I have his talk and the Q&A that followed embedded and linked below. First though are my initial impressions recorded at the end of the night.
(Skip to the three embeds & ogg links below if you want to hear Richard Stallman’s talk.)
Richard Stallman’s talk
Part One
Part Two
Part Three (Q & A)
If you need these audio clips in OGG right click and download from here: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
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I had recorded this audio as a second thought and would like to thank Mark Cotton for cleaning, editing, dissecting and converting the files to OGG. He really knows his audio. I’d recommend him to anyone who needs audio services.
The guy sat next to me on the train on the way into London was busily beavering away, coincidentally on web security with local governments. It said so
on his paperwork.
A serendipitous start to the London Conference on Cyberspace.
The high security meant that press access was limited to a few upstairs on the first day. Everyone else had to use the press room facilities and book the various spaces to do interviews. The coffee was pretty dire.
The Abbey could be seen from one window. I was pretty amazed at the diversity of people from all round the world. Over 60 countries in this one space. All pretty much wanting the same thing. There are different motives for sure, but seeing the conversation inside the conference center, balanced with those watching the streams from the comfort of home gave me hope that in the long run the right decisions will be made.
Mainly i think because the internet evoles too fast for any non-native generation to have an impact. I doubt we can change it with legislation, only with use. The conversation has been started. Just getting these people in the same place was the hard bit. I heard that all the organising for the event happened in 6 weeks. In the upper levels the kids were talking sense and making plans. I’ve a feeling they know it will be their internet in the not to distant future. Not necessarily something to master. Something to grow with and understand.
Mobile Images from The London Conference on Cyberspace
Much of day one at the conference appeared to be about discussing what benefits the internet is bringing to a wide range of societies. I felt it was a reminder for some that had come with only security on their mind. William Hague sang the praises of social media and how in some places it was building bridges between governments and individual citizens. “It allows the exchange of ideas between people who otherwise never would meet,” he said.
I felt the room was full of people who otherwise might not have met. I could also see a couple of the more closed regimes squirm a little in their seats.
Many of the conversations I would have liked to have shared never came to be, as I respected some people’s request to talk off the record. I also reminded them that it is this very privilege I would like to see preserved and in some places re-introduced on the web. Or as they were so keen to call it.. Cyberspace.
@Pete_Gilbert responded to the blog post with “Maybe its a microcell that they have brought in to extend coverage during the event and it hasn’t been registered correctly at the new location, or has been brought from Zurich where it was last used and then not reconfigured.”
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Now Ahmed Ashour from @AJTalk talking at #LondonCyber they are also on @AJTaklEng
The translating headsets worked seamlessly and really made the conversation flow. This helped me to translate a few quotes from other languages into twitter.
The talks and panels came thick and fast. It was a little hard to keep up with the flow of information and comment. Even for us multi tasking savvy internet users.
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#LondonCyber speaker says we will have a “Government structure for the international exchange of knowledge & information” in less than 2yrs.
Some of the conversation in the room would reference online and offline as in cyberspace and in the real world. With many people using mobile devices now there is no difference. The internet is the real world.
There are two more of these events scheduled to cover this massive topic over the next couple of years. What will the internet look like then? Who knows.
I’m pretty sure that with more widespread use of ipv6 and mobile internet access exploding across the developing world. We will certainly be in a different place. We may even have come to realise that the internet is just a tool not a wormhole to another dimension. Like i say, the internet is the real world and it’s up to us to make it the best world we can.
I have a sneaking feeling though that there will always be crime in cyberspace, just like there is always crime in physical space. Not only because it’s the same place but because it’s the same people.
The best we can do is lead by example. Wherever you are on the planet. Government or private citizen. If you have them, protect your freedoms, if you don’t, fight for them. But above all.. Be good.
During the 90′s I spent a lot of time ‘roughing it’ and wandering Europe. I’d walk between France, Switzerland and Germany sleeping under the stars and making money where I could. If you’ve ever read Narcissus and Goldmund by Hesse you’ll get the idea.
I starting writing a book called the ‘Blaggers Guid To The World’. I never finished it. At the time I felt I could easily justify some of my money making and free travel methods I was exploring but now.. written down.. they don’t look entirely ethical, so the book sits half finished in a tatty notebook.
