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 [...]

20110801 Fix the “fluxgui is already running, exiting” error

It seems fluxgui had crashed previously, or maybe I had killed it some days ago and forgot about it entirely. When I tried to restart it, it didn’t do anything. Launching it from the command line returned the “Fix the “fluxgui is already running, exiting”” message. Looking at the most recent version of fluxgui code, [...]

20110718 aafm – the Android ADB file manager

Complaining is cheap–acting is for the brave ones! So I took the brave, proactive path and wrote aafm: an ADB based file manager, for those of us which can’t get MTP to work, no matter how many voodoo rituals we perform in front of the Sacred Droid Puppet beforehand. I’ve made sure that the project’s [...]