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Decent condition black iPhone 4 32gb for sale. Has a few minor scratches, but perfectly functional and doesn't have any catastrophic dents or scratches.

I see I can sell on sites like envirofone or whatever for around 220 quid, but wondering whether I can get a little more!

Sorry for a hateful thread. Haters gonna hate!

Swap for an htc sensation?

I wouldn't swap for an HTC Sensation, I've heard they're shit and you should never get rid of your iPhone for one of them.

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Cunt

Ha

What's the matter with it tans?

Just dont like it mate, prefer the Iphone

Will do you a favour and swap it for a nice 3g

How old is it please?

I'm going to swap it for tans's Barry

December 11 so not very old

Think Barry's after my 3g tans, so you'd better sort the swap quick ;)

How old is your 3g

Can you remember the Sinclair ZX81?

I meant how old is it, to pericarp over his 4G! So, how old is it pericarp please?! :)

Oh

Yep

I don't get this iphone love in you can't do anything with em apart from what Apple says you can

It's that sort of age

You can of you jailbreak it ;)

I did all that with the 3g still not that impressed with it. Would have to hope they have improved since then

Exactly. It's why I use a Mac and hate Windows. I don't want to tweak shit and spend endless amounts of time configuring shit and fucking around making it work "just so". I just want my products to work, not interrupt me or get in my way, and to function faultlessly for the job they're intended. ;)

I just want to be able to do what I want with them, not what some company says I can do with them. If I want to install some custom firmware I want to be able to try it

I like to tinker, Apple doesn't want you to tinker

I know what you mean, I actualy used to do it to stuff simply because someone had decided I shouldn't. But, the fact it's a sandbox is probably one reason why they're popular.

I used to enjoy tinkering, but one day got fed up with the endless tweaking, reinstalling, reimaging and problems that can sometimes be caused. I now can't think of anything more undesirable on my computer/s and can't even contemplate doing it on my phone. Without meaning to sound too sanctimonious, I just like the fact my stuff runs flawlessly - I came over to the dark side and found it brighter!

I've been debating doing a what Samdy did and building my own NAS. I need a new one and want one that can transcode across my network, however, I think I'm just going to buy one off the shelf for the same reasons.

It just finished its 2 year contract!

It's not the 4S btw.

In order to do that you have to do the Apple equivalent of jailbreaking and then void your warranty.

So 2 years old, the battery is shot then yeah?! :)

I'm sort of the same. I want my phone and computer to just work, leaves me with more time to play with more important stuff like servers, virtualisation, networking and so on.

With regards to the NAS, have a look at the HP Micro Server. They cost about £250 but there is a seemingly permanent £100 cash back offer, so it works out about £150. Whilst the cpu is low spec and it's only got 2Gb ram / 250Gb hard drive, you can up the ram to 8Gb for £30 and it's got four drive bays (no optical drive though).

Get one then install the free VMware Hypervisor and install OpenFiler (available as a VMware appliance). You've now got your NAS and it will be able to run some extra OS's on top. I've got a copy of XP running on it solely for downloading, plus I've normally got a few web servers running on it for development purposes. Also got SBS 2011 running on it. Handles it all fine.

Not too sure, it's my sister's, she just got the Galaxy Note as an upgrade.

Battery might be a little dodgy, I'm not sure! Do they wear down that bad after 2 years?

Thanks, I will have a look. I suppose I can then install Twonky for transcoding across the network into my DNLA devices?

I was thinking about a QNAP or Synology, but I'm now starting to warm to a Netgear ReadyNAS. Although my first NAS was a Netgear and their "NAS" wouldn't work without disgusting amounts of bloatware - and they failed, lots - I've found they're now supposed to be very good. They supposedly offer a great form of raid, which has a lot of redundancy (I suppose that's the word for fall back in the case of drive failure?) and are reasonably priced. They can also transcode and support Time Machine, so despite my hatred, they do seem to tick all the boxes.

I have a hobby server in my lounge and running a server that also doubles as a NAS does hold some appeal.


No idea to be honest, but lithium ion batteries do have a limited shelf life. And no doubt Apple would rape me for changing something that you should be able to do yourself!

Never used Twonky, but from a quick read you'd just need to bring up a Linux virtual machine and run it on that. The VMware vSphere Hypervisor is just a virtualisor that allows you to run multiple OS's on a single server, except it runs directly on the hardware rather than under a host OS.

I've got a 4 bay Synology as well. They do a lot of stuff out of the box which is good if you can make use of it and they have iPhone apps which are very useful. Wouldn't use it (or any 3rd party NAS) for Time Machine though, mine kept getting trashed and I gave up on it eventually.

Surely all those VMs just take up resources though? And I thought you wanted an out-of-the-box solution, not something to tinker with ;)

Anway, you could just use something like FreeNAS or Nas4Free as your OS which will do all of that (except SBS 2011 of course). Pre-installed services include usual NAS stuff like SAMBA, Rsync, FTP, SSH etc. As for your extras, it can be used as a webserver, uPNP media server and there's also a torrent downloader in the latest version.

With it being nix based, it's very easy to add additional packages like jdownloader.

And Barry, both FreeNAS and N4F support hardware & software RAID and ZFS which will be all you need for data integrity purposes. It supports Time Machine too, but I've never used it.

No, I said I've got better things to do with my time than getting my mobile to work properly.

So how much does Barry make from this site?  :D

I did exactly the same a couple of weeks back...I quick like mine as it happens.

I would suggest actually doing this yourself. Or ask Pericarp to throw in one of his amazing USB charge things with it.