My social network at the time lived in the same leather bound notebook. The pages were split into countries and under each country heading were listed names, addresses and phone numbers. Most of the travellers I met on the road would exchange details with me. No emails or mobile numbers. Just an address & home number that if you rang and someone answered, you could be sure of a bed for the night as you travelled through.
There was an unwritten code of mutual assistance for anyone wanting to follow a nomadic way of life. We were the voluntary homeless, the student tramps on a never ending year out, Backpackers without an itinerary.
The noticeboards at youth hostels would give you the latest local information. Even where you could eat, shower and sleep for free. I soon learn’t that marinas offered a comfortable night under an upturned boat and occasionally had unlocked warm showers for shivering windsurfers.. or me.
Markets and Hari Krishna temples always had free food and in Italy I could be sure to feast on salami, bread and cheese should I wander into a church looking hungry. Yes I’d have to listen to a religious sales pitch but that was a small price to pay for such luxurious tastes.
At one point on my travels I met a guy on the run form the French Foreign Legion. On a short overnight boat trip, I listened to his acquired wisdom and he gave me half the contents of my unfinished book. He scrawled out some symbols into my notebook and told me to keep an eye out for chalked of stone scratched graffiti.
Years later I found out this was an almost identical code to American Hobo signs.
I took to carrying a chalky stone in my pocket and adding the relevant marks where I could. I liked the idea that if spotted, the owner could remove it but also that with time it would fade. A fresh mark meant a recent update and fresh news.
Today, many people still don’t get location based social networking but we have very similar features to those above in apps like Foursquare and Gowalla.
If I had the time, energy and know-how I’d build an app based on the above system used in Hobo Graffiti. I’d also also include some of the more known Wardriving symbols that also used to be spotted on our streets in order to highlight open Wifi. I am not sure the newly digitally equipped Hobo would be ready for the WorkSnug kind of interface but something smart and simple.. Why not?
Of course there are more than a few location apps showing available hotspots, power points etc. But as more people travel with technology or shun our normal static lifestyles, how about an app aimed at the travellers, the voluntarily homeless? One that does not necessarily conform to societies norms.
I can’t imagine how my 10 years exploring the world would have looked should I have had a smart phone in my pocket. As it stands I’m quite glad I trod the analogue path.
But should I ever do it again, these kinds of apps would certainly travel with me. Along with my digitised and leather bound social networks.
For me a community is not tied to a geographical area. It’s more an area of common life. I live across a number of communities. Family, friends, work, and a number of geeky tech loving groups who exist both on the web and in physical space.
Some hold a fellowship of solidarity and trust. Others merely contain a group of peope who share a common interest. Either way these communities are really important to me.
Anthony P. Cohen argues that communities are best approached as ‘communities of meaning’. In other words, ‘”community” plays a crucial symbolic role in generating people’s sense of belonging’.
I feel it’s this sense of belonging that’s missing from areas in society. And without this we are unable to build a feeling of self, of individuality.
Whether we like it or not capitalism permeates everything we do. Creativity is often styfled as production is privately owned and operated for profit. We are too far down that road to do anything about it. Still, there is no reason why we can’t create communities freely sharing our own thoughts, dreams and aspirations. A shield or filter as an antidote to the bombardment we are subjected to as the advertisers tell us how they think we should live.
The problem is, that most community spaces now cropping up have little to do with freedom of expression. They are controlled environments where the participants are leeched of all shared knowledge, where their interactions and connections are studied at a minute level.
CCTV near Orwell's grave
If I arranged to meet with friends on my village green only to find that our every move was monitored and recorded, conversations archived and our home addresses logged.. I’d most certainly go and find somewhere a little more relaxed to chat. If in addition to this we were bombarded with suggestions of what someone thought we should spend our hard earned cash on… I’d probably leave never to return.
That is if there was somewhere to leave to.
We forget that Facebook and Google are advertising companies providing a communication infrastructure. Google plus is not a social network. We are the ones being sociable in the networks. It’s easy to forget this and our amnesia suits them just fine.
I’m aware of this. But only sometimes. It’s far too easy to get sucked in because that’s where my ‘friends’ are.
My networks exists cross platform. But for how much longer?
