First, ssh on to your iPhone. On my network, my phone’s address is 192.168.1.8.

ssh mobile@192.168.1.8

(The default password is: alpine)

Then, become root:

su

(Again, the default password is alpine)

Now, download and install the PdaNet 1.33 package from the modmyi repo. We’ll need wget first. I have PdaNet 1.33 mirrored here if this location is broken.

apt-get -y install wget
wget http://modmyi.com/repo/2debs/pdanet1.33.deb
dpkg -i pdanet1.33.deb


Finally, put the pdanet package on hold, so upgrades on Cydia won’t update versions.

echo com.jft.pn hold | dpkg --set-selections

That does it. For now, Cydia will mark the package as upgradeable but never actually upgrade it. Kind of annoying, but it should the trick.

Dave

News:

• I bought a VPS at Linode. If you’d like any hosting, let me know :)
• I’m going to rework this blog using Django
• My iPhone comes today :)
• I promise to write more

It’s official. Click here to download a preview build of Geometry Cometry, my new video game.

Thanks,
D. T.

The highlights were spending lovely time with David Wolever and Jeff Balogh and a nice dinner with some Python/GSoC people that was comped. The talks that I attended were well done except for a walker-outer or two.

Guido surprisingly quoted Matz in his keynote, that is “open source needs to move or die.” I liked that.

In other news, PyGame 1.8 is out and has some nice new features.

Yours,
D. T.

dave@bozo:~/Desktop/Python-3.0a2$ ./python
Python 3.0a2 (r30a2:59382, Dec  7 2007, 18:14:16)
[GCC 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> print "Hello, World!"
SyntaxError: invalid syntax (, line 1)

“You know a language has invasive changes when ‘Hello, World!’ breaks.” -Victor Ng

Thanks,
Dave


def Property(func):
   return property(doc=func.__doc__, *func())


If it’s not immediately clear what this does, you’re new to Python decorators. Here’s an silly, useless, but otherwise insightful example:


class Test(object):

   def __init__(self, value):
      self.__data = value

   @Property
   def data():
      '''Here is my docstring'''
      def fget(self):
         return self.__data
      def fset(self, value):
         self.__data = value
      def fdel(self):
         raise NotImplementedError, "Cannot delete"
      return fget, fset, fdel


That’s all,
Dave

(Note: All functions/variables with an underscore before them are private)

Variables:

unsupported_redirect (string)
Set this to the URL you’d like the script to redirect to if an XMLHttpRequest() object can not be created.

Example:

var unsupported_redirect = 'http://www.example.com/nosupport.html';

Functions:

do_req(postdata, url, callback, timeout_interval) (boolean)
Does a single HTTP POST call. Returns true if the call goes through, false if there is already a call in progress.

• postdata (string) - The data to send.
• url (string) - The url to post to (should be a relative path or most browsers will throw an error).
• callback (string) - Just the name (ie: no brackets) of a function that will accept one input parameter (either false or a string) to be called when the request has gone through. The request will call this function with the returned data upon success or false upon failure.
• timeout_interval (int) - The amount of time (in milliseconds) that the request should wait for a response. After this time, the callback function will be called with false.

Example:

function handle_request(data) {

  if (data)

    document.write(data);

  else

    document.write('An error occurred.');

}var response = do_req('post this', 'post.php', 'handle_request', 5000);

if (!reponse)

  alert('Request could not be sent');

p_do_req(callforpostdata, url, callback, interval, timeout_interval) (boolean)
Creates a persistent HTTP POST object that runs in the background. Returns true if the object could be created, false if there has already been an object created.

• callforpostdata (string) - Just the name (ie: no brackets) of a function that accepts no input parameters and will return a string to use as post data for each call.
• url (string) - The url to post to (should be a relative path or most browsers will throw an error).
• callback (string) - Just the name (ie: no brackets) of a function that will accept one input parameter (either false or a string) to be called when the each request has gone through. The object will call this function with the returned data upon success or false upon failure.
• interval (int) - The amount of time (in milliseconds) that the object will wait after each call (upon success or failure) until the next call.
• timeout_interval (int) - The amount of time (in milliseconds) that the object should wait for each response. After this time, the callback function will be called with false and the next call queued.

Example:

function handle_request(data) {

  if (data)

    document.write(data + '<br>');

  else

    document.write('An error occurred.' + '<br>');

}function get_post_data() {

  return 'post_this';

}

var response = p_do_req('get_post_data', 'post.php', 'handle_request', 1250, 5000);

if (!reponse)

  alert('Object could not be created');

p_kill_req() (boolean)
Attempts to destroy an already active persistent request object. Returns true if one exists and it is destroyed, returns false is there isn’t one to destroy.

Now that’s that,
Dave

(Note that this was imported from my old blog. If the formatting is messy let me know so I can change it.)

But I’m not going to switch for a while. I’ve hacked up Kubrik pretty good.