So after some help from google I found a guid on the unlockr. Following that guide and then using the SPQRom 0.7 is basically all there is to it.

The downside of this upgrade is that the FM and camera are no longer working. The FM is a sad thing (but hey I still have my rockbox-enabled-ipod) but the camera is something I can live with, since well it made crappy pictures anyway!

But other than some things not working I am very pleased with android 2.2.1 it runs smooth and after installing all the apps (and some new onces) my phone feels up to date again!

I have been looking for a program that can do this for some time now and I have to say it works like a charm. It does not show up in the android market for me but installing it directly from asterdroidmobile did the trick, and so far it has been running for > 24 hour without any problems.

You can export your call history so that you do not just start logging from when you installed the program.

So if you like to keep track of yourself and want to know who you called when. Give it a try!

The problem I encountered when installing the Android SDK is that the some of the programs won’t run on non-multilib AMD64 installations. This is really annoying since I do not want to have 32bit libraries on my system (it is matter of principals!). But linux to the rescue! A simple multilib chroot allows me to compile and deploy my android apps!

Mounting (with bind) the source directory allows me to code in my normal env while compiling in the chroot. Which is not a big thing for me since I code in VIM but for IDE users this might be an advantage!

So for all native AMD64 users there is hope! But it would be better for the Android devs to fix the binaries!

One of the things I missed on my Nokia N73 was the ability to sync pproperly with my linux enviroment, the tattoo runs android and syncs perfectly with google, wich in turn syncs nicely with other things. Of course the downside is that it syncs with google, but for now that is necessary evil.

So far I am pretty impressed, mobile e-mail, Facebook, flogging etc. All work like a charm. Even Eduroam, the WiFi used at the university works out of the box! That is not even the case on my laptop!

This message was of course written on my tattoo.

She already has a webcam build into her webcam. Not great quality but good enough for skype. Also there was an old webcam which was bought approx 5 years ago, a Creative Webcam NX Pro, now I have not yet figured out what is so “pro” about it but it works like a charm!

The GSPA ZC3XX driver is the one I need! After that some programs need to be compiled with video4linux (2) support but that is to be expected. The only problem I ran in so far was skype itself! For some reason skype does not work with v4l2 so in order to run skype I have to use the following code:

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype

Long story short. The webcam works like a charm and thanks to the hard work of many people I had it working in no time!

It seems there are still some problems with the wifi but we have a dedicated acces point for that. Which means the required software is not even installed on the router. This is a good thing since there is very limit storage on the router.

While I was playing with the router I wanted to, finally, get OpenVPN running on it. Not that I really need the VPN but it is a matter of principles! So I started out with the OpenVPN Howto which guides your pretty much trough the whole setup.

However since room on the openwrt is limited, the easy-rsa (for key generation and signing) is not included. So I used my server to generate the keys and certs.

The ethernet-bridging is not necessary in my scenario but it seems the best way to go, espessialy since I want to implement it for some people that want to browse the samba shares. It is however important to note that you should have different local subnet and remote subnet.

So a productive weekend. It still feels cool that the router (which coasts only 55 euro’s) can be pimped so you can ssh to it, work with IPtables and act as an OpenVPN server! Embedded linux rocks

It is a very simple program using bluez for the bluetooth connection with the WiiMote (which we need, obviously) and XTestFakeKeyEvent. This has as a side effect that it will only work with X running. But that should not be a problem since well. Who would want to control his terminal with a WiiMote?

The very very basics is done. The D-Pad on the WiiMote generates up/down/left/right-keyevents. I just need to find a use full meaning for the other buttons. But maybe a control file in which the user can specify all is a better solution.

Currently it is not published on-line (yet) since I need to clean the code a little.

I am aware some other programs can do what I want but after checking out the sources they just seem to complex. I want it all simple, clean and small..

However when thinking about some of the features we would like to have in QtMPC we once again got annoyed by the MPD protocol. One of the main issues we had was that it is not event based, or even publish-subscribe. You have to ask for every little detail you want. This is a choice and it is true that this way you do not get unwanted messages thus generate unwanted network traffic.

But we feel that some sort of event based protocol will do a better job here. Lets say in the default nothing is send as well. That way mobile clients can still control the player without receiving anything unwanted. Or just subscribe to events related to playback. This way mobile clients are still supported but again. They do not have to request the status ever x seconds. They just get a message once had changed.

For full blown clients event bases is also a positive thing. For example the reaction time. When adding a new song. Right now this has to be noted by the client when requesting the version of the playlist. A simple message from the server saying playlist current newsong …….. (or something like that) could be send right after the song is actually added. It just makes things easier.

Another thing that kind of bother us that there was no inotify support. This would be great however. Lets say you have a music server running on your server. And add some new music to the collection. It would be best of course if it would find the new music. Add it to the database and notify the clients of a change in the music library.

Now we have not written any code yet. But we are thinking about it. For the music playback part we are planing to use gstreamer. Since well it already supports a lot of audio formats. And why reinvent the wheel right?

Now I won’t stop compiling all my pacakges but this gives great advantages If I (might come soon) have to handle some homogenous systems. Since well if they are identical in hardware and you want to do the same stuff of them why not reuse the packages that are already build.

Now with those two computers this brings the total number of computers at my folks at 7. I’m secretly building my own server farm to take over the world in case you are wondering.

Now abut those 7 computers:

• Desktop downstairs – Running Windows
• Mothers laptop – Running Windows
• My old laptop – Running Gentoo
• Server – Running Gentoo
• Oldest Sister Computer – Running Gentoo
• Youngest Sister Computer – Running Gentoo
• My testbox – Running Gentoo

Now the two windows boxes are in a Domain controled by samba. It works. However the gentoo boxes connect all much easier. Man i love nfs!

Ofcource I have my current laptop which is also running gentoo. So linux is taking over at least over at my folks. I’m guessing it takes only a couple of months before I can confince my dad to move to linux to That would be a great day….

Other than that I’m supprised how fast the system boots. I guess it is because there is not much hardware to detect. Other than that the kernel is also very small and when I get over at my folks tomorrow I can get it even smaller I believe.

Right now KDE is compiling since I promised my gf’s father to check what the old thing could do. currently I’m at packag e 146 of 192 since this morning. So that will be done tomorrow. And it will be time to run KDE…. that would be the ultimate test. Howver I feel fluxbox or something will run a lot smoother. But maybe I’ll test that later.

I’m wondering what I could do with the laptop. Cause it would be nice to put it to good use. Now useing it for presentations or something would be great. Or other than that using it for some basic school stuf for one of my sisters or something could also be the case. Ah well I’ll check it tomorrow