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Re: Chance the Rapper shares how much he made from exclusive Apple Music ‘Coloring Book’ deal

mercurysquad — Sun, 19 Mar 2017 04:32:12 -0000

Then why don't you also go ahead and do what he does, come back when you've got half a mil from Apple (or anyone)?

Re: iPhone 4S sashays its way to India, up for pre-order this week

mercurysquad — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:19:23 -0000

Siri has no problem understanding most of what I say.

/person with Indian accent.

Re: iPad 2 review

mercurysquad — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:58:49 -0000

> it's iOS for the iPhone blown up to a higher resolution. It's not like there's anything really different there, so there isn't much innovation.

I'm sorry, what? You're kidding right? That perfectly describes Android 3.0 actually, and we know how that is turning out to be.

Re: Updates on the project

mercurysquad — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:31:47 -0000

I've not received any donations for 6+ months.

Re: VoodooWireless for Snow Leopard (and Intel 3945 beta)

mercurysquad — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:25:46 -0000

Check whether the kexts have any alias inside them (right click, Show package contents). Delete the alias and install again.

Re: VoodooWireless for Snow Leopard (and Intel 3945 beta)

mercurysquad — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:25:45 -0000

please boot in 32 bit mode, the kexts are not 64 bit compatible yet.

Re: VoodooWireless for Snow Leopard (and Intel 3945 beta)

mercurysquad — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:24:24 -0000

FB link: http://www.facebook.com/pag...

Leopard version will be released later.

Re: VoodooWireless for Snow Leopard (and Intel 3945 beta)

mercurysquad — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:23:41 -0000

yes it's 32-bit only at present.

Re: That Little Bit of Magic …

mercurysquad — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:43:59 -0000

That list of ingredients and their translations is a life saver!

Re: Updates and future of Project:Camphor

mercurysquad — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:24:16 -0000

I replied to you weeks ago - apparently you didnt get it. I'll forward it again.

Re: Updates and future of Project:Camphor

mercurysquad — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:14:46 -0000

Yes, I will, but later. First I will fix bugs with 3945 driver so that unsecured connection works perfectly.

Re: Donating to the project

mercurysquad — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:38:44 -0000

Yes, I will update it now.

Re: Project: Camphor

mercurysquad — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:55:38 -0000

A majority of people are able to have their 3945 cards detected as Airport-compatible, scan for networks, and a lot of them can connect to unsecured networks and browse the internet. The test machine I use sporadically, works flawlessly.

I'm aware that a lot of people cannot connect to networks at all. This is because a lot of functionality is not yet implemented in the driver, and I purposely restricted/simplified many things to keep things manageable in the beginning. Such issues will be fixed as development continues.

Re: Project: Camphor

mercurysquad — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:52:42 -0000

I have a 32bit only machine, I will check whether it is possible to cross-compile a 64bit binary or not. If not, I will source some other way to do this. I'm planning to support all kinds of (OS X) platforms in the near future, but it is too early and resources are limited, so I've restricted myself to 32 bit Leopard for now.

Re: Project: Camphor

mercurysquad — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:50:42 -0000

By not releasing the 3945 source code yet, what exactly am I cheating you of?

Re: Project: Camphor

mercurysquad — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:47:54 -0000

The driver can be compiled for SL, but it depends on VoodooWireless binary which is not SL compatible yet (will soon be).

Re: Project: Camphor

mercurysquad — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:47:08 -0000

I will start work on 4965/5100 drivers soon. Apart from firmware, a few data structures and some driver code & logic needs modifications.

Re: Project: Camphor

mercurysquad — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:46:05 -0000

This one is only 2200 driver source code.

Re: Project: Camphor

mercurysquad — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:45:37 -0000

The cipher interfaces are going to be completely removed - they will be internal to VoodooWireless, since I decided it's a hassle to make it like a plugin, and doesn't provide much benefit (since there are only 3 types of ciphers: WEP, TKIP and CCMP).

