http://www.iross.net/blog Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:06:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A rather obscure film tonight had me pondering, and thinking of people I've not heard from in ages... Does anyone on here remember where I was one evening near Paisley in March 1999 ... or was even there with me? Or indeed at the end of June (same people :))..... ... http://www.iross.net/blog/2008/08/22/reminiscing/ [Update: 3G Service was restored in Glasgow at mid-day on Monday... two and a half days after it failed] It would appear that O2 is struggling to cope with the iPhone 3G. Their, less than excellent at the best of times, 3G data service has been unavailable in Glasgow and a few ... http://www.iross.net/blog/2008/08/03/o2-3g-network-outage/ As you know, O2 shut down their legacy MMS service following a newly discovered security hole and I have had to adapt O2mms to work with the new service... why has it taken so long I hear you ask?  Well first the non-techie explanation; I've taken advantage of the O2 downtime to re-write the ... http://www.iross.net/blog/2008/07/30/o2mms-the-delay/ I've upgraded this site to the latest version of Wordpress, and in typical Ross-tradition, didn't do it properly and as such have broken some pages and lost all the comments... ah well... will try and restore them in the not too distant future :) http://www.iross.net/blog/2008/07/22/wordpress-upgrade/ Seriously Apple, you can do better than this. Having tried to upgrade my .mac account to a MobileMe Family Pack account I noticed this rather unusual error at the top of the page... "Server Error: CreditCard Auth Successful" - how can a Successful auth be an error? Contacted my bank and ... http://www.iross.net/blog/2008/07/21/server-error-creditcard-auth-successful/ It seems that O2's legacy MMS platform doesn't implement even the basic security my own service did... use of security through obscurity techniques surely is not an appropriate way to protect private images sent to O2 customers by MMS. Ironically, my own o2mms webapp thrown together in a week or so ... http://www.iross.net/blog/2008/07/20/o2-mms/ MobileMe is an excellent service, but has been criticised by a few for not implementing true 'push' functionality when you make changes on your mac ... e.g. if you add a new appointment in iCal, it could take up to 15 mins to update your MobileMe account (and therefore your ... http://www.iross.net/blog/2008/07/13/mobileme-push-from-mac/ Well the iPhone 3G is here, as is version 2.0 of the iPhone firmware in the hands of the masses. At the moment my popular O2MMS application is still a web-app with no immediate plans to bring it to the app store until it can offer something that the web app ... http://www.iross.net/blog/2008/07/12/iphone-web-apps-fullscreen-no/ Firstly, sorry for the lack of updates ... been busy :( Secondly if you normally use my mac.com address to contact me it currently does not work as (a) it has expired, (b) due to Apple's 'migration' to MobileMe I appear to be completely unable to renew it!!! http://www.iross.net/blog/2008/07/10/not-so-mobileme/ I was asked recently by someone to investigate the security offered by obfuscation scripts such as the one at http://www.rightscripts.com/phpencode (also available as a paid-for download) Obviously anything which relies on PHP itself to 'encode' the script, must have the means of decryption built into the script - if it ... http://www.iross.net/blog/2008/06/05/encrypt-obfuscate-php-pointless/