We had another puzzle at work again. How to manage all the JMX controls that the devlopers had nicely written for us using little tiny MBeans. Normally, the devs just ssh -X over to their tomcat instance and fire up the jmx console via X. This won’t scale out to 10’s of tomcat nodes. And…
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iPhone Compromise Reported
There is a lot of buzz regarding this article that was printed in the NYT this morning. ISE (Independent Security Evaluators) found that not only does every process run as root on the iPhone, the heap is executable. So they fuzzed mobileSafari till they found an overflow, which allowed them to execute any API call…
First non-Apple iPhone App – creeping closer to N770 hackability
The first ever non-apple application has been allegedly run on the iPhone. The people over at the iPhone DevWiki report. Watch out Nokia 770, soon the iPhone will be as hackable as you are! At least, some day it will. This user, Nightwatch is using his own arm toolchain, so this isn’t like we have…
Xen Domains, RHEL and Networking
At the office I’m deploying some new servers using Xen domains running under RHEL 5.0. We use RHEL 4.4 for our systems, and so re-deploying some of them as RHEL 4.5 (the Xen-kernel enabled version) Domains saves hardware space, money and keeps the server room cooler. Many dev servers are not utilized like production systems…
Next Internet Tablet to include Phone?
Nokia must be responding internally to the iPhone mania. The question is, will it be a more advanced smartphone, or a phone enabled internet tablet? Scoble asked around and only got some smiles. Can Nokia really continue to push the Internet Tablet line, sans phone, now that the iPhone has set the bar so high?…
iPhone vs N800 Quick Comparison
Apple iPhone: ARM CPU @ 667mhz [Samsung], 128Mb ram, 8GB Flash Nokia N800: ARM CPU @ 320mhz [TI], 128Mb ram, 256Mb Flash N800 has dual SD cards for more Flash, iPhone has no way to extend the 8Gb. N800 has a bigger screen, higher DPI but doesn’t have the light-touch touch-screen like the iPhone. I’d…
Building Open Einstein
Here are some more detailed instructions on getting Open Einstein built on MacOSX Intel, using the JAM complier and targeting the Nokia 770. I also built it for MacOSX, to run locally on my macbook. The published directions are here, and you should read them first and familiarize yourself with them. Install MacPorts * MacPorts-1.5.0-10.4.dmg…
Open Einstein booting on 770
After some trial and error, and some help from Paul G, I managed to build Open Einstein for both my Intel Mac and for my Nokia 770, using just my Macbook. I followed the directions to build at the Google Code site. I’ll have more explicit directions soon, but the code does build and run…
Nokia 800, N95, iPhone Browser Video Comparison
Update 06/17/07: Here is the link to the original post over at atmaspheric. The blog is worth reading. I found a cool video over at umpcportal.com, filmed by Jonathan Greene. He puts an iPhone, Nokia 800 and the N95 thru their paces while browsing the web. The video is nicely done and well narrated. It…
Asus Eee PC $250 Linux Laptop
$250, 16Gb flash drive, 512Mb RAM, 7″ LCD, 2 lb., full keyboard. Runs Linux. Has Firefox and Openoffice, Skype. 3 USB ports, VGA out, SD card reader, ethernet, wifi, webcam. Linux. On sale worldwide in August from Asus. Is this going to be a hit or what? I’ll pick one up for that. It’s less…
Newton ARM Emulation Goes Open Source
At the 2007 Worldwide Newton Conference in Tokyo on July 8th, Paul Guyot announced that his most excellent Newton Emulator for ARM, Einstein, was now open source and available immediately on Google Code. His announcement to the NewtonTalk mailing list is worth the read. One improvement that sounds enticing: “the heavy work done these past…
iPhone Development- Old School
There was immediate and critical response to Steve Job’s announcement of the SDK for iPhone…. use html. But is Apple on to something? Forcing eager developers to use the open standards of the web? Forsaking almightly Flash? No IDE? Apple seemed by many to be channeling the Reality Distortion Field at full blast. But the…
Size of iPhone vs Nokia 770
I took some pictures showing the size difference between the 770 and iPhone. iPhone is really is smaller than you’d first think. Unfortunately, it also has a lower resolution screen than the 770. The zoom feature makes up for that somewhat (see the last picture in this post for an example of a zoom). It…
Amy Banse Interview on Wallstrip
Our boss at Comcast Interactive Media, Amy Banse talks about CIM: 3:00 into the interview is talk of fancast.com…
The Power of Marketing
Posts that contain IPhone per day for the last 30 days: Posts that contain N800 per day for the last 30 days: How about posts that contain Nokia per day for the last 30 days: Amazing. I wonder how much Apple spent on the marketing for iPhone launch? Speaking of the iPhone, I’ve been happily…
iPhone- cutting edge haptic interface
UPDATED: Neils in the comments set me right…. I’m just blocking the sound with my finger. I don’t think this is any haptic interface at this point. Too bad, it’s a cool idea. The iPhone is an ingenious device– anyone that’s used one for a few hours can tell you this. Even with all the…
Philadelphia EDGE Service Restored
Since I activated the iPhone on Saturday morning, Edge has never worked here in Philly. I finally called ATT and they reported no Edge for PA- all of PA? Regardless, it just started working now. I get a little E icon replacing the wifi icon. Seems pretty snappy…
ATT iPhone Activation
There is a special number for ATT iPhone service issues: 1-877-800-3701 This seems to be for ATT accounts, and not the Go-Phone pre-pay accounts…
iPhone: 500,000 sold this weekend
They pushed out half a million of them, mostly the 8 Gig. So much for it being a flop. I’m sure verizon and sprint execs are taking the day off, for counseling…
iPhone: Everything and More
So the iPhone is everything that Apple has said, as far as I concerned. I telling testimonial is over at Scobleizer. Scoble has had the Nokia N95 and been swooning over it- till he’d had a day to play with his son’s new iPhone. I didn’t wait in line- just drove over to a Center…
Fancast announced
So the site we’ve been working on at my new job was announced yesterday, in conjunction with the larger announcement that CIM (Comcast Interactive Media) has purchased Fandango. Fancast has been consuming all my time since I joined Comcast back in September, and it’s going to be cool destination. As you can see, the announcement…
Desktop Tower Defense
Normally, I don’t like little flash games. Even normal games, for me, require a delicate balance playability and strategy before I grow tired and bored with them. But I stumbled across DTD a few days ago and gave it a shot. A few hours later, I realized that DTD is so addictive, so engrossing, that…
iSync, Razr V3m, and Sprint: Part 2
Word around was that Apple introduced a new version of iSync with 10.4.9, and with it the promise of direct OSX support of the V3m. And Apple did add support for the V3m model to iSync, but they didn’t add support for the Sprint version! It still wouldn’t pair correctly with a fresh install of…
Blog Changes and Updates
So it’s been a while since I’ve posted here- but it’s nothing I’m sure you haven’t read on dozens of other blogs. I’m in a gadget deficit, and I switched jobs to one that keeps me much busier than I was before. I’m now working back in an office, for Comcast Interactive Media, and I…
macworld 2007 Keynote
http://stream.qtv.apple.com/events/jan/j47d52oo/m_8848125_350_ref.mov…
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