Apart from that, a few new functions will be added to notify the subclass of events (e.g. state change from scanning to associating) so that the hardware can perform any, e.g., pre-association setup.

Some general purpose "information gathering" functions (e.g. current status of the card - associated, scanning or idle) will be added to free the subclass from keeping track of this.

Many data structures will be updated.

Re: Project: Camphor

mercurysquad — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:08:29 -0000

Dude, did you commission me to write a driver in 2 weeks or what? People like you piss me off. EVERYONE knows it is possible to replace the wifi card for 10 bucks. DO IT. Hell, I've bought a Broadcom card myself.

But for chrissake stop acting as if I owe you anything.

Re: Preparing to land: Intel 3945 for OS X is here!

mercurysquad — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:48:50 -0000

Great points. I'll address them here-

1. First off, I don't have the resources neither the willingness to turn this into a business. All I'm looking for is to get reasonably compensated for my time. So charging per download and stuff like that probably won't happen. Basically voluntary donations (at least so far) with a clear indication of how much I expect and how much I've received, seems to be the most reasonable way to go.

2. Any kind of copy protection is not going to work - remember this is a community of hackers!

3. The SDK *will* be released. You (or anyone else) can write HALs for their wifi cards, no problem. I'm waiting until at least a couple of drivers (i.e. 2200 & 3945) are done so that I know what the VoodooWireless layer should include. This will prevent having to make incompatible API changes later on. For example, after writing 3945 driver, I realized that association logic should be integrated into VoodooWireless with pre-and-post assoc notifications sent to the HAL. Once these issues are ironed out, the SDK will be available for all (with two HAL implementations to boot)

4. I am actually planning something quite the opposite of what you suggest, as far as what source code to release. I think the VoodooWireless architecture has some commercial value, so I will keep the implementation private for now, and release the kext binary plus header sourcecode, packaged as an SDK framework, just like Apple does. I will, however, release full sourcecode for the 2200/3945 and other HALs. They are based on FreeBSD open source drivers, so as an ethics issue, I am obligated to release the sourcecode. Also, I am more likely to have left in bugs or missing features in the HALs since I either don't have the hardware, or don't properly understand how the hardware works. The community is better equipped to fix problems or add features, so releasing the sourcecode will be very useful.

5. VoodooWireless, on the other hand is well tested (so far), and there is exactly one non-Apple person in the world today who can make meaningful contribution to it. In my opinion we are unlikely to find (m)any other contributors to it (else there would've been some commercial or opensource projects or at least attempts for Airport compatibility already). I'm not hypothesizing here -- my experience with Voodoo kernel and related open source projects show that simply opening up the source doesn't bring much benefit; in fact it leads to more chaos in our particular scenario (i.e. OSx86/hackintosh scene). Hence I intend to keep the .cpp files to myself for now, but still let the community take full advantage of the framework, by releasing the SDK. If at any point, though, I run out of time or decide to quit, I'll release the source code (ie. it won't die with me).

Re: Preparing to land: Intel 3945 for OS X is here!

mercurysquad — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:24:49 -0000

Soon.. 2200 is mostly usable already, it just needs a couple of bugfixes, so I've been postponing it and focusing on 3945 instead.

Re: Preparing to land: Intel 3945 for OS X is here!

mercurysquad — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:23:11 -0000

Your figures appear a bit wrong - are you sure only 100 people want this driver? I'm willing to bet at least 100 times more people want it.

Also, fully-supported broadcom wireless chips are selling for $5 including shipping, on eBay. I've got one myself. If you waited all this while to save 5 bucks, I'm sorry for causing all this misery..

Re: Project: Camphor

mercurysquad — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:43:33 -0000

Good suggestion! I will consider it.

Re: Project: Camphor

mercurysquad — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:42:35 -0000

As soon as I can find snowleopard and install it! It is difficult to get it in my city - there is no store that sells apple computers or software :( But I'm trying to get it asap.