December 27, 2009
NYE at 23i
Hi! As we get ever-better at just-in-time party planning, we're able to defer planning, announcing or even inviting...
2009 37 posts
December 2009
December 22, 2009
An untitled post
Say -- I'm going in a swimming, I am. Don't you wish you could? But of course you'd druther work -- wouldn't you? Course...
December 8, 2009
Buy for Free?
I got to play with a nook today. At lunch, I called the local B&N-operated college book store and asked if they had a...
December 4, 2009
K-9 Mail 2.000 for Android
I'm pleased to announce the release of K-9 Mail version 2.000. This release represents several months of development and...
November 2009
November 24, 2009
Kindle 2 users - HEADS UP!
Today, Amazon shipped an update for your Kindle 2 (and for the DX and The Kindle 2 International). It adds PDF support....
November 10, 2009
Odds and ends
It's been a while since I've blogged about Kindle stuff. I just pushed up the little bit of custom code from my cobbled...
October 2009
October 20, 2009
Oops! I did it again - Perl 5.11.1
Milo had been caught red-handed in the act of plundering his countrymen, and, as a result, his stock had never been...
October 5, 2009
Perl 5.11.0
I played hooky from work for a few days last week to help get Perl 5.11.0 released. I did a little bit of cat-herding, a...
August 2009
August 26, 2009
Prophet and SD 0.7 (Cavil) are now available (What I've been up to at work)
Prophet is a lightweight schemaless database designed for peer to peer replication and disconnected operation. Prophet...
July 2009
July 28, 2009
Things I ought to be blogging about
I just got back from OSCON. I gave an Ignite talk about my Kindle hacking, a "regular" 45 minute talk about SD, the p2p...
July 9, 2009
A new definition of wrong
I haven't been blogging about the Kindle for a while...mostly because I haven't hacked on the Kindle in a while. The...
June 2009
June 20, 2009
Boston - China Pearl - Sunday - 11am
So, Sunday's my birthday. I'm traveling enough that I failed to sort out a birthday party. Instead, come have dimsum on...
April 2009
April 11, 2009
Improved PDF rendering for Savory
Now with better default fonts (Google's free Droid fonts) and border cropping....
April 7, 2009
Savory Screenshots
Over the past day, a few readers have asked me what converted PDFs look like on the Kindle 2 and how readable they are....
April 6, 2009
Playing to the crowd
From the bits of feedback I've gotten on Savory's initial release on Friday, it seems pretty clear that people want to...
April 5, 2009
What's next for Savory
Good conversions of image-heavy or image-based PDFs. (I just need to build Ghostscript on the ) A revised...
April 4, 2009
Savory
UPDATED 5 April 2009 - 11:16 EDT: Pointers changed to Savory installer and uninstaller 0.06 which provide minor run-time...
March 2009
March 24, 2009
Yes, I am teasing you. But why am I building Qt on my Kindle?
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMANDroot 1 0.0 0.2 1484 300 ? Ss Mar22 0:03 init [5] root 2 0.0 0.0 0...
March 16, 2009
More fascinating Kindle 2 tidbits
There appear to be on-board PPP configurations for both Sprint and AT&T (though of course the Kindle's EVDO modem will...
March 7, 2009
Gone Fishin'
As a heads up, I'm going to be in the UK for the next week for work, so you shouldn't expect to hear much out of me on...
March 6, 2009
The most interesting content I've found on my Kindle 2 so far...
from rcS.d/S05video_primary_init: _PANEL_SIZE_6_0_INCH=6_PANEL_SIZE_9_7_INCH=9
March 6, 2009
root
So yes, I have a root shell on the Kindle 2. No, I'm not going to post a step-by-step HOWTO. (See my post from earlier...
March 6, 2009
PSA
I've moved my technical blogging over to http://blog.fsck.com. Right now, I'm going on and on about getting a shell on...
March 6, 2009
A productive evening so far.
First, the bad news: the busybox Amazon ships the Kindle with doesn't have telnetd compiled in. And now for the good...
March 5, 2009
An ethical quandary
It looks like I'm pretty close to being able to start a telnetd on the Kindle2 and build an update package so that...
March 5, 2009
A couple quick updates
When I said the K2 wasn't listening on any TCP ports, I was somewhat mistaken. PORT STATE SERVICE2812/tcp open ...
March 4, 2009
Tethering your Kindle 2
UPDATE: There's now a bunch more at http://blog.fsck.com, including bits about how you might get yourself a telnetd,...
March 3, 2009
Notes on the Kindle 2
As I've been playing around with the Kindle 2, I've discovered a few interesting things that I haven't yet found...
March 3, 2009
Kindle 2
A couple months ago, I bought a Sony 700-series reader. I returned it after about an hour of use. It was unreadably...
March 2, 2009
Kindle owners?
Are you a Kindle owner? Do you have any interest in reading ePub books on your Kindle? Ping me. (Update made friends...
February 2009
February 19, 2009
Dependency Discovery and Management
One of the more common complaints about deploying software written in Perl is the occasionally tangled nest of...
January 2009
January 30, 2009
Rantings about The Cloud
I ran into Nat on my way to OSCON this summer and he asked me what was new and exciting in my world, which gave me the...
January 29, 2009
First Post
Right then. Maybe if I try using a local blog-posting client, rather than using a textarea on a web page, I'll have...