I have been in Barcelona since Wednesday preparing a showcase (about Mobile TV) and the atmosphere is unbelievable. It is fun to see corporations building a huge booth and if you take a look at the before and after picture it is unbelievable what they have created. Every night between 19:00 and 20:00 all fountains on the fair ground are on and they play music and change the color of the water. This is a great view as the fair…
Taking a step back from my current death march project to list the wishlist features of the next generation OpenMoko. As I learned from Steve Job’s iPhone presentation Allan Kay once said if you take software development serious create your own hardware and now to the feature set. A gyroscope. We have played with such things in the late 90s of the last century. And with Rock ‘n Scroll we have seen a nice usage of this feature. We have…
So yesterday was my birthday and I received plenty of presents. Well I did not ask for any but got a lot of them. I’m the proud owner of the Probot Music CD, various Design and Implementation of the XXXBSD Operating System (4.3,4.4,FreeBSD), finally I’m a owner of “Peopleware” and some old Monty Python tapes/DVDs.My comrades in the office gave a pair of slippers, so my socks don’t get as dirty, and a pair of gloves. Also I got the…
The Future is OpenMoko. Sean sent a rather nice announcement to the list. And once again they just get it (in contrast to Trolltech and their Greenphone campaign)! Their decisions in itself and the way they do it and transport them is just the right way. And everyone within the Free Software Developer Community should be very familiar with. So OpenMoko is compatible with the Free Software Community and we can make a huge leap ahead in progressing Free Software…
As most of us I’m really busy this month. We are preparing things for an upcoming fair in february and these things include a lot of hacking. This is probably the reason you don’t see me doing much in public. I have been playing with WebKit lately, specially the SVG support and I’m really impressed by the support of animate and animation through JavaScript. Specially the nightly build of webkit is awesome. You have a nice toolbox you can use…
Walking across the streets in berlin. We suddenly saw a car parking very close to the one in front. I mean very close, close as in physical contact. I felt reminded of France and the parking habbit. I went around the car and took a look at the license plate and to my suprise the origin of the car is France.
During the last two at the 23rd congress Daniel Molkentin and me have hacked on WebKit and to integrate with the OLPC GUI called sugar. Thanks to Qt’s GMainContext integration and GtkSocket/GtkPluck and Qt’s XEmbed implementation embedding Qt widgets in Gtk+ is pretty much straight forward. So what we did was to use the WebKit/Qt implementation done by fellow KDE hackers and wrap it into a GtkWidget. We have created a GtkMozEmbed like pygtk wrapper of a a Qt WebKit…
I tried using libgmalloc of OSX to debug mallocs. This triggered a crash in KDE’s network classes. The reason is quite simple. getsockname is broken on BSD! As of the manpage/POSIX the third argument len is input and output parameter. On input it contains the size of the struct and on output it contains the size of the kernel struct. But XNU (OS X), FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD do not return the size of the internal struct. They return MIN(input,…
Wow what a week. A lot of companies might have helped to progress Free Software. Nice christmas gifts! ACCESS released the first part of their Access Linux Platform. And I pretty much like the ACCESS FAQ as they answer questions Trolltech does not answer Trolltech released a incomplete Qtopia4.2 OpenSource Edition And the biggest gift is probably from SUN as they released MIDP as GPL! It even has a hack for directFB and a proper QtE backend included. Okay this…
Hey, Trolltech has dumped bits of Qtopia into the public. As it is not too nice to say bad things I will just say what is missing and what a personal roadmap could look like if there would be a possibility that these things can get upstream… What is missing: Safe Execution Environment (SXE). Probably they don’t release because security through obscurity rocks? DRM, another case of security by obscurity? licensing? One should look into SUNs (L)GPL DRM stuff if…