Tomorrow will probably be the third time this year, that an “.at world domination”-thread will be started on developers@. And this time, no danes are involved (AFAIK, but they are everywhere).
Looking at the commits to CVSROOT/access of this year, more than 10% of the new committers are living in Austria. So it looks like the BSD Usergroup Austria is successfull pushing BSD forward.
This time Stefan Farfeleder got an src-commit bit, so there are now three and a half FreeBSD committers in Vienna. Congratulations stefanf!
Who will be the next? Send patches now!
Birthday
You really should buy a MacOS X. Josef just told me, that MacOS X (at least Panther) knows about _my_ birthday per default. So in case you forgot my birthday, open a Terminal.app and enter:
ische:~ arved$ grep arved /usr/share/calendar/calendar.*
So I am expecting a lot of presents in June :-).
Eyecatching T-shirt
Today, I went to university with the pkgsrcCon T-shirt. Although it was quite cheap and I don’t like the backside, a lot of people on the Subway looked at it, and at university some people asked questions about pkgsrc.
Probably because pkgsrc is a word with a lot of consonants :-).
CVSanal
Today I tried to remember how this program was called, that printed pretty graphs out of CVS repositories for various Opensource projects. Before I forget it again, i will write a blog entry.
Here is an example for the FreeBSD ports tree. Unfortunatly only the KDE CVS seems to be up to date.
The difference between this one and Peters commit stats seems to be, that it is based on touched files and not number of commits.
BSD Hackers Week
Last week some BSD hackers visited Vienna. On Monday Lukas and me met Alex Langer. On Wednesday we met Brooks Davis and from Friday to Sunday the NetBSD pkgsrc developers met for pkgsrccon.
Pkgsrccon is now over, and I survived being in a room with around 30 NetBSD users with a FreeBSD shirt on :-). Well in fact most of them were cool guys and the presentations where interesting, since a lot of problems are similar to the ones FreeBSD ports collection is facing.
Which Nigerian Scammer are you?
Yet another test, because there is nothing interesting to blog at the moment (Or do you want to read my rants about the boringness of drawing EER diagrams?)
Which Nigerian spammer are You?
BSD and USB Webcams
I have a Logitech Quickcam VC for the LPT-port. I bought this cam years ago, because at that time I had no machine with an USB port, and because there was a Linux driver for the Quickcam. Well after i bought it, i noticed that the Quickcam _VC_ is incompatible with the normal Quickcam. Die, Logitech, Die! This cam really sucks. First It requires Windows, second it requires a screen resolution of 800x600x32bpp, so you can’t run it on an old computer and third it requires a lot of resources, so you can’t do any work, while the camera program is running.
Now that I have enough computers with USB I am thinking about getting a new one. Unfortunately information about Webcams on BSD is hard to find, but last week someone posted a pointer to takaM’s list Some of the models listed there are even listed on Geizhals. So maybe I really should try to get one. I have also considered buying a standalone camera, like the Axis ones. I have also seen cameras with WLAN, but my budget is rather tight, 200 EURO’s is the maximum I can afford.
Why do I always start learning at the last minute?
Tomorrow, ARK-test. I started learning at 14.00.
Now I have 2/3, only simulation of register machines needs to be refreshed, so I can take a blogging break. But why do I always start 5 minutes before 12?
Current food: Erasco – fiery Thai soup — “Dosenfutter rulez!”
Freedesktop.org dependency graph
While working on the freedesktop-libraries Metaport, I made a dependency graph of the freedesktop.org packages with dia. If Eric choses to make the freedesktop.org libraries the default, you will have all those little ports on your harddisk. Frightening, isn’t it?
global.kryner
Today I was really astonished to hear “Oberkrainer”-like Volksmusik on FM4. A group called global.kryner played famous popsongs e.g. Madonna’s “Like a virgin” in this traditional style. Although I don’t like Volksmusik, this was quite funny. There are a few mp3-examples on their Website and they will release a CD soon.