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Name: Sven Herzberg
Member since: 2004-02-13 02:08:16
Last Login: 2009-07-30 08:52:53

Homepage: http://www.herzi.eu/
Notes: In real live I'm studying computer science at the university
of Hamburg. I really like my Debian/GNOME desktop and I
started my first real project to contribute to the wonderful
world of GNOME.
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1 Nov 2009 »
Time, Time Zone and the total mess… (continued)
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This blog post is intended to be a reply containing the information that I would have needed abut
half a year ago:
- as Jürg has correctly pointed out: gmtime() would have helped me a lot (but isn't portable)
- as I realized during the last week, replacing mktime() with timegm() would have properly helped, too
Going along with
timegm() also yields exactly the results that I expected. This makes things a little easier as all the times in my application are UTC times and will properly get converted into local times when using… It also allows things to become a little easier as I can assume that all times in my application are UTC times.
So right now, I'm trying to get the
g_timegm() patch into glib, so there is a portable, threadsafe (as in “does neither modify your environment variables nor use static variables”) implementation people can use in their applications.
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11 Sep 2009 (updated 17 Sep 2009 at 09:10 UTC) »
ThinkPad X200 Tablet
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Lanedo was so kind to offer a notebook upgrade for me and on Tuesday I happily received a ThinkPad X200 Tablet.
I will spend the following weeks setting up the machine to replace my current X60s by Fedora 12's release date.
Wednesday evening I started to install
Fedora 12 Alpha via USB pendrive and managed to get a bootable device. The screen was flickering like hell and, after a large upgrade yesterday, things are usable now.
The next step will be to get the Wacom tablet working. Fedora has a pretty recent Xorg server (Ubuntu is actually lagging behind this one); but the wacom drivers don't seem to work with it yet…
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4 Aug 2009 »
Casio Exilim Z85
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Jetzt ist es gut einen Monat her, dass Anja und meine Eltern mir einen Fotoapparat geschenkt haben und ich wollte einfach mal ein bisschen zusammenfassen, wie sich mir die Lage nun darstellt:
Pro EX-Z85
- Die Kamera ist sehr klein; sie passt in eine Handy-Tasche (»Handysocke«) und kann dann auch gut in der Hosentasche transportiert werden.
- Die Kamera ist sehr leicht; auch das macht sie gut geeignet für den unkonventionellen Transport.
- Die Kamera ist sehr schnell; nicht nur was die Zeit zum Einschalten angeht, sondern auch was das eigentliche Fotografieren betrifft (»Hey, mach' mal ein Foto!« - »Och nö, das war zu schnell. Mach noch eins!«).
Contra EX-Z85
- Die Kamera ist sehr leicht (ja hatten wir schon); leider macht das die Kamera recht schwer ruhig zu halten.
- Die Kamera hat keinen eingebauten Beschleunigungssensor; die Fotos müssen von Hand in die richtige Orientierung gebracht werden.
Fazit: für meine Zwecke eine tolle Kamera; die Fotos sind für mich tolle Andenken und die Qualität ist toll (wenn man der Kamera genug Zeit für den Auto-Fokus lässt). Für 130 Euro ein Schnäppchen. Wer Beispiel-Bilder sucht, wird bei meinen
Gran-Canaria-Bildern Fotos finden, die mit
GraphicsMagick einfach nur auf 1024×768 Pixel skaliert und bei FlickR - nach Bedarf - rotiert wurden.
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