Flashing the Magic

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 :D 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 :D

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 :D
The pinch zooming etc is cool too!

Its comming together

Posted: 17th March 2010 by Gert in Life

Its all prettily coming together.. Another piece connected, still quite the part to go..

HTC Magic – Voiding Waranties..

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 :)

Right

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 :/

The Project

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 :/

The Pretty

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 :D

A first on the new serv

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! :D

The day in Shorts

Posted: 13th March 2010 by Gert in Microbloggings
  • Walt Mossberg puts the SCARY in Chatroulette http://ur1.ca/plk3 FUCK!!! #
  • The Tiered rules make for some weird lists :s Gonna play them though :) #

The day in Shorts

Posted: 13th March 2010 by Gert in Microbloggings
  • Walt Mossberg puts the SCARY in Chatroulette http://ur1.ca/plk3 FUCK!!! #
  • The Tiered rules make for some weird lists :s Gonna play them though :) #

The day in Shorts

Posted: 12th March 2010 by Gert in Microbloggings
  • Trubulence, @neglectik ? Are you flying places? #
  • 2 new Verloren Kost fans! :) #
  • Doing The Math can be depressing :s #
  • FuckYeah! *Kicks Something* All 1001 exceptions implemented! YEAH! *Kicks Something Else* #

The day in Shorts

Posted: 12th March 2010 by Gert in Microbloggings
  • Trubulence, @neglectik ? Are you flying places? #
  • 2 new Verloren Kost fans! :) #
  • Doing The Math can be depressing :s #
  • FuckYeah! *Kicks Something* All 1001 exceptions implemented! YEAH! *Kicks Something Else* #

The day in Shorts

Posted: 11th March 2010 by Gert in Microbloggings