Recent blog entries for LenZ

Note: this diary will not be updated anymore. (Not that is has been in recent time anyway...)

I've now added a blog to my personal homepage. Let's hope I'll update this one more often than the one here :)

I'm back from Linux Kongress and had a great time. Met a lot of interesting people and some of our SuSE Labs developers (e.g. davej and Kurt Garloff).

Went to Heidelberg over the weekend to celebrate my Dad's 60th birthday and to pick up a late wedding present. Now if only we had some more room in our kitchen :)

Wow, no new entry for over 10 months. I knew that I will not be able to maintain this on a frequent basis. Anyway, I am still alive :)

Much has happened in the meanwhile:

• I got married:) Some more pictures will be put up on my web pages soon.
• SuSE Linux 7.2 and 7.3 are out the door for some time now, and the reviews look quite good so far.

I will be visiting Linux Kongress later this month - I am really looking forward to this event since I did not get much of a chance to travel around this year... I initially proposed to give a talk about the people and projects of the SuSE Labs, but it got turned down for being not technical enough. But at least I get free admission to the event as a reward :)

I am back from vacation and already swamped with work. 7.1 is nearing completion and I am busy squishing all remaining bugs and testing. Bugzilla is a great tool!

Ordered a Laptop last week, a Toshiba Portege 3440. It was supposed to arrive last week, but the sender forgot to add the company name, so UPS was not able to find me. Bummer! I called them and gave them directions - hopefully it will show up today.

Tickets for Linux World Expo in NY are booked. See you all there!

Another month flew by without a diary update. Shame on me! First of all, Merry Christmas to all of you. The last weeks before Christmas were very busy - we are now in beta for our upcoming 7.1 release. Beta-3 is out for about 1 1/2 weeks now and it does not look too bad - at least it installs on most systems without crashing ;)

However, I am on vacation right now and I just check my mail from time to time. Right now, I am in Montreal, Kanada, visiting a good friend and colleague here. We just arrived yesterday and already made a cool dogsled-trip through the north of Canada today. Great fun, even though one of my dogs managed to escape! Fortunately they caught him later on. But it is amazing, how cold it is over here! Brrr.

Tomorrow, me and Sabina will be visiting Dan at his new home in Ottawa. Let's see, if we get lost...

I cannot believe that almost have a month is already gone again. I told you I am a terrible note keeper :)

Anyway, I was (and still am) very busy updating my packages for the upcoming release. We finally have long package names! It was about time. Now I rename and update, test and install... In addition to that, a security update for Pine was needed. 4.30 finally added threading support, but I am not impressed with that yet.

I am also in close contact with davej now, to create a new powertweak package.

Back at work after a fun weekend. We had friends visiting us at saturday, sunday was hang-loose day...

Updates on my home page: added the video clip of my last appeareance at NBC Giga, new desktop screenshots.

Yesterday afternoon was exciting - a photographer was here to take pictures of some of us for a new company brochure. She was a real pro - she had taken pictures of a lot of famous people (politicians, managers of big companies). But the shooting session took a long while and some of us got really annoyed... It must have been quite an experience for her to work with geeks like us :)

I am looking forward to see the final pics!

Spent about two hours on trying to compile Pine with SSL-Imap support today. Unfortunately the README seems to be wrong or outdated, I could not manage to place the files in the correct location. Why can't they simply provide a diff?

We are working on Sunday today (well, reading email and browsing the web).

The season is over - I brought my motorbike to my parents this weekend, to store it away for the wintertime. Fortunately the weather was very nice yesterday, just a bit cold.

Phew, the past week just flew by! I did not manage to post a single diary entry. Anyway, I am back home from ALS.

I returned to Germany yesterday morning and slept all day. Now I am back in the office and I am catching up with two days of mail. Not too bad...

ALS was big fun and I met and talked with a lot of great people.

Also, Linux on S/390 won the best of show award! This is really great, since our S/390 are working really hard on getting the final release out.