Scott Nicholas

This mp3 player is old. Dunno where it surfaced from, but I got it. Doesn't work in 2000 because it uses MTP mode rather than register as a USB Storage Device. You can replace the firmware. After enough googling to realize the better way is to get a USB firmware, vs trying to get MTP to work (screw all that, Windows Media Player 9 is a waste of space too), I found this:

http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/Talk:PortablePlayersSamsungYepp

15 Feburary 2007 post is the firmware I loaded. K, enjoy your extra drive letter! :)

Already people making it portable. I guess they all use the nightly builds, which I haven't gotten to work on 2000. I thought the OS at work wasn't gonna run this at all but I took my installed Chrome from home, zipped it up, emailed it to work, and voila. The beta release, build 1583, does work at work! Here it is --

chrome1583.zip

Japanese people are amazingly smart. I was able to change my user-agent as one blog suggested to download the Google Chrome setup, but it wouldn't run... So I downloaded the files in a zip. It warned about Windows 2000 not being supported, started like it was going to do something and had one of them fatal errors. Why bother trying the next approach then...? Because I tried the browser and like it. It is faster, and any gain in speed on an EeePC is much appreciated!

• Original blog in Japanese
• Google Translation of said blog.
• Local copy: chrome2k.zip

Download …

This'll work on many handsets, but here are the step-by-step I used on the Nokia 6086. I use the free dial-up service provided by NoCharge. $6/m t-zones is enough to use opera mini and google maps, but I was minimizing my plan and dropped it, since I hardly ever use these, but they can help if on a road trip and you get lost :)

Start in Menu > Settings > Configuration > Personal configuration settings. Then Options > Add New > Access Point.

Account Name: NoCharge CSD
Access Point Settings...
Data Bearer: GSM data
Bearer Settings...
Dial-up number: 3604692222
Authentication type: Normal
Data call …

T-mobile US highly restricts java applications, especially on their Nokia handsets. With my previous phone, the Nokia 6133, you could flash to an unbranded firmware and run anything. It was great. But now I have a Nokia 6086 ...

The Nokia 6086 has many certificates installed on it. Go to Menu > Settings > Security > Authority certificates > Certificate list to view them.

One certificate of interest is GeoTrust CA for UTI. UTI is Unified Testing Initiative, or Java Verified. This is the certificate real applications will get, such as Google Mobile Maps.

If you visit http://m.google.com/gmm you'll be presented …

=== YOU DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK THESE INSTRUCTIONS ARE PROVIDED WITH NO WARRENTY Please read blog comments before attempting this to see other peoples feedback first. ===

Okay, we all know aircrack from debian etch works, but it's old. We also know injection requires a build environment, kernel sources, and loads of other fun. I made this and just got to test it on a newly recovered Eee pc. Not by choice, but that's another story. Simply put -- Never use Paragon's partition resizer on your ext2 filesystem!

• Download http://scottn.us/aircrack-1.0b2+madwifi-r3366+ar5007.tgz
• Open a console with …

[22:47] protonmatt: you go outside?
[22:47] neutron scott: why
[22:47] neutron scott: it snowed
[22:47] protonmatt: lunar eclipse?
[22:47] protonmatt: duh
[22:47] neutron scott: fuck that
[22:47] protonmatt: i thought you were a nerd.
[22:48] protonmatt: you disappoint me
[22:48] neutron scott: i only look at solar eclipses
[22:51] neutron scott: you watch the shit nigga?
[22:51] neutron scott: it ends right now huh
[22:55] protonmatt: yeah
[22:55] protonmatt: i watched it
[22:56] neutron scott: whats it about
[22:57] protonmatt: wait what?
[22:58] neutron …

I bought myself a Mio C320 at RadioShack yesterday for $200. They had a great sale on memory cards, so I got a 4GB SDHC card too. Plenty of room for hacks, right? Yeah. The forum I got the unlock stuff from is very tough to navigate I think. For those interested, this is what I used. So what can an "Unlocked" GPS do? I'd think a lot more than what I've got so far. Of course Windows CE 5.0 Core it could run most of those Pocket PC programs. Screen size and orientation are different, of course. You …

So I was bored and had spent some time in PA this weekend to visit the kids. My brother in law was there and asked for Madden 08 for the old hacked XBOX I have for my boys. I burnt it, and plan to bring it up next visit...

My roommate here has an XBOX but no games or controllers at the moment. Used XBOX controller is still $20 at GameStop! geesh. Well, MechAssault is $3 used, saw 1 8MB MadCatz memory card for $10, and a dongle for $3. Get home and splice the dongle into a USB cable …

i got back in the shop and saw emergency vehicles deploying to the airfield. a buddy goes, "watch this."

i just saw a harrier land without it's front landing gear down. the nose bounced off the deck twice.

it was pretty rad. :)