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Southackton meetup on Thursday

By Anton Piatek, on March 2nd, 2013%

The Southackton group had a pretty good meetup last thursday. Lots of fun things going on. There were walking robots, autonomous wheeled robots, RF hacking of LightWaveRF remote control systems, arduinos, raspberry pis and more. Also, there was cake!

Autonomous robots

Benjie RF hacking

Mark supplying cake

Hacking some android hardware

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Frequently Asked Questions about the GNU GPL

By Anton Piatek, on December 8th, 2011%

I have been flicking through the following FAQ on the GNU GPL: Frequently Asked Questions about the GNU GPL – GNU Project – Free Software Foundation (FSF). I am trying to understand the risks that we are told about regularly in IBM of working with/on Open Source code.

I have to say that most of . . . → Read More: Frequently Asked Questions about the GNU GPL

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Kindle-ing a desire to read

By Anton Piatek, on December 7th, 2011%

This post was originally drafted in May when I actually bought my kindle – I finally got round to actually publishing it…

Earlier this year I finally gave in. I felt a moment of regret about buying into an enormous DRM machine as I clicked purchase on my new Amazon Kindle 3G. I felt a . . . → Read More: Kindle-ing a desire to read

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Upgrading cyanogenmod

By Anton Piatek, on December 5th, 2011%

I previously wrote about rooting a HTC Desire and installing CyanogenMod 7. A month or so ago, a new CyanogenMod rom was released, and I finally found the time to upgrade it.

Of course I first did a full backup, as described in my previous post, using the recover mod.

I first tried updating the . . . → Read More: Upgrading cyanogenmod

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Guest presenting on the Ubuntu UK PodCast

By Anton Piatek, on September 28th, 2011%

I was a guest presenter on this weeks Ubuntu UK PodCast. I talked about Southackton, and IBM’s use of Ubuntu on the desktop. Listen to the podcast at http://t.co/vVL5M3YJ

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Rooting and upgrading a HTC Desire to android 2.3 (CyanogenMod 7)

By Anton Piatek, on June 23rd, 2011%

I started writing this as I was actually doing this to my phone. The problem I found with most existing instructions is they seem to slightly contradict other instructions you find. Many have steps which are not well laid out and often don’t give a reason for doing things which can be a bit annoying. Often the . . . → Read More: Rooting and upgrading a HTC Desire to android 2.3 (CyanogenMod 7)

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