Recent blog entries for davidz

Hadess, dude, that quote was from last night in an attempt to be as cool as Michael Douglas from Falling Down (I'm the bad guy? How did that happen - sort of the same). Don't worry about caillon, I've just scheduled his planet for demolition :-)

I'm following the crowd too ;-). Unfortunately my Advogato account doesn't allow posting pictures so check it out here.

If you're not following Raymond Chen's weblog The Old New Thing, then you don't know what you're missing; lot's of good stuff. There was an interesting entry about Plug and Play with PCI bridges as well as a comment about the USB Cart of death; funny.

So Robert proposed the kernel events layer friday. Good stuff. And Kay already got the marketing kit ready; muhahawawa. In fact, I did some D-BUS hacking myself last week, now you can ask about the PID of another peer. Which is good for security. And stuff. And I've kind of started doing a small example for mainloop integration without glib or Qt.

I'm also running a weblog here.

Yay, advogato is back!

GUADEC

Went to GVADEC last week, that was great. Here is the paper and here are the slides. It was good to meet a lot of hackers, very nice. The beer was expensive though.

Hacking

Still hacking on HAL, in the process of finalising the GNOME VFS patch, showed it to alex at GVADEC, he was positive about merging it, good stuff.

More stuff later, a bit tired right now

Saw Revolution OS a few weeks back with two friends Maz and Søren. It was showing it in Cinemateket in Copenhagen. Nice movie - a bit to too dramatic maybe.

Btw, if you can read danish you might want to check out this rant^Wblog by Maz and a friend of his - it's hilarious.

Got most of the infrastructure finished in HAL so I can finish my patch for GNOME VFS. After this I will attempt to send it upstream. I'm also going to add number of extra icons so it's completely clear what the media - e.g. CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, Compact Flash etc. - it'll be interesting to see how the maintainers will react to that. Initially I'm just going to add dummy icons since I'm no graphics artist and art.gnome.org is still down.

Oh, and I really need to finish my GUADEC paper. Oh well.

HAL meets gnome-vfs

Been hacking on gnome-vfs the last couple of days, and I've just finished my first patch; here's the mandatory screenshot. A bunch of stuff is still missing, but the basic plug-n-play features are there. Since I'm a junkie for eye-candy one of the first things I want to do, is use some of the information exported by HAL to select nice icons like on the Mac I'm writing this on right now.

GUADEC

I'll be speaking at GUADEC next month on the topic "HAL and GNOME"; that'll be fun. I also need to finish the paper within a week; ugh. Oh, and the GUADEC press release mentions HAL. Rad!

Hello blog, long time no post.

HAL

Just released HAL 0.2.90, which was about time. There's been good progress since 0.2.6 with a lot of excellent patches from both Joe and Robert. Nowadays, we even got our own mailing list, and there's also a Project Utopia list! Yay!

India

I was in India on business about 4-5 weeks ago to visit a branch office in Bangalore. It was my second time going, was there 1.5 years ago, and I still find India filled with contrast and other odd things. I had about two days of spare time, so I went to Mysore, situated about 200 km south of Bangalore, to see temples and stuff. For a short while I actually felt like the dot in freedesktop.org :-) Oh well, it was a great trip. I'd wish that it had been longer than a week so I would have more time to explore.

Managed to get some hacking done last night - just submitted an update to a two month old patch to D-BUS for a DBUS_VA_COPY macro based on stuff in GLib since that is how Havoc wants it.

Seems that I'll be getting DSL on March 15th which I'm looking forward to - it's painful not having access to the Internet especially when hacking on a project like HAL since it depends on stuff like linux-hotplug and udev. Anyway, I've started coming into work really early so I have a few hours with Internet access.

Sorted out my pictures from FOSDEM, here is a great one of Hallski, rhult, andersca and mallum. On my camera I've also found, it seems, some motion pictures of rml in a bar near the Grand Place, but these are not quite ready for distribution (cough; extortion; cough) ;-)