Category Archives: Misc.
Plasma Active for Nexus 7: Running the touch-optimized Plasma Active Linux Distribution on Nexus 7
We are very happy to announce the first testing release of Plasma Active for Nexus 7. Plasma Active, in a nutshell, is a Linux distribution (based on Mer as a core) that is specifically optimized for tablet computers. Tuomas Kulve … Continue reading
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Tagged Google Nexus 7, Mer, Open Source, planetkde, Plasma Active
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Some Panoramic Photos
Last December I started to experiment with stitching photographs to panoramic photos. In this post I publish some of the results I created over time. All these photos were taken with either the N950 or N9. The stitching software I … Continue reading
N9 Touchstone Mod
Before going on, the usual disclaimer apply. Doing the things described or shown here you will for sure void your device warranty. Furthermore, you really risk breaking your device or causing other, possibly serious, damage to you, your surroundings etc. … Continue reading
Plasma Active / Mer vs. Archos 101 G9 Turbo vs. Touchscreen
With the current Plasma Active images available from basyskom I had the issue that the touchscreen of my Archos 101 G9 Turbo was not working. As it turned out the reason was simply that the required kernel module was not … Continue reading
Enable WLAN in Plasma Active on Start-up
Alright, the setting is this: I got an Archos 101 G9 Turbo with the goal to experiment/develop/play around with Plasma Active/Mer. I use the images available from basyskom. Unfortunately, with these images the touch screen on my G9 did not … Continue reading
Nemo/Mer vs. Battery Status vs. N9/N950
While Nemo/Mer runs reasonably well on N9/N950 there is a little annoying issue: the battery status is not correctly displayed. Reason for this is that there is currently no driver for querying the required information from the battery gauge chip … Continue reading
Packaging and Publishing MeeGo/Harmattan Applications for Mer/Nemo via OBS
MeeGo/Harmattan uses Debian-based packaging whereas Mer/Nemo uses RPM-based packaging. Additionally, there are also some differences with respect to using the OBS for publishing packages. This might lead to some confusion when one tries to package and publish packages for Mer/Nemo. … Continue reading
Identifying Dependencies when Developing for Mer/Nemo
I am currently working on packaging and publishing some of my applications for Mer/Nemo. Within that process I needed to lookup missing dependencies quite often. In this post I will write about some ways I found useful for looking up … Continue reading
SGI Wallpaper
Some day I placed all my Silicon Graphics equipment side by side and took some photographs. These wide-screen wallpaper sized pictures are some of the results of this photo session. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 … Continue reading
The Ludicrous N900 Powermat Mod
Inspired by the whole problem of the USB port becoming loose on the N900 I started to mod my N900 “a little bit”. Essentially, I added a Powermat receiver to the back of my N900 such that it can now … Continue reading
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