Comments for Tsukasa's ramblings

Comment on NCSS Python Golf by Smerity

Smerity — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:33:38 +0000

No mention of second place on 106 bytes? Bah! :P

Congrats Nick – and damn you and those three last bytes!

Comment on Always discoverable on Android by Tsukasa

Tsukasa — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:04:46 +0000

Make sure you are using the busybox chown.

The chown binary that is normally installed on the device only works with user names (rather than a UID as I am using here).

Comment on Always discoverable on Android by Hank

Hank — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:51:26 +0000

Hi, thanks for this helpful trick, however the bit with the chown intrigues me. I have a custom, rooted ROM image flashed onto my phone but chown gives me a “1002 user does not exist” message or something like that. What’s the mechanism there? Is this a bug in chown? What is it that the non-standard ROM images do that make it work?

Comment on Always discoverable on Android by Darryl

Darryl — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:23:17 +0000

Im struggling to get this to work on the Hero. browsing with root/su to /data/misc/hcid/ reveals an empty directory. Would be good if anyone else with a Hero can confirm this as default.

I have managed to successfully complete up to line 10.

Any change of getting your appended/modified hcid_config file to try and push back onto my hero? I’ll post the results here to share with all.

Thanks for pointing everyone in the right direction though. Would be nice if the upcoming API had a simple switch for this, or someone could code an app.

Comment on Always discoverable on Android by Tsukasa

Tsukasa — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:51:41 +0000

I do not know if this will work on the HTC Hero (or on the modaco ROM) as I own a HTC Dream (this has been tested on both one of JF’s and cyanogen’s ROMs). I suggest you back up your phone before attempting anything.

As for running this in a terminal emulator on the phone, it should be possible (I didn’t do it due to the amount of typing required). It is also easier to perform this change from linux/mac machine than on the device itself. If you decide to attempt it on the phone, the first step would be to become the root user (using su -).

Then remount the system partition RW, this should be possible with “mount -o remount,rw /”. You will then need to edit the files mentioned in the post by hand: ‘/system/etc/bluez/hcid.conf’ and ‘/data/misc/hcid/*/config’ (your ROM might contain an editor such as vi). After that, just restart the bluetooth subsystem.

Comment on Always discoverable on Android by Darryl

Darryl — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:49:27 +0000

Will the modaco ROM be ok for this edit?

Is this modification possible by using term. emulator directly on the phone (HTC Hero)? If you, what commands (other than remount) are needing modification?

Comment on Reversing Latitude by Greg Darke

Greg Darke — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:37:08 +0000

It seems that the data produced by latitude is actually meant to be JSON data… At least they are parsing it as JSON, it is just that they are using ‘eval’ to parse it, which allows a slightly different syntax.

This is highlighted by the fact that the latitude gadget no-longer works in Firefox 3.5 (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=498691) as 3.5 has a native JSON interface.

Comment on Handy bash one liner for getting the ip address of a host by Risaer

Risaer — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:06:43 +0000

Another little example (using ping and sed) is:
ping -c 1 -s 1 -t 1 SERVERNAME|sed -n “s/).*//;s/.*(//p”

for my Fritzbox 7170 with freetz I need to change -t to -w (donnow why)

Comment on Making RSS less crap – Feed Fixer by jenn

jenn — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:09:05 +0000

Interesting, but I think some people have a reason for doing that…to get you visiting their pages and potentially clicking on ads. -wry- Then again, I don’t use rss much — too much to read — so I just use Firefox’s live bookmark function. (with bookmark additional info) Even then, too lazy to check. XD

Thanks for reading my blog, by the way. :) I don’t set the rss options (today.com told us they were changing the rss to summary-only for ‘visit page click ad’ reason ._.), but if I had a choice, I’d probably let whoever’s subscribing just pick whatever they want. -squints and tries to remember what options there were on blogspot- Hrmm.

Comment on Making RSS less crap – Feed Fixer by Tsukasa

Tsukasa — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 05:32:32 +0000

Hmm, I just found a GreaseMonkey plugin that does something similar… Though it only works for google reader.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/19949