Gormleys
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kindle devkey problems?
Hi, a number of people have reported problems with my kindle devkeys 0.2 and the 3.1 firmware. I can't seem to replicate the problem here on two kindles (both K3GB - UK wifi+3G). I've just reinstalled…
Kindle 3.1 jailbreak
Cool, looks like there's now a Kindle 3.1 jailbreak! See here. Update: The latest jailbreak is available from the normal mobileread thread, here. I've confirmed it works with installing my devkeys.
Kindle auto-updates
Just got an email from Amazon saying if I turn my Kindle on and leave it connected to WIFI for a few minutes it'll automatically download and install the latest firmware update. Be careful with your j…
Kindle firmware 3.1
I've been doing some playing about with the recent kindle 3.1 firmware release. The salient points are: 1. The jailbreak can no longer be installed because Amazon have patched the busybox tar exploit…
Pickit2 Logic Analyser in pypickit
I've finally got round to implementing this in pypickit. The Microchip Pickit2 device has a built in logic analyser mode available in its Windows application. I've implemented support for it in my pyp…
Merging developer keystores on the Kindle
It is obvious that more than one person will want to write homebrew for the Kindle. However, with my (now defunct) adqdevkeys-0.1 package, it just copies the file over whatever is already there, so we…
Switching to Virtualbox and getting Snow Leopard to work in a VM
Originally I had been trying to get Snow Leopard to work in qemu-kvm, and it kind of does; I had even thought of contributing to that project to make it work even better (e.g. the e1000 emulation does…
HTC Desire HD
My wife bought a new phone the other day, an HTC Desire HD, which means she now has a better phone than I do, grrr! Anyway, within a few hours of receiving it, I had rooted it, removed the security ch…
ipsec-tools / racoon support for Checkpoint VPN-1 proprietary XAUTH authentication
I posted about this a while back, and submitted a patch to the racoon developers list. However, I never heard anything back about it (despite other people asking about it now and then). Is that projec…