Category Archives: Misc

Resuscitating (and repurposing) the old Nokia N900

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Nokia N900

Nokia N900

I migrated to an Apple iPhone 5 a while back. Even though the ‘phone is lacking a keyboard (which my old Nokia N900 had) I am fairly happy with the device. However,  I sort of need for a portable speaker, and rather than buy a Jawbone JAMBOX (or equivalent) I think I can repurpose the N900.

Over on Maemo.org Sabrog has a useful piece of script for activating the earphone socket as a line-in:

Speaker ON

#!/bin/sh
amixer -c0 set PCM 100%
amixer -c0 set 'Right PGA Bypass Mixer HP Switc' on
amixer -c0 set 'Left PGA Bypass Mixer HP' on
amixer -c0 set 'Left PGA Mixer Line1L' on
amixer -c0 set 'Left PGA Mixer Line2L' on
amixer -c0 set 'HP PGA Bypass' 100%
amixer -c0 set 'Speaker Function' On
echo "Speaker is ON"

Speaker OFF

#!/bin/sh
amixer -c0 set PCM 100%
amixer -c0 set 'Right PGA Bypass Mixer HP Switc' off
amixer -c0 set 'Left PGA Bypass Mixer HP' off
amixer -c0 set 'Left PGA Mixer Line1L' off
amixer -c0 set 'Left PGA Mixer Line2L' off
amixer -c0 set 'HP PGA Bypass' 0%
echo "Speaker is OFF"

Thanks Sabrog!

 

Instagram: A Half-Year Resolution

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The Power of Habit

I recently finished reading Charles Duhigg’s rather excellent book “The Power of Habit.” The book explores why habits form, and what can be done to change them. It is a very entertaining and interesting read. Reading the book, I started to think about some of my habits – which ones I wanted to change, which ones I could change, how one habit change might effect other habit changes.

One experiment that I have decided to begin is taking a daily photograph. The plan from here on is to take one photograph a day, and then post it to the Internet. Instagram is the weapon of choice here, and I will see how taking that picture changes other habits and behavior. The pictures should show up on the site here, but they will also appear on:

Where Did All The Old Posts Go?

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You may (but more likely not) be wondering where all the old posts went. A month or two back I was playing around with server settings and pretty much nuked the old site. The old posts are sort of archived, but due to some general stupidity on my part they need to to be manually added to the new site. When I have time they will be added. The downside to this is there will be broken inbound links. So it goes…