| U3 - testdrive |
[May. 4th, 2008|11:26 pm] |
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The VAG without much fanfare opened the U3 line (currently just on Sundays).
Had to go there immediately and drive round the line, including the new opened stations.
Riding directly in front of the train has some kind of roller coaster in slow motion feeling.
Of course I took images. |
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| on my spring vacation ... I shot Flocke |
[Apr. 23rd, 2008|06:28 pm] |
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| | Sounds of the City | ] |
Took a day off to relax my eyes a bit.
Some walking through town and on the afternoon I hopped to our local Zoo (Tiergarten), mainly to visit the new icebear cub Flocke.
Took lots of pictures, did not prune the set down to minimum though. Thankful for a 200mm Zoom. :) |
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| did you know .. |
[Apr. 22nd, 2008|05:09 pm] |
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| | Antonio Carlos Jobim - Brazil | ] |
That you can already "pre queue" flowers for Mothers Day on May 10? (at Fleurop).
So much for forgetful husbands...
Did a walk through the woods (around Altdorf) on Sunday, and took some pictures.
Also took some pictures during some evenings in Nuernberg, these are in the flickr stream. Best one is this one, taken during rain.
As for SUSE news... We released Beta1, I helped testing, I updated Wine packages to the 0.9.60 release, we released some security updates as usual... :) |
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| something more interesting... |
[Apr. 14th, 2008|10:45 am] |
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| | Computerfan Hum | ] |
than history games, but only for Nuernberg folks.
On Saturday I visited a booth of the VAG at Thon, where the VAG present a planned north expansion of the tram line network.
Since Nuernberg wants to repurposed the current north bus/tram terminal in Thon the VAG is planning to extend the tramline and move the bus terminal northwards to "Am Wegfeld". This is the corner of the B4 with the METRO superstore. The tramline will be in the middle of the street for half of the way (until after Marktkauf) and on the right side of the street until
Wegfeld.
Decision is to be done in May this year, and it would be finished in 2011. At this time likely only the line 4 will go there, with the north part of line 9 being dropped in favour of the U3. |
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| update and current meme |
[Apr. 13th, 2008|07:02 pm] |
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| | NCIS | ] |
marcus@galeere:~> history | awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head
211 fg
200 /home/marcus/projects/gcc.trunk/BIN/bin/gcc
95 cd
58 ls
54 make
49 svn
44 vi
32 git
23 less
18 telnet
marcus@galeere:~>
The gcc calls and fg are from testcase reducing for a GCC bug.
The sickness I felt in last entry was related to a conjunctivitis ... well, lets just say I hate trouble with my eyes. |
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| libgphoto2 2.4.1 release |
[Mar. 30th, 2008|05:37 pm] |
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Did my very first release of libgphoto2 / gphoto2 ...
After standing years on the sideline and having others do releases I
now just did this one. 9 months after the 2.4.0 release it was necessary
to catch up on all of the bugreports and some drivers updates.
The full news are here.
For the next major release, 2.5, I have already done and still plan to
do some API changes, which are unfortunately not yet finished.
Spent the weekend being slightly sick... The kind of boring sickness where you can not really leave the house, but you do not need to lie in bed the whole time. Would have liked to spend
Sunday walking through the Fraenkische Schweiz with friends, but so could not. |
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| Easter! |
[Mar. 24th, 2008|07:26 pm] |
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Spent the long easter weekend in Nuernberg... With every evening booked (except today),
flat warming over at ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) kris_nbg, Flos and Izys new home, Hennes birthday, lunch with old friend, roasted Lamb at Plewes, and Oldie Party Night at the Rockfabrik.
Thanks everyone for the invitations :)
Work was just as usual, getting out security updates, reviewing "funny" security related things, and so on. (Just watch the opensuse-security-announce list ;)
Wine releases have happened too, but I am just sending in 2 or 3 patches myself these days, so nothing interesting to see here.
Most work is currently spent on libgphoto2 work. I am preparing a 2.4.1 release, with backports from TRUNK and also trying to get more stuff done for 2.5. |
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| last weeks |
[Feb. 28th, 2008|09:39 pm] |
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So what funny did I do at work the last weeks?
If you think that I just sit there and code all the day, fix security bugs etc ... well, you are mistaken I am afraid.
As teamlead (in other speak: engineering lead) I occasionally need to management stuff, and this is the time of the year, where we review our competencies (abilities basically) between manager and employee.
Preparation for those reviews always takes me around 2 weeks of getting my brain wrapped around the criteria we employ for these reviews, hold the reviews (including mine), and discuss the changes with my upstream managers.
All the data is recorded in a PeopleSoft application. After doing the same 4 times you are accustomed to its Web 0.42 userinterface and slowness, but it still leaves The Taint on you.
New Wine release though, but this is easy to do thanks to the buildservice. And Canon PowerShots can now capture to the SF card in canon capture mode with gphoto. |
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| Common Vulnerability Entries - matching SUSE updates |
[Feb. 14th, 2008|03:20 pm] |
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Something that I have been testrunning for some time and where I mostly need
to polish it up and find a better public location is this.
This repository basically cross references CVE numbers and our security updates, including version-release pairs, security advisories and bugzillas.
Please note that the generators behind this page sniff internal status mails, so some updates
might be overlooked and typos might have crept in. |
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| Hackweek |
[Feb. 11th, 2008|11:09 am] |
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| | NASA TV, Atlantis Missin | ] |
The business unit we are in has again a so-called Hackweek, where we work on innovative ideas
and stop regular work for a week.
