Apple TV Hacking: success!
Posted by rae in Reid, entertainment, hardware, homeowner, software
at 2:11 am on Tuesday, 25 March 2008
at 2:11 am on Tuesday, 25 March 2008
I managed to get ssh working at last.
And then I tried to
enable USB storage,
but that was a mistake.
I thought it meant I could plug in a USB drive and the Apple TV would play content off of it.
But no, it meant rebuilding the kernel so that any USB drive plugged in to the Apple TV would have its main disk copied to it.
The idea is that this external, much larger disk will be the new boot volume.
But that’s not what I wanted at all.
So the Apple TV got stuck, so .. I reset to factory settings (that’s a brilliant option, btw).
So, I know I can do it now.
The scripts “out there” are pretty rough and tumble.
I’m thinking I may create a Mac OS X 10.4.9 partition on my Mac Pro, just so that I can copy over all the missing frameworks and libraries so that I can get things like wget to work..
Using Jaiku now more than Twitter
I noticed this last week that Jaiku has an IM interface now, and I find my self using it more than Twitter. In many ways, Jaiku is like Twitter 2.0. Each status update can have comments appended to it, and an icon attached to it. There’s also the usual cell-phone integration too.MacHeist
Posted by rae in software
at 2:53 am on Monday, 14 January 2008
at 2:53 am on Monday, 14 January 2008
- There are at least two really good apps, and one (Pixelmator) I’ve been curious about)
- A percentage of the price goes to a charity of my choice
- It’s pretty cheap for all those apps ($50)
Countdown to Ubuntu 7.10
OpenProj
Talkshoe
talkshoe.com looks like an interesting alternative to Skype for online meetings/chats. If someone else could create an account and let me chat with them to try it out, I would appreciate it. Thoughts going out today to Peter and Laura and especially Jon.Chandler 0.7alpha4 released
- PPC Mac OS X (Chandler_osx_0.7alpha4.dmg)
- Intel Mac OS X (Chandler_iosx_0.7alpha4.dmg)
- Chandler_win_0.7alpha4.exe
- Chandler_linux_0.7alpha4.tar.gz
- upgrade notes
- Report Bugs
- Official Chandler page
WordPress catching on
It’s heartening to see the rest of the world climbing on board the WordPress bandwagon. Of course, *I’m* thinking of moving now to Typo. Bwah hah-hahhh.Mininova Torrent Jam
Look at how many people are torrenting (click for current list)
Going Native - iTerm 0.7.8 Intel build
Now that I’m on my Mac Pro full time, I’m on the hunt for native Intel apps. Mostly I’m finding my main tools are already Universal (a side benefit for waiting for the Mac Pro before jumping on the Intel bandwagon). However, one app I use almost 24/7 was problematic: iTerm, a terminal program. Now, iTerm has been universal (meaning it has both native PPC and Intel code) since version 0.8. However, I have found all versions after 0.7.8 to be buggy and not well-behaved. I tried downloading the latest and greatest stable version, but i started getting rendering errors (blocks of black showing up) and the main text was over-bold for some reason (I was able to tone it down by setting the colour to a very drak grey instead of black). Well, I’ve had enough. iTerm is open source, so I checked out the version of iTerm that was current as of 0.7.8 (which has a modification date of Mar 11 2004) and built it as an Intel binary (not universal - maybe later when I have copious amounts of spare time). This wasn’t rocket science - zero coding was required. Indeed, I didn’t even have to change **anything**. You can grab it here: iTerm 0.78 intel Here’s all I did:
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@iterm.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/iterm co -D 2004-03-11 -P iTerm
open iTerm.xcode
build/Development” folder.
I double-clicked it and, booya, it ran fine.
Now the development version is not for distribution so, okay, I changed *one* setting:
I changed the popup that said “Development” to “Deployment”.
Another click on “Build” and there sat another iTerm in build/Deployment
I hope this is of use to someone other than me.
I’m I the only one who finds iTerm 0.8 and later frustrating?