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graci dot org AKC Emilly Grace Fancy Cake Skip to content HomeAbout Photos Obedience Puppy PhotosPepper Introducing PepperDownloads Older posts Graci the Yorkie 2001-2017 Posted on May 3, 2017 by Pepper

AKC Emilly Grace Fancy Cake: Sept. 10, 2001 May 2, 2017

Between September 10, 2001 and May 2, 2017, we had thehonor ofparticipating in the life of an innocent,happy and fun-lovingYorkie. Though we may still have other opportunities, Graci will always be loved and remembered.

We take comfort in the words of C.S. Lewis in his allegory The Great Divorce, describing a lady arriving in Heaven surrounded by animals:

“And how… but hullo! What are all these animals? A cat — two cats — dozens of cats. And all those dogs… why, I can’t count them. And the birds. And the horses.”

“They are her beasts.”

“Did she keep a sort of zoo? I mean, this is a bit too much.”

“Every beast and bird that came near her had its place in her love. In her they became themselves. And now the abundance of life she has in Christ from the Father flows over into them.”

I looked at my teacher in amazement.

“Yes,” he said. “It is like when you throw a stone into a pool, and the concentric waves spread out further and further. Who knows where it will end? Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life.”

We are thankful for the many blessings God has given us, and we now give Graci back to Him for safekeeping with Pepper. Onward and upward!

Posted in Pets | Tagged blessing, graci, heaven, love | 2 Comments I got an iPad. Welcome to 1990. Posted on May 17, 2011 by Pepper

Ive been a fan of computers for longer than I care to remember, since Majel Barrett (Roddenberry) was the voice of a talking computer on the Starship Enterprise. Before the days of MS-DOS. When the punch-card reader was still a valid input device. The first computer I owned was a TRS-80.

iPad 2 interface, circa 2011

A couple of years ago I was introduced to the iPhone 3G and immediately had to have one. Ive been using these little iOS devices ever since, my current collection includes jailbroken iPhone 4 and iPad 2. One thing thats striking about iDevices is their ease of use. From the first touch, I was somehow already familiar with the interface, though at the time I did not realize why.

Windows 3.0 Retail Box, circa 1990

Recently while sorting the bookshelf I came across a copy of Microsoft Windows 3.0 I bought on launch day back in 1990. Then the realization hit me. If you are old enough to remember Windows 3.0 and its Program Manager, you will instantly understand why the iPhones interface seems familiar. Its because twenty years later, the typical smartphone interface is roughly equivalent to Windows 3.0 running DOS-based applications. Consider these striking similarities between Windows 3.0 and iOS 4:

Windows 3.1 interface, circa 1991

All the icons are found on a central screen or in folders on that central screen (iOS prior to 4.x didnt have folders).You can only really run one thing at a time comfortably because every app takes up the full screen while its running.Some things can run in background, but with few exceptions its arguable whether you could call what a minimized iPhone app does running in any true sense.Neither runs Flash.

Sure, an iPhone has better graphics, its portable and has a touchscreen instead of a mouse and keyboard. But the actual way you get things done is so retro as to be laughable, when you think about it. The interface Apple calls magical today, Microsoft did twenty years ago, and has far surpassed since then.

Dont get me wrong, I use the newest Windows, iOS, and MacOS X on a daily basis, and absolutely find good, valid uses for all of them. The current batch of portable devices are great, but it seems there is quite a long way to go before a phone or tablet can completely replace a real computer. I look forward to using the portable devices of the future, when they will inevitably catch up to and surpass their bigger cousins.

Update 2016: I hardly touch the Apple devices anymore since I discovered tablets and phones that run Windows. And iOS still looks antique. And you still cant get a Mac with a touchscreen.

Update 2019: I have an iPhone again, because Microsoft abandoned the phone platform. iOS still looks no better and Mac screens still cant be touched. posted from my Microsoft Surface Pro, a touchscreen tablet with detachable keyboard which runs Windows.

Posted in Apple iDevices, Computers, Technology | Leave a comment LiveClock Round Theme Posted on February 23, 2013 by Pepper

This theme provides round clock faces for LiveClock in black and white. Designed for iPhone and iPod Touch. If you have an iPad, use the iPad LiveClock theme instead.

