Well, looks like this is my first post of the year… Happy 2010!! I bricked my Android phone about 2 months ago. I know, pretty lame. But all the custom Android builds needed testing, so I thought I’d take a chance. My first attempt was successful, which lead me to believe that rooting the Android was trivial. After a few JF roms, I decided to give Cyanogen a try. The feature I was craving was Apps2SD. It seemed silly that I couldn’t install apps to my SD card. I ended up bricking the phone while flashing hboot to a newer version. After this I lost the recovery console and the bootloader. Thankfully, Randi (freebsdgirl) had an extra G1 around while I wait for my replacement to ship. Thanks Randi!!
The monthly Bay Area FreeBSD User Group was at Hacker Dojo in Mountain View last night. We talked about why a user should run ZFS (thanks Xin Li), installing vanilla FreeBSD with the PC-BSD installer, and why sysinstall should die (thanks again Randi! lol jkjk!!!). Overall, it was an entertaining and informative evening.
I am going to Camp KDE in San Diego tonight and staying til Monday afternoon. Kris Moore will be presenting “KDE4 on PC-BSD: Creating a User-Friendly Desktop”. The schedule is posted here: http://camp.kde.org/schedule.html. I’ll be rocking the Lenovo S10-2 with PC-BSD 8.0 Beta. In fact, I am getting it loaded with PBI’s right now.
If I can keep the battery charged, I plan on using my Android to post some live video blogs to http://qik.com/jnixon. You can also watch the live stream or archived videos on this blog.
