Micks Distractions

I came across this cool lit­tle iPhone app in my recent adven­tures into the world of dis­tract­ed­ness. A growl client for the iPhone.

I recently moved my blog away from Joomla and over to WordPress.

This was for sev­eral rea­sons:
1. Joomla is a pain in the bum for blog­ging. Its too com­plex for a blog and I keep for­get­ting the dif­fer­ences between a “com”, “mod­ule” and a “plu­gin”.
2. Upgrad­ing is a pain in the bum. I just recently noticed that half my con­tent went miss­ing as part of a recent upgrade.
3. I had bought an iPhone and wanted to be able to post while out and about. Get­ting this going in Joomla was a pain in the bum, (although I dis­cov­ered after switch­ing to Word­Press that it wasn’t really Joomla’s fault).
4. My old TreeCam blog was run­ning on an old ver­sion of s9y, and I wanted to com­bine it all.
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This howto cov­ers one way of run­ning famil­iar Linux from your CF, SD, or MMC card.

OK, it doesn’t actu­ally boot from SD, but uses a snazzy Linux trick called pivot_root. Which switches over one root with another. This, IMHO, is prob­a­bly the best way of doing it apart from actu­ally directly boot­ing from SD. Although, I’ve only tried this on a 38xx based iPAQ it should work for all hand­helds based on famil­iar. Heck, it should work for any­thing really.

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If you have an iPAQ installed with famil­iar Linux and want it to con­nect to the net using your Nokia mobile via GPRS; then this is how you do it.
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