See here. All 9 patches, yay. :)

I just finished writing up this. It seems it's long - it took a lot of time to write it as well. And probably this is not the final version, either...

And I resend my earlier cosmetics series to the git list.

Sleeping time.

Though Paul already stated on qemu-devel that kqemu is completely unmainainted, our kqemu pkg stopped working after we updated to qemu-0.10. And funny enough, there is a new version on nongnu.org which works with the new version. So it's now updated, even if I did not really expect a new release of it ever... ;-)

Finally my parseopt patch in git-ls-files got merged. It becomes clear how I have less and less time for git, it took about a month. ;-)

An other interesting project (sadly in Perl) to try out (twitter via irc) is here.

It's actually qemu that calls these port redirects, but I don't know the proper generic name. So what I was needed is that a service runs inside virtualbox and I want to have it on the host machine as well. For now I just wanted the same port, but for ssh obviously I want an other one, since ssh is probably already running on the host machine. ;-)

A good howto is available here. And here is an other one, in case later one of them would be 404. :-P

There was a howto about how to host website with git - the basic problem is that the working dir is not updated automatically on push. This howto gives a step-by-step solution for this problem. Of course I know the solution (and it's problems) for a long time, but it's always nice when someone with a good writing taste puts it out as a documentation.

To make the long story short, I noticed a correctness with the howto and mailed the author, then completely forgot about it. Now someone linked it on #git, and I was wondering if this is the same webpage howto I read or something different. This ended up with noticing my name on the page, giving me a thank for noticing. ;-)

They just announced the list of accepted orgs for gsoc 2k9, I'm happy to see that SWIG is accepted as well - they have an interesting PHP project.

The mentor who is interested in the project lives in GMT+13, so I have to try contacting him later today...

Yesterday I tagged Frugalware 1.0, which means that no new bugfixes or features will hit the tree till release. And the next task is to install 0.9 and write an upgrade howto... (What a boring task, but users really like it.)

OTOH, I just released the last FSAs for 0.9, probably we'll announce its EOL a few days after 1.0 is out.

And my git test_cmp patches are in. :) (After sending no patches for 2 months.)

BTW, I did a simple check to see what are the results for my real name (ie Hungarian order, accents) on the first page @ Google.

From the 10 results there are 6 Frugalware related ones, 3 for work, and one is unrelated (though the page lists papers of one of my relatives).

In fact nothing special, I wasted time with viewing this Google Talk. I was not aware that there are other interesting talks outside the Tech Talk ones. ;-)

And BTW I almost forgot about the recent test_cmp patches, I posted now an update, hopefully that will do it.

So yesterday I found this article and I wanted to try it out from Python.

Here is a few lines of code to send that "get hw and firmware version" message to the phone and at least read an ACK:

import serial, time

ser = serial.Serial("/dev/ttyUSB0", 115200) ser.setRTS(False) ser.write("\x1E\x00\x0C\xD1\x00\x07\x00\x01\x00\x03\x00\x01\x40\x00\x52\xD5") print repr(ser.read(1)) print repr(ser.read(10))

Of course this is just a PoC, the first read could be avoided and we could just read one char till we hit the 0x1e one. But that .setRTS() took a few hours to figure out. ;-)