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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
With the installing of the new server, I am writing the necessary blob of php to replace the home ip upload script with a blob of server side php + mysql. Its called Jopin, it has 70% of its intended 1.0 functionality and its Great!
“He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.”
– George Orwell
Its a quote from Orwells bloody Scary 1984 and when reading the book it sounds far off. (Actually 1984 isnt all that scary, the scary part is seeing parts of it bleed into our world, from the [...]
There, after spending a while figuring out why
if ( something.indexOf(select_groups[i]) == -1 ) {
threw an error; I was finally able to restore IE support. (poor misguided souls needn’t miss out on the Javascript goodies)
Apparently (Try to wrap your brain around this) the javascript version in IE doesnt support Array.indexOf()! All other browsers do, just not [...]
Futtta’s “AddToAny: removing the “spy†from the share-ware”
Posted: 17th February 2010 by Gert in InterwebsThanks to futtta’s post, I learnt that the add to any service was doing more than any of us bargained for and he kindly provided a way to fix the problem.
So I added the code to the relevant Wordpress plugin textbox and thats that. They could ve made that disable code a bit easier to [...]
Google Mail now has Buzz – More about that on http://buzz.google.com/
I have no clue if I want to use it. Though I AM curious.. Dont think it ll replace Identi.ca/Twitter soon.. So far I lack all connectivity with other crap. Im giving it a go though..
Time will tell..
The new technologies bring along a plethora of delightful new options for consumers to sample content. One of those new ways is the music samples some groups put online. A full track or even a full album to build the hype and allow people to sample the tracks and to persuade them to Go out [...]
Yes Its that time a year again!
And the list starts of Great with Jamie Lynn! She s hot!
Ooooh Pornstar at 97 Kudos for Sasha!
Auch! Angelina at 88! She deserves better
Yes, Cate Blanchet belongs in the list!
Jessica Simpson Meh.. I guess thats ok :s No, she belongs in the list, [...]
Convert a Wammu backup file to a .csv
Posted: 6th January 2010 by Gert in Information technology, Planet, ProjectYes, this post is indeed about a Quick and Dirty tool to “Convert a Wammu backup file to a .csv” ready for gMail import. I dicked around with the wammu.backup file to get it to plain text for reference and then figured Id better write some quick perl to get it to a .csv so [...]
Gnu Screen ; Different regions, Logging, Screen Window Types
Posted: 1st December 2009 by Gert in Linux, Open FutureI wrote this Gnu Screen guide in December ‘08 with the previous incarnation of linux.com in mind. January 2009 however, linux.com started on its new and exciting path as a community site and the article just sat on my machine, waiting. So I decided to publish it on my blog in a four part series [...]
