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pOur Sid Player application has been on sale in the a title=Buy the Sid Player href=http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=300205592mt=8AppStore/a for three weeks now. We received quite a nice amount of feedback considering that this is a niche application #8212; thanks to all of you who downloaded and reviewed or mailed us!br /
Behind the curtains, we have been analysing the feedback and have just started to work on the first update which we expect to be available within the next 4 weeks./p
pThis next release is mostly a database update, since we will add the missing songs from the HVSC directories #8216;GAMES#8217; and #8216;DEMOS#8217;. This adds about 2000 more classy titles that were left out due to not being present in the appropriate #8216;MUSICIANS#8217; subdirectories./p
pApart from that we will add an NTSC-override in the settings tab and #8212; if all goes well #8212; add some download-all-the-good-stuff buttons img src=http://www.vanille-media.de/site/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif alt=;-) class=wp-smiley / /p
pStay tuned for more exciting things coming to the Sid Player this year!
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diva href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/32615155@N00/345385199/ title=photo sharingimg src=http://farm1.static.flickr.com/133/345385199_5c38c9c0b8_m.jpg alt= //abr /spana href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/32615155@N00/345385199/Report!/abr /Originally uploaded by a href=http://www.flickr.com/people/32615155@N00/Fifi314/a/span/divThe Chief Cat died today after battling kidney and heart disease. A fine cat, brave to the end.br clear=all /
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pNearly two years ago a href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2007/01/12/zaurus-line-officially-ended/I wrote about end of Zaurus production/a. This news ended on many websites around the globe (mostly without quoting source). But it was not end #8212; Sharp was producing Zaurus clamshells from time to time during those two years./p
pIn December 2008 there was another set of news that Sharp ends Zaurus production. This time it looks like real end. Marc from a href=http://www.trisoft.de/TRISoft/a told on OESF forum: a href=http://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?s=showtopic=22804view=findpostp=179998qLast production run was March 2008. And we#8217;re now out of stock with new units. Looks like it#8217;s now really over and out./q/a/p
pI ended my work on Zaurus machines about year ago. OpenZaurus was ended, I had job to do and other devices to support. But still from time to time I used my c760 for some debug sessions (usually in cases where QEMU was not enough). With serial cable and wifi card it was good substitute of developer board./p
pToday I got Atmel AT91SAM9263-EK board. Will work on it on Monday and it will be my main testing/development platform for some time. Probably next will be BeagleBoard or other OMAP3 based device./p
pRelated posts:ollia href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2007/01/12/zaurus-line-officially-ended/ rel=bookmark title=Permanent Link: Zaurus line officially endedZaurus line officially ended/a/lilia href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2006/08/09/sharp-zaurus-jtag-cable/ rel=bookmark title=Permanent Link: Sharp Zaurus JTAG cableSharp Zaurus JTAG cable/a/lilia href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2006/03/29/i-have-ir-keyboard/ rel=bookmark title=Permanent Link: I have Ir keyboardI have Ir keyboard/a/li/ol/pdiv class=feedflare
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pToday I talked with a href=http://www.seketeli.org/dodji/Dodji Seketeli/a about misc things and noticed that I started 10 year of using Debian GNU/Linux./p
pFirst attempts were on my Amiga 1200 equipped with Apollo 1240/40 expansion board (I had 32/48/64MB of RAM on it) and Fast-ATA controller. After installation of #8220;slink#8221; I was playing with system and then moved to #8220;potato#8221;. In Polish Amiga magazine #8220;eXec#8221; I put my article about installing Debian on Amiga systems and also updated #8220;potato#8221; official installation guide. Those were crazy times. All I had was VGA mono text console because running X11 on AGA graphics chipset resulted in very slow display so it was unusable for any serious use. But I learnt lot of things which I was not able to learn on my user accounts on misc x86 Linux boxes. For example with my friend we connected his Commodore 128D via serial line and used to do email/www/irc from it (via serial-gt;ssh connection)./p
pIt was also first time when I used cross-compiler #8212; I used PentiumII based Linux machine to build Amiga (m68k) kernels. It gave nice speedup (also due to much faster harddisk interface)./p
pIn 2001 I sold my Amiga system and moved to x86 land. Here amount of available Linux distributions was much wider (for Amiga/m68k only Debian was available) but as I knew Debian I decided to stick with it. After years I have to admit that it was one of my best decisions when it comes to computers./p
pI even used Debian on 386sx based PC with 5MB of memory #8212; it was nice terminal to my main box :)/p
pWhy Debian and not RedHat/Mandriva/LFS/Gentoo? I think that this is due to a href=http://www.debian.org/social_contractDFSG/a and that license stuff is very good solved. As a result I do not have to check license of application if I want to hack it. I only need to check does it is in #8220;main#8221; part of repository./p
pOK, some people can say that Debian has very long release cycle#8230; But I use #8220;sid#8221; (aka #8220;unstable#8221;) not releases (aka #8220;stable#8221;) so the only thing which touch my systems is sometimes lack of newest software (but usually it lands in #8220;experimental#8221; branch)./p
