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I wanted a convenient place to share my GP2X Tools, so I set up a new GP2X blog at gp2x.macmegasite.com. I also set up a PSP blog at psp.macmegasite.com.

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I spent most of the weekend building Intel native GP2X development tools using ooPo’s build scripts. Most of it wouldn’t build as is, so I had to do lots of manual tweaking to get it to build. I finally got a working set of tools, and my next step was to hack the script so [...]

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I now have a separate fax number, so I no longer have to use eFax’s fax to email service. I found out that BellSouth doesn’t charge extra for a second number with distinctive ring with my calling plan, so I took advantage of it. Since my Brother MFC420CN supports distinctive ring, I’m able to have [...]

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The spam I receive has become more obnoxious and more of it is getting past Dreamhost’s spam filter. Thankfully Procmail is also available, so I’ve added lots of filters to reject mail containing certain text in their bodies. In particular, any email containing geocities URLs will be rejected, as well as any which contain text [...]

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GP2X Firmware 1.4.0 is available and gp2x.com finally has a nice new English web site (actually it’s still more or less “engrish”). I installed the firmware update with no ill effects. The update only took a few seconds and I didn’t brick my GP2X.
The new firmware is a very big improvement. E-book reader has lots [...]

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I guess he needed more readers, so he fell back on his favorite trick: posting an outrageous lie about Apple. I won’t even dignify it with a link, but so far MacNN, MacSlash, and SlashDot have picked it up. Once a rumor like that picks up steam, it can do real damage to Apple as [...]

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John Kricfalusi, the brains behind Ren & Stimpy, now has a blog.

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I came across Butler when I was searching VersionTracker for something I could use to manage my bookmarks and synchronize them between my PowerBook and my iMac.
I was aware of it, but I never tried it before since I was satisfied with QuickSilver. Although it can’t synchronize my bookmarks, it turned out to be [...]

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this is really cool (Via Boing Boing.)

The ELP laser turntable reads LPs with lasers — the manufacturer claims that the lasers can read ‘virgin’ parts of the grooves that haven’t been touched by needles and produce a better sound, and that the five laser read-head lets you skip forward and back across or within tracks [...]

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In a must-read post, Glenn Greenwald (via MetaFilter) believes that the conservative movement — traditionally against big government, excessive spending, and federal intrusion into the private lives of Americans — has been hijacked by something much more dangerous: an authoritarian cult of personality, or as Greenwald puts it, “a form of highly emotional [...]

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Although Intel macs don’t support classic, SheepShaver may be a way to run older software. I’ve installed an x86 build and I finally found a working ROM image, but it won’t boot my 9.2 CD, which is the oldest one I can find. Tomorrow I’ll look for a 9.0 CD which it should be able [...]

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I found a pre-compiled binary of Wine for Intel Macs. It looks like they didn’t fix the problem in context_i386.c that I ran into, they just worked around it:
[mike: 7]$ winecfg
wine: Unhandled page fault on write access to 0×00000000 at address 0xffff0857 (thread 0009), starting debugger…
FIXME : get_thread_context_ptrace unimplemented
FIXME : get_thread_context_ptrace unimplemented
Can’t attach [...]

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CAUTION: extreme geekiness ahead…
I’ve been attempting to build WINE on my iMac Core Duo. I’m just using the raw wine source code, although someone has Mac patches for it. I ran into difficulty with context_i386.c, which contains functions that obtain the register contents from a process using ptrace. Unfortunately the register structure & PT_GETREGS isn’t [...]

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I just put an additional 1 GB of RAM in my Intel iMac. It makes a HUGE difference - the machine feels much faster now.

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I apologize for not writing much in the last few days, but I’ve had a lot going on. Here’s a summary.

We’re making very good progress on the consumer product (LoJack for Laptops). The actual code is the same as the regular Computrace agent, only the installer & activation is different. I’ve been working on the [...]

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It looks like the inability to call PowerPC code from native code is going to be a big problem. I can’t run SourceOffsite because it isn’t native but the libraries it tries to dynamically load are native. The result is:

[mike: 655] $ sos
dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libexpat.0.dylib
Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/sos
Reason: no suitable [...]

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There’s one very big difference between the transition from PowerPC to Intel and the transition from 68K to PowerPC, which may make it more difficult for many people. With the first transition, it was possible for code to switch between architectures, so you can use 68K plug-ins in a PPC application & vice versa. The [...]

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Intel iMac
Originally uploaded by mike3k.

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My new iMac arrived this morning! I’m using it now.

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