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 [...]

20110718 “insufficient permissions for device”

Yes, another of those note-to-self posts, since each time I try to connect a new device to the computer I’ve already forgotten how this is done :-)

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 [...]

20110612 Honeycomb, MTP and Linux

TL;DR If you want to transfer files between your computer and your tablet, get aafm, an application I’ve written to work around MTP issues with Linux. Honeycomb ends with the tradition of allowing users to mount the phone’s SD card as an USB mass storage device, and replaces that with MTP. Or, in other words, [...]