I don’t know why I thought to do this especially since I think taking pictures on a cell phone is relatively stupid; however, I had the parts laying around and figured, “Why don’t I just see what that looks like?”

Supplies

  • Disposable Camera: $0.00 (ask your grocery store for an empty one)
  • iPhone: $0.00 (fell off truck)
  • iPhone Soft-case (mine is an Incipio and it fell off the same truck)

Instructions

  1. Disassemble the camera and salvage the len(s) without zapping yourself. If you really want, you can zap yourself because some people like that … you freaks.
  2. Put the lens inside the soft-case
  3. Put your iPhone in the soft-case
  4. Take macro pictures at a glorious 2.0 megapixels

Update: After writing this, I actually took the time to see if I was original as I though did a quick search at instructables.com. Turns out, I’m not that creative: Cheap iphone macro lens for barcode scanning

Posted by Wyatt on 31 March 2009 at 11:26 pm under General, Technology.
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OK, so this went painfully … very painfully. Let me reiterate … I flipping HATE H-Sphere and refused to pay $70+ for a service incident that shouldn’t happen because their crew didn’t do their homework with testing and didn’t provide a “here’s what to do if things go wrong” section.

Followed the instructions here.

Did a cpupdate and received this error:

> Temporary directory = [ /var/hsphere/update/U31.0.18078 ]
> Current directory === [ /root ]
> Extracting …
=================================================================
+ UPDATE TO U31.0 2008-06-28.12:03
=================================================================
/var/hsphere/update/U31.0.18078
+ Executing …
########################################
=================================================================
+ COMMAND=’cpupdate’
=================================================================

__ Update physical boxes.
|
|– Current CP version: 3.0.828
|– Current CP Postgres version: 7.4.19.
|
|– Update of CP box started.
| |– Install local package updater.
| |– Update cp box related software.
| | |– Sat Jun 28 12:03:27 EDT 2008
| | |– Downloading pkglist (64.131.90.141).
| | | |– 100% 88,482 –.–K/s
| | | `– Downloaded pkglist.
| | |– Downloading subpkglist (64.131.90.141).
| | | |– 100% 4,700 –.–K/s
| | | `– Downloaded subpkglist.
| | |
| | |– Identifying required packages.
| | |– OS: CentOS release 4.6 (Final).
| | |– Perl version: 5.8.5.
| | |– CP Postgres version: 7.4.19.
| | |– Downloading hsphere-info-1-14.rpm (64.131.90.141).
| | | |– 100% 93,483 334.84K/s
| | | `– Downloaded hsphere-info-1-14.rpm.
| | |– Installing hsphere-info-1-14 package.
| | | |– Checked system configuration files.
| | | |– Formed ips and interface files.
| | | |– Additional MANPATH entries checked.
| | | |– TimeZone files checked.
| | | |– H-Sphere related cron tasks added.
| | |– Downloading hsphere-utils-1-8.rpm (64.131.90.141).
| | | |– 100% 2,163,621 3.48M/s
| | | `– Downloaded hsphere-utils-1-8.rpm.
| | |– Installing hsphere-utils-1-8 package.
| | | `–Installing hsphere-utils-1-8 package.
| | |
| | |– Check whether logical servers are completely configured.
| | | |– List of identified logical servers: dns, cp.
| | | `– Check whether logical servers are completely configured.
| | |
| | |– Check required system packages.
| | | `– Check required system packages.
| | |
| | |– Check/download pre-install hsphere core package list.
| | | |– Downloading hsphere-sudo-1.6.9p14-1.rpm (64.131.90.141).
| | | | |– 100% 131,287 –.–K/s
| | | | `– Downloaded hsphere-sudo-1.6.9p14-1.rpm.
| | | |– hsphere-script-runner-1-10.rpm with the same md5sum exist.
| | | |– hsphere-oscommerce-2.2ms2-3.rpm with the same md5sum exist.
| | | |– hsphere-phpBB-2.0.22-1.rpm with the same md5sum exist.
| | | |– hsphere-jdk-1.5.0-13.rpm with the same md5sum exist.
| | | |– Downloading hsphere-cpanel-javart-3.1-904.rpm (64.131.90.141).
| | | | |– 100% 24,017,794 2.10M/s ETA 00:00
| | | | `– Downloaded hsphere-cpanel-javart-3.1-904.rpm.
| | | |– Downloading hsphere-jakarta-6.0.14-0.rpm (64.131.90.141).
| | | | |– 100% 4,794,818 4.46M/s
| | | | `– Downloaded hsphere-jakarta-6.0.14-0.rpm.
| | | |– Downloading hsphere-cpanel-apache2-2.2.8-2.rpm (64.131.90.141).
| | | | |– 100% 2,107,508 2.75M/s
| | | | `– Downloaded hsphere-cpanel-apache2-2.2.8-2.rpm.
| | | |– Downloading hsphere-core-3.1-904.rpm (64.131.90.141).
| | | | |– 100% 12,229,070 3.62M/s ETA 00:00
| | | | `– Downloaded hsphere-core-3.1-904.rpm.
| | | |– hsphere-aspell-0.60.3-1.rpm with the same md5sum exist.
| | | |– hsphere-oscommerce-2.2ms2-3.rpm with the same md5sum exist.
| | | |– hsphere-phpBB-2.0.22-1.rpm with the same md5sum exist.
| | | |– postgresql-libs-7.4.19-1.rpm with the same md5sum exist.
| | | |– postgresql-7.4.19-1.rpm with the same md5sum exist.
| | | |– postgresql-server-7.4.19-1.rpm with the same md5sum exist.
| | | |– postgresql-contrib-7.4.19-1.rpm with the same md5sum exist.
| | | |– Downloading hsphere-config-pgsql-1.1-5.rpm (64.131.90.141).
| | | | |– 100% 10,185 –.–K/s
| | | | `– Downloaded hsphere-config-pgsql-1.1-5.rpm.
| | | |– hsphere-sudo-1.6.9p14-1.rpm with the same md5sum exist.
| | | |– hsphere-script-runner-1-10.rpm with the same md5sum exist.
| | | `– Check/download pre-install hsphere core package list.
| | |
| | |– Check presence of the deprecated hsphere packages.
| | | `– Check presence of the deprecated hsphere packages.
| | |
| | |– Deleting deprecated hsphere packages.
| | | |– Deleting hsphere-apache-1.3.37-6 package.
| | | | `– hsphere-apache-1.3.37-6 package deleted.
| | | |– Deleting hsphere-cpanel-apache-1.3.41-1 package.
| | | | `– hsphere-cpanel-apache-1.3.41-1 package deleted.
| | | |– Deleting hsphere-php4-4.4.4-2 package.
| | | | `– hsphere-php4-4.4.4-2 package deleted (nodeps).
| | | |– Deleting hsphere-php4-plugins-4.4.4-2 package.
| | | | `– hsphere-php4-plugins-4.4.4-2 package deleted.
| | | |– Deleting hsphere-php5-5.2.0-1 package.
| | | | `– hsphere-php5-5.2.0-1 package deleted (nodeps).
| | | |– Deleting hsphere-php5-plugins-5.2.0-1 package.
| | | | `– hsphere-php5-plugins-5.2.0-1 package deleted.
| | | `– Deleting deprecated hsphere packages.
| | |
| | |– Check/Installing pre-install hsphere core package list.
| | | |– Deleting hsphere-sudo-1.6.9p6-1 package.
| | | | `– hsphere-sudo-1.6.9p6-1 package deleted (nodeps).
| | | |– Installing hsphere-sudo-1.6.9p14-1 package.
| | | | `–Installing hsphere-sudo-1.6.9p14-1 package.
| | | |– Deleting hsphere-cpanel-javart-3.0-828 package.
| | | | `– hsphere-cpanel-javart-3.0-828 package deleted.
| | | |– Installing hsphere-cpanel-javart-3.1-904 package.
| | | | |– removing redundant jar files
| | | | `–Installing hsphere-cpanel-javart-3.1-904 package.
| | | |– Deleting hsphere-jakarta-5.5.16-0 package.
| | | | `– hsphere-jakarta-5.5.16-0 package deleted (nodeps).
| | | |– Installing hsphere-jakarta-6.0.14-0 package.
| | | | |– Existing cpanel user changed.
| | | | |– *** Conversion has not been done. ***
| | | | `–Installing hsphere-jakarta-6.0.14-0 package.
| | | |– Installing hsphere-cpanel-apache2-2.2.8-2 package.
| | | | |– Temporary certificate assigned self-signed CA Certificate created.
| | | | |– Cpanel apache started.
| | | | `– hsphere-cpanel-apache2-2.2.8-2 package installed.
| | | |– Deleting hsphere-core-3.0-828 package.
| | | | `– hsphere-core-3.0-828 package deleted.
| | | |– Installing hsphere-core-3.1-904 package.
| | | | |– Existing cpanel user changed.
| | | | |– Existing cpanel user changed.
| | | | `–Installing hsphere-core-3.1-904 package.
| | | |– Deleting postgresql-libs-7.4.19-1.el4_6.1 package.
| | | | `– postgresql-libs-7.4.19-1.el4_6.1 package deleted (nodeps).
| | | |– Deleting postgresql-7.4.19-1.el4_6.1 package.
| | | | `– postgresql-7.4.19-1.el4_6.1 package deleted (nodeps).
| | | |– Deleting postgresql-server-7.4.19-1.el4_6.1 package.
| | | | `– postgresql-server-7.4.19-1.el4_6.1 package deleted (nodeps).
| | | |– Deleting postgresql-contrib-7.4.19-1.el4_6.1 package.
| | | | `– postgresql-contrib-7.4.19-1.el4_6.1 package deleted.
| | | |– Deleting hsphere-config-pgsql-1.1-4 package.
| | | | `– hsphere-config-pgsql-1.1-4 package deleted.
| | | |– Installing hsphere-config-pgsql-1.1-5 package.
| | | | |– **** Can not find startup file.
| | | | `– hsphere-config-pgsql-1.1-5 package installed.
| | | |– Deleting hsphere-sudo-1.6.9p6-1 package.
| | | | `– *** hsphere-sudo-1.6.9p6-1 package deletion error! For more details see /hsphere/pkg/updates/U31.0//U31.0/update_28.06.08_12_03.log file (209.173.159.100) ***
| | |
| | |– Sat Jun 28 12:07:21 EDT 2008 (update time: 3 min, 54 sec)
| | `– *** Update cp box related software problems ***.
=================================================================
+ COMMAND=’cpupdate’
=================================================================

__ Update physical boxes.
|
|– Current CP version: 3.1.904
`– *** CP Postgres version: authentication access problem! ***
=================================================================
+ COMMAND=’x’
=================================================================
+ Cleaning …
+ Finished

Well, that didn’t work, so lets just try it again:

=================================================================
+ COMMAND=’cpupdate’
=================================================================

__ Update physical boxes.
|
|– Current CP version: 3.1.904
`– *** CP Postgres version: authentication access problem! ***
=================================================================
+ COMMAND=’x’
=================================================================
+ Cleaning …
+ Finished

Unfortunately, searching the Internet and H-Sphere’s site turned up nothing helpful on the issue except this thread … which didn’t match my situation and didn’t have anything in it except telling me to buy a new support request.

So since I refuse to pay for something I’ve already paid for, here’s the solution to fix it for the rest of you:

rpm -qa |grep postgresql |xargs rpm -e –nodeps
rpm -Uvh /hsphere/pkg/postgresql*19*.rpm
rpm -Uvh –force /hsphere/pkg/hsphere-config-pgsql-1.1-5.rpm

Then back into the H-Sphere updater:

sh /hsphere/U31.0
cpupdate

And the peasants rejoice … until they try to SSH in. The stupid jaild package that’s provided is busted in so may ways. The easiest solution is to just edit /etc/passwd to a real shell location; however, you’ll give up security to make this happen so I’ll leave the choice to you.

Update 07/12/2008:
Fixed the jaild issue. Apparently, when you do the update, if ANY user is logged in and has an actively running process (yes, I tried it multiple ways) … the jail setup fails oddly and doesn’t allow ANY user to log into the system. The solution? Boot all the users off the box:

/etc/init.d/sshd stop
killall sshd

Reconfig the jaild:

/hsphere/local/config/jail/scripts/config_jail

H-sphere’s attempt here

Posted by Wyatt on 28 June 2008 at 12:17 pm under Rants.
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