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My Road to Becoming a Great Developer
Intro
Hello I am Kifno. I have had my HTC Hero CDMA for a short period of time and I've fallen in love with it and everything about it. I love testing out other developer's apps, tweaks, mods, themes, roms, kernels, etc. I also have recently gotten into the modding and tweaking aspect of our hero's too. Some of you may know me from my tweaked build.prop's. But I have decided that I want to be known as a great developer for the HTC Hero CDMA. I am going to keep this thread as a journal during my journey to becoming a great developer, posting what I have learned, accomplished, created, modded, tweaked, etc. that is making me one step closer to reaching that goal. Hopefully during my journey you all will appreciate some of my work for our HTC hero CDMA devices.
1/22/11
- Working on v0.7 of my tweaked build.prop's
- reading the c programming language (chapter 1)
My Work So Far
Kifno's[Tweaked] Build.prop v0.6
reserved for future use
reserved for future use #2
reserved for future use #3
last reserved post i think that'll be all i need
Developer for editing a text file values? Right, I wonder what programming that is? By the way, does Aosp know your editing his builds and redistributing them?
thats a lot of reservations!
I'M ON A JOURNEY TO BE THE GREATEST DEV FOR THE HTC HERO CDMA
good luck, we already have the best dev's for it.
SimranSingh said:
Developer for editing a text file values? Right, I wonder what programming that is? By the way, does Aosp know your editing his builds and redistributing them?
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I'm new to becoming a developer. My first piece of work is simple, editing the build.prop from other developer's roms. And I'm learning how to program and learn the c language and learning java so I can do bigger and better things for the HTC Hero CDMA. And as a matter of fact not only did I make a editing build.prop for aosp but aosp as of last 2 updates to his new gingerbread rom has implemented my editing build.prop into his gingerbread rom by default so I'm pretty sure aosp know's i'm editing the build.prop to make the hero better for the community. That is why aosp is keeping it implemented into his rom by default. Please be positive here I'm on a journey to become a great dev and all great dev's started small okay. Remember I'm NEW to becoming a dev.
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thats a lot of reservations!
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Yeah I plan on sticking with the HTC Hero CDMA for a WHILE!
No need to be negative guys. At least he's going out and working for it. That's a lot more than 90% of people here can say. Most are too lazy to learn and want others to do it for them. Really can't believe that on xda we have at least two guys who who would actually try and discourage someone from developing. I think you guys need to check yourselves. Pathetic.
To kifno, goodluck friend and best wishes! I can't wait to see what you do!
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Wow lets watch the negative.. Glad there are still people who want to progress the hero.. And he isn't taking claim of anyones rom he is editing the build.prop giving people some extra tweaks to make our phones quicker.. Kudos on your hard work kifno and there are some big shoes to fill around here and someone needs to do it.. I plan on trying but its hard to make time with life right now for me, so thank you for giving it a shot..
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Darch was the greatest and I believe he retired the cdma hero lol
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dirkyd3rk said:
Darch was the greatest and I believe he retired the cdma hero lol
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Unfortunately for the hero I believe you are right..
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pstevep said:
Unfortunately for the hero I believe you are right..
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Fortunately aosp still has one.
MrDowntown12 said:
No need to be negative guys.
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I think you guys need to check yourselves. Pathetic.
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No need to be negative.
stayclean said:
Fortunately aosp still has one.
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amen to that
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I agree.... Good luck cant wait to see some more of ur work....
androidnoob111 said:
I agree.... Good luck cant wait to see some more of ur work....
