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Interesting day today at work. Spent the day working on a variety of pieces of hardware and getting Linux to run on them. A few of them are very cool but news of it has to wait.

At a personal level, I have been hacking around on my IPAQ running Familiar Linux prelease 5 and its looking a bit better even though at times it has some issues. Now the dual sleeve works so I can mount a bunch of mp3s on a microdrive and be networked at the same time. One small buglet is that it does not do suspend right yet. I upgraded the ROM in my IPAQ to 32mb and the RAM is at 64mb. Interesting that CE can see the additional 16 but cannot use it. Not even under PocketPC 2002 when it comes out. Linux sees it and I can write to it immediately. Its interesting that the dual sleeve works now and when things stabilize a bit I can get intimate linux installed on the microdrive.

Have not posted a diary entry for awhile due to world events and interesting times at work. Events at both locales happen so quickly that I feel unable to keep up.

Work

Well, work was really fun today! Thanks hacker for the help! Also got to continue playing with a bunch of new hardware which is pretty cool but cannot speak of it quite yet.

Play

Play is good also! One needs play. One also needs to drink good beer which often makes play that much better. It appears that the fine folks at handhelds.org will be releasing Familiar 0.5 quite soon and it includes support for dual pcmcia sleeves for the IPAQ and a new kernel. Too cool! I really enjoy playing with Linux running on the IPAQ. dsifry, check out the wiki at handhelds.org for some additional details and more info like what we were talking about.

Other stuff

I've read a lot of the articles and diary entires about "the event". Suffice to say, I have a different take on things; but not one I will bore anyone with. After a few years in the active duty military, I perhaps see things in a different light. I mourn though with the families and friends and country that has lost so many good people to a group that leaves me in a state of pretty much total disgust. As one little snippet in the bible says, "he that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind". 'Nough said.

A brand new day

Riding BART to San Francisco was rather nice. Seeing the skyline, feeling the cool breeze. There is a day after yesterday. Back to work now on some new stuff awaiting me. Sometimes I define work and other times, to my pleasure and delight, work defines me, consumes me, allows me to get forgotten in hardware and Linux distributions.

Its a time to re-energize, top off the tanks, get involved in yet more interesting projects.

Hellos first!

Hi dsifry and paci! Nice to see you both. Paci, the information you posted not so long ago about Prosa sounds very exciting and challenging! Congrats! dsifry, way to go!

Some very interesting turns of events lately at work; but time always will tell these things, so no speculation from me. Worked for awhile today on getting pretty new video cards like the ATI M6 working. Challenging and fun. It can be done, just takes a bit of work.

I also have been working a bit on some new documentation efforts for our LBT project that we gave away at the LWE. I have some plans to change my little participation a bit to allow better use of the companion tool part of things.

Finally, Intimate on the IPAQ could be said to Rock! I installed this evening on a compaq IPAQ and started using apt-get to get new packages. I could see that the disk (even a 1g microdrive) could fill up rather quick. What with doom and stuff :) dsifry, you must give this a try!

Pretty interesting day today. Beginning of the new NFL Season and a lot of changes in the technology space happening. The HP and Compaq thing seems very interesting. I have never been with a large company that did this but a smaller one I was once with (not Linuxcare :) ), took 3 months to just sort out all the operational issues.

I spent the day playing with my IPAQ running Familiar LInux and the QPE environment. Pretty nifty stuff. There are so many different distributions and looks one can get to. One of the ones I want to try this next week is Intimate Linux running on a IBM Microdrive. You can still boot Familiar Linux but you get a gig to place with! And you can "apt-get" the packages. You can even go to unstable.

At the recent Linux world show we showcased a IPAQ running QPE 1.31 and gave it away at the end. Everyone that saw it seemed pretty positively impressed. I have read a lot of accounts about this year's LWE. Some say "better"; some say "smaller". Others different things. It seemed to me that a few of the usual vendors pulled out and left the show kind of different so to speak.

A little birdie told me that this should be a very interesting week :)

Welcome to me!

Its nice to be here. As I mentioned in my notes, I work at Linuxcare and now work at Linuxcare Labs. I started the Lab out a few years ago and always enjoyed working on certifications, learning more about Linux, finding ways and means to fix things. I had wanted to join advogato for awhile, but I really also enjoy reading the entries of the people I work with and know. I don't know how to use all the tags yet but I've worked with just about all the past and present Linuxcare folks like hacker, dsifry, aftyde, dyork, rasmus... the list goes on and on it seems like.

I have done a bit of development in the past but more recently I have been employed to build scalable architectures and design elements for clients and our own internal engineering projects.

My interests reside in a variety of things. I used to be an archeologist in some past life so I still enjoy reading about what some of my old friends are doing. I like to work and play with Linux and I've been around for a few years with it. Now I do the debian thing but before it was SuSE and RedHat.

Now I focus on doing one day at a time. I never get lost that way unless I miss a day. Its nice to be here.