How to restore your iPhone when its bricked with DFU mode

mariusvw — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:36:45 +0000

Here are some simple steps I use to restore friends their iPhones.

Connect your iPhone to your computer.
Turn of your iPhone by holding the power button
Wait for your iPhone to completely shutdown
Hold POWER and HOME for 10 seconds
Release POWER but keep holding HOME
iTunes should now detect your iPhone in DFU mode

Note, in case you do a redsn0w jailbreak, you might need to disconnect press power and reconnect the iPhone to make it work (do this quickly).

How to fix broken Samba shares on Mac OS X Snow Leopard

mariusvw — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:00:00 +0000

I was searching for a way to get rid of my Finder problems...
I stumbled upon this blog post, this solved Finder crashes and hookups for me.

Thanks for this info!
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I did a fresh install of Snow Leopard on my Macbook and soon realized my Samba shares were broken through finder - but still worked from the CLI.

Worse still once I tried to access the shares Finder would basically be dead, you'd need to Force Quit it to make it work again.

Eventually I reached for tcpdump and wireshark and found it's the pesky .DS_Store files again, seems my QNAP is denying access to them, Finder did not cope well with this.

A quick bit of hackery of my smb.conf solved it:

veto files = /.AppleDB/.AppleDouble/.AppleDesktop/.DS_Store/:2eDS_Store/Network Trash Folder/Temporary Items/TheVolumeSettingsFolder/.@__thumb/.@__desc/
delete veto files = yes

Once I got this removed and samba restarted my shares were working again in Snow Leopard. A bit annoying but not too hard in the end.

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How to restore your iPhone when its bricked with DFU mode

How to fix broken Samba shares on Mac OS X Snow Leopard