Wojciech Polak's weblog. There Is No Second Place.

I bought a new camera yesterday, Sony DSC-P100 (info). It's very fast and the image quality is excellent.

Unfortunately, the camera is currently not supported by the Linux kernel, so I had to hack the drivers/usb/storage/unusual_devs.h file (v2.4.24) and add the following code:

UNUSUAL_DEV(  0x054c, 0x0010, 0x0500, 0x0500,
		"Sony",
		"DSC-P100",
		US_SC_8070, US_PR_DEVICE, NULL,
		US_FL_SINGLE_LUN | US_FL_MODE_XLATE ),

Now it works fine.

Hacking

I released IMM 0.3 today.

Roadmap to GNU Anubis 4.0

v3.9.95

the maintenance release.
release target: July, 2004.

v3.9.96

will introduce Dixie's new testsuite.
release target: September, 2004.

v3.9.97

after this release, no considerable changes will be added to the CVS repository.
release target: October, 2004.

v3.9.98

after this release, we will focus mainly on removing all critical bugs first.
release target: October, 2004.

v3.9.99

the final test!
release target: November, 2004.

v4.0 is out!

release target: December 15th, 2004.

Playing with my new camera :).

My workplace at home.

I updated the gawk translation (3.1.3l) today. It seems that gawk 3.1.4 will be released soon.

Spent Saturday outside the city.

I recently watched a TV programme on Discovery Channel about traveling around the World using the human power only. The Expedition 360 (formerly known as Pedal for the Planet) launched by Steve Smith and Jason Lewis in 1994 still goes on... It's all very impressive. As far as I know, Jason is currently preparing for the Indonesian leg, and Steve is no more participating in this event. He abandoned the expedition after the Hawaii Hike. Anyway, I watched the episode where they crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a small pedal boat (they are the first to pedal the Atlantic Ocean from East to West). This took them "only" 111 days.

By day 55 we had reached the mid-Atlantic Ridge and were suffering badly from salt sores, chronic tiredness and the mental stresses which build under confinement made worse by constant motion. Imagine a funfair ride which becomes irritating and ultimately nightmarish as it refuses to stop to let you off in order to maintain a positive outlook we opted to avoid depressing fatigues by both sleeping for 8-10 hours every 10 days and leave the boat to drift...

More at www.expedition360.com
and www.goals.com/Expedition360/

Back to libmu_cpp hacking after more than 20 days. Uhm, it's so hard to find enough spare time these days. Anyway, I added the streams support today and now I am able to compile the http.cc (and sfrom.cc already) -- yupie!

I have also some new ideas about GNU Anubis. One of them is the XELO extension, which will improve the remote database access. Another issue is to fix the database plain text format and use the colon separator instead of white spaces. Otherwise it is impossible to omit the 'account' field and it's often necessary to do that. This has a high priority.

The GoneME project seems to be a good idea. I use GNOME 1.4 at home and 2.2 at work (unfortunately I haven't used 2.4 or newer) and I must honestly say that I prefer 1.4 over 2.2. Yes, the 2.x is modern and uses an advanced architecture, much better than 1.4, but it sucks in many other areas, mostly those user-visible. It looks like it has been designed for some computer newcomer. Anyway, I agree with GoneME on some issues, like the button order for example (it's really annoying in 2.x). People, the button order should be easily changeable in the control panel (is it too hard to achieve this?), but unfortunately the whole control panel is very poor.

Meet my cat.

Just a little GNU Robots hacking. Not much. Tired...

Saw an interesting propaganda recently, Fahrenheit 9/11.

Oh, I love the sunsets so much...

My new, upcoming must-see movie is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I saw the trailer and read the good reviews, so I'm really looking forward to seeing it.