Building AllWinner Android Firmwares

27 Feb 2013 11:33 UTC AllWinner

Foreword _This is a work-in-progress post. I'll periodically update this page with new informations, tweaks and tools, because I wanted a single page to collect all the valuable informations about this theme. _ Introduction The AllWinner A10 platform is a relatively new System-on-chip (SoC) product developed by a Chinese Company. His strength point is certainly the low cost compared to computation power and peripheral integration. The A10 SoC is based on Cortex-A8 ARM core, and provides a Mali-400 GPU on chip. Continue reading

Qt Creator 2.6.2 hangs under Windows 8

04 Feb 2013 12:56 UTC Qt

What a bad surprise when, installing my new Windows 8 box, I found that I couldn’t compile any of my Qt Projects! I couldn’t even running an instance of Qt Creator 2.6.2, because when it tries to open the project file, it hangs with that stupid white window… “Qt Creator is not responding…” Well, I tried the following: Installing a different MinGW version, Installing the new Qt5.0.1 library, modifying the projects files… nothing worked, though removing the QT+=xxx and the TARGET=yyy or the TEMPLATE=zzz lines makes sometime starting it. Continue reading

MacOS Mail.app slow... why? Ask iCloud!

24 Jan 2013 09:24 UTC MacOS

In the last few months I maturated the idea to change my 4 years old Late 2008 MacBookPro. Though I upgraded it to 8Gb Ram thanks to the kit from OWC, opening and managing mail was painfully slow. I didn’t experience a sudden deterioration of performance, but since I updated the OS to Mountain Lion, a slow and maybe continuous worsening. So it was difficult for me to realize that something wasn’t going wrong, I was ascribing this to many programs I installed and removed, and to Mountain Lion itself. Continue reading

Tech blog

29 Sep 2012 12:42 UTC

Welcome to my tech blog. Here you’ll enjoy articles about all the fields related to my work, especially Linux, Embedded systems, Programming, Software and Hardware design and Engineering. All posts will be, hopefully, in English, some will be in Italian when the argument will suggest that only Italian people will have interest on that. Sorry guys ;-) If something isn’t clear, or if you feel that some should be corrected, please write me a comment. Continue reading

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