Basicly we have been busy with the ASU. I have a mobile phone contract now with a GPRS flatrate. This means I turned my neo into a router. Installing iptables and the various netfilter kernel modules, enabling forwarding and masquerading and thinks started to work. I would be interested in creating a special image with a GUI targeted for routing. Route everything out over GPRS and WiFi and allow to connect via usb and bnep. Or do it the other…
I have been involved in this project with the goal to create the April Software Update (ASU). Just by the name Update one can guess that the stuff shipped (factory image) on the image is not the April Software Update. The default factory image, for what I know, is the Gtk+ based stack as you know it. So why did we start to create the ASU? We wanted to have a working phone on a short time frame and some…
So I have been working on this Qtopia integration. Being a good Free Software citizen I report the issues (most of the time with patches) upstream. Because I don’t like non public tasks and prefer discussions on patches I had to decide to use the qtopia-interest mailinglist (note the increased volume since february). The amount of feedback, even on obvious issues is kind of low, admitingly disappointing. I understand creating a generic framework which is easy to customize for very…
I safely returned from Taipei and was almost in time. As I don’t have a hitchhiker guide to transatlantic traveling I had to learn it the hard way. Don’t take the arrival time for granted and plan the evening. If anyone knows how to legally get a rental copy of I’m a Cyborg but that’s ok. please tell me. Taipei is great and I hope this was my first visit in many to come. It was a pleasure to see…
I’m writing this on one of these roundtrips when waiting for the Qtopia buildsystem to finish. I changed the mediaengine from helix to gstreamer, this means in one library another implementation gets compiled and the library is linked, maybe the other part of Qtopia needs relinking after it and that would be fine. The truth is, I switch the engine now configure of Qt desktop, Qt target and Qtopia is ran and I’m compiling Qt for the desktop, Qt for…
I moved into the OpenMoko apartment yesterday and right to the backside of the apartment we have some kind of hill and I could not resist and had to walk up to get this city view: raster has been working on a new launcher, window decoration and application navigation for the OpenMoko device, some things are pretty hot about it. It is called illume and can be found here. This launcher is using EFL, actually it is a module for…
Many people don’t know what my nickname means even german speaking ones. The direct translation would be tick, these animals that sit on leaves, bite people and suck the blood, the ones that can cary scary deseases. But there is another side to the word, a political one. In my youth this word was used to refer to punks and similar associates by right wing people, I was labeled this way. And this is nothing to be ashamed off, the…
It is almost a week ago that I left Eindhoven to visit Michael and Daniel and since Wednesday I’m back in Eindhoven, the tuesday was spent in Amsterdam and I stayed in a christian hostel (http://www.shelter.nl). I had planned/expected to be in the north (think of Finland, Denmark, Sweden) by this time but I’m somehow stuck at my family in Eindhoven, no idea if I will leave them before OEDEM, if I’m going to manage it to go to London/o-hand…
Officially I’m on vacation. The plan is to travel a bit, prepare for at least one exam and hack on a new OpenMoko application. I hope to not really skip the traveling part but it will probably suffer due studying. I will be at least in Eindhoven on the 15th and in Frankfurt on the 16th of September 2007 but with the goal to go north. Hopefully visiting two friends one in Rostock one somewhere in Denmark and then hopefully…
Today is the fourth day of the camp. Before the camp started I was busy improving the feedreader, at the camp I have been busy preparing, splitting and merging patches for WebKit. So WebKit can now properly handle ScrollBar’s of div elements and such, we support multiple frames so Google maps, which recently introduced iframes, works again. You can select text and input non ascii charachters. So WebKit/Gtk+ is nicely improving. In a month or two we are most likely…