Category: Miscellaneous

>Stockholm and Open Source

>I read this article in today’s edition of NyTeknik about a consultancy company (Omicron) recommending Stockholm to switch from Microsoft Office to Open Office. The biggest issue was that some functions where missing so advanced users such as controllers and “technical people” (teknikfolk) might need to keep their old Office suites. Smaller issues where that some fonts where different and other cosmetic details. The big benefits was that all users got started right away – no need for additional training – and the licensing costs.

Another nice aspekt is that the representative for the city of Stockholm says that this is not only about licensing costs. The report is a part in a bigger operation to evaluate possibility to use open source within the city.

Finally, the number of users that can be affected are 25000. Pretty neat if it works out.

>Quiet due to Beta

>I just switched to Blogger Beta and it seems that it caused my RSS feed to stop getting updated. Bummer. I’ve asked the syndications that I know of to update their settings and to use my ATOM feed as it keeps on working.

>Passion for Work

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It was a long time since I felt that work was this fun. Right now I’m running uClinux on a soft processor in an FPGA. Right now I get a kernel panic – but still – it is custom hardware with custom software and I can poke at it anywhere in the chain. Well, no time to write here, I’m off to compile my second Linux kernel for the day :-)

>Doing hard time

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My poor little laptop is feeling busy right now. Synthesizing hardware using Xilinx Platform Studio and compiling a new kernel (for the hardware) in a VMware Player session yeilds good usage of the processor cores. I did not pay for having lots of idle cycles – work harder! (making whip sounds and gesturing wildly over the poor Acer)

>SpeedCrunch for the Mac

>Thanks to Matt of A Qt Blog SpeedCrunch now comes as a Mac OS X bundle. It has been tested on a PPC Mac, but is supposed to be universal. The size of the download is pretty large (12 MB) but that includes Qt 4 and support for both x86 and PPC. Oh – one more thing – it does not support translations yet – but the numbers are the same everywhere so as long as you can live with English you will be ok.

>See the Path

>Witold Wysota just sent me a patch for the mouse gesture recognizer (mgesturer) for visualising the gesture while gesturing. Great stuff! I’ve added it to the clean-up branch where I’m working for the moment.

Now you can see the gesture!

Right now I’m waiting for quard to get the live recognizer to work properly before I will prepare the next real release.

If anybody feels ready to write a GTK+ binding – get in touch. I’m e8johan and use gmail. The gesture recognitions part of the code is completely toolkit neutral. All that it takes is some sort of event filter.