATA (Main)
120GB IDE (IDE Master)
100GB IDE (IDE Slave)
Other Drives:
8X DVD-RW (Used only for initial installation)

Functionary Goals:

Primary:

• Samba File Server
• - Media Share
• Web Server – Via Apache, PHP and mySQL
• - Support Ticket System
• - Wiki
• - Intranet CMS
• - Local Development
• FTP Server
• - Backup

Secondary:

• Counterstrike: Source Private Server
• Ruby On Rails Development

In the next post I should have a successful installation recap, wish me luck.

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You would do it thusly:
Add this to a blank or your existing .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?first-domain-to-allow.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?second-domain-to-allow.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.google.com/ [R,L]

Also, if you want people who copy and paste/type in the link to have access, all you would need to do is add this line just after RewriteEngine on so your .htaccess file would look like this…
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?first-domain-to-allow.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?second-domain-to-allow.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.google.com/ [R,L]

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In postbit_legacy find this…
<if condition="$show['messageicon'] OR $post['title']“>
<!– icon and title –>
<div class=”smallfont”>
<if condition=”$show['messageicon']“><img class=”inlineimg” src=”$post[iconpath]” alt=”$post[icontitle]” border=”0″ /></if>
<if condition=”$post['title']“><strong>$post[title]</strong></if>
</div>
<hr size=”1″ style=”color:$stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]” />
<!– / icon and title –>
</if>

And change it to this…
<if condition="$post['title']“>
<!– icon and title –>
<div class=”smallfont”>
<if condition=”$show['messageicon']“><img class=”inlineimg” src=”$post[iconpath]” alt=”$post[icontitle]” border=”0″ /></if>
<if condition=”$post['title']“><strong>$post[title]</strong></if>
</div>
<hr size=”1″ style=”color:$stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]” />
<!– / icon and title –>
</if>

This along with disabling “Automatically Quote Post / Thread Title” gives me the desired effect.
You can find that option in…
AdminCP > vBulletin Options > vBulletin Options > Message Posting & Editing Options > Automatically Quote Post / Thread Title

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The amazing popularity of my previous guide on how to get Firefox to play embedded Windows Media Player files in Windows XP Media Center Edition as well as my own need to fix my new install of Windows Vista has prompted me to make a guide specifically for Vista.

Now this time the MozillaZine guide worked for me, but it was a touch difficult to locate in the overall document so here’s my simplified solution JUST for Windows Vista…

Step 1: Download these 3 (three) files to your desktop. 1, 2, 3.
Step 2: Copy and paste these files into your Firefox Plugins directory. For example: (C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins)

Good luck, I hope that helps and congratulations of choosing Vista.

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Step 1: Click the Start Menu and then click on ‘Control Panel’.
Step 2: Click on the ‘Program’ group.
Step 3: Click ‘Turn Windows features on or off’. (Note: You will need an administrator account)
Step 4: Tick the ‘Games’ box and click ok, it will take a minute or so to add them games.
Step 5: Close the Control Panel and click the Start Menu again, and the click ‘All Programs’, you should see that the Games folder is now filled with the normal games you get on Windows Home/Premium/Ultimate.

Enjoy.

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<xsl:comment>[if IE 6]><![CDATA[<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/ie6.css" /><![endif]]]></xsl:comment>

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Step 1: Download the theme here.
Step 2: Unzip to “C:\Windows\Resources\Themes\Royale Noir” and then double click on “luna.msstyles”.
Step 3: Click on “Noir” from the color scheme menu.

Original Credit: http://www.istartedsomething.com

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Step 1: Follow this link and make a new account. (Do not use the same email if you already have an Adwords account.)
Step 2: Create your first Ad and fill in the other required information.
Step 3: Add a credit card to your account, you will NOT be charged, and the $5 activation will be taken from your $55 credit leaving you with $50.
Step 4: Advertise.

I have tested and verified this method myself, but I don’t know how long this promotion will last, so get in while you can.

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If you’re like me and you’ve got a brand new media center PC running Microsoft Windows Media Center Edition 2005, you’ve probably noticed that Firefox won’t play embedded Windows Media Player files. This is because of a missing DLL that Windows XP Home and Pro both have, but for some reason Media Center Edition doesn’t.

Most likely you have already tried this guide from the Mozilla guys and it hasn’t worked. My solution is 2 steps that should have you watching movies in no time.

Step 1: After you’ve installed Firefox, download and install this file. It is the official Netscape media player plug-in from Microsoft. (It works for Firefox as well.)
Step 2: Once you have the first file installed, download and install this file. This is a security update for the above file and will keep you from being exploited by a malicious website.

That’s it, you should be all set.

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