I’ve created a small update package to root the factory C71 ICS release. I hope it will be useful for others as well.
Lately I was assigned a task which involved something that a unit test seemed to be able to solve, but later it turned out to be way more complex than that. Almost a third of our codebase consists of POJOs … Read more
First I tried the wm8650 that I broke. Literally broke, as I just dropped it from about half a meter and the touch screen shattered. Then I got myself a “Superpad III” clone which died no later than a day … Read more
I have a Motorola vip1910-9 set-top box provided by my ISP. It’s a simple Linux based STB and I’m quite satisfied with it’s capabilities. Unfortunately I could not hook it up to my TV with a standard HDMI cable only … Read more
Last Saturday I stumbled upon the charger of the MID7 in the dark, managing to drop it and break the glass of the touch screen. Since the cheap MID7 proved it has a place in the household, but shown it’s … Read more
I’ve ordered a very cheap tablet from China, for about $85 including shipping. I did this, so I could see if anything arrives from there at all, and also to see if it arrives at all. I was not surprised … Read more
I’ve been using boxee for some time for my home media. As I’ve recently upgraded my box to the pre-release version of Ubuntu (Natty Narval Alpha 2 at the time of writing) I found that the package provided by boxee … Read more
Reading the post about useful regular expressions, remembered what my favourite solution is to one of the questions of the test we give to junior Java developers. The task is to write a method that takes a string as a … Read more
As I see there is a solid movement to reform the user interfaces that are in use in our computers. After all the menu bars with a start menu are on the mainstream desktops since the win95/OS2 era. And the … Read more