If you get this…
Posted in Comics on February 22nd, 2010 by Jan… you’re most definitely a geek.
© Geek And Poke, ofcourse!
… you’re most definitely a geek.
© Geek And Poke, ofcourse!
I’ve moved hosting, from Lunar Pages to OVH. Lunar Pages is a good hosting, but their overselling and price hikes in the last few years made me look for something else.
Other reasons:
If you encounter any oddities, feel free to let me know…
Well, happy newyears to all of you! May your wishes/desires/hopes/
I wanted to test some crap in VMWare, didn’t feel like messing with the entire server thing so went for the player. Unfortunately, this thing doesn’t work against the 2.6.32 kernel.
After installation, you can fix it with as follows (as root):
cd /tmp
tar xf /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmnet.tar
tar xf /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmci.tarcd vmnet-only
sed -i "/vnetInt.h/ a\#include \"compat_sched.h\"" vnetUserListener.ccd ../vmci-only/include
sed -i "/compat_page.h/ a\#include \"compat_sched.h\"" pgtbl.hcd /tmp
tar cf /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmnet.tar vmnet-only
tar cf /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmci.tar vmci-only
and rerun vmplayer.
Note: This is at your own risk. If you fry your phone, your problem, not mine.
I recently got an HTC Hero. Great phone, I’m loving the Android platform. Pity that you don’t have full access to it, and I actually wanted to merge my old phone (Nokia E65)’s SMS database into this one, so I needed full access.
(Un)fortunately, these days the HTC Hero comes with the latest firmware, 2.73.1100.5, which on the one hand makes rooting harder (fixes several bugs and fastboot no longer works) but on the other hand makes the phone respond a lot better.
After some twiddling and reading on the XDA Developers Forum, I came up with this recipe:
Downloads needed:
Howto:
./abd wait-for-deviceAfter a while adb should return to the prompt. Should mean your phone has been found.
./adb push /tmp/asroot2 /data/local/
./adb push /tmp/su /data/local/./adb shellchmod 0755 /data/local/asroot2
/data/local/asroot2 /system/bin/shYour phone should greet you with:
[+] Using newer pipe_inode_info layout
Opening: /proc/564/fd/3
SUCCESS: Enjoy the shell.
#
At this point, remount your /system filesystem read-write.
Before remounting, executing the mount command should return a line containing:
/dev/block/mtdblock3 /system yaffs2 ro 0 0
Now, remount the fs:
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
(this returns no output)
And now executing mount should return a line like:
/dev/block/mtdblock3 /system yaffs2 rw 0 0
and copy the su binary into /system/bin:
dd if=/data/local/su of=/system/bin/su
and make it executable with root permissions:
chmod 4755 /system/bin/su
Next, copy the Supseruser.apk to the SD card and install it.
Then, reboot your phone (power off and on).
Restart your abd shell, and execute su in your adb shell: su, and on the phone it should come ask if you want to allow root permissions:

Tap “Allow”, et voila, you now have a rooted phone.

Another shameless advertisement for the upcoming Nacht van FCP&D organised by the Flemish Caledonian Pipes & Drums – Clan MacKenzie, for our 20th year anniversary. We’re playing together with the Royal Fanfare St-Cecilia Teralfene.
The place to be? St-Bavo Humaniora, Lange Boomgaardstraat, in Ghent. The underground Reep parking is less than 100m away.