See you at FOSDEM
This year will be my third year at FOSDEM. I will be giving a short talk on recruiting in the Free Java developer room on Sunday between 15:45 and 16:10 so if you want find out what we have been doing...
View ArticleDo not turn on the xcb use flag if you plan on using =sun-jre-1.5*
Oh goodie. I decided to try the new xcb stuff so I turned on the xcb use flag in libX11 and mesa just to find out that java from sun does not work with it. Proprietary software is so much fun. Luckily...
View ArticleMicrosoft Tech Days
I was paid to attend Microsoft Tech Days here for the last two days. Besides free beer and beautiful women there were some interesting technical stuff and observations there. ASP .NET 4.0 They are...
View ArticleMy take on amending GLEP 39
Earlier today Calchan blogged about amending GLEP 39 here. During the council meeting I voted against council being able to change the document and on deciding a process for changing it. Why? First I...
View Articleldd for Java
I have been working on a ldd like program for Java. I put this program together using bcel for class file parsing, java-config to provide a list of installed packages and jars and a SQL db abstracted...
View ArticleMetadata Cache Backend Based on Extended Attributes
I got this idea about writing a Portage metadata cache backend based on extended file attributes. We are talking about file metadata after all and the key=value format fits the cache quite fine. I have...
View ArticleJava 1.6 going stable
Now that the Javadoc bug that has been holding 1.6 up has been fixed and the ebuild has been out for a month I filed http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189277 At least after it’s fixed I/we don’t...
View ArticleCouncil election manifesto
As I am running again and finally had some free time and motivation to write some stuff up I wrote an initial manifesto for the on going council elections. It can be found here:...
View ArticleOn Google Summer of Code Applications
It’s time for this blog to come out of hibernation. I will hopefully be mentoring some people this summer so I will write down here questions/things that I would like people applying to my ideas to...
View ArticleLinux 3.2 and Logitech Unifying Receiver
I just upgraded to gentoo-sources-3.2.9 from 3.1.1 only to find out that my logitech wireless mouse stopped working. It was correctly detected as a usb device but no input device was created for it:...
View ArticleSee you at FOSDEM
This year will be my third year at FOSDEM. I will be giving a short talk on recruiting in the Free Java developer room on Sunday between 15:45 and 16:10 so if you want find out what we have been doing...
View ArticleDo not turn on the xcb use flag if you plan on using =sun-jre-1.5*
Oh goodie. I decided to try the new xcb stuff so I turned on the xcb use flag in libX11 and mesa just to find out that java from sun does not work with it. Proprietary software is so much fun. Luckily...
View ArticleMicrosoft Tech Days
I was paid to attend Microsoft Tech Days here for the last two days. Besides free beer and beautiful women there were some interesting technical stuff and observations there. ASP .NET 4.0 They are...
View ArticleMy take on amending GLEP 39
Earlier today Calchan blogged about amending GLEP 39 here. During the council meeting I voted against council being able to change the document and on deciding a process for changing it. Why? First I...
View Articleldd for Java
I have been working on a ldd like program for Java. I put this program together using bcel for class file parsing, java-config to provide a list of installed packages and jars and a SQL db abstracted...
View ArticleMetadata Cache Backend Based on Extended Attributes
I got this idea about writing a Portage metadata cache backend based on extended file attributes. We are talking about file metadata after all and the key=value format fits the cache quite fine. I have...
View ArticleJava 1.6 going stable
Now that the Javadoc bug that has been holding 1.6 up has been fixed and the ebuild has been out for a month I filed http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189277 At least after it’s fixed I/we don’t...
View ArticleCouncil election manifesto
As I am running again and finally had some free time and motivation to write some stuff up I wrote an initial manifesto for the on going council elections. It can be found here:...
View ArticleOn Google Summer of Code Applications
It’s time for this blog to come out of hibernation. I will hopefully be mentoring some people this summer so I will write down here questions/things that I would like people applying to my ideas to...
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