Texts for friends. Irrelevant stuff.
- Changes
Last two month have been very exciting: I finally submitted my thesis and moved to Oxford.
- LinuxTag 2009: Call for Projects
LinuxTag’s philosophy is to promote cooperation between companies and free software projects.
Income from the participation of profit-oriented companies allows LinuxTag to finance a professional platform where open projects can present the broad diversity of free software to the public. LinuxTag is looking for projects to participate in this year’s exhibition. The Call for Projects contains [...]
- Apple iPhone, Adress Book and Google Sync
Google announced yesterday a new service for syncing Gmail contacts and up to five Google calendars with mobile devices, even the iPhone by offering M$ ActiveSync for compatible devices.
- Definite tea gadget
I hope the designer finds a manufacturer for his amazing product. I would by some..
- Submit your proposals for LinuxTag now!
Although LinuxTag is about five months away, you should consider submitting your proposal for a presentation about your favourite Open Source project.
- Happy Holidays!
We wish you merry christmas and a prosperous new year!
- HP Color LaserJet 3600dn an Max OSX 10.5 (Leopard)
After my good old Brother black & white laser printer died some months ago, I decided to buy a HP Color LaserJet 3600dn after a huge market comparison and literary study. I am quite happy with the printer. It is working perfect using CUPS on Linux on all of my favourite distributions out of the [...]
- Seminar on trust for the openSUSE Build Service
A few weeks ago I gave a presentation related to my thesis at Saarland University. The talk mainly presents the chosen algorithm and how we will incorporate it into the openSUSE Build Service.
- My first week with KDE4
Being a Gnome user in my department made me a kind of outsider. Nearly all my colleagues use or even develop KDE. After half a year harassment, I finally decided to switch to KDE4 with my update to openSUSE 11.1 Beta 4.
- More than 50% already casted their vote
After five days (including about one and a half day downtime) more than 50 percent (120/237) of the eligible voters already participated in the openSUSE board election.

