Didn’t realized MLDonkey 3.0.2 has been released until I saw Marcos comment. Tried my luck at compiling this release. Installation instructions are similar to previous versions (e.g. MLDonkey 2.9.7). If there are any issues with the package. Do inform me.

1. mldonkey lite – supports filetp, bittorrent
2. mldonkey lite (no gd) – supports filetp, bittorrent
3. mldonkey normal – supports filetp, bittorrent, edonkey
4. mldonkey normal (no gd) – supports filetp, bittorrent, edonkey
5. mldonkey full – supports filetp, bittorrent, edonkey, directconnect
6. mldonkey full (no gd) – supports filetp, bittorrent, edonkey, directconnect

CHDK (Canon Hack Development Kit) has finally been ported to the Canon S90! CHDK extends the functionality of the camera like allowing you to control your camera remotely through USB! Not only that, you can create scripts to invoke the camera functionality.

One of the cool feature. It overwrites the shutter speed! The Canon S90 allows exposure time up to 15 secs. With CHDK, you can open the shutter way longer than 15 seconds! No bulb mode though. Time to get ND filters!

Installation is easy, download the BOOTDISK.BIN and PS.FI2 for your camera and firmware version. Load it into the root of your SD Card.

To start CHDK, start the camera in Playback mode. Hit the menu button and select update firmware. Confirm the update and the camera will reboot with the CHDK firmware.

Don’t worry, it doesn’t update the camera firmware, it simply loads the CHDK off the SD Card. CHDK is unloaded when your camera is rebooted.

Check out the CHDK website. While you are at it, check out the Canon S90 CHDK port forum thread.

My iPod Touch and iPhone used to be on 2.0 firmware and it works great with my third party video out cable which I got for 10 bucks online. The video cable ceased to work after I upgraded to 3.0 and subsequently 3.1.2 as it keeps prompting “This accessory is not made to work with iPhone” whenever I try to play a video file.

Good news if your iPod Touch or iPhone is jailbroken – a patched iapd file solves the problem. Backup-ed the original iapd file in /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/IAP.framework/Support. Put in the patched iapd, set its permission to 755 and reboot. Viola! Cheap 3rd party cable is working again!

Managed to find some time to compile the MLDonkey 3.0.1 a few days back. Installation instructions are similar to previous versions (e.g. MLDonkey 2.9.7)

1. mldonkey lite – supports filetp, bittorrent
2. mldonkey lite (no gd) – supports filetp, bittorrent
3. mldonkey normal – supports filetp, bittorrent, edonkey
4. mldonkey normal (no gd) – supports filetp, bittorrent, edonkey
5. mldonkey full – supports filetp, bittorrent, edonkey, directconnect
6. mldonkey full (no gd) – supports filetp, bittorrent, edonkey, directconnect

Some of you may have realized that USB mass storage devices attached to the PlayOn!HD are automatically mounted as read-only. In a read-only mount, you cannot write files to the drive.

The following script will remount all available USB mass storage devices (mounted in read-only mode) as read-write!

The down side is that you got to execute the script every time you plug in a new device. The script work best with View USB storage attached to A.C.Ryan PlayOn!HD over network.

#!/bin/sh
# author: shadowandy.sg[at]gmail[dot]com <http://www.shadowandy.net>
#
# Simple remounting script for A.C.Ryan PlayOn!HD Media Player
#
# Version 1.1
#

try_remount() {
echo “remounting $1 as read-write”
mount -o,remount,rw $1
}

if [$(mount | grep /tmp/usbmounts/ | grep ro | wc -l) -eq 0 ]; then
echo “no read-only usb drives found!”
else
echo “remounting read-only usb drives…”
for remount in $(mount | grep /tmp/usbmounts/ | grep ro | cut -d ” ” -f3); do
try_remount $remount
sleep 1
done
echo “all read-only usb drives mounted as read-write!”
fi

Creating the script

1. Telnet and login to your A.C.Ryan PlayOn!HD
2. In the command prompt window, enter “vi /tmp/hdd/root/script/remount.sh“
3. In the vi window, press “i” to start edit mode
4. Paste the content of the above script
5. Press “<ESC>” to exit out of edit mode
6. Enter “:wq” to save the script
7. Enter “ls /tmp/hdd/root/script”
   remount.sh should be listed as one of the files

Executing the script

1. In the command window, enter “sh /tmp/hdd/root/script/remount.sh”
   The script would remount existing read-only USB drives as read-write

Some of us might want to view the content of that USB hard disk or flash drive that is attached to the A.C.Ryan PlayOn!HD over the network (or samba).That is, viewing the contents of attached USB drives by access the network shares of A.C.Ryan PlayOn!HD.

In fact, this could be easily achieved if you have installed a hard disk. In this guide, I will be sharing how I managed to access my USB drives attached to the media player over network.

This guide only require you to edit the file once and newly attached storage devices should be automatically detected and shared over network. You need not meddle with the smb.conf and samba service every time you want a storage device to be seen on network.

Disclaimer: Follow at your own risk. By continuing, you know what you are doing and you don’t hold the author responsible.

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