Today I picked up a TP-Link MR3420; it’s the cheapest router (that I know of) in Kenya that can run OpenWRT. I’ve already got a pretty sweet Buffalo router in my house which serves as my gateway, has 802.11n, gigabit Ethernet, etc, so I want to use this one to experiment with mesh networks. Technically […]
I’ve been meaning to play with ZFS, the advanced filesystem created by Sun, for some time now. As I know the day will come when my storage requirements exceed the capacity and flexibility of traditional storage, I decided to give it a go in a virtual machine. I have no intention of deploying a virtualized […]
I’ve been working on porting CyanogenMod 9 to the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus for a few months now. At first I was only supporting the GT-P6200 (International 3G version), as it was the device I owned, but then I realized it was trivial to support the GT-P6210 (International wifi-only version). A few users have […]
Today was the second meeting of the Nairobi Linux Users Group[1]. As has become the tradition, we met at the Kentucky Fried Chicken on Kimathi Street in downtown Nairobi. Yours truly loves Linux more than any of the other members, so he showed up early (hah!); the others trickled in later according to their own […]