I always wanted to have a full Linux on my phone, not just a half-baked one such as Android. Then I saw Lil’ Debi, the Debian installer app for Android. I decided to give it a try to see how it works. You can grab the pre-built apk file here, or grab the source codes [...]
With all these new phones and tablets coming out, a lot of Android devices are now equipped with more than one SD cards. On these new devices, there is usually an internal (built-in) storage device, and an external storage device. The built-in storage device might not be an SD card, but the external storage device [...]
Renzhi Safe v2.2.0 is released today, with some new features and enhancement. Please read the release notes here for information. The user’s guide has also been updated with description of new functionalities.
I recently read a small story about Bian Que, who was one of the most well-known physicians in Chinese history, according to the legend. I’ve read various stories about him, but this one was new to me, and I felt related. One day, Bian Que met Lord Wei, at the state of Wei, and the [...]
Ok, back from an exhausting Chinese New Year holiday, year of the Dragon. I finally got some times today, and in the next few days, to work on Renzhi Safe again. I’ll work on adding some new features, those that I always wanted, and follow up with some fixes for problems that users had run [...]
The default GDM theme in Debian doesn’t look right to my taste so decided to create one for myself. This is my first time creating a GDM theme, so it is mostly copied from other themes. Here’s how it looks like: And that’s for the year of Dragon. You can grab the package here. How [...]
During the new year holiday, although I’ve read about bad reviews about Unity, I decided to upgrade my laptop to Ubuntu 11.10 anyway, thinking that as long as I don’t use it, I should be ok. Wrong, this upgrade was the worst of all Ubuntu. I have been using Ubuntu full-time almost exclusively (except on [...]
According to a research team, disk encryption is hampering law enforcement, and federal agencies are unable to get at data on an encrypted disk. Contrary to what we all see in the movies and on television, cracking an encrypted drive is not a simple thing; in fact, it’s so difficult that if someone has encrypted [...]
This is what love is all about.
Another week, another great mind has left. John McCarthy, the inventor of the LISP programming language, and the expert who coined the term artificial intelligence in 1955, has passed away yesterday. His web site is still online. Besides the C programming language, LISP (and its other variance Scheme) and Prolog were the languages we used [...]