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Fri, 12 May 2006

Arrived at DebConf a couple of days ago...

... things I learned so far:

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  • Either the air is quite thin here or I'm realy out of training
  • Mexican insect bites aren't as bad as finish ones
  • You can do stuff without having net
  • A DebConf where everything works out of the box from day one would be realy boring
  • Sleeping at seven millione degrees celsius is not an easy task
  • My tongue isn't broken enough to spell gracias! correctly
  • There are animals making noises which some times are quite painfull in my ears
  • Mexican food tastes good
  • The 10m diving plattform is higher than the palm trees
  • Jogging through early in the morning through a nearly empty hotel area has something... uhm... realy strange
  • Watermelon with chili is even stranger
  • Kolibris are interesting to watch
  • Keycards don't like human sweat
  • Sprinklers are nice to walk through; they should run more often
  • Walkie talkies are a nice thing to play with ;)

Oh, and I still need to write the report from the Desktop Architects Meeting earlier that week...

postet at 18:50 into [Debian/events/DebConf-6] permanent link


Mon, 08 May 2006

[OSDL-DAM-II] In case you wonder:

The last blogs came via a borrowed network cable. Two cables for a room of sixteen. That's the portland group.

postet at 16:18 into [Debian/events/DAM-II] permanent link


[OSDL-DAM-II] Note to myself:

Never be trustfull and think that wireless will work!

Now we splitted in smaller groups and could have normal no wireless lan, if I had a cable! Which I didn't brought, since I thought, that surely in big company like IBM (hosting OSDL's DAM-2 meeting) they will have working wireless...

postet at 15:52 into [Debian/events/DAM-II] permanent link


[OSDL-DAM-II] Topics covered here...

Currently me mostly concentrate on the following topics:

  • Portland Project (xdg-utils)
  • Sound / Multimedia
  • Desktop Standards (LSB)
  • SODA arch (just showed by Tom Schwaller, some kind of back to the roots componized application idea)
  • build once / installation / sytem management / etc. (independent Software vendors want something like autopackage, but it should work...)
  • printing

PS: I would like to add, that I'm not flooding planet again; but the wireless lan broke down, so you'll get severall of my blogs at the same time; I'm taking notes through this and thought they might be interesting for someone.

postet at 15:10 into [Debian/events/DAM-II] permanent link


[OSDL-DAM-II] Just came back from lunch

Now listening a bit about Waldo Bastians talk about Portland. Interesting stuff, didn't knew something like that was planed. Other topics discussed here: Printing, Wireless, Sound and Multimedia and Desktop Standards.

Other topic mentioned: Non distributable firmwares. I thought till now, that's mainly a problem Debian is interested in. Most common solution: Distribute that and wait for lawyers to come :(

Well, at least we could find some additional power bars.

postet at 13:07 into [Debian/events/DAM-II] permanent link


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Alexander Tolimar Reichle-Schmehl lives in Tuttlingen / Germany. He works as IT manager (specialized on Unix and SAN/Storage) for an international automotive supplier.

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