Alan Orth
Lover of Linux, death metal and Indian food, blogs about technology. Just for the lulz.Alan
Resetting the flash counter on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7 Plus
First, the exciting news: we can now reset the flash counter on the Galaxy Tab 7 Plus. Here’s mine, freshly reset: Background (moar info!) Starting with the Galaxy S2, Samsung began tracking the number of times you flashed custom kernels to your device. This includes the Samsung Galaxy Note, the Galaxy Tab 7 Plus, Galaxy [...]
Wi-Fi working on Tab 7.0 Plus CyanogenMod 9
The Galaxy Tab 7.7s have had Wi-Fi for a week or so now, but I haven’t been able to get it working on the Tab 7.0 Plus. We use the exact same wireless chipset, hardware revision, kernel source, wireless driver, etc… but no go. Today, to my surprise, I turned on my tablet and then [...]
Mobile data tracking working on Tab 7 Plus CM9
With Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” came an interesting new feature: mobile data usage tracking. It tracks, graphs, and logs your data usage (and the applications which were responsible for using the data). I just got it working on my alpha CM9 port for the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus… I don’t know how accurate it [...]
This server should be on fire
Sometimes users run scripts without checking the parameters first, often recycling scripts they’ve used elsewhere, at former jobs or at other institutes. Sometimes this works out, sometimes it doesn’t… With a load of ~75 and 32 physical cores, the CPU usage on this server is oversubscribed 2.3 times a “normal” 100% load (where 100% of [...]
Ubuntu GCC > 4.4.x considered harmful!
Note: I’ve since updated the build server in question to Ubuntu 12.04, where the default GCC is 4.6.3. It seems that at least some of these issues have been corrected in GCC. Your mileage may vary. –Alan, April 28, 2012 I’ve been having some problems with Ubuntu 11.10′s default GCC (4.6.2) for some time now. [...]
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