I won’t go into my gripes with Google+ following in the footsteps of Facebook and dictating how we should be conversing and what we should call ourselves. Making out they are doing us a favour by giving us four days grace to ‘fix’ our accounts should we rather use our nicknames in our posts. There are more than enough people making a noise around this to show it’s Google who are in fact broken.
I am now formulating a backup plan. An escape route. A quiet place where I can chat with friends in as close as I can find to privacy. Whatever that is.
This will probably sound terribly extreme to someone just floating along quite happily. I’d just like more options. I’m bored of the taste of ready meals and fancy something wholesome. Besides, I back up my data, why not back up my communication channels.
Masonic Lodge in Rugby
I’m not looking to create a secret society. I’m looking for an open system. Not owned or exclusive but shared worldwide. Perhaps a version of Status.net that in an emergency could work even if the internet is turned off. Yes you heard me. Perhaps a mesh-networked bluetooth affair or something using the D-star transmitters dotted around the world. There are options. It just has to be imagined.
And with this I’d like improved email to match.
I feel if i really want to regain control over the way I communicate online I need to ditch GMail. I’ll go for something with encryption. Something that gives me a red page when I am writing to someone not using encryption. It’s not because I have secrets. It’s because not everything I say in a personal email is for sale.
Decentralised, secure, mobile, social… What would you want?
I’m guessing what I want doesn’t exist yet. If not we should make it.
I was searching for accessories and on a Spanish website I spotted this strange looking add-on cross-bar.
I contacted them but they were halting production and it was impossible to get this nifty looking child seat anywhere. Until now that is. It looks like it has gone back into production and they have listed a UK supplier as http://BikeFix.co.uk
The strangely named ‘IT Chair’ is steel in construction with one clamp and two folding rubberised footrests. The clamp fastens to the seat post and the other end slots in just behind the crossbar hinge. Once fastened it feels pretty solid and the addition of a small passenger makes it even more so. The seat clamp wasn’t rubberized so as a temporary fix I added a strip of rubber cut from an inner tube.
With the ‘IT Chair’ attached and no passenger I have to ride with knees slightly apart as I have a large comfy seat attached to it. It’s not uncomfortable to do so and I feel a larger seat is safer. With a little passenger your knees are a little wider but I got used to it quickly and as my lad is probably a little young to be doing any major miles on this, it felt safer having him cradled between my legs and arms.
Folding the bike up with the ‘IT Chair’ attached takes a few more seconds than normal but it’s easy enough and works well. Folded size is a little larger but only a tiny amount and not enough to affect practicality.
Costing £210, (without the seat) the ‘IT Chair is not cheap but at the moment it’s unique.
I really enjoy using it and the lad totally loves it. Even though it’s certainly more precarious than the larger bolt -on bike seats that cocoon a child and strap them in. Bear this in mind should you want to buy one. It goes without saying that any child riding on one of these needs to wear a helmet, be capable at holding on to the handlebars and have a good sense of balance.
That said, I wouldn’t hesitate to use it for short trips with the lad, especially as it means we have the freedom of stashing the Brompton in the car to get to new and interesting places to explore.
There is software somewhere tracking all the IMEI’s on the phones that were momentarily clustered in the intimate auditorium of the Sage, Gateshead. A three day hotspot of creatives, thinkers, do’ers and disrupters.
The transmitted signatures have now spidered their way back across the country, across the water, across the world. And the digital echo of an amazing meeting of minds still hangs in the air.
It will be a little time till my synapses form the links I need to fully understand the connections made and the concepts and ideas discussed.
@RobotInTheWild
Since getting back a much needed sleep has ensured a full shutdown and re-boot with my new firmware now in place.
This was my second Thinking Digital Conference, another mental, social and physical growth spurt, not only survived, but that has invigorated me to exhaustion. I have more than a few plans forming from realisations I feel could only have happened at that geographical location. At that time.
There were times to focus, as we sat silently absorbing as the babble of speakers took turns to share. There were times to talk as huddled round in the breaks, paper was passed across conversations as personal details were exchanged.
You’ll certainly find more in-depth breakdowns discussing the highlights of Thinking Digital floating round the web. To avoid sounding sycophantic I’ll merely offer a window to some of the things I heard and explored.