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By the time he becomes a "great dev " he will be the only person owning a cdma heroc, 3ghz processors will be out lmfao
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not that i'm going to stop learning how to develope things for the hero but why does everyone have to just be so negative......i just want to help everyone
but i'm going to continue learning regardless of what others say
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not that i'm going to stop learning how to develope things for the hero but why does everyone have to just be so negative......i just want to help everyone
but i'm going to continue learning regardless of what others say
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We aren't trying to be negative. Our point is that you haven't developed anything in reality. Just editing a properties in a file isn't developing, but it does take some knowledge to know what you are going to edit . Nonetheless, you are trying to become the greatest developer, but really you are in the 1st chapter of your C Programming book. It's going to take you maybe another 3 - 5 books to actually understand what's happening. Instead of striving to become the "Greatest" developer, why not focus on just becoming a developer at first
I would like to start teaching people about android so if you would like to learn from me about:
- Making Roms
- Scripting
- Modding
- Theming
Then please post here what you'd like to learn about and PM me as well and I'll send you a lesson every night or every other night about that category. You can choose all 4 or just 1. It doesn't matter I'm here to help you, yeah YOU!
- Kifno
I'd like to just understand more about all of the topics. Not to be a dev, but just to be able to communicate better on this forum about it. Like I understand digitals VMS os but always hated to work with unix, so I learned very little about it.. What is scripting ? what is meant by modding, etc.
Thanks Kevin, Ted O.
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I'd like to just understand more about all of the topics. Not to be a dev, but just to be able to communicate better on this forum about it. Like I understand digitals VMS os but always hated to work with unix, so I learned very little about it.. What is scripting ? what is meant by modding, etc.
Thanks Kevin, Ted O.
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Modding as in learning what I do in my tweak
Scripting is I'll give you bash script lessons
Also the lessons won't start until next week sometime because I wan to gather a group of students first. Right now I have a small class of 8 people. I'm only starting next week so that I can make a plan on where I'm going to start teaching you and the process I'm going to go about teaching you more (what should I teach you after what I previously taught you so that the lessons flow together). but I'm sure I can teach you all enough so that you all can start doing something for xda too
I wanna learn how to port and make my own rom, add me to your list!
someonenewhere said:
I wanna learn how to port and make my own rom, add me to your list!
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I'm still learning how port roms so that's new to me too. But as for making a rom I can help you with that so you're on the rom list sir
you can show me to how to sign a rom zip lol..
someonenewhere said:
you can show me to how to sign a rom zip lol..
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Sent you a pm
Oh and if you're reading this and you are new to xda. You don't have to want to learn the big things I listed. If you want to know something as simple as what someonenewhere asked then you can. I'm here to help you learn
I want to learn how to theme so when I get my 3d ill be at to Customize all my roms to fit me.
From my Gingerbread Hero.
Nsandhu23 said:
I want to learn how to theme so when I get my 3d ill be at to Customize all my roms to fit me.
From my Gingerbread Hero.
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https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AcdxIJRSH9ypZGZzc2pxNDlfMjdnazk4OHNxZA&hl=en
I want to learn something about all of it , not to be a dev. , but to understand what they do , so I can react better to posts/etc. Thanks Kevin,.
Why don't you post in a thread(s) instead of in pm's that no one else will see? Are you just trying to limit the number of questions and comments you get back?
Nsandhu23 said:
I want to learn how to theme so when I get my 3d ill be at to Customize all my roms to fit me.
From my Gingerbread Hero.
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On the list the.lessons will start tonight probably so join now preferably but if others want to learn from me later I will still teach you. And nice I have a class of ten
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maxpower47 said:
Why don't you post in a thread(s) instead of in pm's that no one else will see? Are you just trying to limit the number of questions and comments you get back?
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I'd rather teach one on one makes it easier for me to get to learn my students and how they learn and how fast , and how to go about teaching them
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I wouldn't mind learning all of it but would prefer a classroom environment but since you're the teacher I will do whatever you think is best.
I'd like to learn about all 4 it would be an honor to pick ur brain
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joed1960 said:
I wouldn't mind learning all of it but would prefer a classroom environment but since you're the teacher I will do whatever you think is best.
