Subscribe to my feedDebian qemu image and other recent activities
Recently, in my neverending quest for a truly portable computing experience, I've tried to use an emulator and a USB key to make me a portable operating system for use with the computers at school. The only problem is that USB keys are slow, and QEMU on Windows is even worse. I am used to the amazing VirtualBox on my laptop, which is lightning fast and extremely reliable, and I assumed that qemu would perform quite well on Windows, like it does on Linux and Mac. But it doesn't, mainly because I can't install the drivers without administrator priviliges, and it ends up being useless from my USB 1.1 key drive. Never the less, I have a stripped down debian Etch image, with fluxbox, Firefox, (G)Vim, GCC, Ruby, gems, Subversion, and lots more. It's about 250MB compressed, and around 800 when extracted. I've uploaded it here. The root password is 'emulator'.
Other than that, I made a perfectly useless encryption tool that's to silly to make it available publicly, and I'm working on a transcoding framework in Objective C and Cocoa, against the advice of most of my advisors. More on this later, if I ever finish anything of it.