Author: Padraig Fahy

  • “Codename Lungo” to “Avatar ROM”

    (OH shi-, a technology related post)

    A couple of weeks ago, I decided to jump ship from the Cyanogenmod 9 install on my Samsung  Galaxy S II to try out Jelly Bean. I looked around XDA-Developers looking for a decent ROM that I could install and try out.

    I found one called “Codename Lungo” and for the most part, I enjoyed it. It was a plain Jelly Bean install and there wasn’t anything fancy about it, that is what I was looking for. So, I spent the best part of a afternoon installing all the apps that I had previously used on the CM9 install. After about a hour or grabbing apps and configuring them, I noticed something strange.

    “System Storage Space running low..”

    WHAT?! This fresh install of Codename Lungo that I just installed, says that my phone memory is running low. But the thing is, I wiped the ENTIRE phone before installing Codename Lungo.

    I thought at first it was just a fluke, so I turned the phone off and on again and yet it still happened. Then over the next few days and up to last Saturday, I couldn’t get any emails on my phone and i couldn’t update any apps….it just wasn’t happening.

    So, where am I going now? Well, I am downloading Avatar ROM from XDA-Developers and I am going to do ANOTHER full complete wipe and I will make sure that the only thing that is on my device before I install is the ROM and the Gapps .zip that I need to install.

    I will probably make another post with the results that I find either later today or later this week.

    What ROM are you running on your device? A custom or a Stock ROM? If you are running a custom ROM, which one is it and link to it in the comments.

    UPDATE: I have installed Avatar ROM and have downloaded all the apps that I needed and I am only using 589MB~ out of the 2GB. So there WAS a problem with Codename Lungo all along. Ah well, at least I can use my phone again the way it should be. 😀

  • My Favorite Dance Music

    Hey everyone.

    Tonight, I have compiled my personal favorite dance music on Spotify.

    You can subscribe to the list by clicking here! I am also embedding the playlist into this post, so click “Read more…” at the bottom of this post to hear all the songs, directly from PadraigFahy.com

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  • [The JukeBox] #40 – Black Box – Ride On Time

    Welcome to The JukeBox. A look at into the music that I enjoy and what I want to share with you.

    Tonight, I am looking at a classic 90’s song. Ride on Time by Black Box.

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    Spotify:

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    Enjoy 🙂

  • [The JukeBox] #39 – Philip Bailey Duet with Phil Collins – Easy Lover

    Hey everyone and welcome to Edition 8 of The JukeBox.

    Tonight, I am bringing you something from the 80’s. A song that was featured in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.

    CVG created a GTA playlist of songs that appeared in the game and this song was in it, so why not. Let’s put on The JukeBox 😀

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  • [The JukeBox] #38 – Milk Inc. – Walk on Water – H20 Radio Edit

    Welcome back to Edition 7 of The JukeBox! I hope you are doing very well.

    Again…It’s another 90’s song. Absolutely brilliant when it was released and still is to this day.

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  • [YCFRO #5] Oireachtas Committee …

    …Especially Senator Eamon Coghlan

    The following article in this post is from this Irish Examiner article

    An Oireachtas Committee has heard that getting people to pay to post on social media websites or register their passport numbers for IP addresses could help tackle the issue of anonymity of the internet.

    Senator Eamon Coghlan made the suggestions as the committee examined the link between social media and cyber bullying.

    He raised the issue of anonymous posts, and had a number of suggestions for tackling the issue, including paying to post and registering your passport number:

    Speaking at the same Committee, the Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte said he has difficulties with the take-down policies of companies like Facebook.

    Mr Rabbitte said: “These are reputable companies (and) major corporations. Good corporate citizenship should mean, it seems to me, that they should be prepared in the host country to enter into sensible protocols about take-down policy.”

    The Oireachtas Communications Committee is embarking on a series of meetings with companies, like Facebook and Twitter, to examine the links between social media and cyber bullying.

    Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte told the Committee that his department is examining any gaps in legislation when it comes to posting defamatory material online.

    He also raised concerns about the policies used by social media companies when it comes to taking down offensive posts.

    Senator Fidelma Healy Eames raised the issue of when someone’s Facebook account is changed by someone else, and said teenagers are literally living in a parallel universe.

    She said: “Where a youngster has their status opened and another person puts a message on there, as if they wrote it, and that message could be, for example sexual. This type of thing has to stop.

    “There has to be some controls put here. What about sexting, where they are texting sexual images?”

    The Committee will continue its hearings on the issue for a number of days before making a series of recommendations.

    Hang on a second here…Paying to post on Facebook? I know Facebook has a thing where you can pay Mark Zuckerburg $100 to send him a message but THIS…this is ridiculous.

    “Pay to post on social media websites or register their passport numbers for IP addresses could help tackle the issue of anonymity of the internet.”

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