According to this post over on the iPhone dev blog, the iPhone has finally been made able to boot Linux.
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So the phone previously known as the Nokia Tube, the Nokia 5800 has made a public appearance and from the look of the specs is sexy as hell.
Some reports seem to indicate that the touchy-ness of the phone is not the best though, which will be a hell-of-a disappointment if that turns out to be true on release.
Having used the iPhone for over a month now I’m getting very, very fed up with the phone (lack of) functionality. Between the poor reception, the dropped calls, the inability to make calls for minutes at a time and a percurliar bug where hanging up will take over 5 minutes (unless you reboot the bastard), I’m starting to wonder if the application goodness and large touch screen is worth it.
And to have all the goodness of a reliable phone OS, including video calls and MMS in a complete package has me drooling.
/me hopes that they fix the touch issue before it launches
Rockbox have just made a major release version 3.0. It’s over three years in the making.
I first contributed to rockbox 2 years ago when I was trying to get a decent firmware to run on my Toshiba Gigabeat X30. Needless to say, Rockbox firmware totally rocks.
Liberate your not-so-new mp3 player today!
Update: Looks like their servers are getting slammed atm, might take a while to get some firmware goodness, it’s well worth the wait.
So apparently XBMC has released a PC beta called Atlantis. Downloaded both the windows installer and the Live CD.
(Update, the image on that blog post seems to load a pop up when viewing full size, so removed the click through)
Had problems getting the Live CD working on a whole host of dell and HP laptops. Mainly due to video card detection. In the end I got the windows binary to work on my Inspiron 6400. Works pretty well, but ran into the following issue:
- Doesn’t seem to support my LCD panel’s native res 1680×1050
- The playback UI seems to lag at times
- Video Calibration seems to be way off.
I know it’s been a while since I fired up my XBOX with XBMC, but this experience reminded me a lot about the time I tried Media Portal (a PC port of the old XBMC source code base). I guess it’s far easier to run a slick system on specific deidcated hardware, than generalist PC hardware.
It’s come a long way, and I’m incredibly impressed, but I don’t quite think it’s ready for the lounge room yet.
Title says it all.
Rocked up on Friday to the Apple store expecting an hour of arguing about why the phone was so shit as a phone. Mostly I felt like this because the guy at the Optus store said it would take 2 weeks to get fixed.
Was forced to book an appointment at the “Genius Bar”. Didn’t bode well for the support experience initially, but I made an appointment and came back then.
What I got was an absolute surprise. Went up the tech, explained the problem and he walked away and came back with a new phone, which he swapped for my phone. He then printed a service receipt and I was done and walking out the door with a hopefully better working new iPhone.
So far it seems to drop less calls, which is a good thing, but that may be because I don’t use it as much as I was last week. Also to it’s benefit the 3G internet definitely seems much better than the one I had before.
So my iPhone’s been dropping or scrambling every 3rd or 4th call since I got it. Not a real useful trait in a full time mobile phone. That and the bit about barely getting a 12 hour day out of an all night charge and I was starting to think that maybe my phone was sick.
So today I’m browsing the interwebs and I get this optus page that tells me my prepaid wireless broadband account needs re-charging. WTF? I don’t have a prepaid account.
Anyhow, long-story-short I need to find my proof of purchase and take the phone in for a “repair” tomorrow.
Not happy Jan.
I caved and got one. Will give it a few months before I consider going back to a more fuller featured phone.
The first app I installed was the worspress app that this post was made from.
So do I jump on board and take the crapy “iPhone only” plans that are being pushed by the Aussie telco’s with 3G iPhone’s at the moment just to get one as soon as possible, or do I stick it out and wait for the hype to die down and get a good phone on a good plan in about a month’s time?
Or do I even go the way of many a fellow geek and get one from the States and Jailbreak it?
What to do, what to do.
It’s getting so bad I’m considering a “vista pain” tag to my blog posts.
So starting on Friday afternoon I started noticing an inability to come out of screen saver when trying to log into my machine. As it turns out SearchIndexer.exe was pegging my machine (100% CPU of one core) trying to index something in my Outlook 2007 ost/pst.
To get around this I disabled the Windows Search service, but still couldn’t get Outlook 2007 to start up. Apparently Outlook 2007 starts up SearchIndexer.exe when starting up, which means i couldn’t get to my email.
It all came to a head today when I deleted the Search content index in an attempt to have it re-indexed, which of-course failed. Now it seems my system dies anytime I do any heavy disk access, like the kind you do when backing up files before a rebuild. Only option now is to plug the HDD in another machine, back up the files and rebuild from scratch.
Sigh.
Why oh why must so many aspects of Vista be so painful?
I have a 3 year old dell that i can close the lid on while on batteries and know that it would safely sleep first, and then wake up in an hour and hiberante fully to make sure there is power again in the morning when I open the lid. Yep it’s running XP.
Compare with my new Toshiba m700 running Vista and try the same thing, and just pray that your machine actually stays asleep. What normally ends up happening is that you reach into your bag when you get home some two hours later and the damn thing is awake and burning up cooking everything else in there and has about 2% power left.
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