We were working quite some time on this. Now here is EPOS I. – the “EFI Post Install” Script for white-box PCs that are almost hardware compatible with Apple’s devices “EPOS I.” is an “EFI Post Install” Script What does it do? EPOS helps installing retail DVD’s of Apple’s Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard on [...]
Archive for December, 2008
[MacOS] EPOS I. – EFI Post Install for White-Box PCs
December 28th, 2008 
J. ΞPSTΞÏN 
Posted in Labs, MacOS 
Tags: 10.5, Apple, autoextract, autoupdate, Boot 132, DFE, efi, EFI Post Install, EFI-X, efix, EPOS, EPOS I., Galaxy, Gigabyte, hackintosh, leopard, Mac, Munky, myMek, retail dvd, SlimBuild-Preboot, update, Vanilla Kernel, White-Box 
11 Comments »[iPhone] Issues with iPhone DFU mode in MacOS 10.5.6
December 18th, 2008 J. ΞPSTΞÏN According to forum reports the iPhone DFU mode, which is required to install custom firmware with PwnageTool, does not get detected properly after updating Mac OS X to 10.5.6. That means you cannot Jailbreak or Unlock the iPhone currently. The iPhone Dev Team has investigated in to this issue and comes to the conclusion that [...]
Posted in iOS, MacOS, News Tags: DFU, iPhone, issue, issues, Mac Book, Mac Book Pro, Mac iMac, Mac OS X, MacBook, MacBookPro, MacPro, Problem, Problems, PwnageTool, QuickPwn No Comments »[iPhone] iPhone 3G unlocked by iPhone Dev Team
December 17th, 2008 J. ΞPSTΞÏN The release of the 3G unlock software (currently going under the name yellosn0w) is due to december 31., 2008. The unlock will currently only available for baseband version 2.11.07 or lower. Between Chrismas and new year’s eve members of the team (planetbeing, MuscleNerd and pytey) will be giving a lecture about the security systems in [...]
Posted in News Tags: Activate, Chaos Computer Club, Hack, iPhone 3G, iPhone Dev Team, Jailbreak, Pwnage, Unlock No Comments »[Windows] Slysoft to Change Update Conditions
December 13th, 2008 J. ΞPSTΞÏN As of January 1st, 2009 Slysoft will change update conditions for their products. Lifelong free updates will cease to be offered in favor of an annual subscription. Licenses that have been bought before 2009 are not affected and will still containt the free lifelong update feature. Until december 31st, 2008 (wednesday) Slysoft offers a special [...]
Posted in News Tags: 2.0, AnyDVD, AnyDVD HD, chrismas offer, discount, lifelong update, lifelong updates, Slysoft, subscription No Comments »[MacOS] Switcher’s Hints 1001: Moving Cursor in Terminal
December 8th, 2008 J. ΞPSTΞÏN Mac OS has the wonderful feature that it’s got a BSD compatible Unix enviroment called Darwin as the basis. You can get to it by simply starting the terminal. Once getting used to it you even install Cygwin to your Microsoft Windows installation because it simply is a powerful way of controlling your computer. Anyway [...]
Posted in Labs, MacOS Tags: Berkeley Software Distribution, BSD, Darwin, Jump on console, left jmp, Linux, Mac OS X, Terminal, unix, word by word jump No Comments »[Hacking] Berlin Students win “Capture the Flag” Contest
December 8th, 2008 J. ΞPSTΞÏN The “UCSB International Capture The Flag” is a distributed, wide-area security exercise. It aims at testing the security skills of the participants. This time the organizing team around Prof. Giovanni Vigna prepped a small network, that could be accessed only via remote. The goal was first to gain access to the network and then to disarm [...]
[Games] GTA IV with heavy Issues on ATI Graphic Cards
December 4th, 2008 J. ΞPSTΞÏN The PC version of the long awaited game Grand Theft Auto IV has yesterday been released to the european markets. First tests show the game is as outstanding as its console versions, released earlier this year. Anyway forums are full of bug reports by people using ATI based graphic cards. The game crashs even before [...]
Posted in News Tags: AMD, ATI, crash, crashs, Grand Theft Auto IV, graphic adapter, graphic card, graphics adapter, graphics card, issue, issues, Problems, radeon No Comments »[e-Biz] A Nasty Conspiracy Behind Psystar?
December 4th, 2008 J. ΞPSTΞÏN What might sound like a conspiracy book by John Grisham is reality. Apple obviously believes that another company or even companies are secretly backing up Psystar. Groklaw.net explains that this might be an explanation why a major law firm took this case. Apple’s lawyers wrote: (..) Apple will seek leave to amend this complaint to [...]
Posted in News Tags: Apple, Claim, claims, Commercial, competition, Conspiracy, court, DMCA, Hack Mac, hackint0sh, hackintosh, HackMac, Law, Mac Clone, MacClone, Open Pro, OpenPro, Psystar 1 Comment »[iPhone] iPhone 3G Hardware unlocked in Vietnam
December 2nd, 2008 J. ΞPSTΞÏN CNet.com reports Tuan Anh Do, a 29 years old business man from Hanoi, now offers hardware unlocking services for the iPhone 3G. He is owner of a couple of cell phone repair stores and he now managed to find a rather painless way to unlock the iPhone 3G and offer that as a service to [...]
[MacOS] Apple recommends using Virus Scanners
December 2nd, 2008 J. ΞPSTΞÏN Apple has released a technical note recommending the use of Mac antivirus software. For the first time Apple admits that Macs need protection like other operating systems aswell. Apple recommends three Anti Virus solutions: Intego VirusBarrier X5 Symantec Norton Anti-Virus 11 for Mac McAfee VirusScan for Mac The open source virus scanner ClamXav is not [...]
Posted in News Tags: Apple Anti Virus, Hack, leopard, Mac OS Leopard, Mac OS X, Mac OSX, MacOS, macos x, MacOSX, Protection, Virii, Viruses No Comments »