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 [...]
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 [...]
After getting my Android phone, I was looking for an app that would allow me to create an encrypted virtual disk (or volume, or a safe), and that would allow me to put anything in it, securely. I kept looking in the Android app store for a while, there are tons of tools for managing [...]
Someone told me that Riak is a good K/V store to work with, it’s very scalable, and it’s written in Erlang. Since my application is also written in Erlang, that sounds like a good thing to try out. I have been working with MongoDB, and it’s actually quite nice, although the Erlang driver is not [...]
Since upgrading to Ubuntu 10.10, my laptop’s touchpad has been giving me problems. The left button does not work anymore. Actually, it works occasionally, but it always stops working especially when I need it the most, so it might as well be considered not working at all. Only the left button is not working though, [...]
I have been quite annoyed recently by the sluggishness of Ubuntu Gnome desktop, even on a laptop with AMD duo-core CPU and 2GB RAM, and after trying to cut down to the bare minimum of applications for my daily works. That’s certainly not a top of the line machine, but surely not an antique either. [...]
Erlang is great platform, however, if you want to develop Erlang programs, the best development environment is probably Emacs at this point. In this post, I’m describing the tools you need, and how to set up to develop Erlang codes. The OS is assumed to be Debian-based Linux (mine is Ubuntu 10.04). First, make sure [...]