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pIk vind het naïef als je denkt dat we nu met een totaal nieuwe groep regeringsleiders te maken hebben. Wees maar boos op me omdat ik het zo rechtuit zeg. Ik heb weinig medelijden met naïviteit dus deert me die boosheid niet./p
pHoe zij onze economie willen redden is catastrofaal fout. Vooral op lange termijn, maar ook op korte termijn. Ik zal uit de doeken doen waarom ik dat denk./p
pHoe de mens reageert bij spellen zoals #8216;prisoners dilemma#8217; legt dit uit. Zo las ik onlangs het boek van Jan Verplaetse: Het morele instinct. Niet enkel in dit boek maar ook in The Selfish Gene door Richard Dawkins wordt het spel #8216;prisoners dilemma#8217; uitvoerig beschreven. Psychologen, biologen en met Jan Verplaetse kennelijk nu ook moraal filosofen lijken de laatste decennia bijzonder geïnteresseerd in dit spel, en welke invloed het heeft op onze wereld. Die zou immers niet gering zijn. De Belgische politiek zou er goed aan doen een paar zulke boeken te lezen, vind ik./p
pDe strategie van onze regering lijkt te zijn om mensen die uit zichzelf geen vertrouwen in economie hebben nog minder vertrouwen hierin te doen krijgen: De aandeelhouders van Fortis worden bestempeld als domme speculanten die maar niet moeten zeuren dat ze geld verloren hebben. De spaarders zijn immers superieure edel dieren die ten alle tijde moeten beschermd worden. Misschien zijn het vooral #8220;die spaarders#8221; die op een partij als de CVP, pardon ik bedoel de CD#038;V, stemmen? Ik dacht toch dat hun publiek gevarieerder was dan dat? Misschien heeft de partij dit zelf niet goed door?/p
pHet mag duidelijk zijn dat dit voor een beschadiging in het vertrouwen over de Belgische economie van veel van onze burgers zal zorgen: onze regering koos ervoor de economie bij het minste als een baksteen te laten vallen. Door aandeelhouders te beschimpen en de spaarders als dé moraalridders van onze samenleving aan te duiden. Wie wil er nog aandeelhouder van een Belgische firma zijn in 2009? Wie wil er na dit jaar nog meehelpen aan de economie van ons land stevig te houden? Ik denk dan vooral ook aan buitenlandse investeerders die nu analyseren hoe onze regering reageert./p
pDeze beschadiging zal jaren en misschien zelfs generaties nodig hebben om te herstellen. Vergeet niet dat het vertrouwen in de markten en de wilskracht van terug te willen samenwerken, na een tweede Wereld Oorlog vol geweld, ervoor gezorgd heeft dat wij nog steeds welvaart kennen na de crisis van de jaren dertig. Hoewel uranium leveringen aan het Manhattan project en daardoor een vroege toegang tot kernenergie er waarschijnlijk meer mee te maken heeft gehad ging dat ook op voor de Belgische economie. Want echte investeerders zijn Belgen nooit geweest. Toch?/p
pOndertussen heeft onze politiek ervoor gekozen om onze energiemarkt aan Frankrijk te geven. Veel meer dan een Franse kolonie is België dan ook niet meer moest Fortis toch aan PNB Paribas geschonken worden. Tja, verkopen noem ik dat niet. Verkopen wil zeggen dat je iets in ruil krijgt dat voor jezelf evenwaardig is in waarde. Eventueel met een klein verlies. Spreek je over iets terugkrijgen dat 98% minder veel waard is, dan noemt men dat #8220;schenken#8221;. Misschien dat Reynders en Leterme niet goed begrijpen wat #8220;evenwaardig in waarde#8221; juist betekent, natuurlijk? Misschien juist wel, voor hun eigen zal die deal wel interessant geweest zijn vermoed ik zeer sterk. Zo#8217;n politiekers hebben we nodig, hé?/p
pMoest je ervan overtuigd zijn dat PNB Paribas als meerwaarde #8220;zekerheid voor de spaarders#8221; geeft: welnu, die bank ligt ook bijna op zijn buik. Tot zover uw meerwaarde./p
pDat banken, politiek, officiële instellingen en media Fortis aandelen als zeer betrouwbaar bestempelden gedurende jaren, en dat een hele generatie mensen uit ons land hier bijzonder veel geld in investeerden, dat moet maar in het belachelijke getrokken worden. Want de spaarders die moeten gered worden! Die had je dus ook kunnen redden door die bank te nationaliseren. Zoals andere landen in Europa hebben laten zien./p
pDoor onze economie aan Frankrijk te geven (de bank én energiemarkt!) laat je hun erover beslissen of zij jobs hebben in Frankrijk of wij jobs hebben in België. Met een beetje logica begrijpt een mens dat Frankrijk eerst aan zichzelf zal denken. Moest je logica dit toch niet verwerken, gebruik dan de geschiedenis om het te leren inzien./p
pVan introspectie gesproken, wanneer Yves Leterme het woord #8220;spaarders#8221; uitspreekt komt tegenwoordig zelfs een vorm van morele walging bij mezelf op. Ik wacht af hoe de volgende dit zal aanpakken in de media. Of dacht je dat ik Van Rompuy gratis krediet ging geven?/p
pOnderzoekt toont aan dat wanneer men het spel #8216;truster#8217; speelt met studenten als spelers, dit spel is een variatie op #8216;prisoners dilemma#8217;, en dat wanneer er één van de spelers een student economie is, dat dit ervoor zorgt dat de andere spelers minder coöperatief zullen spelen. Ze zullen met andere woorden vaker #8216;defective#8217; spelen tegen elkaar. Dit is enkel en alleen omdat de andere studenten vermoeden dat de student economie de irrationaliteit van samenwerken vaker zal misbruiken dan een ander type student. Daardoor gaan ze zelf ook minder samenwerken. Het lijkt na onderzoek dat de Homo economicus minder coöperatief speelt bij zulke spellen./p
pHet klopt dat dit een te eenvoudige abstractie van economie is. Ik geloof echter dat samenwerking en vertrouwen, of die twee nu irrationeel zijn of niet, de hoeksteen van onze Westerse welvaart is. Zonder samenwerking verandert de samenleving in een samenleving die moet investeren in een geweldmoraliteit. Het eenvoudige feit dat wij er bv. vertrouwen in hebben dat aandelenmarkten zullen blijven opbrengen zorgt ervoor dat ze dat inderdaad ook gaan doen. Het geheel is immers meer dan de onafhankelijke delen. Met duizenden mensen hun kleine bijdrage kunnen we een bedrijf aan. Ieder individu in die grote groep mensen, kan niks. De delen kunnen afzonderlijk niets tenzij ze gaan samenwerken./p
