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So I tried out the OpenEclair 1.2.1 ROM, which runs on the Dream and Magic HTC devices, yesterday. It was quite exciting trying out a 2.1 ROM on my phone, since it has so many new features and stuff that I wanted to try out. Though I must say, it was a pain in the ***!
It is a cool initiative, but the ROM is just too slow for my likings everything was so choppy, pulling up the drawer and what not was forcing the hardware to its knees, the first 30 minutes the ROM was super slow and I decided not to mess with it anymore.

Though I have to say, I liked the animated backgrounds a lot, it is fun to have interactive stuff in the background without even starting a new application, and you can have all kinds of stuff going on there, either for show or for real use, like the VU meter and so on.

I guess I just have to get a new phone soon, I’d just wish that an operator in Denmark was selling one of these lovely Nexus One devices. I guess I will either have to wait or get it from abroad.

So I started my next term at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), which is the fourth, and I have got this very exciting class called Model Based System Engineering, where the teacher had us to read an article called No Silver Bullet, written by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
You may know this article already since it has been widely discussed and was published in 1987. It basically about how system engineering is very hard and disappointing, since it is not as easy as for example physics where you have laws, which apply to most things, which you can relate to and use everywhere, because there are none of them in system engineering.

If you like designing software systems I highly recommend reading this article (link below).

No Silver Bullet – Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering

There is also a Wikipedia page on this topic which sums it up pretty good (link below).

No Silver Bullet on Wikipedia

So you might think, where did your 10 GB worth of disk space go? Did it disappear, what is using it? The answer is, temporary files and logs ate it! I found out that I had 15 GB worth of logs and other shit on my disk that I did not need. So I searched through it and made a small batch script deleting the stuff. You might say that you can use programs like ccleaner or so, but if you do not want to install these programs you will be served well with a small script running from time to time, deleting files ending with a specified extension. So here goes my script:

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del /f /s /q %tmp%\.
rd /s/q %tmp%\
 
del /f /s /q %temp%\.
rd /s /q %temp%\
 
del /f /s /q %systemdrive%\*._mp
del /f /s /q %systemdrive%\*.log
del /f /s /q %systemdrive%\*.old
del /f /s /q %systemdrive%\*.dmp
del /f /s /q %systemdrive%\*.tmp

You can of course specify more extensions if you want to… Have fun with the script!

I just discovered Issuu for Android through the Android Market, which is a pretty nice place to read magazines, newspapers, articles and lots and lots of other publications on your computer or your mobile phone. They have recently released a client for Android and a client for iPhone will soon be available for download.
The page and app are really easy to use, you have easy access to a lot of stuff and it is read easily through the browser. You can zoom and see pictures, subscribe to publications, rate stuff and lots and lots of other cool stuff. It is really recommended!

Scan the barcode to go to the application download for android.

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