Maemo, Android & the Nokia N900

Meet ‘Ubuntu for Android’ – a side-by-side pairing of the Android and Ubuntu OSes on a single phone, the latest part of Canonical’s ‘multi-device’ future for Ubuntu.

Designed to coexist with Android on users’ multicore smartphones, the new version of Ubuntu is designed to launch the full Ubuntu desktop when the phone is docked with a keyboard and monitor. The rest of the time, the phone runs Android as usual.

All data and services are shared between the Ubuntu and Android environments, so Android data and applications such as contacts, telephony, and SMS/MMS messaging are accessible from the Ubuntu interface.

The desktop is the killer app for quad-core phones in 2012,” said Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth in the Canonical announcement. “Ubuntu for Android transforms your high-end phone into your productive desktop, whenever you need it.”

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Computer hackers plan to take the internet beyond the reach of censors by putting their own communication satellites into orbit.

The project’s organisers said the Hackerspace Global Grid will also involve developing a grid of ground stations to track and communicate with the satellites. The hacker activist Nick Farr first put out calls for people to contribute to the project in August. He said that the increasing threat of internet censorship had motivated the project.

“The first goal is an uncensorable internet in space. Let’s take the internet out of the control of terrestrial entities,” Mr Farr said.

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A new edition of Ubuntu arrives every six months, bearing a new zoological codename. The latest is version 11.04 (reflecting its April 2011 release), known to its friends as the Natty Narwhal.  The biggest change is the Unity interface as default. Also this version has support for multi-touch interfaces.

Try these steps after you installed it.  http://goo.gl/VBPc3
From our friends @ OMG! ubuntu!
More tips/tweaks wepupd8.org

Android 2.3.3 (GRI40)

• New Gapps preinstalled (market should be downloaded automatically after login to google account)
• USB Mass Storage support
• Accelerometer ‘agressive mode’ for games.
• Wi-Fi RSSI fixed (signal strength icon in status bar)
• Video playback (youtube, mediaplayer) fixed
• Ofono 0.45. Improved ofono/ril startup logic in init.rc script (no endless no-network anymore)
• ElectronBeam effect
• Latest media from CyanogenMod (ring-tones, notification sounds etc)
• Emergency reboot (press shift+Fn(blue arrow) + R + B on hw keyboard for quick reboot without confirmation)

Known issues:

• Market fix wouldn’t work anymore. I hope solution will be found by community:)

http://downloads.nitdroid.com/e-yes/N11_Vostok.tar.bz2

Size: 65596191

MD5: 5dc990b8c4a79f4b0c348da53ae4849b

Mirror:

http://bildschirmtext.org/stuff/N11_Vostok.tar.bz2

Forum post on Nitdroid.com

For update on your installed NITDroiD use below code:

sudo gainroot

cd /home/user/MyDocs

wget http://downloads.nitdroid.com/e-yes/N11_Vostok.tar.bz2

bzip2 -d N11_Vostok.tar.bz2

mount /dev/mmcblk1p2 /and

cd /and

rm -rf * (this removes all the files from the old installation. there is a "space" between f and the * symbol)

tar xvf /home/user/MyDocs/N11_Vostok.tar

cd /home/user/MyDocs

wget http://downloads.nitdroid.com/e-yes/nitdroid-kernel-2.6.28-06_final1_armel.deb

dpkg -i nitdroid-kernel-2.6.28-06_final1_armel.deb

umount /and

reboot and enjoy!

I’m not really ‘that guy’ who would buy an iPad or iPhone, i just don’t like those mass production Apple stuff. I would buy an Linux-based Tablet more likely. But anyway if u haven’t already, here is a peek of the new Android 3.0 Honeycomb.

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The N900 recently became capable of Packet Injection, and this mean that the popular network security tool Aircrack-ng just became a whole lot more potent. While this means that you can now use your N900 to crack WIFI networks, cracking a WIFI network of someone other than your own can still land you in jail.

N900 Hack WIFI

A guy named: FRuMMaGe has wrote these scripts with the following features:

* Enabling/disabling monitor mode and the package injection drivers.
* Fake authentication with aireplay
* Package injection with aireplay
* Decryption with aircrack.
* Changing mac address (depends on macchanger being installed).
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As seen on this website Kubuntu Mobile: Maverick Meerkat 10.10. Or better known as :”Kubuntu Mobile Tech Preview” for ARM/i386 distro’s.  Kubuntu has a couple of releases which  are preinstalled (for N900 anyway). I haven’t got it working so far, will keep you posted if I ever will get it working!

For 10.10, Kubuntu has merged the Desktop and Netbook images into one featuring both the Plasma Desktop and Plasma Netbook workspaces. The appropriate workspace for your machine will be launched at login; you can also change the workspace in System Settings.

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Nokia’s N900 is starting to feel a bit long in the tooth. Sure, it’s powerful, but with all these new versions of Android and iOS popping out almost every few months now, Maemo 5 is beginning to show some signs of aging. We’ve seen the Nokia N9 already, and Eldar Murtazin from Mobile-Review has called the hardware “near perfect” while the software on the other hand, unsurprisingly, is a bit lacking. So what’s going to tide people over between now and early next year when Nokia’s first MeeGo device ships? How does a firmware update that lets you dual boot MeeGo and Maemo on your N900 sound?
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http://zchydem.enume.net/2010/08/15/quickflickr-on-n900/