For a conference that had a lot to live up to after the success of 2010, that had to do it on less cash, I’m more than a little impressed by Herb Kim’s ability to, in my opinion, ‘go one better’.
The panel entitled ‘The State of Social Media’ had to cater for a mixed audience from net novices to super users.
With everyone taking “social” a lot more seriously we were to ask What is this brave new world of the “third wave” going to look like? What problems will it solve? What problems will it create? Will the world really go “social” to the same level it has adopted PC’s & the Internet?
You really had to be there. No really, you did. As there was little to no wifi or 3G in what seemed to be a ‘Faraday cage’, there is little record of the conversation that was had. The side effect of this was an intense focus in the room. So much so that I overshot the finishing time by 20 mins.
The list of participants initially had me worried as they all seemed to be wearing some kind of marketing hat. I soon realized these people we much more than just selling. They had been chosen for a variety of reasons and I soon got to be enthralled and educated by the likes of the amazing Dr. Mariann Hardey, (@Mazrred), she lectures on social media and communications at the University of Durham Business School. She said she fell into the marketing side of things and following a conversation we had in a dark corridor she promises to write a paper citing our chat around ‘Sith Marketing’.. The only way I feel I can explain how ‘the dark side’ uses social media.
Sat alongside Dr Mariann Hardey on the panel was Wayne Gibbins (@WayneGibbins), the Global Communications Director for Viadeo who was really a coder in a suit and thus earned more and more respect from me as I got to know him over the next few days. Viadeo were one of the key sponsors of the conference and took it really well when I found a bug in their sign up process, responding to my concerns and promising a fix within moments of it’s discovery. I smiled to see them shocked that the massive amount of cash they placed behind the bar on the closing night got drunk after only a few hours. The array of Geeks at the closing party were obviously in a hurry to destroy the braincells they had just force fed over the previous days. I was one of then exercising my social glands.
Paul Fabretti (@PaulFabretti), Was also present. Digital Director for Origin Creative in Manchester with a string of successes too long to mention here.. Paul is no stranger to Thinking Digital and opened his mind letting ideas spill out into our musings.
Finally there was Rob Lawrence (@itwasmyidea), he was open about not being a massive fan of Twitter and it seemed that as a result he was involved in an inhuman number of projects with some world famous endeavours already under his belt.
It was these guys I spoke with for the next few hours as we tried to make sense of it all. There was no Netutopianism in the room. Just the good the bad and the ugly tales of our online adventures used as a datum in order to have a guess at the future.
People take their seats for the beginning of Thinking Digital 2011
We soon realized that it was the dreamers turned do’ers forging the way. Some of the conversations at the conference relevant to the audience were echos of old thoughts in the minds of a few of these unafraid to experiment.
The thinkers helped with navigation and direction but the do-ers would get there anyway. They are not afraid to try and fail repeatedly till they find their path. I tried to summarize in a tweet with “Keep an eye on the exits, Listen harder than everyone else and break it to make it better.”
I won’t attempt to review the entire Thinking Digital Conference in a single tweet. In these sci-fi days of augmented reality and pocket video conferencing, it’s the subtleties once again. The handshake with a stranger who turns out to be an old friend you have never shared meatspace with. The subtle combination of body language and expression that is still undigitizeable. The unplanned engagement that turns into a realisation which could only have happened in that corridor, at that time, with those two people.
This is why you had to be there. This is why the physical conference is not dead.
..And at the moment, this is something Thinking Digital does better than anyone else.
Tv is something that happens in our house. We have two sets but only one is plugged in. The other still lies packed in a box. Originally destined for the bedroom it was decided six months ago after a house move that we could do without. The bedroom was for other things. Mainly sleep.
The TV in the living room is a 30 something inch, black, shiny, HD affair that is used more as a monitor than a portal to timetabled programming.
If it’s my finger turning it on, it’s to temporarily pacify the 2 year old with some psychedelic kids show. Occasionally it plays a DVD that somehow found it’s way into the weekly shop. Very rarely, on special occasions, it displays what the Xbox plays.
I’d rather it not be there. It’s often turned on by others for background noise and that’s just what they get. Noise.
