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  • osm vs n810

    Gad vide om det er openstreetmap eller gps’en i min n810 eller maemo mapper der er defekt?
    På hele cykelturen på vej på arbejde i dag var jeg 100 meter væk fra hvor min n810 påstod jeg var. Eksempelvis da jeg kørte forbi Fælledvej på Nørrebrogade i retning mod byen, påstod min n810 at jeg var ved at nærme mig Elmegade og Helsebaren.

  • n810 && usbhost

    easy. http://www.amazon.de/dp/B001CX5G8K/ + https://garage.maemo.org/projects/usb-otg-plugin/ + random usb thingie + n810 == success.

  • Playing with gnash

    Recently, a new version of Gnash was uploaded to Debian by Miriam Ruiz.

    The most important thing in the changelog from my point of view is the following:

    • Using KDE4 instead of KDE3

    So I kind of had to test how the KDE 4 thingies works.
    Youtube: The “videos being watched right now”-animation works, but I can’t actually watch the movies.
    Random flash advertisements plays nicely. Unfortunately. I was happy to avoid those.

    Conclusion: Some things works, but mostly the annoying things.

  • VPS with large storage

    Dear Lazyweb

    I’m looking to retire my basement server. It is a athlon 700MHz processor with 384mb ram and 200G harddrive (of which 40 or so is used)

    I don’t currently need a more beefy machine for this, so I kind of thought of just going for a small virtual private server.
    Unfortunately, in order to get a VPS with more than 40G space on places like linode, gandi and slicehost I also need to buy much more ram and cpu power than I actually need.

    Are there any vps sites out there that are a bit cheaper when talking about disk space?

    And native IPv6 would be nice as well.

  • Librivox

    For noget tid siden faldt jeg over librivox.org, som er en samling lydbøger under “public domain”, det er kort og godt indlæsninger af bøger hvor forfatteren er død for længe nok siden til at ophavsretten ikke længere gælder.

    Dette er en librivoxindspilning. Alle librivoxindspilninger er offentlighedens ejendom. For yderligere information eller for at melde dig som frivillig, besøg Librivox.org.

    En stor del af de tilgængelige bøger på dansk er indlæst af Kristoffer Hunsdahl, lydbog.com, hvilket han har gjort rigtig godt.

    Jeg håber nu blot på endnu flere bøger.

  • This time of year again

    /me++

    Or in a bit longer words, today is my birthday and I got a nice present from Debian – a release sent from Samoa.

    For all the KDE/Debian users, this is also the beginning of something special: Pushing KDE4 slowly to unstable and testing/squeeze.
    If you are in the group of KDE-users-against-change, then please stay with the just released version of Debian, Debian Lenny, as this is where KDE3 desktop will be. From Debian unstable, it will dissapear soon.

  • Den danske wikipedia

    Min største anke mod dansk wikipedia har ind til nu været at der er alt for få artikler, men for nylig bloggede Poul-Henning Kamp om især den danske del af wikipedia.

    Enkelte af mine kolleger har haft et par uheldige eventyr med dansk wikipedia, hvor artikler inden for emner der ikke lige interesserer administratorerne bliver slettet som irrelevante.

    Selv tænkte jeg at det kan da ikke være så slemt, så jeg ville forsøge at rette et par småting. For eksempel skriver siden om KDE at KDE 4.1 vil blive udgivet i juli 2008. Det er sådan set også korrekt, bortset fra at KDE 4.1 faktisk *blev* udgivet i juli 2008. Desværre er min IP blokeret, så det kan jeg ikke. (Har delt IP med i hvert fald resten af mit kollegium).

    Jeg hoppede ind på #wikipedia-da for at snakke med nogen der måske kunne hjælpe.
    Der overværede jeg “de aktive” snakke sammen – og det blev blandt andet bekræftet at der er en aggressiv sletningspolitik over for korte artikler, sÃ¥ alle der gÃ¥r ind for “release early, release often” skal tilsyneladende holde sig væk.