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One on one is best for my teaching style. I have my reasons and you'll see if you learn from me
Cai6978 said:
I'd like to learn about all 4 it would be an honor to pick ur brain
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Hehe thanks and lessons will begin soon I promise I've been busy trying to figure out the sense lockscreen for my gingersense rom and typing a explanation for all my tweaks for my v2.0 tweak.
kifno said:
One on one is best for my teaching style. I have my reasons and you'll see if you learn from me
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One on one is ok with me.
joed1960 said:
One on one is ok with me.
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Cool After I finish test v2.0 (major changes made to it from v1.5 so that its all mine and its much better that v1.5 )
edit: i didn't finish my sentence lol...but after i finish i'm going to type up the first lesson and introduction about myself and the private classes
So I'm a total n00b to android and so far I'm not missing my iphone, I just rooted my xperia play last night and looking forward to clearing up some space. I haven't unlocked the bootloader yet, I need to do more research on it. But just wanted to say thanks to everyone involved with the superoneclick method.
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Welcome to the club! I'm sure you'll find everything you need to get going here
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you only really need to unlock your bootloader if you want a custom kernel or rom, I've unlocked it to install ICS alpha leak build but I relocked it again and went back to Stock, Root is a must though, Android is a pretty nice OS so just take advantage of the modifications.
Also install Xperia Tweak 2.0, you can find it in the dev section and install the Bravia, Rendering and touchscreen tweaks.
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you only really need to unlock your bootloader if you want a custom kernel or rom, I've unlocked it to install ICS alpha leak build but I relocked it again and went back to Stock, Root is a must though, Android is a pretty nice OS so just take advantage of the modifications.
Also install Xperia Tweak 2.0, you can find it in the dev section and install the Bravia, Rendering and touchscreen tweaks.
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Sounds good, I'll look into all that tonight.
if you are a noob best to not tell people and just stay in the corner reading lol
Hogwarts said:
if you are a noob best to not tell people and just stay in the corner reading lol
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you're a noob and i see you posting all over the place.
this part of the forum and q&a is for helping noobs out, so this is the perfect place to be. it's the best way to get yourself into the community.
xrishox said:
you're a noob and i see you posting all over the place.
this part of the forum and q&a is for helping noobs out, so this is the perfect place to be. it's the best way to get yourself into the community.
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you calling me a noob is your opinion.
I would say I'm intermediate / advanced since I have specific skill sets that some people desire.
Maybe you aren't looking for the good in people?
Hater alert!
Hogwarts said:
if you are a noob best to not tell people and just stay in the corner reading lol
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Ignore Hogwarts. He's become the forum PITA. He's the kind of guy that puts the A$$ in Assistance.
What dev work have you done to earn your 'moderate/advanced' grandeur?
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Trygon said:
What dev work have you done to earn your 'moderate/advanced' grandeur?
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I do alot of dev work I am always decompiling apk from other users and editing the class file and recompile and sign them
i always find out how thing work.
I am always working hard.
you just haven't looked for the good in people
you are nowhere near advanced. you need to bring that ego down a few notches. all i've seen you do is whine about how verizon ruined your life for locking the bootloader (even though you can unlock it easily) and talk down to people. quit going around like you are king ****. you are low tier. know your place.
Looking for good in people is one thing, but all you've shown me is words - Usually *****y, annoying words.
Get your name on a release and maybe people will start to overlook your glaring personality defects.
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Hey all,
I'm not trying to force the Devs into anything, or try to pressure them, I've simply opened this thread to see who thinks that it would be a good idea, if anyone is offended by this post, or thinks that they should try to flame me for it, then basically, you can get F****d. I've got a lot of respect for the Developers of the Galaxy SII and I know and beleive that they have the right to both their own opinions and their own choice.
I was looking through Samsung Galaxy S III section of this forum, to see what's going on around there and in the development section members were talking about how the developers of the HTC HD2 all came together and built ROMs as a team and ported Android and Windows Phone 7 OS together.
(Post Here)
Basically, what I was thinking, is why don't WE do that? have all or some of our developers work as a team to create something amazing? I know it's a long shot, but I think if it were to happen then I don't personally think that there will be many things that our phones won't be able to do.