Sometimes, like last night, I’ll walk into the noise with a plate of food and witness a science programme showing me something amazing I have never seen, I have never known. Quite often this is delivered to me by the BBC and I think, “I paid for that… Money well spent.” This happens about twice a year.
All my news, entertainment, current affairs and education comes to me through the other screens. The iDevices and laptops strewn around the house.
There are eleven other screens in my home. Each one individually more valuable than the biggest one sat in the corner. Five of them are multi-touch. Two of those belong to my little boy. He thinks the big one in the corner is broken. The greasy marks he makes as he swipes the screen are always followed by a “Daddy fix it.”
“I’m afraid Daddy can’t fix it” I tell him. And he goes back to my old iPad, his new toy. His window to another world. Today I heard him mutter.. “TV is broken.”
The other night I really enjoyed listening to the blues band ‘Split Whiskers‘. Especially the harmonica player who had a great sound thanks to a little handheld mic called the ‘Harmonica Honker‘.
I have a mic called the Green Bullet but it’s heavy and cumbersome and gets in the way of playing. Looking around online there are so many options. Some looked simple enough to hack together and so I was inspired to create my own harmonica microphone.
So after a trip to Maplin, I spent the evening building one.
The parts I used were a Mono Jack, a random piece of plastic tube (after I realized a drinks bottle was not going to work easily), a 10 kohm (Log) Potentiometer, some black and red wire, the cap off a WD40 can (drilled with holes), the smaller cap off a bottle of pop, a rubberized knob and a Dynamique microphone capsule.
All these parts came to less than £9.50 but of course you need some basic tools and a soldering iron.
My soldering skills are certainly not what they used to be but after a couple of hours I had it sussed.
The mic not only works, but it sounds great. I’m looking forward to getting re-inspired and playing a little more. Next week I am meeting with Steve Lockwood whom I am sure will show me some new tips and techniques.
Should anyone else what to make a mic like this, here is the wiring diagram..
I visited Warwick University with Paul Hadley and talked with Professor Alan Chalmers about developments in High Dynamic Range (HDR) video capture. We got to see some incredible footage, as it should be seen, on HDR monitors.
We considered dropping some of the footage into the interview above but it would have really sold the experience short. If you google around you can find some pretty impressive footage not even shot with the 20 f-stops of latitude we got to experience.
I am quite looking forward to seeing how quickly HDR video monitors become affordable and who will make the first off the shelf HDRV camera available to the average video blogger.
And dont worry about being awash with hyper-real over saturated video footage as today, in a room somewhere in Europe, a group of people are sat around deciding on a HDRV standard for all. Let us hope it emulates what the ‘normal’ eye sees and not one on hallucinogens.
I have a Nokia Booklet 3G on loan from 1000 heads but was having issues with such a beautiful device running an operating system I’ve not touched for years.
In stepped @Computid Über geek, and in a couple of days he had installed Mac OSX.
How how did it is listed and the downloadable PDF is linked below.
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Introduction:
• We will first be installing OS X Snow Leopard onto the external drive using a Mac • We will then modify the installation to boot on the Booklet 3G • After we have booted OS X on the Booklet 3G we will proceed to add drivers/kexts for all the other hardware. • Once it is configured we will copy OSX to the internal HDD and from there finalise the installation Requirements for this hack:
• Retail Snow Leopard Disc (10.6.0 or 10.6.1) or external HDD with the bootable installer on.
• Apple Mac that can run/boot the SL DVD (Intel) • External USB Flashdrive or HDD bigger then 15gb • Nokia Booklet 3G
At this point, heres what is working correctly: • Machine boots properly to Snow Leopard with simple push of power button. No manual keystrokes necessary during boot. • Screen Resolution is auto-set to native 1280 x 720. For some reason, the display comes up at about 45% brightness each time, so you have to go into system preferences to bring it up to full (presuming you want too) • WiFi comes on, quickly finds the network, but we still have the problem of having to type “sudo killall mDNSResponder” after each reboot. • Bluetooth is defaulted to “ON”, but there is no option in the menubar to disable it. (Fn + F10 will toggle on/off all radios (GSM/BT/WiFi) • Sound is NOT working, nor does the System Profiler show any internal sound device. I am working on this! Creating the Snow Leopard Installation
1. Boot to the Snow Leopard Installer on the Mac
2. Plug in your external USB Disk
3. In OS X installer run Disk Utility from the tools menu
4. Reformat the External Drive as HFS+ (Mac OSX Journalled) (DO NOT FORMAT YOUR INTERNAL DRIVE!)
5. Continue with the Snow Leopard installation and customize the install to not install languages, at the same time you may want to install quicktime 7 and Rosetta, it will save you hassle later. (Removing the languages is optional, but it does cut down on space and install time)
6. Once the installer is finished reboot to the NEW Snow Leopard installation by holding down the “Option” key at boot, then select the USB Drive.
