A friend of mine has an “old” iBook G4 and was trying to get it to connect to her wireless network via Airport, however she couldn’t establish a connection, after trying to manually type IP details into the Network Preferences pain and having no luck, then renewing the DHCP details with no luck I thought id hit a brick wall.

The issue is an obvious one that only seems to affect 10.5.2 and the fix is very simple, its the firewall that is causing the issue. Within System Preferences under the Security section, tab to Firewall and set it too “Allow all incoming connections”, this will then magically fix the DHCP issue, now the internet connection is working it can be updated to the latest version of Leopard (10.5.8)

• New iPods (Nano, Touch)
• iTunes 9.0 (Social)
• Apple TV Update
• Steve Jobs to take the stage
• The Beetles available iTunes
• No Tablet (yet)

Will we see new iPods with cameras? How about iTunes 9 with some whiz-bang new social networking features?

iPhone update 3.0.1 is here and it addresses an SMS bug, if you’re on a jailbroken iPhone you probably want to update now and keep your applications/settings intact.

You can re-use redsn0w v0.8 we released a few weeks ago to jailbreak today’s 3.0.1 update. Just let iTunes update or restore you to official 3.0.1 then run redsn0w. The only “trick” is that when redsn0w asks you to identify the IPSW used, point it at the 3.0 IPSW instead of the 3.0.1 one. After the jailbreak, reinstall ultrasn0w 0.9 if you need the unlock.

1. Download aptbackup in Cydia this backs up a list of all the applications you have downloaded. Run the back up within aptbackup and then sync your iPhone to to iTunes (to backup within iTunes).
2. Update your firmware via iTunes. Once the installation is complete load up redsn0w.
3. When redsn0w asks for your IPSW browse and select the 3.0 firmware file (presuming you still have it on file, if not you can download it here)
4. Jailbreak.
5. Restore your applications using the aptbackup backup.

This is the method i’ve been using and it seems to work well.

I’m a Ruby on Rails ‘man’, but recently thanks to Warez-DnB I’ve increasingly been exposed to PHP. To make the built in Apache server on Leopard 10.5 PHP Ready follow these simple steps

1. Edit the httpd.conf file, at /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf
2. Edit the file (you can use Pico “sudo pico httpd.conf”) and search for LoadModule php5_module
3. Uncomment the line that says #LoadModule php5_module (Delete the #)
4. Save
5. Stop and start the web server in the control panel

When turning on web sharing on 10.5 I had an error message

Forbidden: 403 Error
You dont have permissions to access localhost/~juo

Strange I thought, the fix is pretty simple though.

1. Edit the httpd.conf file, at /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf
2. Edit the file (you can use Pico “sudo pico httpd.conf”) and search for <Directory />
3. Change the line that says Deny from all to Allow from all
4. Save
5. Stop and start the web server in the control panel