2013! Also, been awhile, updates, etc. (will be posting more often too!)

So, been a very long time since my last post, too long. Not long after the last post I had a break from school and then it was finals and I had zero free time. I had meant to make a post or two over my winter break from classes, but just kept putting it off. Anyway, I very much enjoyed the break, but here I am back at school and ready to do some real electronics work and start posting again!

As I had mentioned before I got a Nexus 7, and I planned on creating a chroot environment to install Arch Linux (my favorite distro by far) on. I tried a number of things since then and ended up finding Linux Deploy, an open source program for Android that does everything I had wanted to do and more! (it supports multiple popular distros and has some great options for configuring them out of the box). I can't recommend this program enough to anyone that wants a genuine Linux experience on their Android device.

I'm currently using it mostly over ssh (through either better terminal emulator pro [BTEP] or zshaolin, both great apps for Linux lovers, with zshaolin essentially being a zsh version of BTEP), though I've tried a bit of VNC stuff with it as well, I'm currently trying to find the best Android VNC client (currently Pocket Cloud is looking decent, though has some annoyances and free version limitations). Anyway, this tablet is shaping up to be one of my favorite tech purchases ever, I use it as my phone (more on that later), an internet tablet, and now as a mini PC (particularly great when connected to an external keyboard).

In other news, I have just moved my domain (somestupidwebsite.com) to a new registrar, and will likely be switching hosting companies soon as well (not that doing so changes anything here). The new registrar is gandi.net, and so far I'm very pleased with their service! Once I switch the VPS host I might even write a sort of "review" type post for both gandi and the new VPS host that I'll use (I'm currently looking into Linode, they seem to be one of the better reviewed options and will let me use Arch!).

As well, I can now promise (to some degree) new posts on a bit more of a structured schedule, I'm going to be writing another one or two over the next day or so and then setting them up on a queue to post each week or so.

Enjoy!

(oh and a little peak at my current project -> linkey)