Cyanogen 4.2.1 G1 Dream HTC
My G1 is the new proud owner of Cyanogen 4.2.1 ROM.
IF you are CM fans, you will know how great this ROM is as compared to some of the others in the 4.1.9xxx territory.
Now, my G1 had some problems with 4.2….they are listed below.
no matter what I did, wipe, flash. wipe, flash,wipe. wipe,flash recovery,flash,wipe, fix_permissions….my problem did not decided to leave, it wanted to stick around. The problem, browser, and market, along with opening emails just closed the app altogether.
after checking on XDA-forums for multiple hours, someone had the exact same problem as i did. He referenced re-copying the file located in /system/bin named libwebcore.so , so i extracted that from a ROM that i knew it worked with 4.1.99. so down to a terminal i go and “adb remount” then “adb push libwebcore.so /system/lib” and reboot!
Volia! everything is working great and with the speed of 4.2.1 I must say this injects new life into my G1.
Remote RDP
yesterday i finally purchased Remote RDP for my G1 android. Not too shabby, it does a pretty good job at RDP connectivity even over 3G (WIFI is more stable of course) but this app is pretty great! Now i can connect and make the changes i need to on my windows server boxes from pretty much anywhere.
The full version supports multiple saved connections, resolution, audio and SD card integration. Try it i think you will like it especially if you are an admin like me 
check it out at http://toremote.com
Wordpress + Spam
Ok while i must admit that i am new to this whole blogging thing, the amount of comment SPAM this site is getting is rediculous! terrible really.
While the SPAM plugin is taking care of the 95% that is coming in, i still get about 10 comment posts / day that are complete garbage, i dont really mind deleting them but I cant help to think that my analytics on the site are going to be totally skewed when all the connectng spammers IP s are parsed.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to deal with this problem?
Kevin Smith on twitter @thatkevinsmith
OK, so i thought that being able to follow Kevin on twitter would be great http://twitter.com/thatKevinSmith. Maybe this would be a good way to get the know the man better WTF is going! While i understand and appreciate that he is trying to respond to his fans…i mean literally he’s been posting every 2min today and filling up my view with SHIT.
Messasge to Kevin,
While i am a big fan of all the movies well…90% of them (i’ll keep you guessing which i think you were more intresting PRE twitter, now you just seem to be annoying and rather having my image of you tainted by your constant tweets. I have thus decided to unfollow you and look forward to your next flick !
Keep it real.
Regards.
99designs attempt.
Posted by admin in General, Online Services on September 1, 2009
Well yesterday I signed up at 99designs. I heard a little about it and thought id giver a try. Looking to redesign a site that I have for one of my businesses.
How it works (from what i gather) is u pay a fee, depending on the package you choose, they open your project to all their registered designers they can choose to work on ur site. You then review all the people that submit entries and choose a winner. Which ever site you choose is the site you end up purchasing. My entry only lasts 7 days then im not sure what happens if there are no submission or not enough?
what happens if there is only 1 submission? eh.
I chose the mid tier package (wordpress based) and opted for coding as well. So I think I’m in for about 1000 USD for this, don’t know what to really expect. But will keep you updated check it out. They do logos and other items. 99designs.com
- Update Sept 2 2:20pm
so far no entires!
Stay tuned.
- Update Sept 7 and my contest is ending in hours.
Very interesting thus far, most of the designs didnt start coming in until the last couple of days. needless to say the designs are better and more targeted to what i was looking for.
leaving feedback is crucial and found that updates to the designs were happening in real time, and i was tough to get off the computer! i found myself responding to queries and comments all day. Now there is a different issue. i rated a design i liked the most so far then everyone just started ripping it off. so now i am faces with a moral dilemma…do i choose what i like or the person that came up with the original design PRE rip off.
stay tuned yet again.
- Update – contest has ended.
contest has ended and I now have 14days to make a decision on who will be chosen the winning design. So i will take a couple of days to think and I will let you know how the POST experience is using 99designs. I have also chosen thier coding services so lets see how that goes.
the designs were OK, they look like slightly modified templates that i have really already seen around, i am anxious to see if there are any hurdles to overcome to get the finished product up and running on my host.
