Pogoplug

Well I took all the pictures for the pogoplug, and took a ton of screenshots of the web interface. Well about an hour into my unboxing I’ve rooted the device, changed the password, checked out the CPU spec, and am planning on oh so much more. I’ve been looking for a new hub to access my home network from far far away. Pogoplug you have been chosen for this task, do you accept? hehe. Anywho it’s a basic linux distro based off ARM9:

-bash-3.2# cat /proc/cpuinfo
Processor       : ARM926EJ-S rev 1 (v5l)
BogoMIPS        : 1192.75
Features        : swp half thumb fastmult edsp
CPU implementer : 0x56
CPU architecture: 5TE
CPU variant     : 0x2
CPU part        : 0x131
CPU revision    : 1
Cache type      : write-back
Cache clean     : cp15 c7 ops
Cache lockdown  : format C
Cache format    : Harvard
I size          : 16384
I assoc         : 4
I line length   : 32
I sets          : 128
D size          : 16384
D assoc         : 4
D line length   : 32
D sets          : 128

Hardware        : Feroceon-KW
Revision        : 0000
Serial          : 0000000000000000

Man I love this device so much already. The throughput seems a little sluggish in comparison to my FailNAS (long story) But that is a X86_64 PC with opensolaris (ZFS) and it does an amazing job at storing all my files.

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For a preview the install was the simplest install of a network device that I’ve ever experienced. Followed by automatic encoding of my media files to allow for streaming via web/my motorola droid.

I’ll post the review after having some time to play with the device. Hopefully I don’t brick it

OpenVZ with Archlinux (back in business)

Linux smsitraining 2.6.26.8-OVZ26-gogol.1 #1 SMP Thu Jan 28 15:49:59 PST 2010 x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5520 @ 2.27GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Success! I’ve been working all day on a working OpenVZ kernel on my dev machine. 2.6.18, 2.6.24, 2.6.18rhel5; all borked out on the machine (either mid compile, or crapped out at boot) Anywho I setup a PKGBUILD for 2.6.26 Gogol & made a few modifications, and BAM everything is golden.

I’ve updated git & uploaded the package to AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34116

BTW, I just found out that an online friend of mine (Wonder) that is heavily involved in ArchLinux has created an Arch template for OpenVZ. Previous to this wonderful contribution OpenVZ has been without an Arch Linux template (that is updated), and it’s been a real drag. You can find the template on the standard templates page:

http://wiki.openvz.org/Download/template/precreated

Busyness

Who has time to type things in their blog anyway? Anywho I’ve been busy with my super job @ Smithmicro. I’ve also been working on a site for a friend of mine Ryan Morck.

I’ve been hacking away at my Motorola Droid (Which is kinda useless) hacking that is, cause the Motorola Droid is AMAZING. But there really is no need to root/hack the droid unless you want to remove the Amazon & Facebook apps (which I did , and do some other kinda neat little things. But you can pirate the apps without hacking the phone, so that’s kinda nice.

I have a lot to catch up on as far as the blog goes.
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On another note, I will be receiving a PogoPlug to Review within the next week. I’m very excited about it, and am going to review the life right out of it

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-10

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Err, Cliard

I got some hefty notes from Kimmo (creator of arduino_make.sh) and decided it would be best to take down the cliard repo until I have a little more original code/don’t have cliard as one big hack to Kimmo’s script. I feel bad “as if slandering his name.” Sorry if I got anyone’s hopes up, but I shouldn’t have released crappy modified code since it has the possibility of making the originator look bad. I look forward to a good release of cliard in the future.

Cliard | Command Line Arduino FTW

Well, Cliard 0.1.0017 is… working It’s almost a direct descendant of Kimmo Kulovesi’s arduino_make.sh. I stripped out a lot of flac (placed it into ‘docs’ for now), changed a few things, and gave arduino libraries a much deserved home in ~/.cliard/arduino. The program itself is comprised of ~/.cliard/arduino/{examples,hardware,libraries} & ‘cliard’ executable & a perl serial interface (to restart arduino via software)…

To install you have a couple options:

1) PKGBUILD (If you’re on Arch Linux)

2) http://github.com/fsk141/Cliard (If you’re on something else)

• Just install avr-gcc, avrdude, wget, perl-devices-serial (http://search.cpan.org/~COOK/Device-SerialPort), & run ‘./install.sh’

How to use:

1) make a directory containing you .pde file (with the same name)

Example: ~/LED/LED.pde

#define LED 11

void setup () {
 pinMode(LED,OUTPUT);
}

void loop () {
 digitalWrite(LED,HIGH); // turn led on
 delay(1000); // delay
 digitalWrite(LED,LOW); // turn led off
 delay(100); // delay
}

Inside the ~/LED directory execute ‘cliard’

If everything goes well, then you should be able to plug in your arduino and type ‘cliard upload’, and enjoy your new .pde running on your arduino.

There is a lot that needs to be worked on, but *all* of these things should get done in good time. I hope you enjoy cliard as much as I do. And happy hacking with your arduino. Oh and I’m thinking of making a dedicated page for cliard, but aren’t sure as of yet, so for now just check the gitlog for updates.

CLI Arduino | Recover from epic failure

I finally got the command line arduino interface working, and just need to think of a way to package it up… It’s a program by Kimmo Kulovesi (http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/kkuloves/). The thing is that it works, but it seems like a big hack . It’s a giant shell script.

If your interested in a pre-packaged release then take a look at the two files below. It should be a pretty straightforward drop in. I put both files in ~/.scripts & “alias ardmake=’~/.scripts/ardmake’ I also extracted Arduino 0017 into ~/ . I plan to refine the program (basically make my own program), and package everything up into a nifty little package. More to come soon.

http://github.com/fsk141/scripts/blob/master/ardmake

http://github.com/fsk141/scripts/blob/master/dtr

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I was editing my /etc/rc.sysinit recently and epically borked it. Good thing I made a backup Anyway it’s almost too easy to recover from epic non-boot failure.

1) Boot grub & hit ‘e’ (to edit)

• Add S (or the full word Single) to the end of your kernel line
• Hit enter then ‘b’ (to boot your edited entry

2) You will be dropped into single user mode (after you type your root password)

• ‘mount -o remount,rw /’ (to mount / with read/write permissions)
• fix what you broke, and reboot…

Allow Normal Users to Use Serial Port (USB Serial)

OMG: http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/news.php?id=305 << Can’t wait for Free Day, it’s going to be epic.
Anywho, that’s gotten me excited, and I pulled out my Arduino, to continue reading ‘Getting Started With Arduino’ I’m working along, and went to start up the ‘Arduino 0017′, and my serial port didn’t work. Well I tried it via sudo, and it worked. So at first I added sudo to the ‘/usr/bin/arduino’ executable. Yet this was very hackish, so I went looking for the solution.

gpasswd -a fsk141 uucp

Where ‘fsk141′ == your username… This will add you to the uucp group, where you can enjoy serial access. Woot!

Now I’m looking at how to ditch the Arduino IDE, and compile manually. It has something to do with a makefile, but I haven’t gotten it to work yet… Updates to follow one I get CLI upload to the Arduino

Resources:

• http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arduino