Revision History

1.0 Initial release. Posted in Cydia | Leave a comment Clockify Pepper Themepack (formerly Round Clockify) Posted on June 19, 2012 by Pepper

This theme is for the Clockify app. If you dont have Clockify, shame on you. Its a great little program that makes the clock on the springboard show the actual time instead of just being a picture of a clock. This theme extends Clockify so that if you have a springboard theme containing non-rectangular icons (such as MacOSX Lion) then your clock will look better as well.

Round and partially transparent versions of the theme are included, and an Embiggen option that is recommended only for iPads (Use Embiggen plus one of the other options).

1.1b cleaned up some spurious dots in the image.

Posted in Cydia | 7 Comments A new name for an old idea. Posted on May 17, 2012 by Pepper

Occasionally, like a certain former President, I will invent new words. At the risk of being misunderestimated, I would like to throw one of them out there and see if it will stick. It has to do with the strategery of data storage and access.

Youve heard of Cloud computing, in which all your applications and data are hosted somewhere out there in the cloud which in reality just means youre paying somebody to keep it for you in their data center, wherever that may be.

What if you dont trust a Cloud provider to keep your data private, or to not go down, or out of business? You could decide to build your own server infrastructure for email, documents, whatever in your own house. Then you could (making sure everything is securely password protected first) open up some ports in the home firewall router so that you can get to your stuff from anywhere. In effect this brings the Cloud to your home.

For example: at home I have an Exchange server, a Windows terminal server with Office and other apps, massive redundant data storage (why? because I can!) and a SlingBox. I can access my programs and documents from anywhere theres an Internet connection using the RDP client on any Windows computer, my iPad or iPhone; get to my email with all those devices or anything with a web browser; and stream the recorded TV shows from my DVR.

Just like with a Cloud solution, none of my stuff has to be stored locally on the device I am using. Unlike Cloud this doesnt have any subscription or setup costs other than the equipment and software; if you are a computer geek like me thats what you do for fun anyway.

It can also be more secure than Cloud. You really dont know who has access to anything outside of your direct control regardless of what their promises are. If somebody wants my data they are going to have to physically break in my house and get it. It wont be as simple as just abusing the Patriot Act and commanding my cloud provider to hand it over.

Of course making sure everything is backed up in multiple locations, in case my house blows away, is at this point entirely my responsibility. Even with a reliable Cloud provider it would be pretty stupid to not have good backups somewhere else.

The same thing that is called a cloud when far away is called fog when its right in front of you at ground level. So for me and the other incorrigible geeks doing this, now we have a word for it. Businesses of course have been doing this sort of thing for years, but until now it didnt really have a name.

Fog Computing. Its the Cloud you can touch.

Note: I guess theres really nothing new under the sun. Before publishing this I did a quick search, somebody else has already invented the term. http://www.fogcomputing.com/ (unfortunately it looks like they went out of business) But, I didnt know that when I came up with the idea, thats what counts. So there.

Posted in Apple iDevices, Computers, Politics, Security, Technology, Television | Leave a comment White Shadow Icon Labels Theme Posted on November 6, 2011 by Pepper

This Winterboard theme provides white text labels with shadowing for your icons.

Revision History:

1.0 Initial release. Posted in Cydia | Leave a comment WeatherIcon for iPad Theme Posted on July 10, 2011 by Pepper

This is a WinterBoard theme that resizes WeatherIcon so it displays correctly on the iPad. Requires WinterBoard, WeatherIcon and Weather.app installed on iPad.

Note: To get Weather.app on your iPad, use SSH or other method to copy it from the Applications folder on an iPhone. If you have an iPad2 you may install the iPad2 Weather package from the pepper.net repo.

Revision History:

1.0-1 Dependencies maintenance.1.0 Initial release. Posted in Cydia | Leave a comment iPad LiveClock Themes Posted on July 10, 2011 by Pepper

This is a collection of themes for LiveClock on the iPad. Since the iPad uses a slightly larger default icon size than the iPhone or iPod Touch, the existing LiveClock and associated themes will appear too small and distorted. These themes support the larger size and display correctly.

Requires Winterboard, LiveClock and MobileTimer.app installed on the iPad.

Note: To get MobileTimer.app on your iPad, use SSH or other method to copy it from the Applications folder on an iPhone. If you have an iPad2 you may install the iPad2 Clock package from the pepper.net repo.

