YISTA » Linux http://yista.com Yah, I Saw That Already Sun, 19 Sep 2010 16:26:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 How to Install Android on the iPhone http://yista.com/2010/04/27/how-to-install-android-on-the-iphone/ http://yista.com/2010/04/27/how-to-install-android-on-the-iphone/#comments Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:08:51 +0000 George Burnett http://yista.com/?p=440 A dedicated hacker named PlanetBeing has successfully installed Android on an iPhone (2G). The video below is a demonstration of Android 2.1 running on the iPhone. If you’re interested in installing Android on your own iPhone take a look at the detailed step-by-step directions over at Andoid A Lot.
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The iPhone is set up with a dual-boot configuration. At the beginning of the video, you can see it running iPhone OS, but then PlanetBeing successfully boots Linux of his iPhone. This video shows the full boot process and PlanetBeing using Android for Internet browsing, text messaging, etc…
Android for the iPhone 3G is under development!

]]> http://yista.com/2010/04/27/how-to-install-android-on-the-iphone/feed/ 1 Text-Based YouTube Video Player for Linux http://yista.com/2007/07/01/text-based-youtube-video-player-for-linux/ http://yista.com/2007/07/01/text-based-youtube-video-player-for-linux/#comments Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:15:11 +0000 George Burnett http://yista.com/2007/07/01/text-based-youtube-video-player-for-linux/ A fellow by the name of Warren Harding has designed a program that reads in a YouTube video and plays it using ASCII text!
This is a really long video and the first few minutes is just him trying to find a video on YouTube using Lynx and then sifting through the source code to download the video as a FLV file. He then runs the downloaded file through the command line version of MPlayer. The ASCII text video playback occurs at the 1:30 left maker.
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Pretty freakin’ sweet if you as me.

]]> http://yista.com/2007/07/01/text-based-youtube-video-player-for-linux/feed/ 0 Compiz Fusion :: CompComm http://yista.com/2007/06/21/compiz-fusion-compcomm/ http://yista.com/2007/06/21/compiz-fusion-compcomm/#comments Fri, 22 Jun 2007 02:34:49 +0000 George Burnett http://yista.com/2007/06/21/compiz-fusion-compcomm/ This is a demonstration of the alpha version of CompComm (a temporary name) which is a result of the re-merge of Beryl and Compiz. These plug-ins and effects are bleeding edge and are not expected to work perfectly. However you CAN try them out. There are instructions for Ubuntu Feisty on forums.opencompositing.com Take a look at the first generation videos of Beryl + Compiz works (AKA Vista’s Demise) here if you haven’t seen it yet.
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]]> http://yista.com/2007/06/21/compiz-fusion-compcomm/feed/ 0 LinuxBIOS With X Server Inside http://yista.com/2007/03/09/linuxbios-with-x-server-inside/ http://yista.com/2007/03/09/linuxbios-with-x-server-inside/#comments Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:44:40 +0000 George Burnett http://yista.com/2007/03/09/linuxbios-with-x-server-inside/ Alan Carvalho de Assis (and friends), as announced on the LinuxBIOS mailing list, has released a video of the newly released LinuxBIOS with X Server Inside.

All of this in a normal BIOS chip (2 MB), without any hard drive connected (who needs hard drives when you can fit everything in the BIOS just fine)… The BIOS boots up in under 6 seconds and that includes X11 window manager and rxvt. This is such a great project!

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]]> http://yista.com/2007/03/09/linuxbios-with-x-server-inside/feed/ 0 Ubuntu + XGL + Kiba-Dock = Vistas Demise http://yista.com/2007/02/25/ubuntu-xgl-kiba-dock-vistas-demise/ http://yista.com/2007/02/25/ubuntu-xgl-kiba-dock-vistas-demise/#comments Sun, 25 Feb 2007 08:25:57 +0000 George Burnett http://yista.com/2007/02/25/ubuntu-xgl-kiba-dock-vistas-demise/ If you haven’t been paying too much attention to all the Open Source excitement surrounding the more recent developments to the XGL the X server video architecture then your really missing out.

Here is a quick low down:

XGL is an X server (X Windows) architecture designed to take advantage of modern graphics cards via their OpenGL drivers, layered on top of OpenGL via glitz

Kiba-Dock is a xgl dock with physics. Need I say more?

Combine these 2 amazing advancements with todays most popular Linux distro Ubuntu and you get some serious power. Keep in mind that your graphics card needs to support hardware acceleration in order to get the most out of this wicked combo. Most cards today are capable of handling XGL / Compiz / Glitz and so on…

Without further a due… the ultimate demo video of the above configuration:

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How to Install XGL/BERYL for ATI Xpress 200
How to: Kiba-dock
How to: Nvidia 32bit / Compiz / XGL

Have fun and good luck! Im’ off to setup my other lappy with the above config. If only wireless support was better under Linux… Damn you WPA why do you have to be so prevalent?!

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