16 May 10 Fun things you can do with android
Now I bought last week a new phone, with android 2.1 iam kinda having fun with it. As a school project our project is currently to program for android (Whats not that difficult, it basicly is java 
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after playing a bit around with the SDK for android, I discovered a function that you can use to make a screenshot via the computer at your phone. (If you dont know how, its pretty easy. But I will post a bit more explained how later as seperate post).
Now the more weird thing, after some minutes playing around with this function, the phone was gone into sleep modes. So I expect if the phone is asleep, the screen is just black when I make a screenshot. However, it isnt, see the attached screenshot (Iam afraid you will need to trust me that thats the actual screen being displayed, I know 
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Tags: android
06 Mar 10 3.0.7PL1 released
You really should upgrade now: http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=2014195&start=0
Tags: phpBB
25 Feb 10 Toshiba and ubuntu
Yes, I know I wrote earlier about this problemhere at my blog, however, thats now already a few days ago, and since I actually didnt write anything about it. Looking back at the last week I havent found any solution really yet for my fan problem at my laptop. its still not really working currently. The fan just does nothing, and the temperature raises till around 75C. At this moment (I havent found the exact temperature yet) the fan starts to blow at full speed, and doesnt stop untill I reboot the laptop.
Recompilling the kernel, or the other fixes I mentioned earlier dont work, so there currently is as far I can see not really a solution, except not using ubuntu. Damn. Hopefully its fixed in the next release, but iam afraid it will not be fixed 
. Unless someone else knows a solution ofcourse
15 Feb 10 the process of compile a new kernel(2)
Yesterday I wrote about compiling myself out a new kernel. As everything new, it will not always succeed at the first try . And the same here. After compiling, what took around 2.5 hours at my laptop (Iam currently considering building a VM to do this kind of things at a hosthuis server, we have enough CPU there to build it instead), there was just at the end one small error. This badly enough resulted in a non work .deb file, that didnt contain a kernel. (more…)
14 Feb 10 The process of compile a new kernel
Like I said yesterday iam currently having major problems with my toshiba laptop due to the fan not working. Its topping at normale usage (So just some internet and nothing more really) at 70C, what isnt really normal. (more…)
13 Feb 10 Ubuntu and laptop fan
Since Iam using ubuntu as main main OS for my laptop I noticed that my laptop temperatures are quickly raising in several cases, and no fan is actually spinning up. According to lm-sensors the temperature of my CPU is 70C in some cases, and no fan that is working. Untill I reboot, and the fan is started by the bios. At that moment, the fan is spinning on the max(?) RPM, and isnt slowed down by ubuntu.
Looking at google several people are noticing the same problem, and several solutions are at internet, however, none of these solutions are actually working at my toshiba laptop. Hopefully someone fixes this anytime soon, as iam pretty sure my laptop doesnt like it to be 70C with normal usage…
12 Feb 10 Laptop batteries
After WIN7 destroyed my battery (I know people say windows cant be blamed for this, but I still say its windows. How can it happen that a good working battery in October dies within 3 months? I ofcourse know batteries are getting worse if they get older, but within in from a pretty good battery to a really bad battery is not normal).
After that, I decided just to remove the WIN7 install I had, and to replac it with ubuntu. I already used ubuntu at several other PCs, and untill a few weeks I actually needed windows. But now, I dont actually need windows anymore, so I was able to replace my OS with ubuntu.
However, this didnt solve really my problem with the bad battery. The battery last with windows 20 minutes, and with Ubuntu around 30, so its a bit better, but still not much badly enough. So at that moment I had to decide what to do. I can just replace the laptop, or buy a new battery. A new battery isnt really cheap, its aroundd 100+ euro. However, a new laptop is more expensive, so in this case I decided a new laptop would fit better here. So now finally I have a decent battery again (This time one with 9 cells, instead the 6 cells the old one had.)
04 Feb 10 Usefull?!? ads?
Remember that I wrote a long time ago about non usefull ads? Yesterday, I finally saw some “usefull” ads. At least, they were related to what I wrote (greylisting, virtualisation), instead of random things. Weeee.
Tags: ads, google ads