7. Download and install the 10.6.1 combo installer http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/macosx_updates/macosxv1061up date.html
8. Download and install SuperDuper http://www.shirtpocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
9. Download the following Files/Applications 1. Download KextHelper. This application helps install KEXT files correctly. http://cheetha.net/
2. Download KEXT (Kernal Extensions) vaiop20091014us.tar.bz2 from http://rapidshare.com/files/349547875/vaiop20091014us.tar.bz2
3. Download Chameleon 2 RC3 (DO NOT USE RC4, ONLY RC3). This is used to boot the
system.http://rapidshare.com/files/349330606/Chameleon_2_RC3.zip
10. Run the Chameleon 2 RC3 installer. Choose to install it to the USB Snow Leopard installation.
DO NOT INSTALL THIS TO YOUR MACS HARDDISK, YOUR MAC WILL NOT BOOT IF YOU DO!
11.Go to the root level (Top Level) of the USB drive. There will now be a folder called “Extra”.
12.In the vaiop20091014us folder there should be a folder called “Extra”. Copy the contents of this folder to the “Extra” folder on the USB Snow Leopard install.
13.Open up a terminal window and type “sudo” then drag the file “extra.sh” in the “Extra” folder to the terminal window. You should have a command string that looks similar to this: sudo /Volumes/USBDRIVE/Extra/extra.sh
14.Hit return and type in your password
15.Next open up KextHelper
16.Drag the two kext files from vaiop20091014us/System/Library/Extensions into the application. Type in your password and hit Easy install.
17. Shut down your Mac 18.Congratulations, you should now be able to boot this drive on the Booklet!
Moving the Installation to the Booklet 3G:
1. Put the USB drive into the Booklet 3G
2. Power the booklet on and press F12 until the bios boot menu appears asking what device you want to boot from. You should see the internal hard drive and the USB drive. Select the USB drive.
3. At this point the chameleon bootloader should appear, Press any key to interrupt the count down. Use the arrow keys to highlight the USB drive then type “-v -f” and press return. This will boot the USB Snow Leopard volume in verbose mode and rebuild the kext cache’s
4. This may take a little while to boot depending on your USB drive. If everything went ok, you should now be sitting at a Snow Leopard desktop (in a bad Resolution, mind you.)
5. Fire up disk utility (Applications/Utilities)
6. This is when it become permanent, this will ERASE ALL DATA ON THE INTERNAL DISK.
7. Select the internal hard drive and go to the partitions tab. Select one partition from the pull down menu, name the partition whatever you like (I used Documentallys Hackbook), select MAC OS Extended Journaled. Go to options and select GUID.
8. Hit the apply button – This will erase all contents of the internal drive!
9. Close Disk Utility
10.Open SuperDuper. Set it up as follows: 1. Copy: (your external USB drive) to: Internal (the drive you just partitioned) 2. Using: Backup – all files 3. Options: select repair permissions on Booklet 4. During Copy: Erase <destination> then copy files from <source> 5. On successful – Restart from <Destination>
11.Hit OK and then press “Copy Now”
12.Wait unit it finishes, go make yourself a coffee, this will take a while.
13.Reboot with the external USB drive still connected to your Booklet.
14.Press F12 to select the USB drive again (last time!)
15.At the chameleon screen highlight the internal drive and type “-v -f” and hit return. You are now booting Snow Leopard from the internal drive.
16.It may take a while to boot, BE PATIENT.
17.You should now arrive at the desktop! Congratulations, you’ve installed OS X on your Booklet 3G!
18.Remove “Windows7 Starter” sticker from the lower left side of netbook palmrest if you haven’t already done so. (Optional)
19.Go take a break, Grab a drink or something, then continue.
