Archive for the tag 'know-how'

Android: one-click rooting, and flashing without Goldcard

About a month ago I have unbranded my HTC Desire following the usual instructions. The German one I used has been distilled by Ulrich Wolf. These howtos need you to create a Goldcard – which is not necessary by the new method I found today.

Additionaly, you can root your Desire (or EVO 4G or Droid Incredible, Aria or Eris) by one click and have Nandroid Backup installed in the course. In one word, I found it stunning! Read more »

sponsors wanted for: an ORM mapper for Android

When programming for Android you will soon notice, there is no suitable ORM “mapper” available. Of course, you could use Hibernate, JPA and the such – but the size is too big. Most unfortunately Google has not provided one.

GWT ORM does not look usable to me and some of its logic seems to be missing. Active Android gives a good first impression, but lacks properly licensing and is still too rudimentary. Something I can program on a weekend. That’s what I thought and ultimately did. Here is how it looks like currently: Read more »

Gentoo on a linux-vserver partition with wrong initstyle

Recently I’ve rented a server partition from a German provider which turned out to be a linux-vserver partition. About five or six years ago I have experimented with linux-vserver myself, still have headaches when it comes to its security implications…

Unfortunately the provider has not offered any Gentoo images. Despite that and by the means of the rescue shell, I have installed Gentoo on it. Here is how: Read more »

new ebuild for Nginx

Unlike Apache httpd server Nginx has no ebuilds which let you select which modules you want to have installed with it. Yet.

On last Saturday I have written an eclass to simplify maintaining Nginx ebuilds and added a new Portage variable NGINX_MODULES to USE_EXPAND. In other words, from that on you can select Nginx modules like for Apache. As an example, Read more »

Next Page »