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Friday, January 07, 2011

Google Reader Pentadactyl Passkeys

To pass useful keyboard shortcuts to Google Reader through Pentadactyl.

The first command sets the passkeys property and takes a url, and list of keys.
The second command stores the options to your rc file, overwriting if necessary.

:set passkeys+='https://www\.google\.com/reader':nplmsSt
:mkp!

Wednesday, December 08, 2010

Properly Removing HTC News and Stocks

This article explains how to properly remove the HTC News and Stocks item from a HTC Desire without causing the Sync Accounts to be messed up. This is a fairly advanced topic, and should not be done without reading this entire article. No warranty of any kind is provided with these instructions, any consequences of you following these directions are yours to bear.

You will need the following tools:

A rooted HTC Desire, or maybe another HTC android device.
ADB, and some knowledge of a linux shell.
SQLite3, and some knowledge of SQL.
Text editor (vim, etc)

Shut down the phone and reboot into recovery mode.

Open a shell, and use ADB to pull the following files.

/data/system/accounts.db
/data/system/sync/accounts.xml

Open accounts.xml in a text editor and remove the News and Stocks entries.

...

Save the file and exit.

Open the sqlite database accounts.db and remove the News and Stocks entries from the accounts table.

sqlite> select * from accounts;
1|News|com.htc.newsreader|
2|Weather|com.htc.sync.provider.weather|
3|Stocks|com.htc.android.Stock|
sqlite> delete from accounts where _id = 1;
sqlite> delete from accounts where _id = 3;

You can also clear the authtokens, grants, and extras tables of related entries. The following is an example of clearing the authtokens table with the accounts_ids from above.

sqlite> delete from authtokens where accounts_id in (1,3);

Exit from SQLite.

Remove the following files from the /system/app directory.
Note: this list also includes the Footprints application.

DCSStock.apk
DCSStock.odex
Stock.apk
Stock.odex
com.htc.StockWidget.apk
com.htc.StockWidget.odex

NewsReader.apk
NewsReader.odex
com.htc.NewsReaderWidget.apk
com.htc.NewsReaderWidget.odex

HtcFootprints.apk
HtcFootprints.odex
HtcFootprintsWidget.apk
HtcFootprintsWidget.odex

Exit the ADB shell and click "reboot" on the phone.

Thursday, July 16, 2009

DD

DD
Originally uploaded by durgis

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Fishing Dart Weekend

Fishing Dart Weekend
Originally uploaded by durgis

Finally got the pictures from the fishing trip we went on during the extended weekend in the 'North Woods'.

Monday, June 22, 2009

Windows XP IIS SMTP Relay Setup

Install IIS from Windows component installer

Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Internet Information Services

(local computer) -> Default SMTP Virtual Server -> Domains

Right Click on Domains -> New -> Domain...

Select Remote, Next

Enter domain name (eg, google.com), Next

Right click on new domain name -> Properties

Check 'Allow incoming mail to be relayed to this domain'

Route Domain: Select 'Use DNS to route to this domain'

Wednesday, April 08, 2009

DD

DD
Originally uploaded by durgis

Saturday, March 28, 2009

hbloader

I got the following error while attempting to compile hbloader (a boot loader for the mc68hc11 Handy Board)

~/Desktop/hbloader-1.23 $ make m6811-elf-as -o hbtalker.elf hbtalker.s make: m6811-elf-as: Command not found make: *** [hbtalker.s19] Error 127

I am on Ubuntu 8.10, and have installed the m68hc11 gcc compiler packages available in the Universe repository; which was done using the following command.

sudo aptitude install gcc-m68hc1x gdb-m68hc1x newlib-m68hc1x

I noticed that the Ubuntu packages had slightly different names for the compiler. m68hc11-as versus m6811-elf-as which was used in the Makefile. New makefile is as follows.

all: SRecord.o S19Parser.o hbloader hbtalker.s19

SRecord.o: SRecord.hpp SRecord.cpp
g++ -c SRecord.cpp

S19Parser.o: S19Parser.hpp S19Parser.cpp
g++ -c S19Parser.cpp

hbloader: hbloader.cpp S19Parser.o SRecord.o
g++ -o hbloader hbloader.cpp S19Parser.o SRecord.o \
&& echo "Succesful build."

hbtalker.s19: hbtalker.s
m68hc11-as -o hbtalker.elf hbtalker.s
m68hc11-objcopy --only-section=.text --only-section=.rodata \
--only-section=.vectors --only-section=.data \
--output-target=srec hbtalker.elf hbtalker.s19 \

m68hc11-objcopy --only-section=.text --only-section=.rodata \
--only-section=.vectors --only-section=.data \
--output-target=binary hbtalker.elf hbtalker.b

clean:
rm -f *.o a.out *.core *.s19 *.elf *.o *.b *.rel *.lst hbloader

Man I haven't played with my 68HC11 Handy Board in so long; never did I try it on Linux before.

Saturday, March 21, 2009

First Bloom

First Bloom
Originally uploaded by durgis

Message:
The first fuchsia blossom of the year. I cleaned up the back yard today, just couldn't stay inside. Planted the lilies of the valley my mom dug up for me last fall.

Friday, March 20, 2009

Skype

Just got Skype working with pulse audio on my desktop in Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10. Installed the medibuntu package, and had to restart before the sounds would work properly.

Sound Preferences:
Sound Capture: HDA ATI SB ALC885 Analog (Alsa)

Audio Controls:
Playback:
Front Mic: 80% Volume
Front Mic Boost: 80% Volume

Recording:
Capture: Unmuted 1/3 volume

Switches:
Headphone checked
IEC958 Default PCM checked

Options:
Channel Mode: 6ch
Input Source (x3): Front Mic

Skype Audio Options:
All Pulse
Allow Skype to automatically adjust my mixer levels unchecked.