10 posts tagged “geek”
At this point, hacking the iPhone is pretty easy, provided you have a reasonable grasp of UNIX, Google-fu, and patience. I finally got MobileTerminal running this evening, after mucking around with various source and binary installs of the iPhone toolchain, binkit, iPHUC and other bits. The real kicker was the 1970s-era shell that you’re forced to use until you take care of the necessary bits to install Bash. Things of note:
- All the usual bin utils run fine.
- SCP, once you get it working, works fine.
- You can start graphical apps remotely, and they come up on the screen.
- You can kill them like any other process.
For the most part it’s just like any other UNIX box. I can’t wait to start mucking with UIKit.
Best overheard comment on Apple’s new iPhone:
It’s the same price as a PlayStation 3.
At home, I have two Macs: A MacBook Pro for work/email/gaming, and a Mini in my living room for watching movies, listening to music, etc. I was looking for a way to control iTunes on the Mini (it will have the large library as soon as I can de-dupe and wrestle it off this NTFS partition) from my MacBook and came across this extremely handy (and open-source to boot) OS X app:
Adobe has given the Flash ActionScript (ECMAScript or JavaScript 2.0) interpreter to the Mozilla foundation as the new open source core of SpiderMonkey, the JavaScript engine for Firefox. It's called Tamarin. Brilliant.
Recently dug up some old photos, er screenshots from the days when I was a graphics geek. I'm supposed to give a presentation about same one of these Thursdays.
There is a god, and [s]he is Japanese. I wonder how much hacking it will take to sever the wires...