pEn wanneer ze dat gaan doen, geraken we er als mens zelfs mee op de maan./p
pWat onze regering gedaan heeft is, in plaats van hun taak uit te voeren en niet te discrimineren, vooral aandeelhouders te viseren. Zij moeten de buffer opvangen. Zij moeten ervoor betalen. Dit zal ervoor zorgen dat enkel nog de Homo economicus zichzelf zal bezig houden met de Belgische aandelenmarkten./p
pEen resultaat hiervan kan zijn dat onze hele economie én het vertrouwen in de Belgische aandelenmarkten beschadigd zal geraken. Waardoor zelfs op lange termijn, in tegenstelling tot andere landen in Europa waar de regering niet zo fel tegen de beleggers reageerde, onze Belgische welvaart zal moeten inboeten./p
pWij zouden op straat moeten komen om te eisen achter nieuwe verkiezingen./p
pEigenlijk zijn wij kiekens, en daardoor verdienen we misschien niet beter. Ik heb immers weinig medelijden met naïviteit. Dit deert me echter wel./p
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After Christmas I returned to Berlin to be at the BCC for the 25th C3 in time. I was honored to talk to John Gilmore and the German Openmoko population was also present and we enjoyed talking, reading and hacking away on GSM. From the many things I planned to do I have only finished some but as usual I will work on these round robin... But it is time to leave the black hole and return to work.
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pThanks to the joys of switching between mobile phone provides my regulart telephone number won't work between the 1st of january 2009 and the 1st of march 2009, so if you want to reach me by phone or text message don't use the ...390 number, but the ...897 one. The old number should be working again in march./p
pMy e-mail with the complete new number seems to get stuck in everyones mailfilter, so mail me if you have my old number but not my new number./p
p$amp;*amp;(@*% T-mobile/p
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pAfter several weeks of eating my own dogfood, several critical bug fixes in the core file functionality of OTE have been addressed.nbsp; Reading through the BitBake python code is not that bad actually, and the source organization makes a lot of sense.nbsp; This release offers no new functionality, it just crashes less :)nbsp; Next stop: Import Recipe as Projectnbsp; The updatesite is available at http://bugcommunity.com/downloads/files/ote/updatesite/ppnbsp;/ppimg src=http://community.buglabs.net/photos/0000/0165/bbte_0.4.3.png?1230575904 height=290 alt=created on: 12/29/08 width=620 //p
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p2008 is ending. As before it was very good year. I have very nice daughter, our family has new flat. My company has clients with interesting projects./p
h2January/h2
ul
lia href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/01/31/first-days-with-nokia-n810/Bought Nokia N810 tablet/a. Had to do this in UK store because a href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2007/12/21/nokia-tablets-in-poland-part-3/Nokia does not sell them/a in Poland./li
lia href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/01/10/hrw-big-blue-theme-for-wordpress-23/Released #8220;Hrw Big blue#8221;/a #8212; my version of #8220;Big blue#8221; WordPress theme. No support any more for it as I stopped using it./li
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h2February/h2
ul
listronga href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/02/19/i-am-dad-now/My daughter Mira was born/a/strong #8212; she is cute ;)/li
lia href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/02/24/bought-car/I bought car/a #8212; Opel Astra combi 1997 is more then enough for us./li
lia href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/02/01/i-no-longer-have-collie/Donated my old collie to Thomas Kunze/a to help improving Linux 2.6 support on this small beast./li
lia href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/02/06/polish-locale-for-os2008/Created Polish regional settings package/a for Maemo OS2008. It also shown some bugs in Maemo itself./li
liWrote a href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/02/02/my-palmtops-story/my palmtops story/a which require updating as I have few devices more now./li
liOffered a href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/02/01/zaurus-leather-case-for-free/Zaurus c7#215;0 leather case/a for free. No one wanted it ;(/li
liWrote few WordPress plugins: a href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/02/06/new-wordpress-widget-recent-comments/Recent Comments/a and a href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/02/09/new-wordpress-widget-meta/Meta/a #8212; I still use them./li
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h2March/h2
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listronga href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/03/04/poky-linux-31-released/Poky Linux 3.1 (codename #8216;pinky#8217;)/a was released./strong I am providing support for systems based on it./li
lia href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/03/17/good-bye-ipkg-welcome-opkg/IPKG finally died/a so we switched to maintained OPKG tool to manage packages./li
lia href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/03/31/very-small-test-of-maemo-media-players/Cursed a bit/a during testing of Maemo media players. Recently I tried few more and still use default one./li
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h2April/h2
ul
