I’m back, for a really brief update… This time to give a shoutout to a new applet for the N900. If you run SSH on your device, this one is a great one for improving security.
It’s called SSH Status and Switcher that allows you to toggle SSHD directly from the status area menu.
Hello everyone.
Today, I bring to you… How to overclock the Nokia N900! Since the first sighting of an overclocked Cortex-A8 processor has appeared, the folks at maemo.org have managed to flash the N900 with customized kernels in order to allow the CPU to be overclocked up to 1.2GHz (DSP up to 500MHz)! But due to liability concerns, only the kernel images of up to 930MHz have been posted.
Technically, the battery life would be less, but the N900 dynamically scales the CPU speed down to 250MHz when it is idle. The custom kernel allows it to go down to 125MHz.
Personally, I have flashed the 850MHz / 450MHz DSP kernel via XTerminal and the phone is definitely a lot snappier & responsive. So far, it’s been stable for me. As with any overclocking, you are on your own and accept the fact that you may cause hardware damage. In no way is anyone liable for such modifications. Period. You have been warned.
The kernels require N900 firmware PR1.1 or greater to run. However, since PR1.2 is coming soon, I highly recommend you restore the stock kernel before upgrading to the newest firmware or you may see some problems. As a side note, these customized kernel images were based off of PR1.1.1 and will almost definitely be incompatible with PR1.2. So once the new firmware has been released, WAIT for a new version of the custom kernels!
If you’re still interested, here’s a link to the guide that jakiman (thanks!) over @ maemo.org has put together: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=595582&postcount=774
Props to lehto and titan @ maemo.org for their work in creating these wonderful mods. I will update you guys if anything interesting shows up with the overclocking between now and PR1.2.
Hello to everyone again!
It’s been a while since I’ve updated. This time I bring some interesting “news”. If you don’t already know, Comcast is recruiting volunteers to try IPv6 on their network. This is especially good news, mainly pertaining to computer geeks out there, since IPv6 brings about many improvements. One of which is to solve the depletion of IP addresses, but that’s not the most important.
If you’re interested in trying IPv6 when Comcast plans to make it available (2Q2010), visit http://www.comcast6.net and sign up!
More (technical) information about IPv6 can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6
Cheers!
So where I live most of the time, the 802.11 access points that are installed utilize an anti-rogue AP mechanism that not only blocks other APs from using the same SSIDs they are advertising, but to also prevent other 2.4GHz networks from being created and used as a way to enforce their ban on setting up private WLANs.
So I recently acquired a Nokia N900 and wanted to SSH into it. With only 2.4GHz 802.11 support, utilizing the 5GHz band was not an option. But I decided to go ahead and try it anyways, since my previous phone (HTC Fuze / Touch Pro / Raphael), after some careful tweaking, would be able to connect to a “foreign” AP for a minute or two before being kicked off.
Guess what? Association works!
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I fixed up the misconfiguration that put all my tweets as blog posts so they shouldn’t show up anymore.
Blog posts will still be tweeted.
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