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I had an issue after upgrading where it kept saying my iPhone password had expired, even after I changed it 5 times. To resolve the issue I ended up removing the profile and setup the Exchange and wireless manually. I am not aware of a way to setup the VPN manually. There may be a new profile builder utility out that creates a profile compatible with iOS 4.

“As usual, Apple didn’t offer many specifics on its quarterly conference call with investors. But the company did hint that it has something really juicy to introduce before the end of September.

The tease came as Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s chief financial officer, explained why the company expects its gross profit margin to drop from 34.8 percent in the three months ended in June to 30 percent in the next quarter. One reason is a promotion that gives free iPods to students who buy new Macs. But another is “a future product transition, which I can’t discuss today.

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Apple is widely expected to be getting ready to refresh its line of notebook computers, and there is some speculation that it may introduce a new form factor of devices that are smaller than a laptop but larger than an iPhone.”

Article: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/21/an-itease-something-cool-and-cheap-from-apple/

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The Time Capsule sports a 500GB drive as standard and the upper scale model supports 1TB of backup storage. It supports the latest wireless draft 802.11n with wireless transfer speeds of 248 Mbit/s, which is faster than traditional 10/100 Mbit wired networks.

Additional Time Capsule features include:
• dual-band antennas for 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz frequencies;
• three Gigabit LAN ports;
• one Gigabit Ethernet WAN port;
• one USB 2.0 port;
• Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA/WPA-2), 128-bit WEP encryption; and
• a built-in NAT firewall supporting NAT-PMP for features like Back to My Mac.

The most trivial task is obtaining the software as it is currently in the testing phase and should be released in a more stable form any day. Fortunately I have a link for the test version. The other trivial task is soldering might be new to you as well. If you haven’t soldered before it’s really easy. Just make sure you practice with some old circuit boards you may have laying around before going at it on this mic.

Please be warned that tampering with your iPod using instructions referenced in this website will void your warranty. This website and it’s authors are in no way responsible for any damages incurred from modifying your iPod, proceed at your own risk!

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There is a video out showing the VoIP call in action. In case you don’t know VoIP, it’s a protocol that allows you to make a phone call over the Internet, which many use for cost savings. The iPod touch has Wi-Fi giving it Internet access so once you have the mic and custom software installed you can start making calls.

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Update-1: There is also a post out there to turn your iPod Touch and iPhone into a 3G phone here: http://www.pyrofersprojects.com/3gipod/3gipod.html.

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Here is roughly how the conversation goes:

Mike – How can I help you today?

Me – My wireless ain’t workin’.

Mike – OK, please explain.

Me – Well I’ve tried both D-Link DGL-4300 and ZyXEL P-334WT wireless routers, two separate manufacturers mind you, with my wife’s Macbook and my Macbook Pro using WPA-PSK encryption and about every so-often the wireless clients (Macs) disconnect. I then have to manually reconnect to my wireless router to regain an Internet connection.

Mike – Lets take a look and make sure you have all of the updates.

…I’ll skip the checking updates part. We confirmed I’m running the
latest and greatest Mac OS X 10.4.11…

Mike – You have all of the latest updates.

Me – It seems to me that when the WPA “ReAuthentication Timer” on my wireless router expires my Macbook Pro will not re-authenticate.

Mike – Let me do some research, can I put you on hold?

Me – Sure.

..3 minutes later…

Mike – Well it looks we have compatibility issues with other routers. How long is your WPA password?

Me – 16

Mike – Make it 13 and try again.

Me – 13? So no more, no less?

Mike – Yes exactly 13. If that does not work you will have to use WEP encryption.

Me – I don’t want to use WEP it’s insecure.

Mike – It should be pretty secure at 128-bit.

Me – No it is not secure! I can be cracked very easily, heck type “crack WEP encryption” in Google.

Mike – Ok well our airport clients [wireless network card in Macbook] don’t work well with other wireless routers besides our Apple Airport.

Me – There are standards in place most notably by WiFi Alliance that Apple should be following to avoid problems like this. Most if not all wireless router manufacturers follow these standards. Why is not Apple?

Mike Jobs – Sorry that’s just the way it is (in more words or less).

Me – That’s unacceptable and Apple is being proprietary [again] and to con everyone into buying an Airport wireless router instead of what they want is ridiculous.

Mike Jobs – Sorry that’s just the way it is (in more words or less) again.

Me – All I ask is that this be documented and sent to engineering.

Mike – I will create a case number and leave it open.

Nothing will probably come of this. But customers like myself can’t just give in, otherwise companies will walk all over them. I work hard to purchase the things I have and I want them to work properly damn-it!

Solutions

a) Piss away your money on an Apple Airport.

b) Change your WPA password to be no-less and no-more than 13 characters. (didn’t work for me)

c) Switch to 128-bit WEP encryption. (Too insecure)

d) Disable all encryption and use MAC address filtering (even more insecure than “c”)

e) Change to WPA2 encryption. – * WORKED FOR ME! * Luckily my router
has an option to support WPA and WPA2 simultaneously. So I went with that because I have some legacy wireless clients that do not support WPA2.

If anyone wants to know the Apple Support case number is 88582115.
The related Apple support thread is here.