J5’s Blog

Back again
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It is refreshing to be home again. Will post about my experiences at LinuxTag later and there is a good debate going on in the comments of my last post that I want to address indirectly by commenting on some of the themes I saw come up. But now I am tired.

Hubert,

I don’t see how it is helpful to knock Python before we can get some real world data on it. In my opinion EOG is largly irrelevant these days which makes it a perfect test case. If Python allows it to become a useful application then that is better than having a useless application written in C. If there are memory problems I belive there are many ways we may be able to trim down the PyGTK modules so that only those parts that are used are ever loaded into memory. I for one want to get through these issues, get some real data and have people stop being affraid from using higher level languages for application development.

Here at LinuxTag IBM is running Fedora Rawhide on their demo cell processor. To think some of the code I wrote is running on brand new hardware! Ok, sure, you could say that they might not have any desktop files on there at all but then I’m not listening . Hehe. Anyway, it would be cool if the PS3 harddisk ships with Fedora. That would be even more news.

The bar crawl was great on Friday night. Met a couple of really cool people including a Canadian girl who gets to do new adventures every year such as learning to sky dive or fly a plane. I ended up going dancing with her and one of the guys who worked for the beer tour. The guy was being such a duchbag we ended up ditching him.

I also met a pre-med student who does rock climbing and lives in Massachusetts. Go figure I would fly half way across the world to find someone I can rock climb with back home. She gets back in the middle of July and wants to show me some of the climbing spots out in western Mass.

Saturday was all about go-cart racing. We went to the burbs of Munich to race these small but peppy vehicles around a track filled with gut renching chicanes. It was almost like being on a rollercoster that you could crash. It was fun but not my type of fun. It gets awfully hot in those helmets and really hard to stay in control. I will tell you one thing, I have a new found respect for what race car drivers must go through. A half an hour of riding go-carts and I was sore as hell.

That night we went to some ex-pat’s going away party at a bar local to my friend’s place. Met a lot of his friends who are all really cool and make me feel I could move here. From the opares to the figure skating instructor to the engineer, there really is a huge diversity in the ex-pat communities. It is something I don’t get quite enough of in the US where most of my friends are Linux developers (who I wouldn’t trade for all the world).

Today was spent at the Olympic Stadium watching the aggressive in-line park competition at the LG Games. A couple of my favorite street skaters were there such as Brian Shima and Chris Haffy. I have to admit while the action was really good I would rather see them in a street competition then in park. Haffy just didn’t throw down the massive tricks he is known for.

After the finals were over we headed down to the English Garden to play some Ultimate Frisbee which is a staple with the ex-pats. Not having eaten much I was gone after ten minutes of play at which point I retired to the sidelines and sucked water from my camel pack.

Tonight it is karaoke, another of the ex-pat’s staples, and then to the Red Hat Munich office in the morning. I’m going to miss my time in Munich but at least I have made some friends and will even see some when I get back to the US in a week. Hopefully Karlsruhe will offer up as much fun in the week to come but it is good I got it out ahead of time since I will be looking to get some work done while I am at the conference.

…sometimes there are complications…

…sometimes you overcome those complications…

…sometimes you overcome those complications and there are other options…

…always keep your cool, just look to have fun and things have a way of working themselves out…

…lets just say things worked out for the best tonight, as they always do….

…I love Munich…

…that’s all.

Arived in Munich around 12:30 yesterday, stowed my luggage as planned and found Mike’s Bike Tours. It was awsome. I highly recomend people going to Munich, Barcelona, Amsterdam or Paris take one of these tours. Our guide was funny and informitive. It is also fun trying to get back on the bike after the hour long trip to the China Beer Garden. I met some really cool people including a girl from Long Island who I need to call the next time I am back to NY. All in all the 4 hours and 23 euro (33 with the beer and food) were well spent.

After the tour I met my friend Aaron at the Hofbrauhouse for another round of beers. I met a bunch of his friends and a couple of canadian girls. We kept trying to get them to say “aboot” (about) the whole night. Being awake for god knows how long (I couldn’t sleep on the plane) finally caught up to me and I started nodding off.

I didn’t wake up until 10:30 the next morning and even then I was really slow. It didn’t really matter since Aaron had to work so I ended up meeting his friend Malora for lunch. Despite her very European sounding name she is actually an American. Met up with Aaron at his apartment around 2 and now we are getting ready to go out again. We are making our way back to Mike’s tours to do the bar crawl tonight at 8. Sorry to say it is not on bikes this time around. Will post more later…

ANNOUNCE: D-Bus 0.34 - On the Road to One Point Oh release

While we are still awhiles away from calling the API stable and marking
it with the much talked about 1.0 moniker this is a major step in that
direction. I am pleased to announce the release of D-Bus 0.34.  Much of
the API and ABI have been set with a few exceptions.

What is left to do is clear out the TODO list, stabilize the bindings,
squash the bugs and get feedback from our major consumers.  The more
people who help out, be it testing or code, the faster we will get
there.

As usual:
http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus-0.34.tar.gz