The Google TV runs a fairly unusual flavor of Android (at least the 2nd-gen ARM-based devices). I have a Sony Internet Player (not the Blu-Ray version), so what I’m about to write applies to that device, but maybe not any other, though it stands to reason that the other ARM-based GTVs are the same. Phone-and-tablet [...]
In no particular order. Start blogging again. Suck less at Javascript, even if it’s a shitty language. Learn jQuery, even if it’s just a library to make a shitty language less shitty. Learn Rails properly. Get back into open source dev. Find a project/idea I can potentially monetize, and build and launch it. Throw out [...]
I just discovered weavesilk.com, which I think is pretty cool. However, it looks like they don’t give you a way to save your generated artwork. If you’re running Google Chrome (or, as I am, Chromium), there’s a trick you can … Continue reading →
I just posted a page detailing my experience installing Gentoo on one of the new MacBook Air models (in my case the MacBookAir3,1 with 1.6GHz CPU, 128GB SSD, and 4GB RAM). Hopefully it’ll be useful for others.
(This is going to be a bit of a narrative. If you’re impatient, scroll to the “How-To” section at the bottom of the post.) Today I decided to download an MP3 album from Amazon. I actually wanted all the songs … Continue reading →
I’m a bit of a minimalist when it comes to commenting my code. This is probably in some ways a bad thing; code that is completely obvious to me in its function may be difficult to understand for others, and … Continue reading →
NB: I’ve cleaned up this guide and moved it, and I’ll continue to update it there. This blog post will not get any more updates. Those of you who have chatted with me over the past… er… 18 months or … Continue reading →
Dear lazyweb, A friend of mine has released an album on the iTunes store, and I want to buy it to support her. Of course, I don’t want to buy it there if it’s a DRM-protected AAC file. Anybody know … Continue reading →
It’s pretty well-known that the Linux kernel developers advocate getting your drivers into the main line kernel tree. Doing so ensures that your driver always gets fixed to conform to the latest “correct” internal interfaces when they change, and in-kernel … Continue reading →
Ok, now this is just ridiculous: [brian@machine1 airconfig $] pwd /home/brian/src/airconfig [brian@machine1 airconfig $] git branch -a advanced-ip-settings * master nm-frontend notification-rework reconnect origin/master origin/pre-hal [brian@machine1 airconfig $] cd .. && mkdir t && cd t [brian@machine1 t $] git … Continue reading →