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
Missing (Free) Android Apps – II – E-Mail
This is a pretty serious one: there are no proper E-Mail apps for Android tablets. Continue reading
Hacking encryption into Android
Next weekend we are going to have a small hackathon in Berlin to port/fix/implement disk encryption on various Android devices. Continue reading
Tracking memory usage
… or why using Linux can be a pain, when you come from the BSD-world. Continue reading
Missing (Free) Android Apps – I – Office
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
ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity
I have this tablet since two or three months now and I must say, I pleasently surprised with the hardware. People who know me, know that I don’t say stuff like that often. Continue reading
Long time no see
Hi everyone, ok so there haven’t been posts in while, because I was incredibly busy, but I do plan on finishing the line of posts concerning my audio setup. I also have a post in line regarding my (possibly irrelevant) thoughts on KDE and I have a few things to say about Android which I have been using a lot lately, so stay tuned.
The spam issue is getting kind of out-of-hand (over 1000 spam comments VS a handful of real ones), so if your comments don’t appear immediately don’t get angry. If in doubt of being regarded as a robot, just write me an email and I will whitelist you!
A versatile, open and future-proof audio setup [ part 2 ] Storage
This post covers storage and organisation of the files. Continue reading
A versatile, open and future-proof audio setup [ part 1 ] Overview
Here are the general components of the setup, as well as planned components. Fear not, most of everything that follows does not imply this setup and is generally usable. You don’t even need a server for the most part. Continue reading
A versatile, open and future-proof audio setup [ part 0 ]
Since it might be useful to some other people I want to document my audio setup in a few blog posts. By audio setup I mean the storage, organization and playback of my music collection. It covers the following: file systems, file formats, network access, choice of portable hardware, my own maintenance software (conversion, synchronization etc) and briefly other software (operating systems, playback software). Continue reading