looking to hire a systems engi…
looking to hire a systems engineer to work with me in Japan - candidate must be european nationality (VIE contract), spread the word plz
an automobile review website t…
an automobile review website that appeals even to people like me who do not have a license http://kirag.net
took the keys for the new apar…
took the keys for the new apartment, waiting for the movers to arrive... no idea if we're gonna be able to fit everything in the new place
Packing up
Finished the main packing phase: 21 boxes strewn all over the apartment.
Moving company will come tomorrow at 1pm. I will have to pack up all the camera gadgets and computers in the morning.
P.S. If anything is strange with this post it's because I am typing it on my iPhone with the Worpress app.
got my iPhone, took less than …
got my iPhone, took less than 30min and didn't have to pay upfront even though only 1 year left on my visa
finished project pres, back in…
finished project pres, back in 熊谷 (civilized place) now heading to 原宿 to pickup iPhone... btw how is the line?
today i do a project presentat…
today i do a project presentation at the manufacturing plant in Gunma... a prefecture far far away...
it is 34℃ today and still on…
it is 34℃ today and still only june... i'm starting to wonder if the 2x2m west-facing window in my new apartment was such a good idea...
ohoho! got an invite to Google…
ohoho! got an invite to Google Wave in the mail... this is gonna be a lot of fun :)
updated the Softbank_jp.ipcc f…
updated the Softbank_jp.ipcc file to support tethering and now MMS, thanks to @kuriburi -- http://bit.ly/NF9Lb
booked my iPhone at the haraju…
booked my iPhone at the harajuku softbank store - took almost an hour, no line though
Activate tethering on Softbank iPhone
A friend of mine, @kuriburi, just sent me this to publish for him, so here you go:
So it was the news of the day: Someone managed to activate tethering on an AT&T iPhone 3G by means of a "carrier support file", a.k.a. "ipcc". Here in Japan, the story was a bit more tricky : Softbank declared that they would not support tethering on their network and had no plans to do so in the future either.
Nice! So, with those brand new Macbook Pro without any pc express card slot, how are we supposed to use Softbank's data cards? This bothered me to no end thus I went on a search for a Softbank carrier support file that I could modify somehow. I stumbled onto this very interesting post on a Japanese blog that talked about the same thing, but with a beta version of the iPhone OS 3.0.
OK, well, doesn't hurt to try with the official release, right?
Now I need to get my hands on that damn file. Turns out, it was right on my hard drive at work since August 2008. So I went to work and modified the file (which incidentally is just a bundle in a zip archive with a special extension) and tried to update my iPhone with it. The steps are simple :
- in the Terminal, execute defaults write com.apple.iTunes carrier-testing -bool TRUE
on windows, execute C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunes.exe /setPrefInt carrier-testing 1 in a DOS window
- plug your iPhone to your computer via the USB cable
- in iTunes, display the summary page of your iPhone
- while pressing the "alt" (option) key, click on the "check for update" button
- you will be presented with a finder window. Locate the Softbank_jp.ipcc file, select it
- iTunes will now update your iPhone with the modified carrier settings
- Once finished, unplug the iPhone, go see into Settings>General>Network, and voilà! screenshot
Oh, before I forget, if Apple or Softbank issues an update through iTunes, wait a bit before updating... you never know...
Update: I updated the link with the latest file from @kuriburi that activates both tethering and MMS. よろしく！
you can apply for your new iPh…
you can apply for your new iPhone 3GS at the Softbank 原宿店 from tomorrow and pick it up on the 26th when it comes out http://bit.ly/AHuOU
WWDC Keynote on MacBidouille.com with App Engine
No bandwidth, no servers, no infrastructure, no money required. Just a bit of python and a tad of javascript and you can live stream an event to 10.000 people concurrently (theoretic figure, Analytics said the live-blog site had 30.000 visits in all) within Google App Engine's free quotas.
This is the graph taken from my App Engine dashboard the morning after the WWDC'09 Keynote after MacBidouille.com live-blogged the event in French through my application. We always had scaling problems while Google's infrastructure was in beta and we were bound by smallish quotas, but since they opened fully the service a couple months ago, the sky is the limit.
