HP QuickWeb hacked!

[Djhg2000]

It's official; HP QuickWeb is hacked!

The hack is based on the ASUS ExpressGate hack which was developed last year and just like with the EG hack this may be used to add or modify any software inside of QW, for now only xterm/rxvt has been tested but more will probably follow.

An initial analysis reveals that at least parts of QW was compiled with GCC 4.2 on Ubuntu.
While the origin of the included apt tools is unclear, it's certain that QW is based on a flavor of Debian.

Further details may be found through the Phoronix forum link above.

[Killa Joe]

Interesting, but does anyone really even use HP Quick Web? I found it to be a pain and a bother. I like to boot to Windows and decide myself when and where I go on the web, thanks.

KJ

[Djhg2000]

Interesting, but does anyone really even use HP Quick Web? I found it to be a pain and a bother. I like to boot to Windows and decide myself when and where I go on the web, thanks.

KJ

Well, right now I agree on that it doesn't really do much, but when you imagine things like XBMC or Boxee on there it becomes a lot more interesting

Setting up a shared directory shouldn't really be too difficult since we already mount a part of the windows disk to load parts of the file system.

Edit:
Actually sharing the Firefox session with Windows looks like just changing a symlink.

[Star Forge]

I found QuickWeb to be annoying to use and it was slower to boot that up than straight booting into Windows 7. I just deleted mine and move on into the desktop.

[Djhg2000]

My goal is to make it at least somewhat usable (i.e. XBMC), but having it boot off the HDD isn't really an advantage in speed and the complete lack of proper graphics drivers for either graphics card makes me feel the same way.

HP really really should get a small SSD with a dedicated partition for future models. And proper drivers. With 3D support.

Anyway, I'm gonna hack it a bit more, see if I can get the Intel drivers working...

[2.0™]

Though an SSD boots into Windows or wakes from hibernate in under 30 secs. Wakes from sleep almost instantly.

Sort of makes these pre-boot environments unnecessary.

Now what would be cool as a pre-boot environment is for it to boot almost instatly into a full media setup(something like a Media Center front end). Play movies, music, photos and such with a graphics driver so you can plug into HDMI and connect to a TV/surround receiver.

[Killa Joe]

Though an SSD boots into Windows or wakes from hibernate in under 30 secs. Wakes from sleep almost instantly.

Sort of makes these pre-boot environments unnecessary.

Now what would be cool as a pre-boot environment is for it to boot almost instatly into a full media setup(something like a Media Center front end). Play movies, music, photos and such with a graphics driver so you can plug into HDMI and connect to a TV/surround receiver.

Let it not be said that 2.0 does not have some outstanding ideas!


KJ

[Djhg2000]

Let it not be said that 2.0 does not have some outstanding ideas!


KJ

Actually I'm afraid he's right... the stock version of QW runs without accelerated graphics. All you see is done by the CPU.

Apparently the quality check of QW was done by a dyslectic monkey as there are errors and segfaults all over the place. No wonder it sucks.

Even touching 3D or graphics drivers result in heaps of warnings and errors (mostly about the lack of driver info - since there is none). Also, apt-cache segfaults instantly and pressing anything but 'i' or ':' in vi makes it segfault too. The kernel was compiled with some old version of Ubuntu while python was compiled with an even older version of Debian Etch (which support happened to be dropped about a week after the compile date).

In short; it's a mess and I can't wait to replace everything with something more sane (latest from splashtop.com maybe?).

[RangerXML]

Thinking of replacing QuickWeb with Chromium, should be interesting a hybrid DM1z with Win 7 and Chrome OS. Got 3 more weeks off, I think dedicating a few days to this task should be fun.

[AluminumFalcon3]

I don't know what quick web is, I saw the title and immediately assumed something bad happened. But it seems like something good happened instead? Anyone want to clarify?