listrongFirst April post/strong about a href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/04/01/moving-to-london/moving to London/a got strongamazing/strong response. But a href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/04/02/no-i-am-not-moving-to-london/it was only joke/a./li
listronga href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/04/11/nokia-n800-emulation/Got N800 emulation working./a/strong Too bad that I was not allowed to distribute #8220;config.mtd#8221; file which made it possible. Later I discovered which flag needs to be reset and added a href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/08/01/nokia-n8x0-emulation-part-ii/N810 emulation infos/a./li
lia href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/04/05/polish-layout-for-n810-hardware-keyboard/Created Polish keymap for QWERTY keyboard of N810/a #8212; thanks goes to Jiri Benc for his #8220;ukeyboard#8221; package. No thanks goes to Nokia Maemo team for not making it easy./li
liWrote what do I think about a href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/04/10/the-curse-of-maemo-closed-source-components/Maemo closed components/a which makes this nice device not so nice./li
lia href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/04/07/speeding-up-bitbake-builds/Wrote how to make BitBake based builds faster/a #8212; handy on multi-core systems./li
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h2May/h2
ul
listrongI was on LinuxTag 2008 in Berlin./strong It was great to meet friends again. Thanks go to Zecke as he provided me free tickets and sleeping place. I still have working a href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/06/03/funny-gadget-from-linuxtag-2008/liquid powered clock/a which I got there./li
lia href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/05/09/never-say-never/Replaced my desktop with new one/a #8212; it is nice to have more CPU power especially when lot of builds needs to be done./li
lia href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/05/10/am-i-programmer/Defined myself as developer not programmer/a/li
lia href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/05/16/car-navigation-with-n810/Tried to use N810 for car navigation/a and failed. Bought TomTom One few months later (works great)./li
/ul
h2June/h2
ul
lia href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/06/02/feel-the-power-of-usb-with-nokia-tablet/Played with connecting USB devices to N810 tablet/a #8212; all thanks to USB gender changer adapter which I got from Keesj during LinuxTag./li
lia href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/06/17/choosing-next-cellphone/Started wondering which phone to choose as next cellphone/a #8212; now I know that next will be Symbian (Nokia E71 looks very interesting as phone)./li
lia href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/06/12/ati-onboard-strikes-back/Again was hit by crappiness of ATI RS48x graphics chipset/a #8212; now this is not my problem as I added NVidia Geforce 6600GT inside and gave whole machine to my youngest brother (it replaced 5 years old AthlonXP desktop)./li
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h2July/h2
ul
listronga href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/07/28/i-am-0x20-now/I had 0#215;20 birthday/a/strong #8212; got awesome present from friend #8212; puzzle with C code which rendered picture with greetings./li
listronga href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/07/03/guadec-2008/GUADEC 2008/a/strong was great event. Istanbul is nice city worth spending more time. But at least I visited some places ;)/li
lia href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/07/17/using-poky-sdk-to-build-software/Wrote a bit about using Poky SDK to build software/a #8212; this apply also to any OpenEmbedded based SDK of course./li
liAlso a href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/07/01/packaged-staging-and-what-it-gives/wrote about packaged staging and what it gives/a #8212; generally it can speed up repeating builds. I used it to make #8220;build each recipe from scratch#8221; builds of Poky #8212; lot of dependencies were added into recipes as result./li
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h2August/h2
ul
listrongIntel acquired OpenedHand/strong #8212; I got job offer in UK but decided to not move. It was nice to visit London again, too bad that I lacked time to see anything (as usual). The whole trip was crazy (have you ever travelled on the night bus standing for 4 hours straight?)/li
lia href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/08/28/back-from-holidays/We visited my parents/a and I was asked (again) what exactly I do for living. So a href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/08/12/what-do-i-do-for-living/I answered/a and my mother understood./li
lia href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/08/01/nokia-n8x0-emulation-part-ii/I resolved problem with Nokia N8#215;0 tablets emulation/a #8212; one flag needs to be unset to make Maemo boot in QEMU./li
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h2September/h2
ul
listrongWe moved to Szczecin, Poland/strong #8212; new flat == separate room for my work./li
listrongMaemo Summit/strong #8212; nice event, lot of Maemo developers/users, met old friends, gave a href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/09/20/maemo-in-qemu-n8x0-emulation-presentation/presentation about Maemo in QEMU emulation/a #8212; people asked questions, I tried to answer./li
liAs a href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/09/11/two-years-of-haerwu/my company ended second year/a I decided to drop #8220;HaeRWu#8221; part from it#8217;s name (it was a href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2007/04/26/how-to-pronounce-haerwu/too hard to pronounce/a for people)./li
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h2October/h2
ul
