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symbian stuff

installing unsigned software on s60 3

  1. point your device to the “Application Manager” and open it
  2. click the left soft key to open the options menu
  3. from the list choose the point “Settings”
  4. switch the option “Software Installation” to “All”
  5. switch the option “Online certif. check” to “Off”

courtesy of http://www.bestofsymbian.com/install-unsigned-applications-symbian-s60-3rd/

And how to truly get around the systems

Run Y-xplore.
Go to C: Try to access c:sys . . . It should do nothing.
DO NOT CLOSE Y-explore.
Run HelloCarbide press Options: Menu1: you will see ‘Done…probably’, Click Yes and then it will crash.
Switch to Y-explore.
Try again to access c:sys
It should work.
Now copy installserver.exe to c:sys/bin/
You need to restart your phone.
Now you can install any ‘Unsigned’ app without signing.
If you want continued access to hidden folders then install Modo.sis.
Do the hack, again.
Use X-plore to open Sys.zip then extract Sys folder to c:
When asked to overwrite click yes.
Reboot phone.
Now you can use Modo from Leftup folder in menu to view hidden folders.

In defence of Jenn Stuczynki’s coach

 

ESPN – ESPN The Magazine

Proving, once again that journalists and television and ratings and the blogosphere make for an unholy alliance, I present the interview with Jenn in ESPN magazine. As a reminder to myself and the rest of us watching live events on television, that the truth is always more interesting that the story we think we saw…

The original tale, blogged by yours truly, was the following

After Stuczynski missed her final attempt at 4.90 meters, the camera followed her to Suhr’s spot in the stands. NBC captured the following remarks from a surly sounding Suhr, who was talking to her while text-messaging:

"(It’s) the same old same old. You’re losing take-off at the big heights. What are you gonna do. You gotta learn to keep take-off. You got9you got caught at that meat grinder. I did not—and I told 10 people—I did not want to be caught in a meat grinder between 65 and 80. You had to, though.You weren’t on, you know, your warm-up didn’t go well, you were 55, you got caught up in that meat grinder. What are you gonna do. What are you gonna do. You didn’t have the legs. Her legs are fresh. Hey, it’s a silver medal.
Not bad for someone who’s been pole vaulting for four years."

As Stuczynski turned around, she had a hollow, downcast look, as if she’d been upbraided.

So folks like myself were stunned. He had just ripped her to shreds…

But there is, as always, more to the story:

What they didn’t see, she said, was what prompted Suhr’s monologue. "I went over and I asked, What did I do wrong?" Stuczynski said. "And he said what he said, and it’s the truth. And I didn’t have a mike, and they didn’t hear it and they didn’t play it."

Moreover, she says, Suhr was texting his 13-year-old son in the States to inform him of the silver medal.

So what about the cold "meat-grinder" remarks? "When I started the meet, I was off, so I had to come in earlier, so I could get in a rhythm," she says.

Those early jumps came in a part of the meet where the most competitors are jumping from 4.70 to 4.85. "It’s the part of the meet that takes the longest, and we call it the meat grinder because it wears you out because you have to jump so many times. Because I was off, I had to jump those heights to ensure a silver medal."

But what about her reaction? Stuczynski explained that she’d had problems on takeoff at her previous meet in London. She suspected she’d repeated the same mistakes, and when Suhr confirmed it, she says, "I was discouraged with myself. It bothered me that I didn’t jump to my potential. It wasn’t anything he said. But people took that, and all of a sudden he’s a bad coach, and I need to find another coach."

And the downcast glare? "There were all these things on the ground that I didn’t want to trip over," she says, including the railway for NBC’s moving trackside camera.

Finally Jenn, defends her coach:

Stuczynski says Suhr did only what she expects him to do. "What he said to me is nothing that made me sad," she says. "I’m a 26-year-old professional athlete. I ask him to be fair coach. I don’t ask him to be a cheerleader. I want you to tell me when I jump good, and I want you to tell me when I jump bad` I think a lot of people don’t understand that this is my job. This is what I do for a living, and I have to be good at it, and I have to get better at it. And we celebrated it. But at that moment, I wanted to know why I didn’t make that bar."

