Jeff Skeezix Mitchell Not even going to watch, I’m sure it’d just piss me off or rile me up :) See, I’ve come to terms with religious folks — religion and science are not in disagreement; religions, to work at all, pretty much have to define themselves in such a way as to be provable, but never unprovable. They’re ‘out of band’, like ghosts — if you see a ghost, well, there you are; but if you never see one.. well, that doesn’t disprove anythign, right? The only real problem with religions existance is that there are so many of them, and a lot of them being mutually exclusive, and how can that be?

Anyway, all _that_ aside, the definition of Creationist, is religious person who really wants to actualyl cross into the firing line, to try and put forth things that are demonstrably untrue. Thats a problem :)

Nowadays, Catholic (can’t speak for Christians in genral, big field) are pro-evolution and all sorts of good stuff, apologizing for bad behaviour and so on.

But Creationistism sort of implies the ‘world is 6000 year old’ crackpot bunch, which sort of implies the whole ‘God made dinaosaur bones old, just to trick us’ thing, which begets ‘God of Creationists is sort of a prick, why would you worship a deity who deliberately lies to you?’

That always makes me giggle.

I’d have to put myself into the ‘agnostic atheist’ camp; raving atheists do as much disservice as raving religious folks do, so I’m in the camp of ‘I don’t believe anythign till I see it, and I rather lean on the side of .. wtf’. If you allow for a God deity, wuth no evidence, then it leaves you open to the Flyign Spaghetti Monster, right? Peopel look at you funny but.. right? wheres the difference?

One of these days I want to write up a big essay on questions of it all, for rational discussion, but that tends to beget the problem of … just by asking questions, a lot of folks get mad. They shouldn’t, but they feal threatened, and .. gets ugly. A real shame. People should be able to discuss without making it all a problem :/

So, yeah, back to rationalism, whew!

I still follow your blog and like to find out what’s been going on in your life that way.

Thats a tarball version, not a ubifs version; just untar it onto SD and good to go.

Note that link is actually in the above article ;)

Also, I tried simply copying my firmware from NAND to the SD, and that apparently wasn’t good enough. So I guess we have to wait for an extractable version of Zaxxon to surface somewhere. The error I’m getting is:

“hwclock: can’t open ‘/dev/misc/rtc’: No such file or directory”

ubi part boot && ubifsmount boot && ubifsload ${loadaddr} uImage && bootm ${loadaddr} boot

We fiddled quite a bit with it, but we did have a lot driver issues over tim,e (Thankfully its been stable for 6 months :), but didn’t want to press too hard, lest things shake apart at the seams.

Booting from SD is great, given that you write off a chunk of SD, and risk that crashes can hurt your firmware (est[23] are not the most un-sync resilient, compared to say UBI or FAT.) I can’t tell you how many thousands of first-boots I waited through over the last couple years :)

(ie: SD1 .. ext2fs for boot.txt and rootfs, then a big chunk in FAT for data perhaps; SD2 FAT for data. IF you blow up the ext[23]fs, just mkfs.ext2 and re-extract perhaps..)

Thanks!