listronga href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/10/17/updates/End of my work for OpenedHand/a/strong #8212; it was good time and I miss atmosphere of that company./li
listronga href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/11/14/bug-labs-and-their-bug-device/Started working as contractor for Bug Labs Inc. company/a/strong - their device is interesting. They use Poky #8216;pinky#8217; as base of their system./li
liOpenEmbedded project migrated from Monotone to GIT so I a href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/10/24/merging-stuff-from-poky-into-openembedded/started to merge interesting things from Poky/a (lot left still to merge)./li
liAs one of good things in OpenedHand was buildbot I decided to a href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/10/22/my-private-buildbot/start my own one/a on home machine./li
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h2November/h2
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lia href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/11/28/unpacked-progear/Unpacked Progear webpad/a to check how recent kernels work on it and update it#8217;s configuration in OpenEmbedded a bit./li
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h2December/h2
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listronga href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/12/08/company-changes/Moved to juszkiewicz.com.pl domain/a/strong #8212; it was 2rd domain change since I started this blog. All old addresses redirect to proper one./li
lia href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/12/05/i-am-going-to-fosdem-2009/Bought tickets and hotel reservation for FOSDEM 2009 event/a #8212; I missed 2008 one due to birth of Mira./li
lia href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/12/11/alix1c-and-koala-minipc-case/Got Koala MiniPC 2PCI case for Alix 1c board/a #8212; need to buy proper PCI riser and it will be my new router./li
lia href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/12/22/bug-has-arrived/Got BUG device from Bug Labs Inc./a./li
liMy working space a href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2008/12/18/beavers-invasion/was invaded by Poky beavers/a./li
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pAlthough traditionally the Chaos Computer Congress#8217; schedule is slightly suboptimal for me (12/26th is my birthday), I#8217;m going to be in Berlin from 12/28th to 12/30th and will visit CCC on the 3th day (12/29th). I#8217;m going to attend Harald#8217;s talk about GSM base stations, so if you want to talk to me, just pick me up afterwards.
/p
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pWorking on a metadata DBus API for E-mail clients. I have started a href=http://live.gnome.org/Evolution/Metadataa wiki page/a proposing the API for an implementation in Evolution./p
pAfterwards I started implementing it as a proof of concept for this E-mail client./p
pI plan to implement the same as a plugin in Thunderbird, Tinymail and Modest. Perhaps after reviewing the Evolution and GNOME specific bits and pieces of the proposal and making them more generic. That way, finally, will metadata engines like Beagle and Tracker have a sane way of accessing and getting notified of E-mail content./p
pMikkel Kamstrup decided to wrap the a href=http://xesam.org/main/Drafts/XesamPMHAPI proposal up in a Xesam jacket/a which might end up becoming that #8216;more generic#8217; API proposal. But let#8217;s first have a proof of concept in Evolution that works with the stuff that we are working on at the Tracker project./p
pYezs you can find bugz, diffz #8216;n codez at a href=http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=565082Bug #565082/a and a href=http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=565091Bug #565091/a. If you want to help out, just ping me and then I#8217;ll quickly make branches of Tracker and Evolution#8217;s data server so that we can work together on this./p
pThere#8217;s also a href=http://live.gnome.org/Evolution/Metadata?action=AttachFiledo=gettarget=valaclientsample.valaa Vala client example which illustrates how to consume this service/a./p
pTracker is by the way being worked on heavily. We#8217;ve been making a lot of architectural changes to the indexer during the last few weeks./p
pMeanwhile has Jürg started working on adding a #8216;decomposed#8217; RDF triple store. Making it possible to support any kind of ontology. Including the a href=http://www.semanticdesktop.org/ontologies/Nepomuk ontologies/a, which are at this moment the ontologies that we are aiming for./p
pJürg also added a a href=http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/SparQL/a query language engine to it. Making it possible for you as a client developer to execute SparQL queries on the stored data. We#8217;re not yet supporting everything of SparQL, because some things make relatively few sense for our purposes, but we have added a few SparQL extensions that do make sense. Like aggregation and GROUP-BY./p
pHere#8217;s an example of a SparQL query that finds people stored using a Nepomuk ontology that have a specific phone number:/p
preSELECT ?firstname ?lastname ?email WHERE {
?person nco:hasPhoneNumber lt;tel:+19071131826gt; ;
nco:nameGiven ?firstname ;
nco:nameFamily ?lastname ;
nco:hasEmailAddress ?email
}/pre
pHere#8217;s another example of a SparQL query that shows the ten most recent E-mails:/p
preSELECT ?subject ?date WHERE {
?msg nmo:messageSubject ?subject ;
nmo:receivedDate ?date
} ORDER BY DESC(?date) LIMIT 10/pre
pOr this one which lists all individual artists, count of albums for each artist and total playing time of all songs for the artist:/p
preSELECT ?artistname COUNT(?album) AS count SUM(?length) AS len WHERE {
?song nid3:leadArtist ?artist ;
nid3:length ?length ;
nid3:albumTitle ?album .