When the Internet storm erupted, Stuczynski felt powerless, and a little hopeless. She says Suhr has received countless angry emails from people who think they’re protecting her. Meanwhile, her family and her coach’s family have heard comments about whether the coach went too far, and wondering why Stuczynski is putting up with a guy who couldn’t even say congratulations.

But she, her coach and her parents went out to dinner after the competition and celebrated. "And people don’t hear the things he says leading up to the meet, or the texts he sent me all week saying, We can do this, you know? That’s what’s so frustrating."

The quote, out of context, is still one of the funniest things I have ever seen, but in context is just a private conversation between two people.

The moral of the story, don’t let a camera catch you while  you are having a private conversation.

Worst Pep-talk to a surprise silver medalist ever

So the American pole vaulter, Jenn Stuczynski, has just won the silver medal. She runs to her coach to get his reaction.

He looks up, irritated because he was using his blackberry, and says:

The same old, same old your losing takeoff at the big heights

what are you going to do. you gotta learn to keep takeoff.

You got caught in that meat grinder, I told ten people, I did not want to get caught in that meat grinder

Between 65-80. You had to, though.  You weren’t on.

What are you going to do? What are you going to do? You didn’t have the legs, her legs are fresh

Hey it’s a silver medal, not bad for someone who has been pole vaulting for 4 years.

Looks at her, shrugs and goes back to using his blackberry

Announcer says:

Am I missing something Dwight, didn’t she just win a silver medal beaten only by the current world record holder? Where was the joy…

The tone of it was accusatory. Not appropriate.

Gia tin Ellada, re gamoto

Watching the Olympics I was reminded of Voula Patoulidou’s race in 1992.

For over 80 years, no Greek had won a gold medal in track and field.

I remember because I didn’t actually see the race. I mean, she was a Greek sprinter. Greek sprinters don’t win races. Greek athletes choke on the biggest stages. So I got up and started to walk along the beach in Kamari … and then I heard the cheering, the ecstatic cheering.

A lot of American tourists,  I thought. But then I noticed some friends of mine, and they were cheering. So I went up to look, and there it was, Voula Patoulidou had won gold. She had won the gold medal!

I didn’t believe it. I couldn’t believe it. A mistake. It must have been a mistake.

But that was not what made her a legend.

No it was 20 to 30 minutes later when the Greek press was trying to interview her, trying to get her thoughts. And you could see how unbelievably happy she was. She was, literally bouncing off the walls, trying to digest what happened. She was screaming incoherently, trying to say something. And then she grabbed her husband (?) and said the phrase that made her a legend:

Gia tin Ellada, re gamoto!

Which literally means "For Greece damnit", but some things can not be translated.  She was looking at the eighty years of failure, of misery, of futility,  of Greeks convinced that winning was something other peoples do and said:

Damnit, we too, we Greeks can win.

It’s Phelpsian

 AFP PHOTO/Timothy CLARY (L), AFP PHOTO/FILES (R)

 

Right after Michael Phelps won the 8th gold medal, Visa ran an ad congratulating him.

Morgan Freeman in the Visa ad, tried to come up with an adjective to describe what 8 gold medals mean.

And so he said

Well if one gold medal is great and two is incredible, and three is unbelievable, then well, eight is … we’ll have to come up with a way to describe it.

Maybe Phelps teammate came up with the right phrase:

It’s Phelpsian!

Andrea Kremer and Natalie Coughlin

Andrea Kremer interviews Natalie Coughlin after a backstroke heat where Natalie was once again unable to keep a straight line:

Andrea: So are you having troubles keeping a line because of the ceiling (I mean every other woman in the heat was not weaving like a drunk sailor)

Natalie; It’s something I working on, I guess

Andrea: (why can’t you focus like a serious athlete): Oh.