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Deliciously awesome

mjung — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:00:35 +0000

Quendor’s success story on baking hist first muffins reminded me of two interesting blogs I have read some days ago.

First I would recommend reading ‘Cupcakes take the Cake‘ at Blogspot. They are very creative and I hope the cakes are also as delicious as they are beautiful. Eventually we can design a special LinuxTag design as desert for next year’s LinuxNacht?

Boared in the office?

mjung — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:58:39 +0000

Everyone remembers the EepyBird’s Mentos and Diet Coke experiments. Here is their latest idea: The Sticky Note experiment.

(Eepybird on Vimeo.)

Unboxing2

mjung — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:58:33 +0000

After watching this video, you really want to have this smart phone:

I follow the frog!

mjung — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:15:56 +0000

This weekend will be the third edition of one of my favourite conferences in Germany: FrOSCon.

FrOSCon is a two day conference on Free Software and Open Source, taking place for the third time on August, 23rd/24th 2008 at the Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in Sankt Augustin near the cities of Bonn and Cologne.

I was asked to give a presentation on my research I am doing for my thesis. Please join me on Sunday at 11:15 in lecture room HS5 on my talk “Who can you trust - a trust metric for the openSUSE build service”. I will present my concept for integrating a community contributed user rating into the OBS to support collaboration and improve security in this distributed package building system.

Besides this you can find me most of the time at the openSUSE community booth in the exhibition area. I am looking forward to see you there!

Update: many LinuxTag core team members will be around. As far as I know you also can meet Elke, Florian, Guido, Michael, Oliver and Wolfgang this weekend in Sankt Augustin.

openSUSE @ FrOSCon - call for volunteers

mjung — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:54:23 +0000

In about four weeks a quite nice free and open source conference (FrOSCon) will open it’s doors for the third time and in my opinion openSUSE should not be missed there.

Hence I asked the organizers if they can provide the openSUSE project some space for an openSUSE booth and generously they agreed to this. Now I am looking for volunteers from the openSUSE community to support me driving the booth. You should have solid knowledge on openSUSE, be an outgoing personality and enjoy to share your know how with visitors.

To get an impression how much fun FrOSCon will be, have a look at more than 600 photos from the initial two events at flickr. I know no other event that offers for example a bouncing castle, free drinks for pre-registered visitors and a 5 Euro Kölsch-Flatrate at the social event.

If you have some spare time during the weekend on August, 23rd to 24th and would like to come to Sankt Augustin (nearby Bonn/Germany), you should not miss the possibility to participate at one of the coolest free software events in Germany. So hurry up and drop me a few lines and add yourself to the event coordination page in the openSUSE wiki. Thank you for supporting openSUSE!

Fussball-Weisheit des Tages

mjung — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:38:24 +0000

Ich hoffe, daß die deutsche Mannschaft auch in der 2. Halbzeit eine runde Leistung zeigt, das würde die Leistung abrunden… Günther Netzer

Firefox’s homage to Battlestar

mjung — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:19:26 +0000

I really like Easter eggs, cheat codes, intros and all to other fun stuff coders and hackers add to their work.

The latest one I encountered whilst searching for some hints how to tweak Firefox to behave like I want it to is a nice homage to robots and Battlestar Galactica. Please see about:robots

And they have a plan.

Fussball-Weisheit des Tages

mjung — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:05:40 +0000

“Die Kroaten sollen ja auf alles treten, was sich bewegt - da hat unser Mittelfeld ja nichts zu befürchten.” Berti Vogts

Fundstück der Woche

mjung — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:21:29 +0000

Last weekend Susanne brought me an interesting present from UK:

Even I just converted back to openSUSE, I really enjoyed my first Ubuntu - UK’s first fairtrade cola!

We tried lots of different recipes to get exactly the flavor we were looking for. A classic cola with a little extra edge to it. We wanted a cola with personality and a great flavor that people would love to drink. We took the recipes to lots of people in London, Birmingham, Bristol and Manchester and eventually everyone agreed we had found the right one. That’s the great taste of Ubuntu.

(Quote taken from Ubuntu Trading Company Ltd.’s website.)

Disclaimer: Ubuntu Cola is not affiliated with the Linux distribution Ubuntu.

Lazy service

mjung — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:38:18 +0000

What happenes if the service at my favourite beergarden is lazy and my colleagues are in the right mood to start playing around?

I proudly present the first proove that the Bieramyde is not only a mysterious tale:

Picture credits: Martin ‘notlocalhorst’ Lasarsch