I find it really weird that the inkjet printer I own (Brother MFC-5490CN) doesn’t print properly with the drivers provided on Brother’s website. I tried every possible setting tweak with Photoshop but the colours always came up darker.
So today I reverted to the default Windows 7 provided drivers and my prints look amazing. You’d think that using the most up to date drivers provided by the manufacturer would yield the best results.
As some of you may know, I own a Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro phone. The phone is fully unlocked and rooted, including bootloader privileges. I received a notification this morning about an update to the Android build to 4.0.2.A.0.58.
The update required Windows for the Sony Ericsson PC Companion software to push the update. Update took about 10 minutes and went smoothly. However, after updating, the phone was un-rooted and required me to run the zergRush script from DooMLoRD to root the phone again. The update also pushed back a ton of applications that I had previously removed. Apps such as the Facebook sync, Chinese/Japanese keyboards, etc. The update also pushed back the bootanimation.zip that shows the Fido boot screen when the phone starts up. This required me to go through them and re-delete them all but it wasn’t an issue.
I haven’t had time to see what’s new with the update but one thing that I really like is USB device support. I used to have to load modules with busybox insmod but it looks like the phone has those modules now and I won’t have to load them. With a simple USB-OTG (USB On-The-Go) adapter, I can plug in keyboards and mice to my phone. It’s actually pretty neat to see a cursor on the Android desktop. Keyboard is extremely useful as most of my passwords are partially formed through my Yubikeys. It doesn’t look like USB keys work by default. It also doesn’t seem to like things that draw too much power.
EDIT:
There’s a screenshot button (power off menu)!
I have converted my blog into a WordPress blog. I figure that the old site probably had some horribly written code and was vulnerable to attacks so I decided to import all my content (sans comments — haven’t been able to figure that out yet) into a WordPress blog.
I’ll be going through the site to make sure everything looks nice and not too much is broken.
As for life, I’m 8 courses away from graduation. I’m doing 5 this term so that my last term in the Spring will be as easy as possible. The courses that I’m doing are:
- CS 448 – Database Systems Implementation: An advanced course on databases. From what I’ve researched, I’ll likely have to code some parts of a database engine, likely PostgreSQL.
- CS 456 – Computer Networks: A relatively straight forward course on networking including network programming. Should be a very neat course except for the fact it’s my first 8:30AM course EVER.
- CS 490 – Information Systems Management: A computer science/business course.
- PHIL 216 – Probability and Decision Making: A course on game theory and such, I’ll get the gist of it after the first lecture on Thursday night.
- AFM 101 – Introduction to Financial Accounting: A course on accounting, my bird course for the term.
For my Spring term, I’ll likely be doing:
- CS 349 – User Interfaces: I took the course last Winter but dropped it because it conflicted with Operating Systems (which was more important). Likely coding in X11/Java and might be doing Android application development.
- ACTSC 221 – Mathematics of Investment: One of my bird courses for the term. I keep explaining to people it’s a course based around one formula. The course is based around calculation mortgage rates and interest.
- SPAN 101 – Introduction to Spanish 1: My other bird course. Spanish is close enough to French that I shouldn’t have a hard time picking it up. It’s also done by the first week of July so I’ll likely have an early final and only 2 exams to prepare for in August.
Not saying much.
