Note: This blog will be under maintenance under further notice.

I’m starting all over again.  I accidently wiped out a large chunk of data form the backup partition.  Nevermind the other the data stored there but the Firfox profile I had backed up contained bookmarks leading to mostly threads in different forums.  Getting them back won’t be easy.  I’ve been set back roughly a six months to a year or more.  The battery in my Apple MacBook lately developed a bulge in the outer casing of the Li-Ion battery.  I have since discontinued its use.  There is currently no useful OS on the MacBook’s harddrive yet ‘less you count Arch Linux in its default state.  Putting together a Windows Mobile 6.1 ROM for the phone will be a long-term project now as I’ve yet to find a Windows XP Professional with SP2 disc to install it on the MacBook.  As for school, my friends are great, the teachers except for one are great, the course material is great but due to my computers causing me problems, my marks have suffered.  Another day, another opportunity to try and make life a little easier.

Today I’m at the Sherway Gardens Shopping Centre where my mother’s boyfriend and I went to complete some tasks. I needed to take my HTC Touch Vogue in to see if I could get it fixed or replaced and visit the Apple Store. My mother’s boyfriend on the other hand needed to get a SIM card for his Nokia 6230 to operate on Rogers’ network and the get a few other things for his home. This is all I can post for now since I must get going but I’ll post more when I get back home.

P.S.: I’ll be posting no pictures though since I don’t have a good digital camera or webcam yet.

A few days ago, I blogged about my recent developments as pertaining to my research into integrating Zoho Writer with my Wordpress powered blog. Well I can tell you now that I’ll be using Zoho Writer exclusively for developing my blog posts for five simple reasons:

1. It easily integrates with Google’s Blogger or with any blog that uses the metaWeblog API.
2. It can use Google Gears which allows any supported webapp to save data to your computer so you can work on it and save while offline.
3. It can export any of the documents to many different formats from .docx to .sxw.
   
4. It can be used to share blog posts with others without requiring them to visit the site itself.
5. Even if the browser must be restarted for whatever reason, the data is still saved and will be availble when you navigate to the offline page.

All told, I very much like Zoho Writer and what it can do for my productivity and the blog.

I’ll be starting over again as I try to cope with the fact that my HTC Touch Vogue is almost all but unusable in its current state. Until I settle for a HTC Touch Diamond or are able to hold out for a HTC Touch Pro, I shall shift emphasis onto newer projects. These projects will lead me to doing quite a bit of work in order to finish them all. This post is merely a part of one of those projects. It is meant to test out how well Zoho Writer can integrate with my blog. It can be used with Google Gears which should prevent me from running into any problems where unsaved work is lost due to the FireFox either having crashed, been quit, or restarted. More to follow as I continue to come up with ideas on what do to with my time.

UPDATE: Zoho Writer works quite well with my WordPress installation and can work in it’s entirety when taken offline. I’ll provide more information in the next post.

I’m afraid I have some disappointing news. After having tried for some time to get the tools needed for the HyperCore Kitchen and the EasyPortOven to working running under Ubuntu with WINE and Mac OS X with Darwine, I finally admit defeat as I’m not prepared to try any darkmagic in order to get it working at this point. I’ll build the HyperCore Professional Kitchen with EasyPortOven in Windows XP. This post was originally titled HC Pro w/ EPO on Mac OS X and would have included the following and more:

Although I wanted to start on porting the HyperCore (HC) Kitchen to Linux and OpenBSD along with the EasyPortOven (EPO), I’ve decided to go with porting them to Mac OS X since it’s the OS I’ll be using for while I set up the other operating systems. I’ll also be previewing parts of the tutorial I’ll be writing on setting up the kitchen once it’s finished. Part 1:

Setting up and using the HyperCore Professional Kitchen w/ built-in EasyPortOven

by: Soul_Est

Thank you for choosing to use my port of the HyperCore Kitchen and EasyPortOven for your ROM development. I hope you have as much fun developing your ROMs as I had producing this advanced kitchen.