?artist nco:fullname ?artistname
} GROUP BY ?artist/pre
pThese are sample queries that already work, if you nag Jürg on how you can get some data into the tables. We#8217;re of course working on adapting the indexer to populate the tables. Knowing Jürg this might already work flawlessly./p
pIf you like things like #8220;semantic desktops#8221;, like having your desktop search cope with truly meaningful queries (the kind of queries that Federico was dreaming of in his keynote at Istanbul), then you should checkout the developments we are doing with Tracker. I warn you that a lot of this truly is #8216;development#8217;. It might not work at all, etc. But it#8217;s cool. Really./p
pLet#8217;s turn your desktops and mobiles into platforms that offer all kinds of services for your high level applications written in a href=http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gjs/trunk/JavaScript/a or whatever language you fancy. Like a href=http://live.gnome.org/dconfconfiguration/a services, a href=http://live.gnome.org/ThumbnailerSpecThumbnailing/a a href=https://stage.maemo.org/svn/maemo/projects/haf/trunk/hildon-thumbnail/services/a, a href=http://live.gnome.org/Evolution/MetadataE-mail metadata and notification/a a href=http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=565091services/a, a href=http://projects.gnome.org/tracker/Metadata query/a a href=http://git.codethink.co.uk/?p=tracker;a=shortlog;h=vstoreservices/a. Meanwhile we#8217;ll make you GObject-introspection so that it#8217;s very easy to write a platform library yourself that you can directly invoke from those higher languages. As that project will make most language bindings almost automatic. And we#8217;ll have a href=http://live.gnome.org/ValaVala/a to make it easy for you to a href=http://live.gnome.org/Vala/DBusServerSamplewrite services/a and other platform software yourself./p
pps. The RDF triple store and SparQL stuff ain#8217;t happening in a href=http://svn.gnome.org/svn/tracker/trunk/Tracker#8217;s trunk/a yet. That would disturb development of Tracker too much. We#8217;ve been doing this in a href=http://git.codethink.co.uk/?p=tracker;a=shortlog;h=vstorea git branch/a, use the branch #8220;vstore#8221;./p
pGood, that stack of links should keep you blog reading wolves silent for another few weeks./p
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Last year around this time of the year I already had resigned from GMIT, figuring out what to do with myself, Thiago finished his new networking classes, Simon integrated most of it into WebKit at around FOSS.IN, we fixed the regressions of the layout test suite and I was tracing down bugs with SSL, a Cookie issue on yahoo mail, a crash on gmail... This year things look awfully similar. I know a little better what to do with myself, I have fixed a funny issue of QNetworkAccessCache (a new class in Qt4.5) breaking JavaScript sunspider benchmark.br /br /If you write code that is using bQObject::startTimer/b and not use bQObject::killTimer/b you leak a timer. But if you manage to call bQObject::killTimer/b twice chances are you have killed a timer belonging to someone else. To be safe you would have to reset the timerId you saved to an invalid timerId. The resulting code will look ugly though, but Qt to rescue! There is a shiny new class in Qt4.0 called a href=http://doc.trolltech.com/4.4/qbasictimer.htmlQBasicTimer/a. It should not add any overhead and will avoid the above issue.
