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…
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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…
Liveview PCB front
Hi, just posted an updated high res pic of the liveview PCB front: The illegible chip at the bottom middle has "E3030 Z312E" on it
redbus update
Did a spot of redbus development this evening, one politeness fix, one bugfix and one really annoying thing. - Politeness: silence the stop data update alarm. It'll still warn you when updates are ava…
Huffington post article on kindle hacking
See here.
Liveview case clips
To help people out, I've drawn the approximate size and location of the plastic retainer clips holding the liveview together in red on this image. I used a swiss army knife to lever it open blindly :)…