Linux

Thomas wollte, dass ich nochmal was zum Thema UMTS blogge, damit er dann meine Erkenntnisse nurnoch umsetzen muss. Seit ich mit der Spielerei angefangen habe, hat sich in der Linux-Welt auch schon wieder einiges getan: das eingebaute UMTS-Modem muss mittlerweile nicht mehr über das Modul usbserial angesteuert werden, sondern kann jetzt durch das Modul sierra betrieben werden, das dann bei den meisten Distributionen auch automatisch geladen wird.

This started as something really easy, but very quickly became really complex. Alex suggested to take a look at the camera concept of piccolo. Yesterday late I started to create something like this:

[A minimap in CCC]

So, I haven't been blogging for quite some time. And I actually have to good excuses for that: I have been really busy during the last weeks (ImendioConf took place in the beginning of November; Linux World Expo in Cologne the week after) and my server has been down for 2 weeks (I'm sorry).

But now things are getting back up again (at least most of the SVN trees and web sites are) and I can catch up with some things.

I have been attending my fourth GUADEC this year. As always, it's been a really great time with you guys. I have been doing some really nice hacks (to be talked about later) and you brought up several interesting ideas.

TabletPC rotation

Well, I think Ubuntu has trashed my systems. I was getting random IO errors and file system problems (have you ever been forced to use xfs_repair in a week more than 7 times?).

The day before yesterday I bought a new disk (IBM/Hitachi, 2.5", 80GB). I set up Ubuntu once more (hoping that the Warty RC fould fix my problems), but it didn't (I wonder whether any of the Ubuntu developers is using XFS). So I still have to trashed systems (my Athlon XP1500+ based Shuttle and my Powerbook) and a friend of mine told me that he needed to fix his XFS file system too. Guys, there's something definitely going wrong there.

So, while my systems have been trashed, I was working to get the TV out of the Geforce4 MX/440 running. I recall that this built-in device has been a very strong enemy when setting up this machine in march. I was able to see 2 movies yesterday without crashes, but the system is still very unstable, I haven't even been able to boot a Gnoppix CD and get into GNOME before X crashes with this device.

Debian Sarge just got installed on the Barebone, so it's on me to set it up now... (anything I should be aware of when downgrading from GNOME 2.8 to 2.6?)