20111102 Distro/desktop (s)hopping, part 3: Lubuntu

As I’m now fully embarked on my experimental setup, today I tried to kill two birds with one stone and set up a virtualised Android development environment try out yet another distribution I did something similar a couple of days ago: I created a virtual machine, installed Arch Linux on it and assembled an “on [...]

20111023 Distro/desktop (s)hopping, part 2: XFCE

So since my Ubuntu installation was behaving idiotically I decided to stop delaying the unavoidable, and made a fresh install of Arch Linux on an spare disk. I completed the installation of the basic system in a couple of hours, but I could have finished way earlier if the neighbours didn’t create so much interference [...]

20111020 Distro/desktop (s)hopping, part 1: KDE

One year after, and I’m still running Ubuntu 10.10. I have tested Unity and GNOME 3 both on Virtual Boxes and on real computers and I disliked them both–they convert perfectly capable machines into piles of obsolete hardware. It’s a shame, but it’s their decision. Thankfully, since it’s Linux, we have many choices, and so [...]

20110811 Android’s Text To Speech

After I found out that nasty Xperia PLAY bug, I kept experimenting a bit more today. It was the turn for Android’s TTS, or Text To Speech, capabilities. This allows you to send a string and get it read through the speakers.

20110803 Intriguing IntelliJ IDEA behaviour

Sometimes I type this in: ArrayList<String> out = new ArrayList<String>(); and when I come back to the code, IDEA has replaced it with: ArrayList<String> out = new ArrayList<~>(); Been looking for answers to this, but with no luck. Even more mysteriously, if I click over the tilde, it gets expanded back to String! IDEA is [...]