06 February 2001

February 6, 2001 at 05:00 · Filed under uncategorized

  • This is a picture taken in early December. We get about this much snow every week. It’s awesome.
  • The last 7 days have been basically non-stop work, with occasional 8 hour breaks. Mike and I were at the office until 06h00 on Saturday night. We’ve consumed two cases of iced tea, six beers, one pizza, two subs, four thai meals, a kilogram of Jelly Bellies, and a kilogram of Hot Tamales.

    In just under two weeks, we’re going to have something that’s really fucking cool.

  • Ian has done it again. RIM is going to send snipers for the three of us.
  • I’ve made some pretty significant progress myself lately, which leads me to Cassis:

    cassis > dbcount AutoText
    [Cassis/SerialLink.pm, line 236] Requesting record count of AutoText database
    AutoText has 95 records.
    [Cassis/SerialLink.pm, line 165] Sending RET packet (0×06)
    [Cassis/SerialLink.pm, line 217] Sending ACK packet
    cassis >

    It can backup and restore databases now, and I’ll start hacking the application loader soon. I’m tempted to write a Linux version of their simulator, since I think it’d be pretty easy. The BlackBerry is an i386 device, so it’d amount to trapping the handful of bios calls, mapping those to file IO/drawing in an X buffer/etc, and executing the rest as native code. A rough bootstrapping process, but by no means impossible.

    I need new pants.

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