03.30.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 11:15 am by philwinder
Ive trying to unlock an old T610 without much sucess. All the SEMC software kept saying was:
“Connect to phone
ERROR: Phone not power up”
Love the use of English there. Well it turns out that you require a T28 Service Cable (or others), NOT a T28 Data Cable. I did not know there where two different cables. So all you have to do is mod the data cable to change it to a Service Cable. This can be done fairly simply, just look at this link.
Then the software works a dream, apart from I had to try it a few times to get it working.
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11.09.06
Posted in Uncategorized at 10:12 pm by philwinder
Just read a post here about muslims and I was compelled to post a reply, It went on for so long, I thought I might as well post it here too!
Damn thats a good article, It just caught my eye and im glad I read it. I fully agree with what Ziauddin is saying but when taking the danish pictures as an example, I would like to put my perspective accross.
Firstly, I am the first to admit that I do not know anything about Islam! Now this is not because I was/am ignorant, this is because I was brought up in a small east yorkshire town that didnt have 1 muslim living there.
Secondly, the expression “deliberate misconstruction of Islam” is greatly overemphisised. This article was presumably written as a more elequent version of protest to the danish cartoons. Since his (I say his, but for all I know, she could be a woman) argument was not to stereotype all muslims into a catagory where they hate everyone else, the above statement is essentially hypocritical. You ask why?
Well from my point of view (and I know that the cartoons where not directed at me) the cartoons are exactly what they are. CARTOONS!
He thinks this is a form of racism, and yes there definatly are people that are obviously wrong and downright discusting about racism, but this is most definatly not!
Its just someone having a laugh!!
For example, take a look at some recent british sarcastic comedy on TV. Pretty much all the comedy is based upon someone taking the mick out of someone else, be it against chavs, alcoholics, M.P’s jews, christians, catholics or yes, dare I say it, MUSLIMS!!
If a black american took the mick out of white people because they cant dance as well as we can, I wouldnt get offended, but, and heres the thing,
if someone wrote and I quote:
“Massacre those who malign the Prophet” or “Butcher those who mock Islam”
Then I WOULD and DO take offence.
The exact same argument sprung up between catholics and the Monty Python staff about 30 years ago. If you have seen any Monty python, you will understand. All that happened then was a few priests and ministors took to TV chat shows, and had a good old fasioned debate. The came to the conlusion that they where having a laugh!
These days, catholocism is still here and the Monty Pythons Life of Brian, (yes they really are saying that jesus was a coincinental fluke) is a classic!
Now, bear with me here, imagine that you are like me, like any other “normal” (debatable :D) white, christian/catholic/atheist living in a small market town with hills and cows and some cool new invention called the internet, and you first see a CARTOON (i stress the word cartoon) and then see
“Butcher those who mock Islam”
Which one appears to be more offensive?
So all these people living in this market town will now have some small irreprible predjudice that ALL muslims think this, not because they are angry, bad, rascist people, but because that is all they see.
To take another example, which is the other way round, was the world cup flag scandle. Thanks to a few muslim do-gooders, it got all over the news that all muslims where offended by putting british flags on their cars!! Do you know what I said when I heard that? “You have got to be kidding” because its natural and a lot of people leave it at that adding yet another prejudice, then I realised, pretty much all these muslim fella’s ARE british, and theyve probably got a flag in their bathroom saying “GO ENGLAND” (even though we know that they will undoubtedly loose :D)
Unfortunatly, we live in a world where bad news makes good news. You will never see a young muslim lad helping a white granny accross the street in the same way that you will never see a white lad helping a muslim granny.
So we have to confide in the fact that in the middle of all these not very nice people (I had to delete a swearword) there are a lot, and I mean a lot of normal, nice people and unfortunatly there are going to be people that go way over the top with their anti-offence morals (we call them do-gooders), so just chill, take a step back and concider all the good people that you have met and stop worrying, because at the end of the day, its not worth it.
SCUM wil always be SCUM, you can bleach it, but it will always come back.
Oh and by the way, just for the record I have no affiliation to any religion whatsoever. Muslim, hindi, christian? Whatever floats your boat.
Cheers,
Phil Winder
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