Monthly Archives: November 2010
Apple TV Jailbroken with Pwnage Tool 4.1
Finally, I have managed to get my Apple TV jailbroken -
I tried everything on Windows to get it working and read up somewhere the limra1n was meant to be able to successfully jailbreak Apple TV. This wasn’t the case and found myself stuck with a nice sized hocky puck! Stuck in restore mode, quick flick back into iTunes and restored and we were back to square one.
So eventually I did the following….
Jailbreak Apple TV 2G running on iOS 4.1 with PwnageTool 4.1 for Mac
1. Start PwnageTool 4.1 and select Apple TV 2G model as shown in the screenshot below.
2. PwnageTool will now automatically detect the correct firmware for your Apple TV.
3. Click on Yes when you see any pop-up message.
4. Now PwnageTool will create the custom IPSW file for your Apple TV 2G which will be jailbroken.
5. Now its time to put the Apple TV into DFU mode. follow the steps to enter DFU mode:
- Connect your Apple TV with your Computer via microUSB.
- Now reboot your Apple TV by holding down Menu + Down buttons together for around 6 seconds.
- After reboot, immediately hold Menu + Play until you see the message in iTunes saying that Apple TV in recovery mode is detected.
6. Once your Apple TV 2G in DFU mode, next step is to restore your Apple TV 2G to the custom firmware 4.1 file.
7. Start iTunes, Hold down Option/Alt key on keyboard and click the Restore button in iTunes.
8. Now, go to the location for your custom firmware 4.1 file, Select the custom .ipsw file and click on Open.
9. Now sit back and just wait while iTunes installs the new firmware 4.1 on your Apple TV 2G. After the installation is done, your Apple TV 2G will restart automatically.
Than you should now have a jailbroken Apple TV with full root access, running on iOS 4.1.
VBS script to get a remote computer’s serial number
I had a task to do at the office the other day of getting Asset information, I got the companies asset details no problem, but when it came to getting the serial number… well I forgot, not a very good start to see the least to say I had to travel 270 miles to the office.
I had a quick search on the net and finally came across this script:
ComputerName = InputBox(“Machine Name To Query”)
winmgmt1 = “winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!//”& ComputerName &”"
Set SerialN = GetObject( winmgmt1 ).InstancesOf (“Win32_BIOS”)For each Serial in SerialN
MsgBox “Serial Number: ” & Serial.SerialNumber
Next
How to use:
1) Fire up Notepad
2) Paste the above into it
3) Save the file with the extension .VBS
4) Double click
5) Enter the remote computer name
6) Voila the serial number will appear
Something so simple, saved me a lot of time / miles and fuel!
Hope it helps for you!