Hacking & Retrocomputing

When I have a new Linux device in my hands, I love running NBench to see the raw CPU power. So I ported the NBench to Android, and you can find it in the Android Market.

The benchmark was designed to expose the capabilities of a system's CPU, FPU, memory …

As the webmaster of http://www.palmopensource.com , I try to find more details about the new Palm(tm) Linux based OS: WebOS. Right now, the WebOS SDK is not available to everybody, it should be available in a few weeks, but something interesting has happened: The Palm Pre root …

I'm currently playing with Amazon Web Services and EC2, Amazon's highly flexible VPS hosting service. Gandi Hosting is providing a similar Xen based hosting service, and last day I saw that they benchmarked their basic "one share" server with Unixbench and got a score of 40.

I was curious to …

I've just set-up a new page about some Android experiments:

http://www.drolez.com/software/android/

One of my 1st contribution to the Android community is a new rooted ROM for French Dext Owners: DextRootFR I saw the Motoblur 1.3.20 update coming but none of the usual modders …

ZK is my favorite Web 2.0 toolkit. In fact, it's so powerful that I'd call it, a Web 3.0 toolkit. A true Web 3.0 toolkit where you do not have to write a single line of Javascript, which is compatible with all major Web browsers, and which …