Revision History:

1.5 Added the necessary @2x files to support Retina (3rd and 4th generation) iPads.1.4 Added a couple of round clocks. Verified compatible with iOS6.1.2-2 Corrected the alignment of some of the hands.1.1 Renamed themes; added original clock; added dependencies to auto-install LiveClock and Winterboard if not already installed.1.0 Initial release. Posted in Cydia | 3 Comments How to build and host a Cydia Repo Posted on July 8, 2011 by Pepper

Over at JBQA Ive seen the occasional query about how to host a Cydia Repository. Since I figured it all out and did it myself, I should go ahead and tell how I did it. I started by reading the very good article written by @Saurik and found some other bits and pieces elsewhere and by using the time-tested trial and error method.

Introduction

There are several things you have to do in order to host a Cydia repo. It is not really that hard. Believe it or not, I do a good portion of the setup and maintenance of my Pepper dot Net repo (www.pepper.net) directly on my iPhone.

A repository is simply a particular arrangement of files on a website, so the first thing you need is a website hosted somewhere. The only requirements are that it support HTTP on port 80, and has (or you can add) a defined MIME-type of application/x-deb for .deb files.

You also need to know how to create and maintain package (.deb) files, and how to generate the Packages and Release files. In this article Ill be covering all of this except for the actual package files, that will need another more detailed article all its own. In the meantime, you can read Sauriks definitive article on the subject. His article mentions a tool dpkg-scanpackages which is included in my repotools package, mostly because I got tired of installing it manually every time I wipe my development device.

Requirements

Before this will work, you need the APT packaging system, this file (or install repotools package) and some implementation of Perl. If youre going to do this on your iDevice, APT is already there as part of Cydia, and I get the perl package from CoreDev.nl.

Heres an overview of the repo file structure. Simply create and upload each of these to your website. When everything is there you can add your repo to Cydia and hopefully everything will work.

Control files

The first three files should appear in the root folder of your website (technically the root of the URL you intend to use for the repo, it doesnt have to be the root of the whole site).

CydiaIcon.png
Use your favorite PNG editing program to create an icon. It will appear in Cydia (1.1 and later) next to your repo in the Manage Sources area.

Packages.bz2
This file is generated from the individual control files of each of your packages and then compressed. It has a specific format that I wont get into at this point, but the important thing to remember is you need to regenerate it any time you add, change or delete packages. The commands I use are:

./dpkg-scanpackages -m [name.of.repo.folder] /dev/null Packages

followed by

bzip2 Packages

Release
This is a plaintext file containing some basic information about your repo. The fields are self explanatory and there are additonal, optional fields. These few fields are plenty enough to get started. Among other things, this information determines part of what appears in the description of your packages when viewed in Cydia.

Origin: Pepper dot NetLabel: PepperdotNetSuite: stableVersion: 0.3Architectures: iphoneos-armComponents: mainDescription: Welcome to the experimental repository from www.pepper.net! @PepperdotNet on Twitter

Package Files

Put all of your packages (the .deb files) in the repo folder. While technically they could be in the root, I suggest a separate folder to keep things organized. It works best if the name of this folder is exactly the same relative to the root, as where the packages were when you generated the Packages.bz2 file relative to where you ran the command from.

As mentioned before, youll need to regenerate Packages.bz2 anytime you add, change or delete packages.

Conclusion

Thats about all you need to know to get started hosting your own Cydia repository. Good luck, and let me know in the comments area if you have any questions and something about your new repo!

Posted in Apple iDevices, Cydia, Technology | 4 Comments iPad Missing Apps 4.3.x and 5.0.x Posted on July 7, 2011 by Pepper

NOTICE 3/2/2012: due to legal concerns, the iPad Missing Apps have been removed from the Pepper dot Net repo. I recommend you instead use the Belfry package, available on Cydia.

NOTICE 4/17/2012: chpwn, the creator of Spire, has informed me that the Spire source on github is for reference only and modified versions of Spire are not allowed, so its been removed. Sorry about that.

If you are currently using the iPad Missing Apps, you should uninstall them completely, along with whatever version of Spire you had as well. Then install Belfry. Despite the warning, I have encountered no issues with the Widgets, so be sure to let it install those if you want them in your notification center.

