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Android 2.1 on HTC devices

A lot of 2.1 Roms with HTC Sense have been released for the Hero lately due to the availability of the HTC Droid Eris sources.

Stability and Speed is awesome!

Here is a quick review on VillainRom 3.1 for the HTC ( available at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=622468 )

  • very Stable
  • great Performance
  • new HTC Sense and Widget features
  • Screen Overview (press Home on the Homescreen or Pinch)
  • all working 2.1 features (Market, Navigation, Energy Manager)

The official release for the 2.1 Hero Rom is yet to come but regarding the VillainRom you wont have to wait any longer for the stable Android 2.1 with HTC Sense.

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RFC 5782: DNS Blacklists and Whitelists

The Internet Research Task Force has released a Request for Comments for the Usage of Black and Whitelists

The rise of spam and other anti-social behavior on the Internet has led to the creation of shared blacklists and whitelists of IP addresses or domains.
The DNS has become the de-facto standard method of distributing these blacklists and whitelists.  This memo documents the structure and usage of DNS-based blacklists and whitelists, and the protocol used to query them.

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5782.txt

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Android 2.1 AOSP Rom: CKdroid

A new Rom for the GSM Hero has been released, this time its a AOSP based Rom without Sense UI. Android 2.1 has some great improvements on the widget making Sense Functions nearly obsolete, so AOSP should provide you with enough comfort.

The CKdroid also features LiveWallpapers, a function implemented on the Nexus one. If you want to waste your Battery and Performance for some useless show off crap… Here you go. I remove them via ADB.

Included in this release is a hack which will give you 2 more homescreens – summarizing it up to 5 on a standard Android device.

7 homescreens on the HTC Sense devices was a litle much, 3 was bearly working for me on the AOSP release, so 5 should do perfectly fine.

During the installation i had a rather annoying bug in the Android Market that sometimes stalls the installation for hours. I just wish the free apps were available outside the market. Good thing I had a backup of all apps with Astro. So I pulled the apk file for Astro from the default backup location /sdcard/backups/apps/ and installed via adb push. After that, I restored all my apps which still requires you to acknowledge each app when reinstalled which is still very annoying but at least i don’t have to wait for the market to work again.

CKdroid is very stable with some minor performance issues and will be my current stable Rom for everyday use.

The main projekt thread can be found here

Comparison: the Android 2.1 standard interface and the HTC Sense UI in Android 1.5

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Mobile (WordPress) version online

Just installed the WordPress Mobile Plugin, so you should be able to view this blog from mobile devices. Just gave it at test on my HTC Hero. Not too fancy but functional 😉

Here is a Screenshot of Interconnecting Worlds on the Dolphin Browser taken with ShootMe (Android).

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Chaos Computer Club Heilbronn is born

On Tuesday, September 15th, the Chaos Computer Club Heilbronn will have its first meeting. After years of meetings with my local Linux Unix User Group, I would like to meet with more hackers from various paths of technology.

So me an Fabian decided to start this project.

For now, the contents will be available in german only.

Visit ccchn.de if you want to stop by our meetings and/or participate in the wiki.

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Hacking at Random 2009 program online

The program for the upcoming outdoor hacking event in the Netherlands is online with some very promising topics:

Stay tuned for my upcoming outdoor hacker event survival guide 😉

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Ubuntu 9.04 released

Jaunty Jackalope is IMHO. so far the best choice for any Netbook users out there.
I have been running the beta on my 1000HE for about 2 weeks now and its running great with very few minor issues. Finally, every bit of hardware was detected and installed with no further interaction necessary.

If you are running on an EEE PC, i can recommend getting the Eeeasy scripts for improved APCI and fan control.

Bootchart clocks the bootup time with a nice 29 seconds and i will also be installing and testing it on the AspireOne A110L and the good old EEE701.

The official release comes in 3 Tracks:

  • Desktop: ok we dont need to discuss this one 😉
  • Server: Built for Servers, no graphical foo (now features encrypted /home directories)
  • Netbook-Remix: Designed for small screens with good “Out of the Box” hardware support for netbooks

Update: The Aspire One 110L with a SSD drive clocks at 17 Seconds bootup time