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pOn Thursday I got package from DHL courier (one note for future: if you need to send me something by courier service avoid Fedex). Inside was nice box with BugLabs logo./p
pAfter unpacking I got BUG, or to be more precise:/p
ul
liBUGbase/li
liBUGview module/li
liBUGmotion module/li
liVonHippel module/li
liBUGlocate module/li
liexternal antenna for BUGlocate GPS/li
lipower supply/li
liSD-gt;microSD adapter/li
li2GB microSD card/li
/ul
pThis is how modules look:/p
pa href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/files/2008/12/dsc00831.jpg title=Base and modules rel=lightbox[698]img src=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/files/2008/12/dsc00831-480x360.jpg alt= width=480 height=360 class=aligncenter size-medium wp-image-699 //a/p
pVonHippel is interesting module as it gives access to I²C, serial, I²S, DAC, ADC, GPIO, SPI, power signals. It is named after MIT professor Eric von Hippel (because he thought of it!) author of “Democratizing Innovation”. This module allows to connect just about anything electronic to the BUG. Interview with professor can be seen on a href=http://bugblogger.com/introducing-the-bugvonhippel-279/BUG Blogger website/a./p
pa href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/files/2008/12/dsc00832.jpg title=VonHippel module rel=lightbox[698]img src=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/files/2008/12/dsc00832-480x360.jpg alt= width=480 height=360 class=aligncenter size-medium wp-image-700 //a/p
pSize is comparable with Nokia N810 tablet. Would be nice to get 800#215;480 screen for BUG (i.mx31 has OpenGL acceleration)./p
pa href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/files/2008/12/dsc008341.jpg title=BUGbase on bottom, N810 on top rel=lightbox[698]img src=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/files/2008/12/dsc008341-480x153.jpg alt= width=480 height=153 class=aligncenter size-medium wp-image-702 //a/p
pa href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/files/2008/12/dsc00836.jpg title=BUGbase on bottom, N810 on top rel=lightbox[698]img src=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/files/2008/12/dsc00836-480x360.jpg alt= width=480 height=360 class=aligncenter size-medium wp-image-703 //a/p
pThis is usual configuration when I work with device (just screen and VonHippel):/p
pa href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/files/2008/12/dsc00837.jpg title=Top view with screen and VH attached rel=lightbox[698]img src=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/files/2008/12/dsc00837-480x235.jpg alt= width=480 height=235 class=aligncenter size-medium wp-image-712 //a/p
pThere is 64MB of flash in device but by default it boots from microSD card (2GB one was in package). This allows for easy rootfs tweaking/updating. Kernel flashing takes lot of time but we plan to work on other methods of booting kernel./p
pa href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/files/2008/12/dsc008381.jpg title=microSD, USB, Handylink, power switch, power LED, power. USB Host in VonHippel rel=lightbox[698]img src=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/files/2008/12/dsc008381-480x152.jpg alt= width=480 height=152 class=aligncenter size-medium wp-image-714 //a/p
pWith all modules plugged in it starts to be thick#8230; You can notice 4 function keys on left side, joystick and button on right and monochrome screen between. By default it shows clock and icons of plugged modules but with joystick some system menu can be used./p
pa href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/files/2008/12/dsc00839.jpg title=Front view with all modules plugged in rel=lightbox[698]img src=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/files/2008/12/dsc00839-480x218.jpg alt= width=480 height=218 class=aligncenter size-medium wp-image-715 //a/p
pWhole device is powered by BUG Linux which is based on Poky #8216;pinky#8217; release with some updates. Access to all modules is only from Java at that moment. But that not mean that it is closed device #8212; everything in BUG and its modules is open and free. There is a WiFi module (not released yet) which uses chipset from #8220;libertas#8221; family (same family as the one in OLPC)./p
pI am curious what will future bring for this tool./p
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ul
lia href=http://kde42.debian.net/KDE 4.2 unofficial snapshots for Debian/abr /
Unofficial repository of KDE 4.2 development snapshot packages for Debian unstable (sid) and Debian experimental. It is maintained by members of Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers team.
This repository is only temporal while KDE 4.2 is released and it finds its way in Debian official repositories./li
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What is wrong if someone like me is fighting several hours to link a simple main.o to a library? Right, I'm trying to figure out why libtool is reshuffling my library paths...but now I think I have a pretty approximation of what libtool is doing.br /br /codebr / while True:br / random_library_path_order = randomize(sane_input)br / if not link(stuff, random_library_path_order):br / error(Error you are not going to fix, sucker!)br //codebr /br /Let us deprecate libtool as fast as possible and let us start by making it an empty stub. I have wasted way too much time with it.br /br /br /PS: Without libtool gcc is able to link this stuff just fine, so libtool is creating an artificial problem which is against any of engineering practive. It should solve problems but not be the problem... back to school boys!
