A friend of mine sent me a link today, to a post from some guy who codes for a living in Munich. This fellow reached a point where he decided programming from a laptop was too fraught with peril (losing files, noise, etc) so he transitioned to an iPad + Bluetooth keyboard + remote unix box situation. He does all his work from an iPad now. This just blows my mind.
Breaking the mold a little: Rooting the Galaxy Tab 8.9
I’d like to take this opportunity to go back to this site’s roots and post something technical.
Work got me a Galaxy Tab 8.9, the new Samsung tablet that just came out. It’s really sweet and awesome, but I needed to edit the hosts file on it, so that meant I needed to root the device. For posterity, these are the steps I followed. They’re a little technical and assume you’ve used adb before.
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Shell Redirection Question / Sometimes you learn more from the answer than expected
Shell Redirection Question /
Sometimes you learn more from the answer than expected:
I love it when the answer to a question actually tells you more information so you can truly grok the underlying problem.
Also, nerds of the internet: when someone asks how to do something, please refrain from saying, “you should actually do it this other way” unless you also say why the proposed way is wrong. If I need information on sftp, don’t tell me that I should use scp unless you also explain why I shouldn’t use sftp in the first place. I may have my reasons for using this other thing, just answer the question if you can, otherwise shut up.
ugh
Most of my readers won’t understand but I want to let everyone know that today man segfaulted on me. This makes me sad.
