Android “marketplace” == worthless garbage
Or how upgrading your phone can kill your paid-for applications. The short story: Got android phone Paid for some applications Installed some Upgraded OS (via vendor-supported upgrade process) FFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUU Marketplace upgrades stopped working – can’t get updates on shit I paid Google to let me download. Available support is limited to e-mail from Google that [...]
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Anti-nuke protest in Sofia
The second fallout from Fukushima-1 in Bulgaria just happened today in Sofia. The first was a week or so ago, when a highly radioactive cloud jumped out of a stupid newspaper article, almost flew over Burgas, and sent people buying useless iodine from the pharmacies. In Sofia, feelings were a bit more subdued, and resulted [...]
Don’t forget the quake victims because of Fukushima-1
It seems that the foreign press coverage of the aftermath of the Tohoku/Sendai earthquake has shifted from the earthquake, the tsunami and the plight of the more than 450k people there to the OMG!!111!! scary nuclear disaster looming. While I’ll be the last person to downplay the seriousness of the accident, and the criminal lack [...]
Kyodo station, wed. morning
(Either JavaScript is not active or you are using an old version of Adobe Flash Player. Please install the newest Flash Player.) I have never seen people crowd in the huge station hall. To my huge surprise there was also a thick, long line outside the station as well. I hope the service recovers sooner, [...]
Useful android apps
Apps/features I like and use a lot: Locus, the map tool. For looking at, saving, using maps. Awesome, although it isn’t free anymore. Totally worth the small fee. FBReader, the reader. For reading fb2 and epub e-books. Awesome. Sketchbook mobile (or the free Sketchbook express). The sketchbook. For sketching. Awesome. RSS Demon, for reading RSS [...]
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arduino environment on the sharp netwalker
The easy way is to upgrade to lucid or meerkat, install rxtx, avr-gcc, avr-libs, avrdude and the newest arduino and replace the .so files of rxtx with those of the armel package. what worked for me (for the atmega328-based ardweeny kit) 1. compile, insmod, copy to /lib/modules and depmod for ftdi_sio 2. install the cross-compiler [...]
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