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Kernel Changelog Tidbits for Glass

I've always enjoyed teardowns of of the software in new products. As you can expect, I loved the detailed writeup of the secrets found in Google Glass's kernel source at http://thecodeartist.blogspot.ca/2013/05/sensors-on-google-glass.html . However, when that article is written, the source code of the kernel was just served without the changelog (provided by their version control system, Git). Since then, Google had released the kernel with full change information on AOSP.

If you want to dig around the logs yourself: https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/omap/+log/glass-omap-xrr88/ with highlights at https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/omap/+log/glass-omap-xrr88/arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-notle.c and https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/omap/+log/glass-omap-xrr88/arch/arm/mach-omap2/notle-usb-mux.c . More eyes will probably uncover more secrets.

Google Glass XE7 was released this week. This time, Google also released a changelog of all the changes. However, I'm a reader of Ron Amadeo's APK Teardown series, and that column taught me to always hunt for hidden changes in updates.

So without further ado, I present:

#What's Really New: Glass XE7

Volume change

Glass Lab Experiments

Updated: July 2nd (XE7)

Ron Amadeo of Android Police did a review of these experiments: http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/05/24/google-glasss-hidden-labs-features-ok-glass-everywhere-web-browsing-video-stabilization-and-more-video/

Google Glass has a series of Labs experiments that can be enabled on engineering or userdebug builds. Using APKTool, I've removed that restriction and now they can be enabled with root access.

To start, for example, the SOUND_SEARCH lab, type in a root shell

This describes my basic Arch Linux installation on my Chromebook Pixel.

Note: I'm a coward, so I installed Arch to an SD card instead of wiping out the existing SSD.

Requirements

SD card. A very minimal Arch installation with XFCE will need about 2GB, so I think 4GB is the minimum you can get by with.
Arch installer on a USB drive. The 2013.05.01 is broken with the recent netctl change. So either get an older or newer one.
Some Arch Linux familiarity.
Time, patience, and good eyesight.

I missed a payment on my Time Warner Cable bill. Prior to this, the hostname of my laptop was "yupa" (after Master Yupa, from Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, because it's a MBA, get it, air? ok, sorry, that's fucking awful I know). Anyway, look at what my hostname is now:

jordanorelli@auto-prov[0] ~: hostname
auto-prov.rr.com

umm, excuse me, I never changed my hostname. Anyway, let's back the fuck up and see how I even discovered this.

When I got home today, I opened my MBA and fired up Chrome. On startup, it tried to open up all the tabs that were open when I closed it. Some of these included a google.com page. All of them were, instead, redirected to whatever hostname they were talking to, with ap_index tacked on the end. E.g., refreshing a Google page bounced me to google.com/ap_index, which is the automatic provisioning page that a Time Warner Cable tech is supposed to see when they start up the computer. My brother (who is also my roommate) opened the account and has all the i

To toast:

Make sure you have ImageMagick installed (brew install imagemagick)
Change line 7 of toast.rb to the repository name you're working with
toast!

$ bundle install
$ ./get_token [user] [pass]
$ export GHUSER=[myuser]

Python Number Conversion Chart

From	To	Expression

	import com.google.auto.value.AutoValue;
	import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
	import java.lang.annotation.Target;

	import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.TYPE;
	import static java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME;

	/**
	* Marks an {@link AutoValue @AutoValue}-annotated type for proper Gson serialization.
	* <p>

	import urllib2
	import re
	import sys
	from collections import defaultdict
	from random import random

	"""
	PLEASE DO NOT RUN THIS QUOTED CODE FOR THE SAKE OF daemonology's SERVER, IT IS
	NOT MY SERVER AND I FEEL BAD FOR ABUSING IT. JUST GET THE RESULTS OF THE
	CRAWL HERE: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=nqpsnTtW AND SAVE THEM TO "archive.txt"

	<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
	// Comcast Cable Communications, LLC Proprietary. Copyright 2012.
	// Intended use is to display browser notifications for critical and time sensitive alerts.
	var SYS_URL='/e8f6b078-0f35-11de-85c5-efc5ef23aa1f/aupm/notify.do';
	// var image_url='http://servicealerts.comcast.net:8080/images/mt';
	var image_url='http://xfinity.comcast.net/constantguard/BotAssistance/notice/images';
	var headertext1='<strong>Comcast Courtesy Notice</strong>';
	var textline1='You have reached 90% of your <b>monthly data usage allowance</b>.';
	var textline2='Please sign in for more information and to remove this alert.';
	var acknowledgebutton='<a href=\"#\" onClick="document.location.href=\''+SYS_URL+'?dispatch=redirect&redirectName=login&paramName=bmUid\'" title="Sign in to acknowledge" style="color: #FFFFFF;"><img alt="Sign in to acknowledge" src="'+image_url+'/mt_signin.png"/></a>';