If you guys could just post or vote on the poll with your thoughts/queries, I'd really appreciate it so I can get an idea of just how many people think it'd be something that we should or shouldn't do!
Thanks alot
Beans
Lol
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Lol
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What do you mean?
Beans
Its the devs choice not anyones bar them to decide .
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JJEgan said:
Its the devs choice not anyones bar them to decide .
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Yeah, that's true, but I was just wondering who thinks it would be a good idea, I'm not trying to pressure the Devs into anything, I just think that we could see so many accomplishments come from it
Beans
Not sure but if they want to do it together, they would have already automatic get together and make? ;o
Plus devs have to read this post .
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Plus devs have to read this post .
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Ok then, I'll edit the Opening Post to let the Devs and everyone else that I'm not trying to pressure anybody into anything, that all good for you?
Beans
HD2 had WM6.5 and we have android
Porting android on it would have been easier than posting WP7 to our phone because android is open source and WP7 is closed
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bbeanss said:
Yeah, that's true, but I was just wondering who thinks it would be a good idea, I'm not trying to pressure the Devs into anything, I just think that we could see so many accomplishments come from it
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So what use is the poll to anyone then?
Whoever votes for whatever doesn't matter a jot.
B3311 said:
So what use is the poll to anyone then?
Whoever votes for whatever doesn't matter a jot.
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It a poll to tell the Developers to DO anything or give anybody any hope, as the opening post says, I just wanted to see how many people thought that it would be a good idea, not because I want to force any of this in the Devs faces, if they want to do it then I personally would love it, but like I said, I'm not trying to push them into anything, I have simply opened the post for my own purpose to see how many people think it would or wouldn't be a good idea
Beans
bbeanss said:
It a poll to tell the Developers to DO anything or give anybody any hope, as the opening post says, I just wanted to see how many people thought that it would be a good idea, not because I want to force any of this in the Devs faces, if they want to do it then I personally would love it, but like I said, I'm not trying to push them into anything, I have simply opened the post for my own purpose to see how many people think it would or wouldn't be a good idea
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I get that, I'm not dumb.
Btw, you may have omitted a "not" in the first sentence, unless you really are telling the devs what to "DO" (your capitals..).
My point is that since you're not telling the devs to do anything, what does the poll achieve?
For example, 300 people think it's a good idea. Then what? The same if 300 people say it's a terrible idea - so what?
As jj said, the devs decide, and they rarely post on this sub-forum.
A better idea would be for you to learn how to code & then either develop the things you'd like to see for the SGS2 yourself/with other developers in one of these 'teams', or link up with current devs & work on the projects they're currently involved with.
any devs that want to work together are doing so or are free to do so.
Yea its an idea but more one for those moments where you're sitting on the sofa scratching your balls, not for making a thread about
skimminstones said:
any devs that want to work together are doing so or are free to do so.
Yea its an idea but more one for those moments where you're sitting on the sofa scratching your balls, not for making a thread about
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How about a poll?
"How often do you think about your phone when scratching your balls?"
Always, I have no life.
Sometimes, I have no girlfriend
Rarely, my balls don't itch
Never, I have no balls because I'm female/a Manchester United fan
I have no girlfriend & I have a severe fungal infection on my scrotum which makes my balls itch incessantly. As a result, I scratch them quite frequently. Interestingly enough, I seem to be thinking of my phone whilst temporarily relieving the prickliness most of the time.
Scratched my balls while reading the above two posts(true story)
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How about assisting villian for B2G first I say. Then see if we can port other stuff. I am not sure on what the request is here anyway? Is it to port SGSIII firmware to SGSII or another OS to SGSII?
Confused ....its late I should be asleep lol
Akhm, you can't scratch balls. The only thing you can do when itching is to pinch the itching area . Sorry for bad english
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It seems that nobody knows what to do while waiting for new I9100 firmware releases from Samsung (me included)
What to do in the meantime ... lets make a new poll or write some stupid replies like the one I just wrote
Hello Everyone,
I am Tom Cr0w, owner of the Cr0w's Place and the Cr0w's Place YouTube Channel and I have developed a ROM for the HTC One that comes with the best apps and utilities for penetration Testing and anonymity.