So you will see the fix for the new local root exploit next week ... Just kidding, it will be up today or tomorrow. ;)
I plan to go through my libgphoto2 stuff backlog. Its not fun work, but I need to do it some time. |
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| down sick |
[Feb. 1st, 2008|09:19 pm] |
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| | Gilmore Girls | ] |
Being sick sucks, been there since wednesday, still not recovered.
Likely picked it up at the carneval party of my fitness studio, where I went as a pirate. Still not my thing, but you can guess from the other images who convinced me to go.
The team released some security updates over the last days, most notably a kernel update
for SUSE Linux 10.1, openSUSE 10.2 and 10.3.
No programming done. |
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| Thoughts |
[Jan. 19th, 2008|11:38 am] |
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After just seeing an example of it yesterday watching a presentation from our CEO, let me postulate:
The year of the Linux desktop will be there when OpenOffice_org Impress disables the screensaver in Presentation Mode. (I guess every Impress user has been burned by this at least ten times in his life.)
[Edit: If the Laptop is plugged in, running KDE then OOo will not blank in openSUSE 10.3. If it is on battery, it will blank the screen. Above still stands, most presentations are done on battery. And I have not check GNOME.]
And my old colleague Crispin seems to have gone to Microsoft. Here my first thoughts: "WTF?"... But well, good luck Crispin :)
Oh, and Flash now works in konqueror again in SUSE, after some concerted effort from the KDE people and yours truly. |
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| New Year... |
[Jan. 6th, 2008|03:49 pm] |
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My year change over vacation is nearing an end, work begins again tomorrow.
Did not program much over the vacation, but did more relaxing instead.
Visited the Museum fuer Industrie Kultur today which currently runs a presentation named "TOP SECRET - World of Spy technology". It has 1/3 James Bond technology and information sheets (including the metal teeth of the "Jaws" character) and one of the BMW James crashed in a Hamburg Parkhouse. 5 Euro well spent. |
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| Christmas |
[Dec. 24th, 2007|02:58 pm] |
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So what is Security doing over Christmas?
We have worked until last Friday (21st), have emergency services up until the 1st
of January 2008 and work regulary starting January 2nd again.
Posted the End of Life notice of SUSE Linux Desktop 1.0.
Myself I am on vacation since the 14th already to also get rid of left over vacation days, spending the holidays themselves at parents with some outside work (collecting barbed wire
in the wood:
or walking around taking pictures of frozen over nature:
Planned to some programming, but so far didn't do any. |
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| weekend |
[Dec. 9th, 2007|12:53 am] |
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Watched the movie "Warum Maenner nicht zuhoeren und Frauen nicht einparken koennen" just now together with a good friend.
Funny movie, even though the book (original title "Men are from Mars, Women from Venus") is just a very basic guideline for its plot. Watchable, but nothing outstanding.
Missed the Orishas concert on Thursday, was not feeling well enough for partying at that time.
Work is busy as usual, but we are slowing down for Christmas season now.
And my home INBOX is growing with gphoto requests, however I feel to tired to handle those, so it continues to grow for now. |
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| Uber Cool High Nerd |
[Dec. 4th, 2007|11:13 pm] |
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I am Uber Cool High Nerd:
Even though I don't fulfil most of the nerd criteria I thought I would. |
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| Weekend |
[Nov. 25th, 2007|06:47 pm] |
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Spent yesterday evening doing slides for todays presentation on a small local congress,
only to have just 4 visitors showing up.
Otherwise busy weeks as usual, except I have fridays off to drain vacation time. |
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| the missing link ... err, cable |
[Oct. 28th, 2007|05:41 pm] |
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| | Guns'n'Roses - You're Crazy | ] |
Some months ago I bought a Sony DSC-F1 (640x480 px) camera on eBay... but did not check the description correctly ... and so I got it without its non-standard serial cable.
Today finally someone offered a Sony DSC-F1 serial cable on ebay, so I promptly bought it. Hope it arrives fine in the next days.
Did some libgphoto2 work in the last days, but nothing that will truly appear on the outside
for users to see, basically just stability fixes and changes. Found out that Canon preview mode did not work as advertised, fixed most of it.
Wine 0.9.48 is out ... you can find it ... you know the drill. ;)
Oh, and it is before 6pm and dark outside. Hello Winter. |
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| Monday thoughts |
[Oct. 22nd, 2007|10:54 am] |
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| | Titanic | ] |
After being very tired on friday from the work week I am back and fresh at work, after a weekend with gym visit, cinema visit (Ratatouille), and ultra lazy sunday with DVD (The Two Towers).
And I broke the libgphoto2 ABI now for real, by replacing long with uint64_t and int with uint32_t in some structs, changing their sizes. Function argument adjustments to come too.
Thinking back, I originally just wanted to hack a bit on libgphoto2 drivers, as a 1 hour or 2 per week side-work. That was 6 years ago or so and now I am one of the left over core developers, taking care of the largest and most used camera driver (ptp2) and the underlying framework. Not really the relaxing "on the side" job I originally wanted, and I could easily spend 8 hours or more a week doing this. Not that I have the time. :(
And especially for Kris (I think another one of Steffies artworks):
http://sonjaunterwegs.blogspot.com/2007/03/blog-post_12.html
Never forget that you have friends. |
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| C# sucks |
[Oct. 17th, 2007|10:49 pm] |
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Watching folks trying to do C# bindings for libgphoto2 and failing on "long".
See here.
and here for some README.
This is just so sad.
We will have to clean up the libgphoto2 API a bit. And I still think how not to break source compatibility. |
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