Since I have had more and more spam coming through the filters and annoying me no end, I decided to restrict commenting to registered users (which are only FSFE fellows). I regret to do this, but the ratio of spam to content is 5,245 to 22 (do the math yourself) and I don’t want to spend what time I have for the blog with removing spam. I hope to change it in the future again, once a better anti-spam solution has been found.
While spring and early summer are claiming Berlin now and most folks are out enjoying the change, I thought I’d post a late winter picture. Continue reading
I thought I’d cover how I got to my current dual-boot on my Transformer. The main difference to other setups is, that my Transformer’s data partition is encrypted, which makes some steps more difficult. Continue reading
Here’s the picture that is used in the header and which inspired the title of the blog. The picture was taken with my transformer pad through the window of a bus, in Northern Ireland, last fall. I ran it through some filters of the android image program, not much was done on the computer. Continue reading
Dear readers,
I have changed the look and feel on my blog a little. It is more streamlined now, and it will contain pictures and notes on photography as well. Continue reading
I posted an article on tracking memory usage a while ago. Unfortunately it doesn’t work for a lot of cases, i.e. when programs are statically linked, or are written in a way where they don’t go through the dynamic linker, e.g. programs written in Java. Continue reading
This is a pretty serious one: there are no proper E-Mail apps for Android tablets. Continue reading
Next weekend we are going to have a small hackathon in Berlin to port/fix/implement disk encryption on various Android devices. Continue reading
… or why using Linux can be a pain, when you come from the BSD-world. Continue reading
Ok, so you know that I am using Android, and that I am not too happy with the situation. Ultimately Android is a JAVA-based operating system for phones, so maybe I shouldn’t be surprised that trying to replace a FreeBSD (or proper GNU/Linux) laptop with it, will cause some grief. Continue reading