dsjodin - Slashdot User

Submission + - Adventures in rooting: Running Jelly Bean on last year's Kindle Fire (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by

concealment

on Monday October 08, 2012 @09:15AM

concealment writes: "Luckily, the Fire's low price and popularity relative to other Android tablets has made it a common target for Android's bustling open-source community, which has automated most of the sometimes-messy process of rooting and flashing your tablet. The Kindle Fire Utility boils the whole rooting process down to a couple of steps, and from there it's pretty easy to find pretty-stable Jelly Bean ROMs. A CyanogenMod-based version is actively maintained, but I prefer the older Hashcode ROM, which is very similar to the interface on the Nexus 7."

Submission + - Student publishes extensive statistics on the population of Middle-Earth (lotrproject.com)

Submitted by dsjodin on Monday October 08, 2012 @07:28AM

dsjodin writes: There are only 19% females in Tolkien's works and the life expectancy of a Hobbit is 96.24 years. In January 2012 chemical engineering student Emil Johansson published a website with the hope for it to become a complete Middle-Earth genealogy. Now, ten months later, he has published some interesting numbers derived from the database of 923 characters. The site features a set of unique graphs helping us understand the world Tolkien described. Perhaps the most interesting ones are showing the decrease of the longevity of Men and the change in population of Middle-Earth throughout history. The latter was also recently published in the September edition of Wired Magazine.

Slashdot Top Deals