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pToday we're happy to announce we are working with Robert Schuster and Sebastian Mancke of a href=http://www.tarent.com/tarent/a and a href=https://wiki.evolvis.org/jalimo/index.php/Main_PageJalimo/a on porting a href=http://community.buglabs.net/tags/openjdk.java.netOpenJDK/a to the BUG.nbsp; We have watched excitedly in the past of progress being make in this effort from
various developers, and wanted to get involved.nbsp; A few days back Robert reported his a href=http://scap.linuxtogo.org/files/c039a99b7851be69c75e2bcdffea247f.pnginitial success/a with HotSpot and OpenJDK build from OpenEmbedded running on an a href=http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunnerOpenMoko phone/a.nbsp; This will have a big impact on BUG and impact on others as well. /pp
spanWhat this means for BUG:/span The BUG, being a platform for building custom gadgets and applications using Java and OSGi, has been served well with a href=https://phoneme.dev.java.net/PhoneME/a.nbsp; It's fast, has excellent support, and is very compatible and stable.nbsp; However the BUG is a cutting-edge platform and we'd like to offer cutting-edge Java features as well.nbsp; Based on tarent's work, we plan to offer a version of BUG that has all the latest language and classpath enhancements in OpenJDK.nbsp; This future version will not have
GPL classpath restrictions, and will have the potential as being tested as a compliant Java environment.nbsp; This is important for those wishing to extend the product./pp
spanWhat this means for Linux devices/span: Java on embedded devices is a controversial subject.nbsp; Some say it's too big, some say it's not real Java.nbsp; Everyone has an opinion.nbsp; This is an interesting time because it means shortly we will have access to same open Java environments on mobile devices that developers have gotten used to on the desktop and server. Embedded systems and general purpose computer categories have been converging for a while now, and this seems like another step in the progression./pp
spanWhat it means for ARM Linux Distros/span:nbsp; It was important for Bug and tarent to do the development in the open, and to use an existing community-based build system: a href=http://community.buglabs.net/tags/www.pokylinux.orgPoky Linux/a/a href=http://www.openembedded.orgOpenEmbedded/a.nbsp; As work proceeds, the customers and contributors to open source projects and products such as a href=http://gumstix.comGumstix/a, a href=http://www.openmoko.comOpenMoko/a, and the a href=http://beagleboard.orgBeagleBoard/a can easily and quickly benefit.nbsp; We have been using a lot of great stuff from these projects and it's great to be able to work with tarent in giving back./pp
We encourage others to get involved!nbsp; The Jalimo source repository is here: a href=http://evolvis.org/scm/?group_id=11http://evolvis.org/scm/?group_id=11/a. nbsp; Open source Java is a great thing, and we're really looking forward to BUG + OpenJDK!nbsp; /p
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I have sadly missed this years a href=http://foss.inFOSS.in/a. The goal of this conference is to turn India into a nation of FOSS contributors. There are plenty of people, awesome food!, there is a huge software industry, companies like Tata Consulting are even on Level 5 five of the CMMI model. This means there is a huge potential! But when I get my daily mail on webkit-dev I recognize that it is still a long way from simply consuming, to try to attempt to think, to contributing. And that many more events like a href=http://foss.inFOSS.in/a need to occur until there is a noticeable difference.br /br /On the other hand with people like a href=http://blog.forwardbias.inGirish/a, a href=http://www.prashanthudupa.comPrashant/a, a href=http://pradeepto.livejournal.com/pradeepto/a, a href=http://blogs.gnome.org/shres/Shreyas/a I have high hopes that the goal will be reached.
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pToday my workplace was invaded by beavers. But they are not normal a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver title=Beaver on Wikipediabeavers/a but Poky Linux ones./p
pAt the beginning there was just one of them #8212; he came and checked clock to know which timezone is in use here:/p
pa href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/files/2008/12/pict0720.jpg title=First was one rel=lightbox[667]img src=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/files/2008/12/pict0720-480x360.jpg alt=First was one width=480 height=360 class=aligncenter size-medium wp-image-673 //a/p
pFew minutes later his companies arrived and synchronized clocks:/p
pa href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/files/2008/12/dsc00822.jpg title=Synchronizing clocks rel=lightbox[667]img src=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/files/2008/12/dsc00822-480x360.jpg alt=Synchronizing clocks height=360 class=aligncenter size-medium wp-image-668 //a/p
pAfter few minutes they invaded my working place#8230;/p
pa href=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/files/2008/12/pict0729.jpg title=Invasion! rel=lightbox[667]img src=http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/files/2008/12/pict0729-480x360.jpg alt=Invasion! width=480 height=360 class=aligncenter size-medium wp-image-674 //a/p
pGood that they are friendly and came to help me support Poky Linux based systems :)/p
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pEn bedankt aan wijlen a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_JanssenDr. Paul Janssen/a voor de ontwikkeling van a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motiliumdit medicijn/a./p
pZonder Dr. Paul zijn genie zat ik waarschijnlijk nu nog te kotsen./p
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One of the first things I do when designing a system based on a processor module is create a spreadsheet listing all the connector I/O. This is the easiest way I've found to make sure nothing gets missed. My first pass at a I/O spreadsheet for the Gumstix Overo is available at:https://dev.bec-systems.com/redmine/bec/wiki/omap3 (https://dev.bec-systems.com/redmine/bec/wiki/omap3)