ArchLinux MIPS Aug 25, 2013 The beginning of the ArchLinux MIPS project ... ➦

Announcing fitbitd Jul 05, 2012 A new project has been added to the sidebar after consuming a number of days of my time. fitbitd lets you synchronise a FitBit tracker using a Linux machine, because I grew tired of firing up a windows virtual machine to do so. It also features an indicator to show trackers that have been seen recently. It’s pretty early days, but is functional enough to be useful now. However, the indicator currently looks like this: ... ➦

Transformer android project page Jan 12, 2012 So, just to be clear and in case you didn’t notice: anyone looking for android (ICS) builds for the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer TF101 should head over to the new project page which you can also see linked to on the right of the homepage. That will be kept up to date with the latest builds. It also contains a list of known issues and instructions for retrieving the source.

ICS on the Transformer TF101 (Because exams are boring) Jan 05, 2012 I got bored of revision and decided to do something more interesting, which led to running Android 4.0.3 (Ice Cream Sandwich MR1) on my EEE Pad Transformer. It needs a lot of work still - basically the touchscreen & keyboard work and very little else, and the touchscreen is a bit of a bodge. It is all shiny and smooth though :) Progress may have to be slow until exams finish… ... ➦

It's dead Jim Jan 12, 2011 Well, I built gingerbread. It boots. It flashes up the lock screen, which looks quite nice. It swaps like crazy. It dies pretty quickly. Could it be made to not die? Yes, the timeouts Android uses to decide when to kill processes could be increased, but that doesn’t solve the problem of it being so slow to begin with. Could it be made not so slow to begin with? Sure, whack in some more RAM. ... ➦