After the reboot you may then install the Belfry-compatible Spire from my repo, if you desire Siri functionality. Then another reboot (sorry!)

Ive also added a couple of tweaks for specific apps (Clock and VoiceMemos) that have hideous graphics problems trying to run in iPad mode. These are each separate packages so you can choose what you like.

Besides being a cleaner and more legal solution, this removes the need to hunt down an iPad-compatible Spire at some pirate repo.

For historical reference, you may see what used to be here by scrolling down. Everything below here is no longer applicable.

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READ THIS! On iOS5, several of the apps (Clock, Stocks and Weather) require Siri or Spire to be installed (dependency on gsc.assistant error message).

Unless you have donated (nobody has yet, cheapskates), I will NOT answer any emails asking why some of these apps fail to install because they depend on gsc.assistant because you were too lazy to read this page.

More details below.

Here are the built-in iOS apps that for whatever reason, Apple forgot to include with your iPad.

CalculatorCompassClockStocksVoice Control [Recommended only for advanced users, see special instructions below]Voice MemosWeather

All of these were ported from the iPhone 4 so they run as iPhone apps, 2x mode recommended.

Requires iPad or iPad 2.

IMPORTANT for iOS5: Until I figure out something different, Clock, Stocks, and Weather require Siri or Spire to be installed on the device. Siri does not have to be active or configured but it contains something required for these apps to run. The original Spire on the BigBoss repo cannot be installed on an iPad without some obscure technical knowledge, but there is a version without this restriction on several of the pirate repos such as insanelyi and ihacksrepo of course like everything in the world these days, this is provided without warranty and you assume all risk.

Furthermore, the Weather gadget in the Notification Center is distorted. This is a known issue.

There is a set of apps that support iOS 4.3.x. and another that support 5.0.x. Please install the correct version. Voice Memos is not included for 4.3.x

Compass: Please choose the language(s) you need and the base package will auto-install. If you choose all languages the total is around 40.5 megabytes. If you already downloaded the older package that contained all languages, you dont need to replace it.

Voice Control: See this video for more details. I have provided a package of required files for VoiceControl. After installing this, you need to edit /System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app/K93AP.plist and add the following in the capabilities section:

;voice-control;;

Revision History:

4.3.3 Initial release, iPad2 only.4.3.3-1 Support for original iPad as well.5.0.1 Support iPad and iPad 2 on iOS 5.0 and 5.0.1

Legal disclaimer: It is assumed that you have access to both your iPad and an iPhone containing these apps. This is something you could do yourself by copying the apps over using SSH or other method. I am only providing the packages here as a convenience and will take them down at the slightest hint of any discomfort on Apples part.

Posted in Cydia | 7 Comments attLogo Theme Posted on July 7, 2011 by Pepper

This is a WinterBoard theme of the att logo which should work on all devices using the  att US carrier. It replaces the text ATT and ATT M-Cell with graphics:

This package might work better for some devices than the original one which does not require WinterBoard.

Revision History:

1.0 Initial release.1.1 Compatible with iOS5 (tested on beta 6. There are some places where it reverts to the default, this is a known issue.)2.0 Redesigned and cleaned up the logos. Certified for iOS6 and iPhone 5. Posted in Cydia | Leave a comment Older posts Recommendedspam blockerCategories Apple iDevices Computers Cydia Pets Politics Security Technology Television Recent Posts Graci the Yorkie 2001-2017 LiveClock Round Theme Clockify Pepper Themepack (formerly Round Clockify) A new name for an old idea. White Shadow Icon Labels Theme Recent CommentsMichael Graves on Graci the Yorkie 2001-2017Good night, Graci. | jerrylocke.com on Graci the Yorkie 2001-2017irvan setiawan on Privacy Policy for Windows AppsRoop Raj on PepperAlan Seedhouse on PepperArchives May 2017 February 2013 June 2012 May 2012 November 2011 July 2011 May 2011 April 2011 July 2010 Categories Apple iDevices Computers Cydia Pets Politics Security Technology Television Blogroll Knot Enough Meta Log in Entries feed Comments feed WordPress.org Donate! Coder Motivation Avatars by Sterling Adventures graci dot org Proudly powered by WordPress.

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