After a fews days of experimentation, I have a workable recipe for using Einstein with the 770. There is work that remains to be done to Einstein, but it does run, just slowly and it is buggy. This is not ready to be a production Newton yet. First there are some things I’m assuming you…
Monthly Archives: January 2006
A new Era Dawns
NewtOS/Einstein works on the 770! This is developing, but it works at this point, once you disable the kernel-watchdog and kill Matchbox to free up enough RAM for Einstein to launch. I’ll post a more detailed receipe of what I did later today, when I get some free time. Screenshots: Photos of Newton Booting on…
Will the 770 be the next Newton?
This past week, at the 2006 World Wide Newton Conference mastermind Paul Guyot introduced to the world the next step in his Newton emulation environment, Einstein + Relativity. Paul has had the Newton running (emulated) on the Mac for a couple of years. Now he has built it for ARM based Linux devices. Mmmmm…. I…
Cold Reset HP JetDirect
I’ve had a HP 2300 laser printer for a while, and it’s been the best printer I’ve ever had. The duplexing unit works perfectly. However, I didn’t spring for the networking option, as I had an external JetDirect, which I’ve been using. But then I saw the internal JD card on ebay for $20 (it…
770 Previous Post Redux
Some important updates on my past 770 posts. Swap If you are using .51 firmware and want to use swap, use 24 megs or less. I had problems using 128, then 64, then 32 megs. Finally Andy Flegg was able to tip me off that there is an issue with using anything over 32 megs…
Theming for the Syncing Apple
I’ve settled on Blix for now. I really like how it has its CSS layout- the first layout that actually made sense to me. I’ve modified it a bit to better fit into the SyncingApple style, and I’ll make further tweaks as time permits. I really love how it handles the code by wrapping long…
Apple BT Keyboard
I don’t quite know how to explain what I did (if anything- just investigating), but I have the Apple Bluetooth Keyboard working on my 770 (with the .51 firmware)- and it was insanely simple. I’ve been looking over the Linux – Bluez How-Tos for a few days, and trying this and that (including compiling the…
MarsEdit 1.1 is released
Don’t forget to grab 1.1 – it was just released yesterday and it is a welcome improvement…
Updated to WP2
So I felt bad about all the people who maybe were going to use IE no matter what, so I just upgraded to the new WordPress 2.0, and the new K2 theme from BinaryBonsai. So things are going to be in flux as I begin to mess with and screw up the CSS for this…
This Site on IE
I just realized that this site looks ghastly in IE. If you are using that browser please come back here using Firefox. It looks much nicer…
Busybox on the 770
Busybox is your gateway to exploring the 770. It’s called “The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux” for good reason. When you login to the 770 and use the CLI (or shell) what you are using is Busybox. Traditional Unix machines uses many small programs (most often the GNU toolset) for most common tasks. Almost…
Recovering from a Firmware Flash
So with new firmware images coming from Nokia (which is a good thing) you have to start to deal with picking up the pieces after a flash. The built in control panel ‘Backup’ does a questionable job – while it does seem to work, it also seems to have made my 770 totally wonky, and…
What Happened in .51?
Issues with 51 Ok, since I’ve flashed 51 onto my 770, all hell has broken loose. So far I’ve had these issues: News Reader won’t load (and it constantly refreshes) Sporadic reboots Out of Memory errors (I never had them before) Using swapon causes immediate out of memory and or reboot I had to finally…