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May 5, 2008 Comments Off

AppleTV & Ubuntu hacking

I’ve finally enabled SSH on my long dormant AppleTV, and am integrating it into my DVB / Rails / Beanstalk / MySQL system for processing data. I’ve used the Patchstick image available from atv4windows. I ended up unpacking and dd’ing the image from the Mac, but the process remains exactly the same. I now have Perian, ssh and a slew of other things enabled, and all I need now is to attempt the hack to get composite output working. I’ve yet to take the plunge and replace my old CRT with an LCD TV.

Incidentally, for anyone looking to figure out the ssh username and password for your freshly enabled ssh daemon, they are both frontrow, and that user has passwordless sudo privileges.

I also had a minor breakthrough with my x86_64 Ubuntu 8.04 machine. I have a Zyxel G-202 Wireless USB stick, to keep the number of trailing wires to a minimum, but I kept getting an error saying:

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zd1211rw error ioread32(CF_REG1): -110

Which was exceedingly unhelpful. I eventually tried disabling hi-speed USB from the BIOS, and rebooted to find it sprang into life immediately. Great! What was even more strange that when I rebooted and reset the BIOS back to enable USB 2.0, the G-202 kept working. I’m unsure whether this is due to the device not being cold booted, and I’ve yet to see if it stops working after I power the system off, but so far so good, and I don’t need to resort to NDIS.

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Nick Ludlam posted a photo: From the Android supplement from The Guardian on 29/08/2010. I was interviewed for a piece on the future trends in Mobile apps. www.guardian.co.uk/lg-talking-technology/the-future-of-apps Nick Ludlam posted a photo: My wonderful colleagues at BERG bought lots of cake for my birthday. And not just any old cake! This was from Konditor and Cook. It was delicious!We get bonus points for having to cut it with a craft knife, since it was either that or a scalpel. Nick Ludlam posted a photo: I've set up a custom Ruby script to scrape my balance information from the Three.co.uk website, and a custom app to receive the notifications. I've set it up to tell me my balance every day, since there is no automatic notification on Three as there is with O2. Nick Ludlam posted a photo: Just up the road from BRIG. Lovely coffee, and nice people serving it. The map shows you where it is! Nick Ludlam posted a photo: An image of an advertisement in the Sun Newspaper for Android phones sold by Carphone Warehouse here in the UK.Underneath is a section which lists 10 apps that "you need to get through the day". 8 are free, 1 is £1, and the last one did not even seem to be listed when I searched. "Where's The Train", the only non-free app, is listed as having "100 - 500 downloads"This is very typical of my experience with the Android Market. Unless your business model can support free applications, with your revenue coming from advertising, a website or service you sell, then you are unlikely to be able to recoup the time spent developing quality applications. Nick Ludlam posted a photo: I love their spoons. As you pull the spoon out of your mouth, you can feel the texture of the detailing on your top lip Nick Ludlam posted a photo: The girls pose for a quick picture before heading off to the race start line Nick Ludlam posted a photo: That 'Touch here if bicycle is damaged' button will be too tempting Nick Ludlam posted a photo: The new bike stands have just appeared on Shoreditch High St.

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