Thursday, December 06, 2007

Gadget bonanza...

A week ago on Black Friday, I purchased a Canon Rebel XT DSLR camera. It's not the coolest camera on earth, but it is the perfect entry level camera for a hobbyist and amateur photographer like me and fits smugly into my budget too. I had been busy for the past few days getting acquainted with all its features, terminology and the sheer number of settings to be made to take a sellable pic. Since I hardly get any time these days, I was taking a long time to get "OMG" pictures..

Just when I thought I had my share of toys.. I got another shiny one.. Nokia N800. At Mailshell, we have an annual game event when we play some RPG and the whole company plays against the bots or someone online as a team..but the trouble was that the developers almost never had the "right" operating system and it took ages to get the games working on all the machines.. The CEO, Tonny, decided to give everyone a common platform, a Nokia N800.

Its a neat little piece of hardware running a modified version of Debian. Unfortunately Tonny underestimated the geekdom in the development team :P. The CTO flashed the device and upgraded the OS to a newer kernel. I installed ssh, opened an xterm on it and was apt-getting away to glory, started pairing it with all the bluetooth devices I had access to (keyboard, cell phone)... i.e we did everything, but played games on it. The damn thing wouldn't connect (mostly because we had just hacked the stuff to run on the beta OS)... nevertheless it met its purpose.. we hacked away as a team :D.

I can hardly wait for the weekend to really get dirty with it.. for starters I will install a sniffer on it with crackers and keyloggers to see how much data I can gather during one casual stroll to the neighboring Starbucks :P .. just kidding.

4 comments:

  1. how did u flash the fone ?? doesnt that require hardware ??

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  2. its not a phone! its a internet tablet (palmtop pc if you may) running maemo(debian linux).. why do you need hardware to flash.. just USB connection to a linux computer should be enough(even if it was a phone)..

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  3. trust me its not so simple.at least nt fr a phone.. can u get the exact details frm the person who did it...

    neways so now wat o.s. is running on ur n800 ?

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  4. http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11693

    dude!! I am telling you that it's just debian linux(os2008)..and its NOT a phone.. the above link shows you how to do it.. IT IS simple

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