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My list of things which sucked the most during last week
Last week was really awful, below are some things which sucked in no particular order:
- being sick on my birthday
- tacking a math exam while being sick (if i had missed the test, i would have to do a semester test which sucks even more)
- fixing stupid bugs in horrible java code at work (while beeing sick)
- having to deal with stupid MS Office issues at work (while beeing sick)
Ok the last two items actually also hurt when you are healthy. On the plus side i can note: Having a girlfriend who makes sure i get better and don't waste too much time on lwn.net, kerneltrap.org, various mailing list archives or some other geek sites.
Anyway next week can only be better especially as i will be at the OpenExpo in Bern on thursday.
Marc
Some random thoughts
This week i have started an university preparation school, will see how this works out. But since i am working part time to earn a few bucks i will probably have less time to waste with fun things. Oh well.
I have done some improvements to dvtm which will lead to a 0.4 release pretty soon i hope.
Stumbled over these two window managers for Windows (no i don't use it voluntarily - i have to at work) too bad there is no dwm windows port.
What else? I have read through the SQL Injection cheatsheet. At some point i would like to learn some assembly, maybe i should start reading Programming from the Ground? Before that i will take a look at some of the interesting linux.conf.au presentations.
Some random blurb to recent news: Nokia buyed Trolltech, don't yet know what i should think about this one. Nokia supports software patents, is against OGG in the HTML5 spec, on the other hand they are involved in a few opensource projects. Their Maemo tablet device is based on a gtk+/pango/atk/cairo stack and now they are buying Qt, what does this mean for Qtopia? I hope they hold their promise , fortunately KDE is able to relicense Qt under a BSD-style license if development would be discontinued.
I personally hope that Rasterman who is now employed by OpenMoko will further advance the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) to build a user interface for resource constrained mobile systems.
As a last thing i would like to say a few things regarding the possible overtake of Yahoo by Microsoft. So they finally acknowledge that MSN sucks and their whole Windows Live(tm) strategy failed. Not that i would care about Yahoo but what bothers me is that they seem to be somewhat opensource friendly. They are apparently running quite a few FreeBSD servers and use PHP for some of their services, they have even hired Rasmus Lerdorf the creator of PHP. Good luck to the poor soles who will have the migrate their infrastructure to M$ technologies.
Marc
Preparing another dvtm release
I have done some more cleanups and added mouse support to dvtm,
will probably do another release by the end of this week.
Apart from that i didn't manage to get much done. I should pick
up my tinycc testsuite thingy.
Spent most of the holidays hanging out with friends,
watching Prison Break Season 1 which i got for Christmas from my girlfriend.
During the next few evenings i will probably watch a few video recordings of the presentation from the 24 Chaos Communication Congress.
What else? Really nothing newsworthy.
Marc
Integrating utf8 support in librote for use by dvtm
During the last week i integrated wide character support into librote. This fixed mutt's threading view when run within dvtm. Did a 0.1 release.
For the next release i plan to integrate the ability to minimize windows.
So stay tuned.
Marc
dvtm - dynamic virtual terminal manager released
So this weekend i released a first version of dvtm a dynamic tiling window manager for the console.
Hope it will be useful for a few people out there.
Marc
