Life is the process which gives Entropy a new name...

Sort of. Or don't you remember your mother always telling you "go and clean up your room" which nearly automatically triggered the "but mum, ...." defence-line.

Most of the times, I have to admit now, and seeing it with my own boy: Moms have a very high proficiency of Pragmatic Entropy Estimation - as soon as the threshold is reached, the inrefutable fight with the second law of thermodynamics has to begin. They just can not help it. Fulstop.

And very right so. Although my attourney would argue, that I had a very small room with a foldable bed (folding up along the narrow side) - which left not a lot of room to play when it was down. So it would not matter, what was on the floor - it was invisible in the evening - thus inexistant. In the course of years I thus became a master in the art of building my lego worlds with the bed up, so that I would still be able to step, while moving it down. The tricky part was not to get any pieces underneath the metal feet - or they were terminally doomed.

Then after moving out, I practiced and achieved quiet a proficiency of building analogue and digital swap files: Basements of friends with boxes, attics of the family full of suitcases & bags, also garages were nice to store the treasures hunted on long quests for the old and forsaken.

This could have gone on forever, I should have lived merrily since, BUT:

My dear administrator told me today to "go and clean up your home directory" :
"In future you will only be allowed 1 GB, I expect you to do something and reach < 40 GB by 3rd of March, and currently you have 74 GB".

OUTCH! This really does hurt.

It is ok, that I should clean up - since 2 Siemens Lifebook HDs crashed on me in consecutive years, just before final milestones, I - always short in spare time at work - just shuffle the main folders over the fence to the server. And stuff really starts to pile up ;-)

If you are working for a modern TIMES company, I would have expected:

a) a decent central backup facility, and the admin forcing me at gunpoint, not only to encrypt, but also to backup my bloody laptop (thinkpad, that is, no problems at all since I switched from Siemens - and that is nearly 2 years ago now. "Quite good for an Windows system" the mac user says.)

b) sufficient online disk space to backup all my important project and administrative files of my laptop, not just my phone!!!!!

*left fist in the air* Free online terrabytes to the people!!!

I say.

The hare and the turtoise ... (updated)

Today is quite a day in mobile telecommunication:

Not only because rumors have it, that the iPhone will be locked to German T-Mobile. Or, as the birds sing, that the telco is even said to be paying a percentage of their revenues generated with the iPhone back to Apple Inc - to have it exclusively.

This will be sending T-Mobile strongest competitor in Europe, Vodafone, to stand in the corner and grind their teeth. Meanwhile the Nokias might be sticking their thumbs up their arses: The successful launch does bother them, no matter what they say.

But Nope. That acutally is quite boring.

George Hotz - is our hero today:
He wrestled down the SIM lock of the iPhone - chapeau!
And he will not wring financial profit from his genuine knowledge - and leave for college. A name to remember and watch in the future. May the road rise with you!

*sob*: ... and who knows, maybe one day, there will be an iPhone haunted by greenish ghost of its ancestor.
Update: 25th of August (13:15 CEST):

George keeps his first unlocked iPhone and sells the second one on ebay. If people are really willing to pay 50K$ ... he will have a nice pack of cash in the pocket ;-)

And as the world turns, the software unlock is announced. Engadget.com confirms "with 100% certainty that iPhoneSIMfree.com's software solution completely SIM unlocks the iPhone, is restore-resistant, and should make the iPhone fully functional for users outside of the US."

But unlike George, this other Team tries to hit it big - and set off some serious business: Currentl they are opening up their "mail for bulk purchase enquiries of 500 licenses and above. Interested parties please Contact Us." We shall soon find out what their pricing scheme looks like, when they hit the market with individual licences.

It seems, that the hype of the iPhone and the craving of people for it (the enormous demand) - did once, again prove the innovative and creative force in human individuals. Nice little showcase for how capitalism & people work.

SALES:
Individual per unit licenses will be available starting next week. We are currently opening up our mail for bulk purchase enquiries of 500 licenses and above. Interested parties please Contact Us.

UPDATE September 4t 2007:
George pulled back the ebay offer, caught the attention of a second hand phone dealer, who offered to swap the hacked iPhone for a new Nissan 350Z plus 3 brandnew iPhones. Which they did .