Recover the data on iPhone

Recently, I bricked my iPhone again (the third times). I've some photo which haven't yet uploaded to my album, hence I really want to find a way to recover my photos.

As I don't get any good solution, I managed to restore it and use a simple tricks to dump the iphone disk image, then, use some common data recovery tools to help the process.

To dump the image into a disk file (in your desktop), run the following in the iphone:

root@my-iphone> dd if=/dev/disk0 | ssh username@mydesktop 'dd of=iphone-dump.img'

When this is finished, you can use some tools to recover the file on the disk image.

Firefox 3.0

After months of beta and rc releases, Firefox 3.0 is ready. I've switched to 3.0 since beta 5, it is really very fast and much more responsive, especially on the Linux. You can download it from here.

The decline of Gentoo

Recently I am considering the aluminum iMac as my next workstation. After all I don't make the decision on 20" or 24" yet. The hardware design is excellent.

Hence, I have to do some studies on how well such machine is supported by Linux. And yet, I found one excellent writeup on Ubuntu wiki.

During the googling, I realized one thing: Ubuntu has a vibrant user community.

Sometimes (quite a few years) ago, Gentoo is my only OS in my box.

In my memory it have the best quality documentation and the most vibrant user communities. But this situation is changed. The notable trend is that, recently, whenever I'd like to search for some hardware / kernel related info, the page is hosted ubuntu wiki.