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 [...]

20110819 Line spacing inconsistencies when pasting to Firefox from gedit

I was adding some productions to escena.org when I noticed something strange about the way the info section of the latest productions was looking. I was slightly distracted by the excitement of watching all those intros and demos that I hadn’t heard before about, so it took me a while to notice what it was [...]

20110811 Android’s SoundPool.play is broken on the Xperia PLAY

Whenever you try to play a sound with a rate other than 1.0f, the sound will simply not play at all on the Xperia “PLAY”. You get nothing. Not even the sound at the original 1.0 rate. Silence. Void. Vacuum. Zeroes. What an ironic, unfortunate coincidence–maybe we should retitle the phone as Xperia NOT PLAY. [...]

20110405 Native startPreview failed on Nexus S? Check your preview size

I got several error reports for Nerdstalgia from people using Nexus S. They were something akin to this: 04-05 12:22:50.371: DEBUG/SEC_Overlay(102): overlay_createOverlay:IN w=176 h=144 format=99 04-05 12:22:50.375: DEBUG/SEC_Overlay(102): src width, height are changed [w= 176, h= 144]->[w=176, h= 144] 04-05 12:22:50.375: INFO/SEC_Overlay(102): Opened video1/fd=253/obj=006e2468/shm=251/size=4096 04-05 12:22:50.375: DEBUG/SEC_Overlay(102): dst width, height have changed [w= 16, h= [...]

20100914 Cube Clock 1.5.2

Already available in the Android Market. Introducing an even nicer, more elegant preferences panel: … which uses a bit of this*: