Friday, April 18th 2008


Configuring your iPhone for T-Mobile
posted @ 10:20 am in [ Fixing Things -iPhone -Mobile -Technology ]

My iPhone is on T-Mobile as the ex-owner wanted to keep the O2 number that came with it, and I have a corporate account with T-Mobile.

All works nicely, but obviously you want to configure your T-Mobile account to mimick the default iPhone account that it originally came with, so here’s what you need.

1. T-Mobile Web & Walk

You need to add the very reasonable £7.99 package to your account and wait a few hours for it to be activated, then you get up to a Gig of data a month (I believe) to play with.

2. Configure the EDGE settings on your iPhone

Settings -> General -> Network – EDGE

APN = general.t-mobile.eu
Username = user
Password = pass

et voila – off browsing we go when we’re away from the wireless network!



Thursday, April 10th 2008


More Media Temple D/V: Installing YUM (Yellow dog Updater, Modified)
posted @ 7:08 am in [ Media Temple -Technology -Web Design ]

I know I said below that you can just Google how to do this, but then I had to do it again today on a client’s server, and actually nobody has the correct instructions for the 4.5 version of CentOS that is installed on Media Temple Dedicated Virtual servers (D/V) by default.

So, the basic principle is that YUM needs sqlite, the sqlite libraries for python, a few other python things like elementtree and urlgrabber and then YUM itself. Grab the libraries you want from the CentOS vault and then install them (you need to get your root password for this – control panel request the lovely people at M/T if you don’t have it) and the rest should be easy….

export MIRROR=http://vault.centos.org/4.5/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/
wget ${MIRROR}python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.1.i386.rpm
wget ${MIRROR}sqlite-3.3.6-2.i386.rpm
wget ${MIRROR}python-urlgrabber-2.9.8-2.noarch.rpm
wget ${MIRROR}python-elementtree-1.2.6-5.el4.centos.i386.rpm
wget ${MIRROR}yum-2.4.3-3.el4.centos.noarch.rpm
wget ${MIRROR}libxml2-python-2.6.16-10.i386.rpm
wget ${MIRROR}rpm-python-4.3.3-22_nonptl.i386.rpm

rpm -Uvh python-elementtree-1.2.6-5.el4.centos.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh python-urlgrabber-2.9.8-2.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh sqlite-3.3.6-2.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.1.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh rpm-python-4.3.3-22_nonptl.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh libxml2-python-2.6.16-10.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh yum-2.4.3-3.el4.centos.noarch.rpm

Bing! YUM ready to roll and add all those other things you need (for us were installing MySQL 5 so that we can have VIEWs :-))