Don't get too exited, it is not something fancy, it is stock ROM Zipaligned and DeOxeded with a little more customization. The thing is that I don't own an HTC One and if someone can test my ROM I will be glad. Keep in mind that is in very early face and I don't take responcibility for anything that happens. If you are intrested leave a commend bellow and i will provide you the link of my ROM and instructions in a PM.
Thank You...
I would like to test it buddy, but a word of warning, people don't look lightly on people who ask the community to test something be it a ROM, kernel etc on a device the OP doesn't own.
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Sign me up
Hey count me in, I'm up for a challenge
djice000 said:
I would like to test it buddy, but a word of warning, people don't look lightly on people who ask the community to test something be it a ROM, kernel etc on a device the OP doesn't own.
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Thank you but i didn't understand what you meant...:/ Please explain it!
I'm always up for some good testing, count me in.
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Thread moved to general until actual development can be publicly presented.
In other words, people don't like doing OP's dirty work
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I am interested buddy. Really want to test what is new in this
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Hello Everyone,
I am Tom Cr0w, owner of the Cr0w's Place and the Cr0w's Place YouTube Channel and I have developed a ROM for the HTC One that comes with the best apps and utilities for penetration Testing and anonymity.
Don't get too exited, it is not something fancy, it is stock ROM Zipaligned and DeOxeded with a little more customization. The thing is that I don't own an HTC One and if someone can test my ROM I will be glad. Keep in mind that is in very early face and I don't take responcibility for anything that happens. If you are intrested leave a commend bellow and i will provide you the link of my ROM and instructions in a PM.
Thank You...
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Looks like a nice idea mate. I have always used chrooted Backtrack on my droid for pentest's . Having a pentesting ROM and that too on ONE will be nice.
I am just trying to understand that is this ROM all about a STOCK ROM with some best of breed pentest apps pre-installed or you got some other features too ? If its just about collection of apps on and off playstore why not an AROMA package which any custom ROM can eventually use.
Apologies was not trying to challenge your idea and work but was just trying to think if the pentest collection can be leveraged/installed easliy on my existing setup..
Btw that please pass down the links of the ROM will love to give some feedback.
I'm in.
Uh.. Here's what I don't get: Why do you develop a ROM for a phone you don't have?
Theshawty said:
Uh.. Here's what I don't get: Why do you develop a ROM for a phone you don't have?
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Because I don't have a high range android phone that most of these apps will work properly(and also my future ideas ) , I don't have the money to take one, I am a fan of HTC and finally I want to help the community.. Anyone that wants to help me by his/hers side good enought, anyone that doesn't want to help me by his/hers side also good enought.
Do you want the link or not?
If you need an extra tester I am in I own an international HTC One with S-Off. I have tested many ROMs and I was looking for something new like this kind of ROM. Let me know..
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Serbinhio said:
Because I don't have a high range android phone that most of these apps will work properly(and also my future ideas ) , I don't have the money to take one, I am a fan of HTC and finally I want to help the community.. Anyone that wants to help me by his/hers side good enought, anyone that doesn't want to help me by his/hers side also good enought.
Do you want the link or not?
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Ok, cheers mate, didn't mean anything by it.
No, I don't wanna be a tester. Thanks anyway.
Theshawty said:
Ok, cheers mate, didn't mean anything by it.
No, I don't wanna be a tester. Thanks anyway.
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hehe u nutter
exocetdj said:
hehe u nutter
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You know it, hahahah.
I will test
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Hello @Serbinhio
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:good:
I would love to test your work.
I was looking for testing penetration suites on Kali Linux arm using Linux Deploy however that needs some kernel support also.
I would like to explore the work that you have done and would encourage you to keep your work on.
Thanks
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waiting......