The upgrade process was fairly simple. I already had a rooted G1 with 2.22.19.26i radio. All I had to do was install the Danger SPL and the ROMs. check cyanogenmods wiki for more instructions.

My review of the new ROM is as follows
Pros:
Supports ad hoc networking without having to edit tiwlan and wpa_supplicant

Cons:
Does not connect to adhoc network automatically
Serious lag issues (could it be my phone only, lmk)

One of my apps got suspended today! I wish google would have given the devs a chance to voice their opinion before going and deleting everything that has NBA in the title. Here is a letter I received from them and a copy of the complaint sent by someone at the NBA:

This is a notification that the application, Houston Rockets Pro Theme NBA with package ID mobi.bbase.ahome.theme.rockets has been removed from Android Market due to a violation of the Developer Content Policy. Please review the Content Policies and Business and Program Policies before you create or upload additional applications. Note that repeated violations may result in a suspension of your Android Market Publisher account.

The Android Market Team

and another email:

Google has been notified that some of your materials allegedly infringe

Here is a copy of the complaint sent by some Sacha Tarrant of the NBA:

Android market trademark complaint

So in conclusion, anyone can send in a complaint and google will suspend your app without looking into it.

Download lame and mplayer:

sudo apt-get install lame mplayer

convert rm to wav:

mplayer islam77.rm -ao pcm:file=islam77.wav

convert wav to mp3:

lame --tt "title" --ta "author" --tl "album" --id3v2-only islam77.wav islam77.mp3

adapted from Ubuntuforums.org

Wanted to switch out the hard drive in my Vaio T350P, but realized its a 1.8″. Disappointed. Also the ram is microdimm (more expensive).

Remove the screws on the back


Push back the clip behind the F5 and Num lock to remove the keyboard.

Carefully remove the ribbon for the keyboard.

power button comes right off.

slide off the other side.

remove screw


you can access the RAM here. pull off ribbon in the center.


and 3 ribbons near the fan and take off the top cover.


remove this ribbon to access HD


here’s your HD


full view

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Disconnect the Negative Terminal on the battery

Stick a Screwdriver on the side of the AC panel and it should pop off

Remove the four screws around the AC panel and place it on the side

Pull up here

Remove the screws around the CD player

And here

And here

Disconnect the wires

Install the Scocshe adapter

And the wire harness

Now you can put on your MP3/CD player /Stereo and reverse the steps for the Install.

You’ve heard of 1800-FREE-411.  It’s a 411 directory service that doesn’t charge you the 1.49 that mobile companies do.  They started a new promotion which allows you to call them and dial any International number and talk for 5 minutes.  Why free? Well, the catch is that you have to listen to their advertisement before placing your call.

Now the offer is valid for any person who can dial a 1800 number and if you live in the US, then the call is free, however, you can dial 1800 numbers free from Internet phones like Yahoo messenger, gizmo or skype.

Las time I installed BackTrack 4 using Unetbootin. This time I Installed Windows 7 to my Hard drive without using an external CD player.  Instead I used an external hard drive.  Can also be done with USB.

I already have Ubuntu installed so I downloaded Unetbootin and I obtained the Windows 7 DVD in ISO format.

I fired up Gparted and made a 10GB partition for Win 7 and formatted the partition used for install and the external hard drive with NTFS.

Changed the permissions of the Unetbootin file:
chmod 777 /home/user/Desktop/unetbootin-linux-372

Fired up Unetbootin, entered my password and selected the Win7  iso and changed the type to hard disk.  Here make sure you select the right partition of your external drive.  you can type df -h in terminal to make sure.:

Press Ok and wait

Reboot and have your BIOS boot from external drive or hold down F12 to select.

The installation is self explanatory.  I installed the WIndows 7 to a logical partition.  After installation, I had to boot up into an Ubuntu live installation and fix grub like I did here.  Opened menu.lst for editing the grub menu:

sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

Add this to the end of the file and close:
title Microsoft Windows 7
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

Last time I installed BT3 on mt Lenovo X60 here. This time I tried a different method without using the external CD player.

I already have Ubuntu installed so I downloaded Unetbootin and the BackTrack 4 Beta ISO.

I fired up Gparted and made a 6GB partition for BT4 and formatted it with reiserfs to avoid the ext3 checks.

Changed the permissions of the Unetbootin file:
chmod 777 /home/user/Desktop/unetbootin-linux-372

Fired up Unetbootin, entered my password and selected the BT4 iso and changed the type to hard disk:

Pressed Ok and let it do its thang

Reboot

When it restarts you have to select Unetbootin from the Grub menu and this will boot into Backtrack. My BackTrack partition I will install on is sda7 and BT4 automatically mounted it to /mnt/sda7

if not, you can mount your drive by typing:
mkdir /mnt/sda7
mount /dev/sda7 /mnt/sda7
replace sda7 with your partition

now, copy the required files from the pseudo-live cd to the hard drive:

cp -pr /{bin,dev,home,pentest,root,usr,boot,lib,etc,opt,sbin,var} /mnt/sda7/
mkdir /mnt/sda7/{mnt,proc,sys,tmp}
mount –bind /dev/ /mnt/sda7/dev/
mount -t proc proc /mnt/sda7/proc/

The installation is done, now you can reboot back into Ubuntu and load Unetbootin again. It will ask you to remove the changes it made earlier and select yes. Close unetbootin and open menu.lst for editing the grub menu:

sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

Add this to the end of the file and close:

title BackTrack 4 KDE
rootnoverify (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz vga=0×361 root=/dev/sda7 ro quiet splash autoexec=xconf;kdm
boot

title BackTrack 4 shell
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz ro root=/dev/sda7 vga=0×361
boot

My next post will be about getting the Broadcom wireless on the Lenovo S10 to work in BT4.

First you will need cydia to download fuzzyband. When fuzzyband detects your modem version it will ask you to uprade. click on upgrade:

* your screen will say OS 2.2.1

Now start up iTunes and update to the latest 3.0.1

Download redsn0w here

Download the 3.0 ipsw file here

Extract the redsn0w zip file and start redsn0w.exe
Browse for the ipsw file and follow the directions.

After jailbreaking the phone, you need to unlock it with ultrasn0w.

Download ultrasn0w
Goto cydia -> manage -> sources -> edit -> add
enter http://repo666.ultrasn0w.com

return to cydia, hit done and select the new repo you just added.

Install ultrasn0w and follow instructions.

You are now unlocked!