Finishing up the installation:
1. Fire up terminal 1. Type: “sudo killall mDNSResponder”. This should ensure that your Wifi is
working properly. At present, you will need to re-enter this command each
time you reboot the booklet until I get around to writing a startup script. 2. Enter your password 3. Quit the Terminal.
2. Download the following files to your desktop: 1. Download the modified boot loader file which will, when installed, set your display to its correct native resolution of 1280 x 720 on your next reboot. 1. Download the file from here: http://rapidshare.com/files/349336710/boot.nokia-booklet-gma500-v2.gz 2. When the file appears on your desktop, double click on it and it will extract to “boot.nokia-booklet-gma500-v2″ 2. Download Aboutthismac.pkg: This will make the information in “About This Mac” Correct, This isn’t needed but it is nice. http://rapidshare.com/files/349337197/AboutThisMac.pkg.zip
3. Re-install Chameleon 2 RC3 to the Internal Disk
4. Double check in the Extra’s folder that it still contains the Kexts
5. Install the modified boot loader file to correct the Resolution: 1. Back up your original boot loader file by firing up Terminal and typing the following command: “sudo mv /boot /boot.orig” 2. Hit enter, type your password and hit enter again. 3. On your desktop, rename the “boot.nokia-booklet-gma500-v2″ to simply
“boot” 4. Now copy over the modified bootloader to replace the old one by typing:
“sudo cp /users/YOURHOMEFILENAME/desktop/boot /boot” 5. Hit enter, type your password and hit enter again. 6. Quit Terminal
6. Eject the USB Disk.
7. Restart. You should get the Chameleon boot loader now when booted to the internal hard drive.
1. NOTE: if you have trouble booting you should interrupt the the bootloader by pressing any key and boot up using the -v -f flags.
8. Install the aboutthismac package to get the correct info in “about this mac”
9. Set up your Atheros 9280 3G modem: 1. Go to: http://www.option.com/en/support/software-download/usb-modems/icon225/2. Download and install MAC Driver 2.17.0 3. Download and install the GlobeTrotter® Connect For Mac
4. In System Preferences>Network>GI40x, set up your carrier information for your 3G connection and it should begin working
5. (Optional) – Check the box at the bottom that says “Show modem status in menu bar”
10.Run the 3g modem to check the hardware initializes with the sim card installed. Upgrading to 10.6.2:
1. Download the patched kernel from: http://rapidshare.com/files/349340631/mach_kernel_atom_with_pm_support.zip or here if you have an insanely mac account.
2. Before you update you need to backup your old kernel: 1. Open terminal and type: sudo cp -p /mach_kernel /mach_kernel.1061 2. Press return 3. enter your password 4. Press return 5. Quit terminal
3. Update your OS to 10.6.2: Apple Menu>Software Update>Update to 10.6.2
4. Upon completion of update to 10.6.2, your computer will reboot
5. During the reboot, MAKE SURE YOU INTERRUPT THE CHAMELEON BOOTLOADER by pressing any key.
6. Then, specify the kernel at chameleon’s screen by typing: mach_kernel.1061
7. Hit enter, and boot should continue until you’re in Snow Leopard.
8. Patch the kernel: 1. Expand the 106atom64.zip file you downloaded before updating. This will create a file called “patch” 2. Drag the two files (“binchg.rb” and “1062atom64.xml”) from “patch” into your root directory (Top level HDD Directory) 3. open Terminal once again and type: sudo /binchg.rb /mach_kernel /
1062atom64.xml 1. This will initiate a conversion process that takes about 20-30 minutes 2. During this time you should see:
0x000286c0 hit -> cpumodel is always 0x1e x86_64
0x005e6a83 hit-> cpumodel is always 0x0e i386 3. These messages are completely normal. Be patient, this takes a while.
When the process is completed, you will get a command prompt.
4. Now you need to replace the kernel: Run in terminal:
sudo mv /mach_kernel /mach_kernel.1062 sudo mv /mach_kernel.patched /mach_kernel sudo touch /System/Library/Extensions
9. This should complete the upgrade. Reboot the booklet and enjoy Snow Leopard 10.6.2 on your new Hackbook!
@Computid has hosted a PDF you can download from here:
