In addition to copious amounts of Swiss chocolate and a basking platform for my turtles, I bought a solid-state disk while I was in Europe. It was cheap enough and I think the underlying technology has advanced enough to be less scary, so I bought it. They’re still not THAT cheap, but the price was […]
I recently posted a project proposal on the Nairobi GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list. The idea is that I’d like to promote understanding of embedded Linux/Android devices, collaborative development processes/tools, and hacker culture in young Kenyan developers. It’s called Project Mjanja (“hustler” in Swahili). To paraphrase my post on the mailing list, the gist of […]
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 […]
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 […]
With Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” came an interesting new feature: mobile data usage tracking. It tracks, graphs, and logs your data usage (and the applications which were responsible for using the data). I just got it working on my alpha CM9 port for the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus… I don’t know how accurate it […]