Reverse Engineering the Kindle

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

For the technically inclined, there is a great series of articles by Igor Skochinsky detailing his efforts to reverse-engineer the Kindle. He explains how he gained console access to the underlying Linux OS and explores the features (many undocumented) and workings of the Kindle.
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Unable to Access Google using Lynx

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

Symptom: Attempts to access www.google.com using Lynx result in the error, “Google Error Bad Request” or “400 Bad Request”.

Cause: Some Linux distributions ship with a large /etc/mailcap or ~/.mailcap file that Lynx is using to send a huge Accept: header and google doesn’t like it.

Fix: In /etc/lynx.cfg, edit

"GLOBAL_MAILCAP:/etc/mailcap" to "GLOBAL_MAILCAP:/dev/null"
or
"PERSONAL_MAILCAP:~/.mailcap" to "PERSONAL_MAILCAP:/dev/null"

as appropriate (depending on which mailcap file is causing the grief).