Android is OpenSourced, and you can build it yourself on MacOSX or an Ubuntu machine. THis is not the emulator, but real Android OS running on your system. http://source.android.com/download Has the directions. Check out the known-issues page before giving up- there are some rough edges. 10/22 Update: watch out for your file system on the…
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Zimbra and new IP’s
So I’ve been happily using Zimbra as my primary mailserver for a couple of years. My host recently changed IP addresses, and I took the time to update zimbra to the latest release. Two things tripped me up. First, this upgrade, unlike any other, refused to complete- the LDAP wouldn’t start after it was upgraded…
EEE 901 Ubuntu and Netbook Remix
I was fortunate enough to pick up an EEE 901 for a work project and have spent some time with this machine. I chose the Linux version with 20G, which comes broken down into 2 different ‘drives’ (they aren’t really SSD drives, just chips that plug into the ePCI sockets, but they emulate real PATA…
Could Android crush iPhone?
I’ve never been happier with a device than I have been my my iPhone. However, there is one huge problem. You can’t write your own software for it (this doesn’t count) , or even hack some existing software that someone else wrote. OK, at least you can’t do those things without using a process called…
Lepoard Firewall – not your ipfw anymore
Browsing the net I came across a great site that answered some questions I had about the new firewall in Leopard. Using it now on the company macbook, and it’s nice. Having the 4 gigs of ram helps also. My poor macbook was pushed to the limit with just 2. The site is worth checking…
Halo affecting our world
Video on iPhone
I’ve hit on a little TV obsession here in my idle hours between baby feedings. This one is cool because it involves way more than just watching something on the telly. This is unavailable-in-the-US show watching. The kind where you pull torrents of the show down from the net using semi-legit sites, then go about…
What will you do with your $100?
I’m planning on getting iLife ’08 or an airport express. Getting the $100 credit is the nice touch by Apple. I was happy paying $599 for my iPhone- the price drop will only mean more iPhones on the street, and more iPhone compatible websites…
ZunePhone
Yes, this is all over, but it’s so funny…
It’s a Big Ass Table
Take that apple!…
New Apple USB Keyboard
I’ve been dreaming of having a USB keyboard that uses the keys in my Macbook. I’ve been in total love with the keyboard on the MacBook since it came out and I picked one up a few weeks later. The keyboards on MacBookPros feel like crap. The current Mac USB keyboards are also near useless-…
OpenEinstein build 48 for Nokia 770
I’ve complied OpenEinstein 2007-07 build 48. Current as of today. You can download it below. It’s about 1.8 megs, bzipped. It will expand into a 16 meg file. Feel free to download the binary here. You’ll need this file also: Einstein.rex. The last thing you need of course is a real Newton ROM, so please…
Managing multiple JMX controls on Tomcat
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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