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If not you soon will, and it’s simple!
1. Download this root.zip file
2. Copy the root.zip onto the root of the SD card of your device.
3. Turn off the device, and turn it back on by pressing together the POWER button and VOLUME UP
4. The device will now boot into the Android System Recovery menu, navigate using volume controls to “Apply update from external storage”
5. Navigate to “root.zip” and execute ...READ MORE »
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If not you soon will, and it’s simple!1. Download this root.zip file
2. Copy the root.zip onto the root of the SD card of your device.
3. Turn off the device, and turn it back on by pressing together the POWER button and VOLUME UP
4. The device will now boot into the Android System Recovery menu, navigate using volume controls to “Apply update from external storage”
5. Navigate to “root.zip” and execute by pressing the Power Button.
6. When the patch has been applied it will ask you to reboot the device.
Job Done!!
I have a copy of the Nandroid backup of the stock Nexus S Rom, this includes OTA update GRH78. This is 100% stock.
At this point, I’m going to assume you have ether Clockwork recovery or other custom recovery installed.
● Download nandroid file from here – Stock-GRH78-Nandroid.zip
● Extract the .zip file on your computer
● Move the folder “2010-12-22.21.06.07″ to the clockworkmod/backup/ directory of your phones internal storage.
● Note: if you have never used nandroid you won’t have the directory “clockworkmod/backup” on your phones internal storage, so just copy the clockworkmod from the zip to the phone’s root.
● Enter “bootloader” mode by pressing volume up and power button at same time, then go down to “recovery” by using the volume up/volume down keys to scroll up or down, then press the power button to launch it, and this will launch the recovery manager
● Once you’re in clockworkmod recovery, select “backup and restore”
● Then click “restore”
● Now you should be able to choose and select “2010-12-22.21.06.07″
● Clockwork will now restore this nandroid backup
● Shutdown phone.
Note: This version of android build “GRH78″ will give you stock recovery manager everytime you reboot the phone. So after doing this, after you reboot you will no longer have clockwork mod.
● Plug your phone into your computer using the phone cable.
● Enter bootloader again.
● Once the Nexus S is in bootloader open a CMD.
● Type in the following command:
>fastboot devices
The output should look something like this: 3933E575BC1400EC fastboot
If the output does not look like this, then your phone isn’t being detected. Check connection to your computer.
● In the CMD type in the following command:
>fastboot oem lock
● Now reboot the phone, note the padlock has gone!
Make sure your phone is running 2.3.3. If it’s not, follow THIS guide.
● On the Nexus S. turn “Debugging On” by going into “Settings” “Applications” “Development” then ticking “USB debugging”
● Now, turn off the Nexus S.
● Plug phone into computer via USB.
● Turn on the phone into the “Bootloader” by pressing “Volume up” and “Power” button at same time.
● On computer open a command prompt
● In the command prompt change directory to the tools folder in the android sdk folder where the fastboot and the other file you just downloaded are.
E.g I typed “cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk-windows\tools”
● Now, to make sure your devide can be seen type in the command:
>fastboot devices
The output should look something like this: 3933E575BC1400EC fastboot
● Now we have it connected we are ready to unlock. Note, on the phone below the phone serial number it will say “LOCK STATE – LOCKED”
● In the CMD type in the following command:
>fastboot oem unlock
● Your phone will change screen to a warning. PLEASE READ!
● To carry on press the volume button to navigate to “YES” then press the “Power Button”
You should see something like this in the CMD window when its completed:
…
OKAY [ 0.047s]
Finished. Total time: 0.47s
Where it once said “LOCK STATE – LOCKED” it will say “LOCK STATE – UNLOCKED”
● Now in the same CMD prompt type in the following:
>Fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-3.0.0.5-crespo.img
When completed you should see something similar to this:
sending ‘recovery’ (3980 KB)…
OKAY [ 5.088s]
writing ‘recovery’…
OKAY [ 0.498s]
finished. total time: 5.586s
● Back on the Nexus S, select “reboot”.
● When the phone is back on, mount the phone storage on the computer. When done place the “su-2.3.6.1-ef-signed.zip” into the root of the phone storage.
● Turn off the phone.
● Boot the Nexus S into “Bootloader”
● Select “Recovery”
● Again, using the volume buttons to navigate select “install ZIP from sdcard” press power button
● Select “choose ZIP from sdcard” press power button
● Select “su-2.3.6.1-ef-signed.zip” the press power button to install
● Select “Yes” and power button to select it.
