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Es ist vollbracht!

Yes, finally Linux 2.6.19 (http://www.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0215ffb08ce99e2bb59eca114a99499a4d06e704) has been released. So you wonder why is

Interlocking Quadrilaterals

As promised (http://0pointer.de/blog/chasing-light.html), here's a stencil drawing of the Mexican-style IQ Lamp: .ps (http://0pointer.de/public/iqlamp.ps), .svg

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Unique Eyebrows

Dear American People, I guess you'll find businesses selling unique eyebrow designs only in god's own country: And what does "unique" mean? Do their customers get two different designs for their

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San Francisco

As a followup to my Windows of Barcelona (http://0pointer.de/static/windows) series I prepared Windows of San Francisco (http://0pointer.de/static/windows-sf): A few other series : • Adjazenz

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Das Leben der Anderen

German movies are usually not my thing - I don't like the topics, I don't like the scripting, I don't like the acting, I don't like the actors, I don't like the drama and I don't like the humor. (Ok,

One last followup

A small, final followup on the blog stories (http://0pointer.de/blog/mexico-lamp.html) about the mexican style (http://0pointer.de/blog/chasing-light.html) IQ Light

FOMS 2007/Linux.conf.au 2007

On Wed, January 17th, I will be speaking at linux.conf.au 2007 (http://lca2007.linux.org.au/talk/211) about the PulseAudio sound server (http://pulseaudio.org/). Before that, on Mon January 15th, I

Good Morning, Freedom Lovers!

On popular request, the slides of my PulseAudio talk at linux.conf.au 2007 (http://lca2007.linux.org.au) are now available for download

IQ in the Movies

The (original) IQ Light (http://0pointer.de/blog/iq-light-final.html) is featured in the stylish and funny Hollywood movie Lucky Number Slevin (http://imdb.com/title/tt0425210/): Related to this,

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IQ Light Mania

As promised (http://0pointer.de/blog/iq-in-the-movies.html) here's a gallery (http://0pointer.de/photos/?gallery=Mexican%20IQ) of better quality photos of a mobile made from mexican style IQ lights.

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Avahify Your Application!

It has never been easier to add Zeroconf service discovery support to your GTK application! The upcoming Avahi 0.6.18 (http://avahi.org/) will ship with a new library libavahi-ui which contains a

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FOMS/LCA Recap

Finally, here's my linux.conf.au 2007 (http://lca2007.linux.org.au/) and FOMS 2007 (http://www.annodex.org/events/foms2007/) recap. Maybe a little bit late, but better late then never. FOMS was a

Selling my Nokia 770

I was one of the lucky ones to get a Nokia N800 developer discount code, and am now a proud owner of one of these toys. Thus I decided to sell off my old Nokia 770 at Ebay.de

No GSoC for Avahi

As it seems, the Avahi project (http://avahi.org/) has not been accepted as Google Summer of Code (http://code.google.com/soc/) organization, much like the GStreamer project

Piles of Paper

As an experiment to test how much people are willing to pay for big big pile of old paper, I am selling my collection of old editions of the german computer magazine c't

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What's going on with LinuxTag?

Does anybody know what's going on with LinuxTag (https://www.linuxtag.org/2007/)? I submitted a presentation proposal a few months ago. I haven't yet received an email whether my talk has been

I Am Free Again!

Es ist vollbracht! Today, at 10:54 am -- 66 min before deadline -- I handed in my diploma thesis [1]. In a few weeks time you may call me Diplom-Informatiker... Herr Diplom-Informatiker. That's all.

Releases, Releases, Releases ...

I have just released new versions of a few of my packages: • Avahi 0.6.18 (http://avahi.org/): The most interesting change is probably the addition of avahi-ui, our new GTK library which

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Avahi on your N800

I'd love to see proper Avahi support in the Nokia N800 (just think of proper file manager integration of announced WebDAV shares!), but until now Nokia doesn't ship Avahi in Maemo. However, there's

What I miss in GNOME

A while back there has been a lot of noise about the GNOME "platform" and what GNOME 3.0 should be. Personally -- while I certainly like the progress GNOME makes as a "platform" -- I must say that