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Ich bin ein Berliner

To whom it may concern: I finally moved from Hamburg (Wohldorf) into my new flat in Berlin (Friedrichshain).

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Back from LCA

After coming back from my somewhat extended linux.conf.au trip I spent the whole day grepping through email. Only 263 unprocessed emails left in my inbox. Yay. PRTPILU Thanks to the LCA guys, video

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BOSSA 2008

Just three words: awesome awesome awesome. And for those asking for it, here are my slides (http://0pointer.de/public/pulseaudio-bossa-2008.pdf), in which I try to explain the new "glitch-free"

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Updated PulseAudio Plugin for Xine

Quick update for all K-lovers: apply this patch (http://0pointer.de/public/xine-pulse-rework.patch) to xine-lib and enjoy PulseAudio in Amarok and other KDE apps without stability issues. It's a

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Updated PulseAudio Plugin for SDL

Quick update for all game kiddies: apply this patch (http://0pointer.de/public/sdl-pulse-rework.patch) to SDL and enjoy PulseAudio in your favourite SDL based game without buffering issues. It's

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Respect $LC_MESSAGES!

<rant> I really dislike if software ignores my setting of $LC_MESSAGES=C and shows me its UI in German, just because I set $LANG=de_DE. I hate that. I don't want no UI strings in German, the

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GSoC 2008

I am happy that two GSoC (http://code.google.com/soc/2008/) projects got accepted that are related to projects I maintain: • LLMNR Protocol Integration in Avahi

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360° of BOSSA

That's the beach of the Summerville Resort near Porto de Galinhas, Brazil, where the best Free Software conference in existence took place in 2008: INDT's BOSSA Conference

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Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong and Recife

In January/February around FOMS 2008 (http://www.foms-workshop.org/foms2008/) and linux.conf.au (http://linux.conf.au/) I traveled to Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia, together with two fellow

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Dopplr

Until yesterday Ohloh was the only social network site I was a member of. That changed now. I joined DOPPLR (http://dopplr.com/). It's pretty nice. Very Web 2.0, but in the good way. Free Software

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A Sixfold Announcement

Let's have a small poll here: what is the most annoying feature of a modern GNOME desktop? You got three options to choose from: • Event sounds, if they are enabled • Event sounds, if they are

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K lovers and event sounds

OK, before more people complain that I didn't keep the KDE in the loop about all that fancy event sound infrastructure work (http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/sixfold-announcement.html). The complaint

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Linux Plumbers Conference CFP

The Call for Papers (http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/cfp/) for the Linux Plumbers Conference (http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/) in September in Portland is out now. It's a conference about the core

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FOMS 2009 CFP

And here's a another conference CFP (http://www.foms-workshop.org/foms2009/pmwiki.php/Main/CFP), this time for Foundations of Open Media Software 2009 (http://www.foms-workshop.org/foms2009/) (FOMS).

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On Version Control Systems

Here's what I have to say about today's state of version control systems in Free Software: We shouldn't forget that a VC system is just a development tool. Preferring one over the other is nothing

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Being Smart

Last weekend I set myself the task to write an ATA S.M.A.R.T. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.) (i.e. hard disk health monitoring) reader and parser. After spending some time reading all

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