● Now it should say “Install from sdcard complete”
● Select “go back” then “Reboot”
You can now install program from the market and elsewhere that require root permissions. One such app that I can’t live without is ASProxy. when you first run an app that requires root permissions you will be given a prompt asking if you want to grant root permissions or not.
Every computer user from student to network administrators knows, getting files from one computer to another is vital. For years people used floppy disks and ZIP drives, but with their small storage capacity and their size when USB flash storage came to the market, overnight that market was died, hailing the age of the pen drive.
For years now best way to move large files was by flash drive, CD’s and DVD’s, smaller files e-mail would have been used, I’m sure most computer savvy people have used Google to store and transfer files before. Well, now there’s DropBox, which has-in the year or so since it came out of beta become my best and only way of making sure I have my most important files to hand.
If you’re not familiar with DropBox, Where the bloody hell you been? Well, it’s simple: You create a free account over at DropBox.com, and then install the app on your computer(s). The DropBox application creates a folder on your computer where ever you want it to be and then the program monitors that folder at all times watching out for changes. Whenever you change the contents of this folder, by adding, modifying or deleting files, DropBox then automatically syncs these changes to your account’s folder on their servers. Additionally, any other computers you have installed the program and logged in using the same account will have their DropBox folder synced as well. There’s nothing necessarily new or interesting about this capability, the idea has in some form or other been around for years in some form or other. But DropBox’s process is amazingly simple and makes collaboration an absolute breeze.
The account I have is a free one with extra storage from there many free small upgrade options upping me from the 2GB basic to a 3.3GB free plan. To date I have two Windows computers one Macintosh and two Android devices on the one account. One of my main functions of DropBox is providing me access to my website. I installed DropBox onto my Windows 2008 server and mapped the wwwroot folder onto my DropBox sync folder, meaning I have access to my web files making it easy to update and add files where ever I am. Other thing I use it for is to have access to my work files and projects I’m working on. I have even been known to have music on there so I can play then where ever I am.
For six months on and more off i have been working on a project called the Wi-Fi Pineapple first featured on the brilliant home-brew tech show Hak5.
(Fictional Scenario!!!)
The original problem was, when you are trying to own noobs on the wireless man-in-middle… you had to do it on an individual basis. Now, thanks to @Mubix @RobinWood and @DarrenKitchen we have the project Jasager and a thing called Karma installed onto a FON access point.
What it does is takes advantage of the way Macintosh and Windows computers work with stored favourite wireless access points. So, when you have say your windows laptop and you take it home, you set it up once to access your home access point and from then on when you are home it will automatically connect when in range. When you are trying to be productive and visit your local starfuks coffee shop to do some work, your laptops first job is to see where it is, and if any of your favourite wireless networks are in range by sending out a Probe Request.
The pineapple quietly sitting there scanning the 2.4GHz airways for your probe request packets, sees your request and Sais “YE, I’m your home access point (SSID)” or “YE, I’m your works access point (SSID)” and your laptop connects the pineapple where the noob will be none the wiser, there just happy to be on the internet looking at noobtube. All the time we are in the middle of their traffic able to intercept packets and all that good stuff.
What makes the Jasager so brilliant is its ajax interface where we can securely log in to the backend ether through the Ethernet port of by making a personal SSID to access it wirelessly and watch the noobs logon to the pineapple in real-time with their basic information, MAC address PC name and what IP address they have been assigned.
From there we can take it easy, we have them assigned with DHCP they are on the internet with us in the middle. From there we can power up Wireshark and check out there packets, or step it up and run Cain & Abel. That’s the neat thing about this project, once you have them in the honey-pot you can break out all your best tools and work away.
Now I have only just got my pineapple working a few hours before this year’s #BCBlackpool 2010 so was unable to demo it working, and as yet not even taken it out into the wild. I hope to be able to “TEST” at my local StarFuks coffee shop with the aid of a “Willing, Compliant” laptop or two.
I certainly can’t condone hacking anyone’s Wi-Fi connection as such a thing is legal and against the telecommunications act. It’s more of a learning of how to best protect your wireless when out in the wild.
Few months ago i made out of an old PC a CCTV system, but i was keeping the recordings local to the computer. I decided to make a NAS server out of some semi-new hardware i had lying around.
At work I obesely have backups and have been running two Openfiler for 4 years now without any problems.
After some searching around and with recommendation from a twitter follower @FreeNAS i opted to give FreeNAS a try.
I want bore you with how i installed FreeNAS 7, you could find that info on 100′s of sited via (JFGI).