    (Som et kuriosum skal nævnes at en administrator endte med at fjerne blokeringen af min IP hvorefter jeg begyndte at rette nogle oplysninger. Inden jeg nÃ¥ede at gemme havde en anden administrator genoprettet blokeringen …)

    Jeg kan nu muligvis oprette mig som bruger, men oprettelsesformularen sender ikke mine data, inklusiv mit kodeord, over SSL, så det har jeg ikke megen interesse i. Henrik Kramshøj kan helt sikkert fortælle mere om hvorfor det er en dårlig ide ikke at sende kodeord over SSL.

    Nu er det ikke kun artiklerne pÃ¥ dansk wikipedia jeg har noget imod … Den engelske virker tilgengæld ret god.
    Jeg tror jeg holder mig til at bidrage til andre projekter for nu.

  • Keysigning pÃ¥ opensourcedays

    Der findes sådanne værktøjer der kan tegne hvordan gpg-nøgler hænger sammen ved hjælp af signaturer.
    Blandt andet sig2dot.

    Jeg har nu tegnet en graf for den udsendte liste før opensourcedays og i dag.

    Før:
    Signature overview before keysigning party

    Og efter:
    Signature overview after keysingingparty

    Det ses let hvem der ikke mødte op, hvem der måske ikke endnu har nået til at behandle deres signaturer og så videre.
    Dotty havde tilsyneladende problemer med tegnkodningen, så jeg fjernede alle ikke-ascii tegn. Men Alex har fået et sejt efternavn ud af det.

  • Is something wrong with KDE patch backport policies?

    Or Is distro’s backporting of features a good thing or Distro A is much better than Distro B because of the cool features

    So. Advantages when backporting features

    • Your distro is part of the “cool ones” amongst the users

    Disadvantages:

    • Upstreams dislike you because the code might be a weird mix that they never wanted to release, but they still get the bug reports
    • Error prone work for distros
    • Issues with new untranslated strings
    • More maintainance work for distributers

    In KDE4, several distros backports loads of features (Plasma panel autohide, plasma tooltips, kwin “cube” effect and other things).
    Several distros include mandriva, suse, kubuntu and fedora.

    So should we in Debian follow the other distros? Should KDE change policies? Should distros stop backporting features? Something else? Sharing the patches among the distributions is of course easy.

    (Please note: I’m only talking about features, not bugfixes

  • Skolelinux/Debian-edu gathering infiltrated by Gnash people

    Gathering
    I spent this weekend at a Skolelinux/Debian-edu gathering in Oslo. 8.5 hours by bus each way.

    I got to meet some of the people shipping a customized Debian for schools. As it was a gathering related to educational software, looking at the KDE4 kdeedu packages seemed most appropriate.

    I’ve tested step packaging and hopefully it is going to end up on your local debian archive one day, along with some fixes to where kvtml files are packaged, much awaited by Annma and others.

    Apparantly, in Brazil, they have their own debian based kde distribution and 130 GB of free as in public domain free educational movies. Some people discussed an application to view, tag and search the movies. I quickly thought of a mixup of nepomuk and phonon in a nice userinterface. So if anyone feels like implementing that, you are more than welcome.

    Gnash
    The gathering was together with a Gnash hackathon, and apart from gnash getting more and more usable, the gnash people are also thinking about integration with the desktop environments. For KDE 4 they have plans of a KPart easy embeddable anywhere, including in KHTML. (Maybe another use of the KPartLoader dfaure wrote recently).

    The gnash team are unfortunately quite short on KDE knowledge and they asked for help.

    I’m probably not myself the right one to help here, but maybe some of you out there feel like helping. There is already a patch set around that some people claims works, but others haven’t figured out to make it work. Feel free to comment here and I will forward to the Gnash people – or just contact them directly on the gnash-dev@gnu.org maillist.

    Trolls
    I left the gathering a bit early to get to a Troll picnic in a Oslo park and got stuffed with pølse and lompar. (sausages and pancake like bread)

    I was by bus all night back home and then a shower and straight to work. After work, I slept for 14 hours or so.