Last few days i was playing with an Infocast 8″, the goal was to change the base OS provided by Insignia Inc. and replace it with the Angstrom Linux Kernel provided by the Chumby OpenEmbedded packages builder. For some reason there’s no similar images available for download.
FTDI Interface
After doing minor tweaks to the chumby-oe project, get some help from Guy Carpenter (thanks!) and fix some bitbake files, i managed to create a new bootable image with Wifi support (i mention this because the Marvel wifi chip requires some specific firmware files)
Infocast 8 booting Angstrom Linux Kernel
Now connect to the Wifi AP is a little tricky, you need to set something in the following order:
# iwpriv mlan0 setregioncode 0×10
# ifconfig mlan0 up
# iwconfig mlan0 mode managed
# iwconfig mlan0 key YOUR_WEP_KEY
# iwconfig mlan0 key on
# iwconfig mlan0 essid YOUR_ESSID
# udhcpc -i mlan0
After that you will be able to connect to your AP and have network access.
You can download the ROM image from here, or if you prefer, you can browse the whole content. Once you get the ROM image you need to burn it into the internal 2G SD Card, you can do it with: dd if=rom-chumby-silvermoon-chumby-starter-image.img of=/dev/sdX bs=8M. Make sure before to run the dd command, do a manual umount for each partition.
El dia 22 de Octubre pasado, en el segundo día del Encuentro Linux 2010, el proyecto Monkey y su comunidad, participaparon dando la charla Monkey, the Next Generation Web Server, donde cubrimos los tópicos de arquitectura y creación de plugins básico.
El auditorio donde se realizo la charla estuvo casi lleno, lo cual es una buena señal de que el proyecto Monkey va bien encaminado y una comunidad va creciendo poco a poco. Un proyecto de software libre sin comunidad no perdura en el tiempo, es por eso que uno de nuestros nuevos focos es evangelilar e integrar a quienes deseen participar activamente.
Muchas gracias a la Organización del Encuentro Linux y a todos aquellos interesados que estan sumandose para ser un Primate mas XD
Más fotos…(slideshow)
Tenemos poleras de Monkey Project a $7.000!!!
Monkey HTTP Daemon es un servidor web de nueva generación, te esperamos en el Encuentro Linux donde expondremos los siguientes topicos del proyecto:
- Servicios
- Protocolos
- Arquitectura
- Escalabilidad
- Monkey API
- Plugins
- …
Today i was reading the Ubuntu planet and i saw a very interesting post from Jono Bacon who mentioned a new and useful tool called Quickly. As described in the official site:
“Quickly strives to make programming easy and fun by bringing opinionated choices about how to write different kinds of programs to developers. Included is a Ubuntu application template for making applications that integrate smoothly into the Ubuntu software infrastructure.”
I gave a try to the tool and i can say that it really simplifies the process when you start to create a new PyGTK application, if you want to start a simple app and use Glade for the interface, you have to design the main window, load glade file, catch window events and others… the same routine every time. With Quickly, you start a new project from the command line and it created the whole necessary files and structures, it has commands to edit files, edit in glade, create debian packages and push bundles to launchpad… if you want to start to write quikcly applications start with the following commands:
- sudo apt-get install quickly
- quickly create ubuntu-project my_first_project
- cd my_first_project
- quickly run
Other additional commands:
- quickly package: create Debian package
- quickly release: push project to launchpad
- quickly tutorial: load HTML tutorials
- quickly glade: open quickly Glade project in Glade
- quickly dialog somename: add a GTK dialog window to Glade project
While i was traveling on a Boeing plane this morning (1am) from Ecuador to Chile, i was watching a movie in the Seat-TV system until something weird happens: all monitors from the plane got frozen with a blue screen and a few ones with a error message as:
warning: mysql_connect(), cannot connect to local MySQL server through
socket ‘/tmp/mysql.sock’ (11) in /thales/apps/250paxeui/lan/backend/dbapi/dbConnection.php on line 9
could not connect, cannot connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/tmp/mysql.sock’ (11)
(yes, i turned on my laptop to copy the text,)
oh!, Lan is using MySQL + PHP as UI to let the user choose between movies, games..etc, that’s cool, which is not is why the MySQL server is down ? after that i realized that under my seat a mini computer was connected so i can assume that they are using a terminal client and a central server on the plane…there were no much to do… i think that somebody had to reboot the server twice to get the system back properly.
Interesting as free software is flying over the world 
Today is my birthday!, i’m very happy enjoying a great time with my wife… it’s being a nice day
When you have a pretty cool gadget as an Ipod Touch, you should give it an useful use…
Yesterday I started a new project called Gmote, a remote controller for GNOME applications, what’s the idea?, just control basic features of your running applications and Desktop using an external device with network access and a browser…
The UI is very simple to use, just select a communication port and an application template. Let’s describe how it works:
Gemote includes a very simple webserver, so you just need to choose the communication port where the server will be listening for incoming connections and the application template which describe the commands availables for the client connections, eg: if user wants to share Gnome control, the client will see a simple web page with buttons to control the audio: Raise, Lower and Mute. If user choose OpenOffice Presentation template, the browser will get buttons to control: Next, Previous and Quit.
The browser send the commands to the Gmote web server, every template define by configuration which commands are allowed to be executed and the server restrict which are not in the white list.
Steps to run it:
1) Start the service
2) Connect to your server with an external device using the server ip address an port like http://172.16.1.10:2009
If you want to try it, please download the latest snapshot version from: http://edsiper.linuxchile.cl/gmote_snapshots/
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Dependencies:
- xmacro
- GTK
- PyGTK
- Glade
- Python
