As you may know my new favourite tooy is the ADP1. I just loaded on wpTOgo so with luck this will work. I actually blogged from my phone. So cool…..
Android Developer Phone 1 – Its arrived
After tracking its progress from the USA to me here in Perth (via Germany, Dubai and Asia) I finally got the phone yesterday at work.
Enabled 3G with my mobile provider and off I went. Sweet machine but I’m worried about data usage on this thing. My provider charges by the MB, I’ll see how it goes for a couple of days then find out the damage. If its worth it I will change to another provider perhaps with a Data package that gives you say 500MB for a fixed amount.
Up till midnight last nigh flashing it with new firmware and radio stack so it is now running Cupcake (1.5).
Might have a play with the ROM’s flying around on the XDA Developers site I see. They look cool.
Have to get the follow apps I think at this stage..
wpTOgo
ConnectBot
Sipdroid
Android Dev phone on the way…..
I splashed out and ordered one of the G1 dev phones from the USA. Its on its way here as I write this, currently on a plan I recon on its way to me. Can’t wait.
Exchange rate is better than it was the last time I considered one of these.
MV Agusta 350B restoration
Last weekend I finally started the strip down of the bike that I’m planning to take to Italy in 2010 for the Milan to Taranto trial.
Here are some before and after shots.
Flight of the Conchords
I’ve watched most of their Eps, today watched S02E05, the Carol Brown song is great, I love how all his ex girlfriends are made into a choir, very cool, check it out
Mythtv Internal player and subtitles
Mythtv is the shitzen, I have been using it for perhaps the last 3 years full time. About 2 months ago I upgraded my box to mythdora 10.21 (from mythtdora 3.10) and the internal player has changed from Xine to an internal player. The issue is that the subtitles don’t work automatically if you have a .srt file – this really blows. If anyone else is running around wondering how to enable it then look no further. Play the movie then press ‘T’. Job done, not very obvious is it!
showRSS and bashpodder still no play nice
This is really starting to depress me. showRSS is the shitzen but my RSS feed reader solution (bashpodder) is just not working with it. It will down load the first feed ann enclosure that appears but will not down load subsequent enclosures there after, this is still the case with just using the public feeds. So, its back to mininova feeds for me with the following added to each of tyhe feeds to ensure only the most recent is downloaded “?num=1” What a pisser. Any bash scripting gurus please feel free to chime in and let me know how to fix this in the script.
showRSS and bashpodder = no play nice
As happy as I was pissing about with showRSS it doesn’t work well with bashpodder. Strangley, if you have more than one TV show in your personal feed provided by showRSS it will grab the first enclousure but will not grab the subsequent ones. I tested it today by running bashpodder and noticing that all through showRSS said I had an ep of Burn notice and Fifth gear the bashpodder script would not get the Fifth gear enclosure. It was not until I deleted my subscription to Burn Notice that bashpodder grabbed Fifth Gear. 🙁
I’m not 100% sure why the heck this doesn’t work, perhaps its something in bashpodder that will not parse the other feeds if the first on the list is in the bashpodder history log. I notice when I subscribed to the showRSS feed in newsgator the most recent feed is at the bottom of the list as opposed to the top. Not sure if this is the problem, I’m no bash guru but perhaps someone can check out the bashpodder code and advise.
Anyhow, to get around this I have subscribed to showRSS feeds for each of the individual shows separately (ie, I’m not using my personal feed anymore). As long as it works I couldn’t give a rats.
Replacement for TVrss?
Well, it looks like TVrss has gone for good, at least that’s what I can gather from some comments on torrentfreak, anyhooo, what to do?
I say go to showRSS (http://showrss.karmorra.info/). In short you sign up, subscribe to your favourite feeds on their site then paste your personal RSS feed from showRSS into your RSS feed reader.
You will only have one RSS feed URL in your feed reader, showRSS does the work for you and will throw all the RSS enclosures at your feed reader for the various shows that you have subscribed to when there are now episodes released (and your feed reader asks for them).
Its good, it works, I’ve switched.
ESX migration has begun
Well if you are reading this you’ll be pleased to know (at least I am) that I have migrated two machines to the new ESX box.
Its busy hosting the classic motorcycle forum on one VM and now my webserver etc in another VM. Swweeet! I can hear Western Power gasp as a large revenue stream starts drying up, namely me.