Beginning credits (They will be there at the end of the post too!):

bepe

Setup (on OS X):

1. Install the X11 package that came with the installation discs that came with your Mac. It can easily be found in the  folder under . If not you can just get the file here.
2. Download the latest unstable, unofficial build of Darwine from this page here.

And so I now have a bit of regrouping to do while I plan and execute my next moves…and maybe find out if I should try pulling this off with the parts I have lying around. For more information, just check out www.nuigroup.com

I know it has been some time since I’ve last posted any details about my latest projects. I’m still working on my first project: OpenBSD and DD-WRT on a 2nd generation Core2Duo based Apple MacBook. This time around though, I’ve decided to just try installing and running the operating systems of my choice as well as OpenBSD. I installed Windows XP first in order to satisfy a Need For Speed craving I had. Once I beat the story mode of the game, I began working on the next stage of the project: making rEFIt the default bootloader. At first I used the tutorial I found on Felipe Alfaro Solana’s blog for installing rEFIt to the hidden efi partition on the harddisk. Unfortunately, like some of the commenters of the article, it took some 30 seconds or so for rEFIt to come up. Instead I just deceided to install Mac OS X and use the installer which installs rEFIt to the root folder of the Mac OS X installation. One reboot later and I was impressed! rEFIt’s menu loaded up and I was able to sync the GPT (GUID Partition Table) and MBR (Master Boot Record). I had to do this after installing Arch Linux (with the GRUB bootloader installing the same partition as Arch Linux) and will do so after installing OpenBSD and maybe Windows. I’m currently going the to work on downloding the applications I normally use on Mac OS X and start working on the HyperCore Professional Kitchen w/ built-in EasyPortOven project. It’ll take some time beforeI can finish though I’m taking summer school to get the last credit I need for getting into my chosen program at RCC Institute Of Technology.

Well today’s the day I finally graduate from high school. It’s also the day I start working on anichillus’ HyperCore Kitchen turning it into something a lot more than it already is. In addition to porting it to other platforms running WINE, I’ll be building in ivanmmj’s EasyPortOven and replacing many of the tools with any newer ones found it ervius’ BuildOS + Package Tools 4.2 Beta 3 Kitchen as well as replacing the built in NBHextract with one that pof released days ago. I’ll also be adding in (at a later date) an experimental feature found in another kitchen I found in the Wizard Mobile 6 part of the xda-developers forums. HyperCore + (BuildOS + Package Tools 4.2 Beta 3) + EasyPortOven =

HyperCore Professional Kitchen w/ built-in EasyPortOven

Or no hypervisor at all for the Mac. I’ve been toying around with the idea as a way to do what I wished were possible now but isn’t: Have a ‘transparent’ hypervisor powered by OpenBSD (or maybe Linux) and able to allow almost native operating speeds in Windows XP but at the same time allowing Windows access to the Intel GMA950 for gaming purposes. Unfortunately, this still isn’t possible since all the software out today virtualizes a whole computer when dealing with Windows. Another large problem is that aside from Xen, a lot of the virtualization software is made for Mac OS X, Linux, or Windows. Even trying to get Xen running on OpenBSD (Dom0) is a problem eventhough its based off NetBSD. I’ve decided to dual boot between OpenBSD and Windows. Using instructions for installing the BootROM (rEFIt) into the hidden EFI partition from a blog I found here: , I’m now ready to kiss a memory hungry Mac OS X goodbye.

What a difference a week makes. In that time I’ve bricked my Linksys router to the point where I’ll need a jtag cable and software to transfer a new firmware onto it. This had put a major damper on the progress of my OpenBSD on MacBook project. On another note, I messed up my Vogue’s screen. The ROM I ‘cooked’ for the phone kept freezing and I had to flash the firmware onto it again. Unfortunately that did not work and after flashing jakdillard’s (JD’s) latest Hyrid ROM (very fast), I had to pry the top two layers of of the touchscreen up a bit in order for the phone to respond to any input through the touchscreen. This however caused some of the glue holding the one the two layers on the screen two get onto part of the screen. It can be cleaned though but it’ll take time to do so as neither the screen or touch sensors can be damaged in any way. That said I have the space needed for two simple repositories in place.