Alan Orth
Lover of Linux, death metal and Indian food, blogs about technology. Just for the lulz.
New mjanja build server
A few months ago I bought a new Lenovo ThinkPad T420. I love it because it’s fast, the hardware has great support by open-source drivers, and the price was right. Having a powerful laptop is nice, but when you just want something to sit in the corner humming away on compile or transcoding jobs, you [...]
Building Android 4.0 on Ubuntu 11.10
The source code for Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” was released last week, and Google’s build instructions list Ubuntu 10.04 as the only officially “supported” configuration for building AOSP on Linux. As of this writing Ubuntu 10.04 is a year and a half old, so lots of people have moved on to newer versions, some [...]
Added an LDPI icon to CyanogenMod
The other day I noticed that there was no LDPI icon for the CMStats application in CyanogenMod 7. CMStats is the application which pops up after a fresh install asking you if you want to opt in to anonymous usage statistics. Because stats are important*, we don’t want to scare users into clicking “no” with [...]
A match made in heaven
Strong Swedish coffee and a full-screen, white-on-black terminal: a match made in heaven. There’s no better way to hack than with a cup of strong Swedish coffee. I’ve got about five kilograms of the stuff on my desk at work: We have a Swedish guy in the office and whenever he goes home he brings [...]
What keeps me busy at work
I work as a Systems Analyst at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Nairobi, Kenya. In the name of alleviating poverty in the developing world, our scientists generate a lot of data about diseases, weather, markets, etc. Lots of data means lots of servers, routers, switches, etc and, because most science types aren’t tech [...]
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