http://blog.alexgirard.com Yet Another Blog Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:22:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Paul-Valentin Borza has released what could be considered as the first app that shows the OpenMoko platform potential: "Accelerometer-based Gestures, and Screen Orientation" This release includes: An application with user interface that allows the user to train the gestures for himself/herself; A listener daemon that sends a notification on the screen of the ... http://blog.alexgirard.com/openmoko-first-woah-app-released/ Moebius is a script to convert Comic Book files (.cbr and .cbz) in PDF for portable reading. Download last version of Moebius, or view its code on Github. Usage cd moebius_installation ./moebius.rb comic_file.cbr It'll output a comic_file.pdf file in your current directory. Requirements Ruby 1.8 Gem: prawn Unzip Unrar http://blog.alexgirard.com/ruby-comic-books-to-pdf/ Here comes some photos of the new flat we occupy with Maki, after a Ikea triathlon (1 day shopping, 1 day building, 1 day enjoying), on the same building of the office, just 3 floors below: Wifi connection needed a small boost, Pringles cans reflectors are doing a great job. We've got ... http://blog.alexgirard.com/life-new-flat-and-wifi-extension/ The great thing about an open-source phone, like openmoko, is that when there's a problem, all the community can gather to find a solution. At the beginning of the week, some people complained that they couldn't get their phone GPS working: Time To First Fix signal (the initial signal that ... http://blog.alexgirard.com/openmoko-gps-software-and-hardware-solution/ Last week, Mininova has released a bookmark system for its users, it would allow remote downloading, but information are missing to configure Azureus/Vuze properly, here is a mini tutorial. You can imagine the reation of channels on Mininova, give your feed to your friends, and all start to download the same ... http://blog.alexgirard.com/torrents-azureus-and-mininova-bookmarks/ Thanks to Pablo Ruiz Múzquiz, there is actually an OpenMoko GroupSale occuring in Madrid, and 10 people will soon receive an OpenMoko FreeRunner for the joy of hacking it! I've spend some time on the OpenMoko wiki, and here is a list of the wonderful stuff I've discovered: OpenMoko projects inside Google ... http://blog.alexgirard.com/openmoko-projects-round-up/ Once and for all, I'll try to remember how to reflash a router after installing OpenWRT: Download last version of DD-WRT Enter terminal scp dd-wrt.v24_std_generic.bin root@192.168.1.1: ssh root@192.168.1.1 mtd -r write dd-wrt.bin linux http://blog.alexgirard.com/router-flashing-from-openwrt-to-dd-wrt/ After few months of wordpress-mu customization for BBVAblogs, we're currently opening the code so you all can play with it. Here are the links to follow the dev of this platform: Project page: manual, feature requests and bugs Source code: version control with git, clone it, fork it, enjoy it! It includes wordpress-mu with ... http://blog.alexgirard.com/blogsfera-localized-wordpress-mu/ Milestone achieve by Adrian and Vik of the RepRap community, they've replicated entirely a Darwin machine, and this child is beginning to print itself another printer! Adrian (left) and Vik (right) with a parent RepRap machine, made on a conventional rapid prototyper, and the first complete working child RepRap machine, made ... http://blog.alexgirard.com/reprap-first-complete-replication/ With dozens of ssh connections each days, you better need a shortcut way to make it faster. Frustation comes to a end with this script: #!/usr/bin/env ruby -wKU servers = [ {:id => 0, :alias => "aiko", :ip => "server_ip", :login => "ssh_login", :port => "ssh_port"} ] # Read ... http://blog.alexgirard.com/script-ssh-connect-shortcut/