Gmail and Google APPS OFFLINE DOWN!
As of now 4:20 EST time, since about 3:40pm GMAIL is Down.
Taken from the status page.
We’re aware of a problem with Google Mail affecting a majority of users. The affected users are unable to access Google Mail. We will provide an update by September 1, 2009 4:53:00 PM UTC-4 detailing when we expect to resolve the problem. Please note that this resolution time is an estimate and may change.
Hatred towards MS outlook grows
In short PS freaking T’s
As of now have been sitting here for 30min while i do a backup of someones mailbox, so export to PST and who knows how much longer and it will be complete at some point i suppose. While outlook is exporting the Disk I/O is pegged out rendering the machine pretty much useless until it’s done. Then i will end up with a 2-4GB file that may or may not be corrupted.
I rather much enjoy my Gmail experince, no bluky client, fast, incredible search and not having to worry about backing up my data.
Google – 1 (no need to do backups)
MS - 0 (need to do backups for sanity sake, and incase your HD dies)
Back with review of Android G1 – HTC DREAM
So I figure that I would start but letting you all know that i have officially switched from using a blackberry to an Android phone. It’s rather shocking to me too as I have been using a blackberry device for approx 10years. The main reason for switching? I suppose the blackberry is somewhat falling behind the times with its rather useless browser and multimedia applications. I have been using the G1 for about 6 weeks now and here are my thoughts.
So got the HTC G1 because the idea of having a keyboard seemed like the right choice for me.
Impressions after 6weeks….
I really like the Android platform, it is flexible, open and rather easy to use.
The Hardware needs much improvement. The handset feels cheap and underpowered, as well as lacking a 3.5mm headphone jack and the standard battery is one of the worst I have seen. I ended up buying an extended battery that turns this phone literally into a brick. (see photo) but this battery lasts forever 3 full days of average to heavy use. (but i cant find a case for it 
)
The integration with GMAIL is truly great! Syncing real-time push on my mail, contacts, calendar and is a pleasure to use. I am also a google premier user so my business email is also real time syncing.
There are hundreds of free applications that are great and do provide to be very useful. some of the applications i am using are AKnotepad, twitterride, thinking space, flixster. Of course you need to be careful not to put too many applications on this phone as it WILL bog down. This happened to me a a did a factory reset to bring it back out of SLUG mode.
The Browser is decent and very usable i quite like it, pages are viewable and the screen res is pretty good. I do get 3G reception, but something seems off…It doesn’t really feel like 3G speed to me i think this has to do with the underpowered processor in this phone, everything seems to be slower than usual. I would say that the Internet speed on 3G is slightly below average compared to other phones I have used on my carrier (ROGERS) – Yes I am in Canada.
Looking back im not sure i really need the keyboard, seeing that all phones eventually will not have keyboards, I’d better get used to it!
I think i will stick with the G1 handset for a little while until the other manufacturers (samsung, sony , lg etc) start releasing their newer phones using the android platform.
I will continue to post thoughts on this phone as i continue to use it.
TF
Funny, Digg tells me to F U K N T
Thought this was quite amusing when i was posting an article on DIGG…How rude! LOL, well i thought it was pretty funny!
Clean those annoying viruses
So the last few weeks have been quite fun, viruses are rampant and getting ever more annoying. There a are a couple of progs i want to recommend. first in the antivirus realm is NOD32, by far the best scanner in my opinion. I have used pretty much all of them and think the guys at NOD32 are doing a great job, although the online support is lacking.
second on the list is MalwareBytes, this was referred to me by a buddy a while ago and does a great job cleaning ADWARE and other stuff the AV might not detect.
3rdly is somthing i actually just used today. called combofix works great for removing rootkits. This is what actually clean a machine for me when both NOD and Mal-ware failed.
Using these 3 in tandem is a greatway of covering most of your bases.
TF
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