News coverage of Android Scan
Thursday June 19, 2008 at 10:29 PM
Over the past few weeks Scan has been showing up in various news articles all over the web, and earlier today my local newspaper and news station covered it. Google has kept all of us busy with new internal SDK releases, and I haven’t had much time to keep up with my E-mail lately. Below are some of the news highlights I’ve pulled out. Oh yeah, and I made the Digg front-page, so that’s one lifelong goal to check off my list. 
- Forbes — Top 50 Androids
- Digg.com — How Android Will Change Your Shopping Experience Forever
- Gizmodo — The Top 5 Android Developer Challenge Round 1 Winners
- TechCrunch — Fifty Android Developers Get $25,000 Each: The List
- CNET — Google chooses 50 finalists in Android Developer Challenge
About a week ago Michael Becker from Montana State University interviewed me. I ended up with an article on the montana.edu front page, and then today in our local newspaper:
And earlier today I also interviewed with our local NBC affiliate KTVM. Ripped it wonderfully using my HDHomeRun and MythTV so you can watch it here:
Cringe with me as they mispronounce my name several times and then get the contest details slightly wrong. Oh well. I’m not really one for media attention, but this is hopefully getting the word out about Scan and even Android in general. I’ve got a few packed weeks in front of me, but I’m sure it will turn out great. Sadly because of the NDA that Google made us sign for the SDK, I’m not sure when I’ll be able to post a new list of features.
(Photo above by Kelly Gorham.)
Using ddrescue with an entire disk
Saturday June 07, 2008 at 11:08 AM
Earlier this week we quickly ran ddrescue on a few 40GB disks, copying them to large .img files on another drive. We accidentally saved the entire disk /dev/hda instead of the individual partitions, and of course mount isn’t smart enough to read the partition tables embedded in the .img files.
One solution would be to dd the .img back to a physical disk and let the system read the partitions. After some digging around, some friends stumbled on using lomount from the Xen tools package:
losetup /dev/loop0 /path/to/backuphda.img
lomount -diskimage /dev/loop0 -partition 3 /mnt/yayitworks/
It would be nice if something like this was mentioned with the ddrescue documentation, because I’m sure plenty of people have run into this problem.
