Fastest mulika mwizi in Kenya

I upgraded my Nokia 1202 (known as the mulika mwizi in Kenya) to get some more performance out of it… before and after: I know it’s ONLY a Core i7-2600 (no overclocking!), but maybe I’ll throw an SSD in next… Or! Maybe a Beowulf cluster of mulika mwizis!

CyanogenMod 9 alpha for Galaxy Tab 7 Plus (GT-P6200)

A few weeks ago I started porting CyanogenMod 9 (Ice Cream Sandwich) to the Galaxy Tab 7 Plus. It was a slow start, but after fixing up the touchscreen driver for ICS things started moving much quicker. It has finally reached a state where I feel that it would benefit from public testing (as well […]

Linux pro tip: learn to read `top` and `free` correctly

People look at tools like free and top to see how much RAM their system is using, but they almost always fail to read the output properly. Learn to interpret this properly so you don’t freak out whenever you see something like this: At first glance it appears I only have 310 megabytes of RAM […]

Heimdall firmware packages for Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus

I decided to start making Heimdall firmware packages for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus. I’ll keep this XDA Developers thread updated as I find, test, and upload new firmwares for this device. Flashing firmware packages using Heimdall Flashing a firmware using Heimdall involves rebooting your device into “Download mode” (also sometimes call “Odin” mode, […]