A few months ago I proposed a project to port CyanogenMod 9 (Ice Cream Sandwich) to the Huawei U8185. I got the project started by porting ClockworkMod Recovery, and then got CyanogenMod 9 booting not longer after that. I had some good momentum, but I was alone; not exactly what I had in mind when […]
I recently reinstalled my Arch Linux desktop onto a brand spankin’ new solid-state hard drive. I’ve been extremely happy with the performance, but I was having problems with X11 forwarding over SSH. aorth@dspace:~$ meld Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:57: GtkWarning: could not open display warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning) /usr/bin/meld:111: GtkWarning: gtk_icon_theme_get_for_screen: assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)’ failed gtk.icon_theme_get_default().append_search_path(meld.paths.icon_dir()) Traceback (most recent […]
Last year I set out to build a powerful server for my personal use at home; compiling kernels, hacking on CyanogenMod, and for use as a media server hooked up to my TV. I bought most of the parts in Kenya, just to prove it could be done. It wasn’t cheap, but it was way […]