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Changing an Internet radio channel name on the Nokia N800

If you add a new Internet radio channel to your media player library, and it gets some weird name that you don’t like, you can easily change it by editing /home/user/.mediaplayer-engine/radiochannels.m3u

OpenMoko Emulator ready for general use

The MokoMakefile now has support for automatically building, flashing, and running the new OpenMoko emulator (which is based on QEMU).
“make qemu” will build qemu-neo1973, download the latest official openmoko images, flash the images into the virtual NAND flash, and run the emulator.
Other targets are “make download-images” (to download the latest official images), “make flash-qemu-official” (to [...]

MokoMakefile – automated development environment setup for OpenMoko

MokoMakefile is a fully automated way of setting up an OpenMoko development environment. It is an invaluable tool for getting new developers up and running with a build environment which is configured the same as all the other existing developers. It brings the same repeatability to build environment creation and maintenance as that which OpenEmbedded [...]

MokoSlug Custom Firmware for the NSLU2

The NSLU2 is a good low-cost companion server for the Neo 1973 (the initial hardware platform for OpenMoko). It has one 10/100 ethernet port, two USB 2.0 ports, and easily supports connectivity with the Neo via Bluetooth (using a low-cost USB Bluetooth dongle).
I am creating a MokoSlug firmware distribution for the NSLU2 for this [...]

Site conversion

I have just spent a couple of hours converting my old hand-edited www.rwhitby.net site to this brand spanking new Wordpress site. Hopefully this will allow me to actually update the content more often than when I change jobs.

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Time to start a blog

I have often thought about starting a blog, but never quite got around to it. Well, now I have.