Yes, he’s staying with us. We are also planning a sister for him (: (Taken with instagram)
Abandoned in trashcan, two of his siblings found dead :( (Taken with instagram)
PAC — best SSH manager for Linux
Awhile ago, on my G+ account, I asked following question:
Dear lazyweb. I’m looking for some SSH connection manager for Linux with tabs and logging. Any suggestions?
— https://plus.google.com/u/0/104932547714077013691/posts/cerdSCmExc3
There were few answers with suggestions, however none of them offered ultimate solution for all mentioned points. Today, I found an answer myself, and that answer is PAC Manager. Just read on its website what this wonderful piece of software it’s capable of and don’t forget to have a look on screenshots section too.
Personally, I will only tell you, that you can find download links here, and besides sources for self-compilation, there are DEB and RPM packages ready.
Taken with instagram
Flash your Android phone on Linux
In this particular example, I’ll show how to do that on this specification:
OS: Debian Sid
Phone: Samsung Galaxy SL (i9003)
Software: Heimdall 1.3.1
ROM: XXKPQ (taken from here)
Basically it should work on any operating system, cause Heimdall (tool used for flashing) is available for any platform and there’s also source available (as this is project is on MIT license).
I’m not as sure regarding the phone, however. Heimdall was created with Samsung Galaxy i9000 in mind and, basically, this is the only phone, that’s officially supported. For full list of tested and confirmed by users software, check the Heimdall webiste, section “What Galaxy S devices has Heimdall been tested with?”.
Personally I can confirm, that this is working on Samsung Galaxy SL (i9003) too (:
Download both heimdall (cli) and heimdall-frontend (gui) (remember to choose correct architecture — you may check it by issuing uname -m in command line). For Debian/Ubuntu (and any other Debian-based distribution probably) you may use .deb files for installation.
After download of ROM is completed, extract *.rar firstly and *.tar.md5 secondly. You will have seven files inside: boot.bin, cache.rfs, modem.bin, normalboot.img, param.lfs, Sbl.bin and system.rfs.
All these files are going to be needed by Heimdall to properly flash your mobile.
1. Generating *.pit file
Turn your device into download mode and connect it via USB cable to your computer. There shouldn’t be any notification, that you connected anything — no worries. Launch lsusb and/or dmesg to make sure, that system is seeing it:
Bus 001 Device 012: ID 04e8:6601 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd Mobile Phone
[20249.528179] usb 1-1.2: new high speed USB device number 12 using ehci_hcd [20249.620678] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=04e8, idProduct=6601 [20249.620681] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [20249.620683] usb 1-1.2: Product: SAMSUNG USB DRIVER [20249.620684] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: SAMSUNG [20249.620686] usb 1-1.2: SerialNumber: SAMSUNG SERIAL BULK
OK, now let’s check, whether Heimdall is seeing it:
$ heimdall detect Device detected
Great. Let’s generate pit file. Launch heimdall-frontend, go to Utilities tab and click on Save As… button to select path and file name you wish to use.
OK, now it’s time for next step.
2. Preparing files to flash
After properly prepared *.pit file, it’s time for some real action. Switch to Flash tab and start selection with PIT file — the one, that was generated in previous step. Now click Add button and select Partition Name and browse appropriate file. Here’s list which file should be attached to which Partition Name:
- boot.bin — SBL
- cache.rfs — CACHE
- modem.bin — MODEM
- normalboot.img — NORMALBOOT
- param.lfs — PARAM
- Sbl.bin — SBL2
- system.rfs — SYSTEM
Remember to leave Repartition and No Reboot untouched — they shouldn’t be selected.
3. Flash
Last step is the most pleasant one — just click Start. Everything should work properly (at least for my it did). Good luck! (:
PPA status: Marlin 0.1, Audacious 3.1.2, GIMP 2.7.4
I’m happy to announce that, finally, Marlin has been ported to Debian. I used Marlin Daily PPA as an base. I had to drop libunity dependency — as there’s no Unity in Debian — and pack some other libraries to satisfy rest of dependencies: Varka Library and Extended Actions.
New upstream stable release of Audacious — 3.1.x line — is available in unstable branch of my PPA.
Latest unstable release of GIMP — 2.7.4 — is now available in experimental branch of my PPA. All packages are based on this PPA for Ubuntu.
Frankfurt, 2011 (Taken with picplz.)
Very well made. Inspiring (:
Absolutely awesome! How can you not love science? (:
From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it’s different. Look again at that dot. That’s here, that’s home, that’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
