Posted: 18th March 2010 by Gert in Information technology
After a horible research period and a lot of trouble discovering the ./fastboot oem unlock I talked about earlier; I am now booting my new Cyanogenmod-ded HTC Magic. Its just booted and Im Extremely curious and excited 
Thanks to the great XDA forum resources, notoriously their wiki pages (HTC Sapphire Hacking & HTC Sapphire Hacking 2) and CyanogenMod (STABLE) 03/04 – v4.2.15.1 & Cyanogen Latest Version for the necessary software.
After installing the SDK and the fight for fastboot (google “fastboot download” helped); I was able to boot the backup image, backup the files and get cracking 
And Cyanogenmod; Android 1.6 is a Fact
Still some weirdness going on though.. com.google,process.gapps has stopped unexpectedly several times now :/ and my market downloads dont work so far either, but Im sure between google, the forums and some dicking around, Ill be able to sort that out..
Next, an android 2.1 mod 
Edit: Oooh! Voice search is Sooo cool!!!!!!!! I merely said “Battlestar Galactica” and there it was!! oooooh
The pinch zooming etc is cool too!
Posted: 17th March 2010 by Gert in Life
Its all prettily coming together.. Another piece connected, still quite the part to go..
Posted: 17th March 2010 by Gert in Information technology
Well..
gert@Benedict:~$ ./fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.6.2H.img
sending ‘recovery’ (4494 KB)… OKAY
writing ‘recovery’… INFOsignature checking…
FAILED (remote: signature verify fail)
Guess I WILL need that new SPL..
Hopefully more time to check it out tomorrow
Edit: Ow! No need for a new SPL so far (Site said I didnt need it so I looked a bit further to not have to re-SPL it) Apparently I needed to fastboot oem unlock first. Tnx Cyanogen Performing Nandroid+ext backup Back on track! More later
Posted: 16th March 2010 by Gert in Life
Apparently, the dns was shifted over for some sites, but they do still serve the blog. subdomain themselves.. grr
Edit: Oh no, apparently they merely forgot to add *.domain.be to the A records.. Grr
Edit: Called him, should be fixed soon.. Friendly, helpful guy.. Annoying though that the page now turns up as an error :/
Posted: 15th March 2010 by Gert in Interwebs
Over the last years, I built up a few different sites – My blog with its many subsites, several small projects like the recent Jopin, the future gertschepens.be, .. its a lot
The time finally came to move those together, clean them up and organise. Over the last few weeks, I had the pleasure of moving several sites around, setting up multisite Drupal, creating and setting up Jopin, moving the Doom site do drupal, Wordpress and most recently, Microblogging.
Once the DNS records are changed, I will be able to continue on the microblogging and gertschepens.be – right now its the waiting game, waiting for the site to
The last lil piggie in the pen right now is setting up Zarafa; though Im in for a break right now..
Maybe I just need a break from the screen.. What did I do before I started this project? On the other hand .. lets see if I can get Bioshock running
Edit: Bioshock Steam version runs. Pitty I dont have that version! When the fuck is Valve going to finish their sodden Linux Steam project?? I d REALLY like to know Why they canceled work on it. Whats the anti linux games propaganda THIS time :/
Posted: 15th March 2010 by Gert in Life
My new blog skin is The Prettiez!
Thank you kind people at http://www.theforge.co.za/
Im actually looking forward to posting some evil shite on here
Posted: 15th March 2010 by Gert in Life
here it is, finally. A first post on the new, snappyfasy server
Hello World
hehe
Now all it needs is a new skin and the dns records updated – lol
An an end to the annoying Days in Shorts; Ill be running my own microblogging service soon, so no need to archive them on the blog anymore. Data Liberation Babey!
