Monthly Archives: August 2007

copying files to the Neo

An easy way to copy files to the neo is to use scp. From the host, use these commands: for a single file: scp (filename) root@(phone ip):/(destination) for a directory: scp -r (dirname) root@(phone ip):/(destination) For example, I copied some … Continue reading

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Some quick shell scripts for the Neo

I wrote a couple of scripts to help me remember how to do things, and I wanted to document them somewhere. First are some scripts to change the sound mixer so that sound only comes out of the headphones or … Continue reading

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Scene carving for content-aware image resizing

This is a pretty awesome idea for intelligently resizing images for all sorts of applications. It uses energy functions (a fancy way to say ‘things that look for interesting parts of an image’) to determine paths of least interest in … Continue reading

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diff and regular expressions

Diff can be used to compare two files, but its capabilities go far beyond this. It can also be used to compare whole directory trees with the -r option, and to ignore changes that fit a certain regular expression (such … Continue reading

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Error in build

update: I was able to solve the ‘warning: inotify_xxx is not implemented and will always fail’ messages by upgrading my system glibc from 2.4 to 2.5, as is probably specified somewhere (emerge system did the trick). The rest has already … Continue reading

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lets be melodramatic

extremely selfish is how i feel. but I believe it will work out eventually.

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trip

update (8/28/07): I totally lied! I have no plans to do such! Maybe when I get back from my next trip… I know I owe a trip summary and pictures, I promise I will get to it this weekend.

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