This is a video that was passed along to me around Christmas. It's absolutely full of win. A little creepy...but that's what makes it so great. Enjoy...I recommend watching it a few times.

Alma from Rodrigo Blaas on Vimeo.

[ Full Screen recommended ]

Written and Directed by: Rodrigo Blaas
Produced by: Cecile Hokes
Music: Mastretta
Art Director: Alfonso Blaas
Lighting Supervisor: Jonatan Catalán
Character Technical Supervisor: Jaime Maestro
Character Design: Bolhem Bouchiba, Carlos Grangel,
Sergio Pablos, Santi Agustí
Animation: Daniel Peixe, ManueBover, Remi Hueso
Sound Design: Tom Myers and David Hughes
Post Production Coordinator: David Heras
Special Thanks: Keytoon, Next Limit, UserT38

Full credits: almashortfilm.com

Ok, so I bought a Motorola Droid on November 6th, 2009...the day they were released by Verizon & Google. I've been wanting an Android phone ever since I first heard of the project. Not because it's from Google (most of my friends give me shit because I'm pretty critical of the company), but rather because it's a cell phone running a Linux kernel. I don't consider myself a Linux fanboi (I run Windows XP on my desktop at home), but I didn't think it was this cool when Windows came to phones. I've been getting more into Linux on devices/appliances ever since I got my Cobalt RaQ4 a few years ago. I've now got a Cobalt RaQ4 on Debian running most of my home services, wireless router running dd-wrt & a phone running Android. Anyway...long story long...I was sent a link today that really made me laugh. Is Android really going to kill the iPhone or at least take a significant portion of its market share? I don't know. Linux hasn't killed Windows in quite a few years despite being touted as on the verge of doing just that. One thing is for certain, it's fun to see the debate. Enjoy.

Did you hear that?

Did the world just end?

I think it's starting.

Little Apocalypse is now online. Just in time, sugars.

The first incarnation includes stuff from Cassie Smyth, Paul Carrington, Tim Wiley, and Brandon French. ARAJAY is fleeing his own little apocalypse in the form of hurricane Gustav, so his contributions are understandably delayed. But we hope to have some of his material available with the September 7th or 14th updates.

We hope you enjoy the apocalypse.

littleapocalypse.com

 

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Follow these instructions at your own risk. They work perfectly on my RaQ4, but I can't guarantee they'll work on your Cobalt. I cannot be held responsible for your machine.

I don't always check this page for comments, so please, leave your comments & then contact me using my contact page so I know to come by & respond. You should also check on my updates before starting, this is where I note new versions of my patches & whatnot.

These instructions assume that you've already upgraded your ROM to at least 2.10.3 from the Cobalt ROM Sourceforge Project. I'm using cobalt-2.10.3-ext3-1M. It's probably a good idea to have an NFS boot server handy or be able to set one up pretty quick. Installing Debian 3.1 Sarge on a Cobalt RaQ4 shows you how to set that up. If something isn't right with the kernel & it doesn't boot, you'll want to be able to boot from the network to fix any issues.

Follow these instructions at your own risk. This worked perfectly on my Cobalt RaQ4, but may not work on all machines. I cannot be held responsible for your machine.

Click here for updates since my install.

I don't always check this page for comments, so please, leave your comments & then contact me using my contact page so I know to come by & respond.

The process below is how I installed Debian 3.1 Sarge on my Cobalt RaQ4. I used various sources of information to do this, but the most help came from the Debian Cobalt HOWTO that I found on the Internet. At the time this article was written, the site was down, so I've reposted the original on my site. I'll simply copy most parts of the original document because it is written SO well. So if you compare the two, you'll see a lot of similarities, but I've added/removed/changed the things that didn't work for me. I'll also include lessons learned throughout this process. Mostly things I wanted the cobalt to do, but it just won't do it. Many thanks to Tim Hockin, a former Cobalt engineer who has continued hacking the Cobalt kernel long after Sun backed out. Without his initial work on the Cobalt ROM Kernels, there's no way we could have been using these machines with a modern OS. So...let's get started. Shall we?