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Usingmac.com reveals a few more more of the gianornous Leopard icons.  Very cool-

So the iPhone 1.1.2 jailbreak indeed works.  Make sure you have 45 minutes or so to complete the current hack. Steps include:

1. Installing the Octohack from Installer.app
2. Updating to 1.1.2 in iTunes
3. Downloading the 1.1.2 jailbreak
4. Installing the readline library
5. Running jailbreak.jar
6. Rebooting!

The only tricky part was installing the readline library.  It isn’t mentioned in any of the instructions and if you don’t do this, the hack fails without any worthwhile error.

Download the zip here.  You need to copy:

libreadline.5.2.dylib

to:

/opt/local/lib

Then, proceed with launching jailbreak.jar.  After some waiting, you will be ready to reboot, reboot and run with it.

Just in time for the launch of Super Mario Galaxy, IGN Presents The History of Super Mario Bros.  Long before the modernly-famous “It’s-a Me, Mario!”, a japanese company took a couple serious gambles on a certain italian plumber.  This look back at the greatest franchise in gaming is fascinating.

I picked up my copy of Super Mario Galaxy this evening after work and all I can say is “wow.”  This is what a Wii game should be like.  Definitely the best game since Wii Sports.  Nintendo spent some serious time on this game and it shows.

If you’re in NYC and looking to pick it up, I walked right into the Nintendo World store and didn’t even have to wait in line.  I guess all the serious fanboys got theirs last night after the launch party.  12am-2am- sheesh!

It seems odd to me that there has been such a flurry of activity in jailbreaking iPhone 1.1.2 (available since Friday).  I’ve been patiently awaiting a simple jailbreak and once it was released yesterday, I took a look.  The thing is.. Apple hasn’t really released 1.1.2 as far as I can tell.

iTunes doesn’t know about it yet and all the download links posted online presuppose that this is the final software.  I think I’ll wait.

Now that I’ve been running Leopard for few weeks, I’m ready to spend some time diving into dotmac sync.  Overall, it seems to be less-error prone, but then new sync conduits seem to work sporadically. 

For instance, the only time I notice that widget sync has successfully run is when I see two of the same widget in my widgetland space- hardly my intended result. 

And while I’m at it, what exactly what “preference sync” do?  What kind of “smarts” should I expect?  Surely it can’t just sync my entire ~/Library/Preferences folder to dotmac.  I ran it and the only thing I noticed was that it changed the name of each of my iTunes shared libraries to the same name. 

It probably is still a bit early to give a harsh review since Apple is still reporting problems with sync.  That said, what commercial service provider allows a production, premium internet service to be in maintenance for nearly 3 weeks?  The only email I’ve seen from Apple on this stated that the changes necessary for Leopard would occur starting October 19, 2007.

The Leopard install wipes out all user crontabs.  Gee, thanks for the heads-up. 

It was very nice of Apple to overhaul the printing front end in Leopard.  I think it actually makes sense now for the first time since- well forever.  Sorry, Chooser-devotees!

But why are all my printers removed after an upgrade install?  This is a seriously bad thing.  I don’t even want to know how many hours went into discovering and setting up the various printers from my many travels.  It has always been great knowing that nearly any printer can be hooked up to MacOSX, given the correct settings.  Well, now those many settings are now gone. 

I guess I know what I’ll be doing Monday morning on the first day of my trip to Nashville…

Woke up this morning to find that iTunes had “forgotten” about my my iPhone’s music.  This is a pain because it means you have to restore the device.  Easy to do, but it meant that I had to re-apply the lengthy hack process for the 1.1.1 firmware. 

As I was waiting for my first iTunes sync to complete, I saw that a new process “AppSnapp Installer for 1.1.1” had been released to hack the phone.  This worked perfectly and took about 2 minutes.  Too bad it won’t continue to work after the next Apple update. 

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I got my copy of Leopard (MacOSX 10.5) today and will be posting tidbits as I have time.  The first thing I wanted to know has been answered.

Time Machine does not require a dedicated disk for backup use.  You can continue to use free space for normal data storage.  Not only that but, it can use more than one drive (as long as it is formatted HFS+).