Last week I had a hell of a time when the Kingston SSD in my laptop started failing, badly. Poky is well known as a destroyer of disks but it seems cheap SSD’s are even more susceptible to it’s toothy maw. At first it was just (extremely noticeable) performance degradation, but minutes after telling my […]
I’ve acquired a bunch of new gadgets of late, I’m very excited about them all so I decided to promote them here. Reading A Sony PRS 600 E-Book reader was gifted to me this Christmas, and what a fantastic piece of kit it is. I’ve been enjoying several public domain texts from Feedbooks as well […]
Two weeks after it was given my talk on writing Connectivity UIs for ConnMan is already out of date. Crumbs! There have been over half a dozen ConnMan releases in the time since! Because of this I’ve decided that I’m going to keep a set of notes against ConnMan git for budding UI developers. These […]
I’m back from my first Guadec and have had an awesome week. Hung out with a bunch of cool people, attended some great talks, absorbed the general atmosphere and got inspired to do some hacking. Guadec hacks: Started working on a ConnMan plugin to implement the shared connectivity namespace I proposed in my talk. This […]
I gave my GCDS talk this morning, I felt it went fairly well. I was particularly nervous, not just because the topic is fairly contentious right now, but also as it was the first time I’ve done any public speaking. Of course there where various questions about NetworkManager; “Why aren’t you using it”, “Why don’t […]
