It is easy to use BitPim to access and manipulate the filesystem via bluetooth and the native USB SD-card reader is a nice cross-platform data transfer tool.

The menu system is very easy to use and the flip is a decent size and is comfortable for placing calls.

Edit: Someone sent me an e-mail asking how I got into my LG.

Here are some basic instructions...

I did this all under 10.5 but the procedure should be pretty similar for 10.4.

First, I turned on bluetooth on my mpb and the phone.

Then I made the phone discoverable and found it with the mbp. They get detected as modems and obex objects.

I think I also made the mbp discoverable and found it with the phone, but I can't remember. Pretty sure this is yes and also pointless because obex is locked out.

Then, using BitPim 1.0.6.20080304-Test I detected the phone (takes forever at first) and it failed but asked if I wanted to use the wizard, so I did.

The wizard has a spinbox menu with selections and I picked the LG VX8600 on a /dev/cu.LGVX8600-blahblah-btdiag1 port.

The phone beeps and looks like someone is dialling numbers and then the filesystem should be available.

Select the root and back up the entire tree before going further because it is very easy to break things while hacking.

Hopefully this is helpful. It has been a whle since I did the hacking of my phone.

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Sun, 13 Apr 2008

Josh Fuller has found Michael Timothy Fuller

I, Josh Fuller, ~~am looking for~~ have found my father, Michael Timothy Fuller.

The last time I saw him we lived in Wichita Falls.

As far as I know he still lives somewhere in Texas.

~~If anyone knows where he might be I would appreciate an e-mail.~~

~~I have an old yahoo profile for him but the e-mail address may just be a black hole.~~

~~If anyone knows of his whereabouts please feel free to give him my e-mail address and/or point him to this blog.~~

~~Also... Please tell him he has a grandson.~~

Thanks to everyone who has helped me.

This mission is now complete as he left me a voice mail yesterday!

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Sat, 12 Apr 2008

lookaround to cut trailing digits out of a phone number

If you have a sip:+15558675309123@foo.bar number and you need to cut out some digits out of the +15558675309123 once you've parsed it out regex lookaround can be your best friend.

Try using ^(\+.*)(?=...$) in your parser and you will instantly find your needed results of +15558675309 are available.

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Tue, 08 Apr 2008

Here comes trouble!

With a grin like that all the ladies are in trouble.

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Chinese Ballet Circus Swan Lake

Absolutely amazing.

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Mon, 07 Apr 2008

"I Am Legend" alternate ending

If you were as pissed off as I was by the end of "I Am Legend" then perhaps you might want to watch this.

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Fri, 04 Apr 2008

H and V Coordinates to Latitude / Longitude

I found the code for my H&V to Latitude and Longitude coordinate converter on my MacBook Pro and I've just restored it to my site.

H and V Coordinates to Latitude and Longitude

As an added bonus, I finally installed Geo::Coordinates::VandH::XS and and added Latitude / Longitude to H & V Coordinates so you can convert the other way.

Since Geo::Coordinates::VandH::XS supports mileage calculations checking tariff distances should be easy to code.

If you need some H&V codes to play around with you can look up your NPA-NXX at www.areacodedownload.com and use my tool to see where your local central office is located. The site has popups so I am still looking for a better site.

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Wed, 02 Apr 2008

engadget-mobile

Engadget battles T-Mobile over the colour Magenta.

For those who need a colour code to help in the protest it is: #ff00ff.

jnfuller.freeshell.org says "T-Mobile sucks!"

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Tue, 01 Apr 2008

Wireshark 1.0

I've just downloaded and installed the new experimental Wireshark Version 1.0 build for OS X Intel from wireshark.askapache.com.

I can't seem to read the RTF I'm supposed to read before installing on Leopard because it is empty in the dmg I downloaded from askapache.

I just dragged Wireshark into /Applications and tried to run the file. An xterm window popped up and nothing much else happened.

There are a lot of command line tools in the DMG that have to be installed along with the *.app so the experiment would pretty much be a flop if not for the 1.0.0pre1 build with a readme that actually works.

The file should read:

Quick Setup

Drag the Wireshark icon to /Applications.
Drag the contents of the Utilities/Command Line folder to /bin, /usr/local/bin, /opt/wireshark/bin or any other location that makes sense (preferably one that's in your PATH).
You will probably need to adjust the permissions of /dev/bpf* in order to capture. You can do this by hand or by installing the ChmodBPF startup item.

Details

This disk contains the following:

The Wireshark application, which can be placed anywhere on your system. It requires X11.
The Utilities/Command Line folder, which contains links to Wireshark's command line utilities. These can be placed anywhere on your system, but they must all be in the same directory. If you placed Wireshark in a folder other than /Applications, you'll have to set WIRESHARKAPPDIR in order for these to work.
The Utilties/Startup folder, which contains the ChmodBPF startup item from the libpcap distribution. This can be used to set the permissions of /dev/bpf* when your system starts up. See Utilties/Startup/.macosx for more details.
This file.

After making the required installation "hacks" to get ChmodBPF working I tried to start Wireshark from the /Applications directory a few times to no avail and then started it from the command line no problem.

It looks like in this version for the moment the only easy way to start Wireshark is to use terminal.app.

There may be either some path issues related to running outside of the console or perhaps WIRESHARKAPPDIR really does need to be set.

At any rate, it doesn't really look like Wireshark 1.0 is ready for primetime on OS X Intel yet unless you are comfortable with the command line.

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