The developer’s made A TON of improvements, the RIL (radio interface library) now works properly so you can send and receive calls, and send and receive text messages (SMS) in a basic fashion now. As soon as I can get write access to a memory card so I can save my contacts someplace, I’ll start running this on a more permanent basis.
A coder in New Zealand bought a HTC Touch (rebranded as an OKTA Touch) wasn’t too impressed with Windows Mobile 6, and has begun porting Google’s Android OS over! His recent released version boots fine, only the joystick and volume keys work, but this a a very good step in the right direction.
Here’s a link to his site:
http://it029000.massey.ac.nz/vogue
I’ll be watching this carefully as I love the idea.
I’ve written a script that dumps the audio and video from an mkv file, encodes the audio into a two channel AAC stream, and remuxes the audio/video into a MP4 wrapper so it’s playable on the Xbox 360. The script is Linux-only, obviously, written in bash using mplayer, normalize-audio, mencoder, MP4Box, mkvinfo, and mkvextract as tools.
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I’ve got to say, I’ve wanted to know this command for a good 3 years.
The ability to know what BIOS version you’re using without rebooting the computer is invaluable to the lazy — at last I’ve found my grail:
dmidecode -s bios-version
dmidecode appears to be a handy command for probing around in hardware, coupled with lshw, that’s all I use.
Hurrah!
