Texts for friends. Irrelevant stuff.

• Happy Holidays!

  We wish you merry christmas and a prosperous new year!

  Posted on Dec 18.08 to Fun, Handicrafts, LinuxTag   

• 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 [...]

  Posted on Dec 14.08 to Mac   

• 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.

  Posted on Dec 02.08 to Thesis, openSUSE   

• 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.

  Posted on Nov 07.08 to Dead serious, LinuxTag, openSUSE   

• 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.

  Posted on Oct 14.08 to openSUSE   

• Perspektive Open Source

  As some of you may have heard LinuxTag acts as consultant for Messe Munich for Perspektive Open Source within the Systems trade show. My friend and colleague Wolfgang Drotschmann handles all Free Software projects’ booths at the open source pavilion. As a last call for participation I post his announcement again:

  Posted on Sep 29.08 to LinuxTag   

• Deliciously awesome

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

  Posted on Sep 26.08 to Fun, LinuxTag   

• Google’s Android

  This Tuesday I followed Google’s invitation to ICC Munich to their product marketing event err developer days.

  Posted on Sep 25.08 to LinuxTag   

• openSUSE election status update

  A bit longer than four weeks ago the board announced the first openSUSE board election. With the beginning of the next phase of the election process, I would like to give you a short status update.

  Posted on Sep 25.08 to openSUSE   

• Boared in the office?

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

  Posted on Sep 18.08 to Fun, LinuxTag