Artscow codes

FREE800
FREE10XBOOKS
20RN20SCOASTER
CDR499
FIVE8X10AT099
PPC299

HTC Vogue - stuck in bootloader

You'll typically see RUUNBH at the top left of the boot loader. Using SPL 2.31
HTCFlasherGUI (mtty)

Type

cmd> set 16 0
cmd> boot

This will remove RUU flag, and then boot a valid flash from your device.

DD to clone / copy partition to new disk

Backup MBR
dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/boot/sda.mbr bs=512 count=1

Restore MBR
dd if=/mnt/boot/sda.mbr of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1

Fdisk to change any partitions on new sdb

Then copy first partition

dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb2 conv=noerror,sync

Java plugin in Fedora 9 Firefox

Download Sun java (bin, not rpm)

Extract jre to /usr/jre1.6.0_06 (or whatever the version is).
cd ~/.mozilla/plugins
ln -s /usr/jre1.6.0_06/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

Restart firefox, and all is good.

Metapixel creation in Linux

yum install metapixel - it is in the repositories

Create library

metapixel-prepare -r /data/pictures /data/pictures/metapixel_library

Create metapixel

-s 2 - scale original image x2
-a 30 - cheat with 30% overlay of original image - gives better results
-l - library directory

for i in ~/Pictures/develop/8x8book4/2008/*; do echo $i; metapixel -s 2 -a 30 -l ../metapixel_2007 --metapixel $i meta2007_`date +%H%M%S`.jpg;done

xmame defaults

These are the defaults for ~/.xmame/xmamerc

vidmod 2
fullscreen 1
rompath /media/disk/roms
defaultgame suprmrio
language english
skip_gameinfo 1

opengl, fullscreen, and rom path

VMWare and Activesync

I can not get away from Windows because of Activesync on my PDA. So I still have it in a virutal machine for that reason. To stop the flaky connectivity between usb and pda, on the pda (HTC device using WM6) you have to set

- go to settings/connections
- Choose "usb to pc"
- Disable the "Enable advanced network functionality"
- Reconnect PDA as a usb device in vmware.