Yesterday I posted about putting Linux on my Android 2.2 phone, but I didn't get a chance to finish the story, so here we have the rest of the tale. Backing up a bit from yesterday, for continuity:
" Now it was time to get the pertinent file onto the …
It wasn't long after having my MB508 Motorolla Flipside that I wanted to upgrade it with Linux. At this time I will not get into why someone might want to do this, as I feel that will distract us from the task at hand. Let's just say that I wanted …
The other day, when using adb to communicate with my phone, I had a problem where my laptop would not connect to my phone.
# adb devices
List of devices attached
Odd, it should have listed the device serial number. So I checked out lsusb to see if the phone was …
Every Friday you will see a new JWM theme posted here, including the .jwmrc file and a screenshot, so check back here on Fridays for the new theme. You can readily find the background images off of the internet. Be sure to check that the font file is a font …
Be sure to read yesterdays post about how we got here.
So now we should take stock of what we have: an Archos 101 internet tablet with Debian system 6.0 (Squeeze), with most, if not all of the device hardware functioning, since we stole it from the Angstrom distribution …
Since my tablet had become somewhat dated it was only able to utilize Android 2.3. I wanted to keep using the tablet, but I wanted it to be more useful. I wanted to be able to utilize it as a regular computer, rather than through the Android interface. Honestly …
While not overly complicated, we ran into a problem at work the other day relating to an APC battery backup unit. The unit in question was an APC Symmetra PX. The problem was that it was connected to the network, but we didn't know what the IP address of the …
Often in today's high powered computer world, the mindset seems to slowly be drifting toward more complex and all encompassing desktop environments and windows managers. Perhaps it is the luring features that capture our attention and draw us in, or the availability of high end computer systems that push us …
Every Friday you will see a new JWM theme posted here, including the .jwmrc file and a screenshot, so check back here on Fridays for the new theme. You can readily find the background images off of the internet. Be sure to check that the font file is a font …
Just a simple guy who lives in Alaska that happens to like tinkering. My main hobbies are reading the Bible, working with Linux, and playing with Android. I hope that this site will be useful to others, but most of the work on this site is for …