After installing all one needs to do is assign the interface to a network card, then ether assign ip address via DHCP, or most probable and highly recomended assign an ip address yourself. Once this setup os done, you can now put the case together is not already done and place the NAS in its final resting place, there is no need to have physical access to the NAS the rest of the configuration is all done via the web interface.
One benefit i have not said up till now is RAID. One industry standard when it comes to backups is redundancy, making sure that all data you backup on the one drive isent lost if the drive on the backup was to fail for what ever reason, and to over come this unforchonat enevatability is to configure a RAID. Now, one of the benefits of using the MB (Motherboard) i have, is it has onboard RAID controler but it only as 2 sata ports, meaning i have two options. One would be to install my two 500GB drives and configure RAID 0 (Stripe) making the two 500′s into one 1Tb drive, nice if i wanted more storage but for me i would have to configure RAID 1 (Mirroring), meaning i have have one drive to put data onto and other would also have the same data. iIn theory, meaning if one drive was to fail the other would still have all the data.
But, for thoes who dont have a motherboard with onboard RAID or dont have a PCI RAID controler FreeNAS is able to do the same job as the hardware but using software, thats why its called Software RAID. The only problem in using software RAID is it’s going to be using the motherborads hardware, so eating into your RAM and CPU, ok if you have it to spare but not always a good idea if you are running an old P4 with the min 256mb RAM.
So, i have a server with FreeNAS installed, RAID 1 setup. I then setup the ar0 disk the full 500GB size, created a mount point leaving the file system UFS. To make the new storage avalable to my CCTV server i opted for the iSCSI option, meaning after setting up the iSCSI Target on the NAS i would on the CCTV system just connect to the NAS using the MS iSCSI iniciator. This has the benefit of making the remote NAS look like a local drive the the server, then all i had to do was to set the recordings to save direct to the new drive.
This is as much as i wanted to do with this NAS, acheving my end result of having a remote storage of my CCTV Recordings, and a RAID 1 setup for redundancy.
But, this isn’t the end of what FreeNAS can offer. The one’s offered todate in verson 7 are:
If you happen to have a spare PC laying around and you are tech savvy enough not to want to buy off the shelf NAS, a good option is to build your own NAS server. There are a few small time options but the big boys in open source NAS is FreeNAS and Openfiler, both of these are based on a variant of Unix.
But me and others like me we tend to care less about looks or ease and look to the challenge and finding a use for our spare parts. Failing that, install onto a virtual environment, VMWare, parallels or Hyper-V and test away.
As time goes on I’m finding the warm-ups much easier even finding that my Gastrocnemius muscle is more flexible then when I first started. Having been going to referred to a biomechanics’ to help sort out my very annoying flat feet the one thing, they recommended was for me to lose the tension in my leg muscles. Despite going to the gym for over a year and doing the stretching they recommended it was slow work but few weeks of Liz’s worm-ups seems to be doing the trick.
Having been delayed a few minutes due to Westview staff I guess forgetting us. After warm-ups we moved away from the intermediate group and got into out fencing kit. Our focus this week was on defence, moving from the starting En garde position with my foil on the outside also known as Sixte (Parry #6) moving the foil across my body to protect another part of my body, this position is known as Quarte or Parry #4. I paired with my usual partner being simper height and build, we saluted and got into en garde, one of us was to attack and lunge other person is to parry, deflecting the attack.
After practicing this parry for 10 minutes or so Liz called us over to show what could be done after a successful deflection. When opponent A lunges and opponent B successfully executes a parry #4, opponent A would now have what’s called right of way and can now attack there opponent, this is called a Riposte. We moved back to our lines and began practicing with our partners.
To end the evening Liz opened the floor to trying our hand at a match with whomever wanted to. As I have been practicing with the same person for weeks, I decided to challenge someone different. I must admit, I was confused by my opponents’ moves; they seemed to me a bit quick and erratic with more force than I had expected. Now, only a few weeks in I most certainly don’t understand much about the sport and for my sins, I’m a person who loves to evaluate situations and understand something before starting. We didn’t manage to reach our target score of 5 but at 3-2 to my opponent I think we both did well under the circumstances.
It was 21:00 and as the hall is the clubs till half past we could if wanted to challenge someone to a nice friendly match, i decided to stay behind and have a quick game with my usual partner. We saluted and started, this match seemed although quick more organised and calculated. I still didn’t feel confident about my ability to have a good match, making sure my moves where “Legal” and fair. But I suppose at this early stage, it’s not expected of us to know it all.
Next week I think the focus is about attacking.
