Is your iPhone acting up? Yes it’s true, iPhones have problems too. But what can you do when it’s REALLY messed up? If iTunes doesn’t see your iPhone’s cry for help, you may need to invoke recovery mode. Although it’s an extremely helpful mode, how to get there isn’t very apparent. Read on for the how-to!
As arcane as “recovery mode” sounds, it’s actually very simple:
Disconnect your iPhone and turn it off by holding the “Sleep/Wake” button for about five seconds and then sliding the red slider. If your iPhone is already off, there’s no need to turn it on and then off again. Once it’s off, press and hold the “Home” button and plug your iPhone into a Mac or PC with iTunes installed. Keep holding the “Home” button until you see a dock cable pointing to the iTunes icon. iPhones running older software will display a yellow triangle and text which says “Please Connect to iTunes”. Once you see this image, you can release the Home button.
Open iTunes (if it’s not already open) and you will be told that “iTunes has detected an iPhone in recovery mode.” Click “OK” and you will be taken to the iPhone pane. Click “Restore” and you’re done, it’s that easy! Depending on the extent of your iPhone’s ills, it may take some time to do a full restore. Once you’re done, you should again have a perfectly working iPhone.
If this doesn’t solve your problem, you may need to restore using DFU (Direct Firmware Upgrade) mode. To enter this mode, plug in your iPhone and turn it off. Hold down the “Home” and “Sleep/Wake” buttons for about twelve seconds. You’ll briefly see the silver Apple logo and then your phone will appear to turn back off. Release the “Sleep/Wake” button but continue to hold the “Home” button until you see a message in iTunes stating that it has detected an iPhone in recovery mode. Choose “Restore” and you should be fixed right up!
If this doesn’t fix your problem, your iPhone may require a visit to the Genius Bar. You can find a local Apple Store and schedule an appointment at apple.com/retail.
At work i have just configured a nagios server to monitor all our windows and linux servers, below if the process i used to install configure and launch the service. ALso i would recommend nsclient++ for windows hooks to get all the enviromental information of the box
HOWTO instal Nagios:
- sudo apt-get install apache2
- sudo apt-get install build-essential
- sudo apt-get install libgd2-xpm-dev
- /usr/sbin/useradd -m nagios
- passwd nagios
- /usr/sbin/groupadd nagios
- /usr/sbin/usermod -G nagios nagios
- /usr/sbin/groupadd nagcmd
- /usr/sbin/usermod -a -G nagcmd nagios
- /usr/sbin/usermod -a -G nagcmd www-data
- mkdir ~/downloads
- cd ~/downloads
- wget http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nagios/nagios-3.0.6.tar.gz
- wget http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nagiosplug/nagios-plugins-1.4.11.tar.gz
- cd ~/downloads
- tar xzf nagios-3.0.6.tar.gz
- cd nagios-3.0.6
- ./configure –with-command-group=nagcmd
- make all
- make install
- make install-init
- make install-config
- make install-commandmode
*Don’t start Nagios yet – there’s still more that needs to be done…
- nano /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/contacts.cfg
* change email with your valid administrator contact
define contact{
contact_name nagiosadmin
use generic-contact
alias Nagios Admin
email [PUT YOUR ADDRESS HERE] ;
- make install-webconf
- htpasswd -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin
- /etc/init.d/apache2 reload
- cd ~/downloads
- tar xzf nagios-plugins-1.4.11.tar.gz
- cd nagios-plugins-1.4.11
- ./configure –with-nagios-user=nagios –with-nagios-group=nagios
- make
- make install
- /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
- /etc/init.d/nagios start
- apt-get install mailx
- nano /etc/apache2/conf.d/nagios.conf
ScriptAlias /xl/cgi-bin “/usr/local/nagios/sbin”
# SSLRequireSSL
Options ExecCGI
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
# Order deny,allow
# Deny from all
# Allow from 127.0.0.1
AuthName “Nagios Access”
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users
Require valid-user
Alias /xl “/usr/local/nagios/share”
# SSLRequireSSL
Options None
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
# Order deny,allow
# Deny from all
# Allow from 127.0.0.1
AuthName “Nagios Access”
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users
Require valid-user
#utuk membuat templates suatu device
- nano /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/templates.cfg
# Define a template for NodeB that we can reuse
define host{
name generic-nodeb ; The name of this host template
use generic-host ; Inherit default values from the generic-host template
check_period 24×7 ; By default, switches are monitored round the clock
check_interval 5 ; Switches are checked every 5 minutes
retry_interval 1 ; Schedule host check retries at 1 minute intervals
max_check_attempts 10 ; Check each switch 10 times (max)
check_command check-host-alive ; Default command to check if routers are “alive”
notification_period 24×7 ; Send notifications at any time
notification_interval 30 ; Resend notifications every 30 minutes
notification_options d,r ; Only send notifications for specific host states
contact_groups admins ; Notifications get sent to the admins by default
register 0 ; DONT REGISTER THIS – ITS JUST A TEMPLATE
}
- nano /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
# Definitions for monitoring a router/switch
cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/switch.cfg
- nano /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/switch.cfg
** Edit this with your network details **
Well i couldnt be bothered updating my site as my work life has kind of taken over my life, one thing this last week has tought me though is that i have much more in my life other than work. So i thought i would update my site and start using it again.
A few things have changed since my last posts but one thing that is cool is that i have just registered my original domain name kiddas.co.uk. This was on the back of a referral from dropcatcher and an old business partner of myself that caught the name then released it for me.
Many thanks, good to have my old original domain back after about 6 years!
Well ive got bored of the nissan skyline, after blowing 2 transmissions i have decided i need a smaller more robust project car. So normally a V6 is a good start but i like jap cars so ive gone and bought a V6 MIVEC FTO, what a fun little car this is, to date i have done nothing apart from dent the bootlid which was easily fixed.
Pics to follow
A Canadian man is complaining after he was left broken-hearted when his girlfriend broke up with him – because she found suggestive text messages on his mobile phone. The only problem was, he hadn’t written them; they came pre-loaded on the phone.
The Winnipeg man is calling for the phones to be recalled, after his girlfriend of two and a half years dumped him after finding text messages saying ‘Booty call,’ ‘Where u at,’ and ‘Be there soon’ stored on his phone.
The messages were generic texts that came pre-installed on the phone, a Samsung device from Virgin Mobile. The man, identified by the Winnipeg Free Press only as ‘Darren P’, says he didn’t even know they wee on there.
‘I said, “You’re being ridiculous.” She said, “No I’m not, here’s the proof,”‘ he told the Free Press.
He called Virgin Mobile to complain, and was told to file a written complaint. He also returned to the store where he bought the phone – where the staff were as surprised as he was to find the cheeky messages on the phone.
.’At first, we didn’t believe him,’ shop assistant Mike Ford told the newspaper. ‘But when we looked at a couple of the same phones he bought, and found they all had the same messages.’
Darren now wants the phones to be recalled and the messages removed, to prevent other from having ‘to go through the hell I’m going through.’
