Marcin Juszkiewicz

During last days I built OpenZaurus 3.5.4 images for all machines. It took dwo days, 12 gigabytes of disc space but was worth it.

So many users signed for testing — much more then I expected — this release will probably get more testing then any before. I have few tweaks to add anyway but have to test them on own devices first.

Yesterday evening.. I finished watching Highlander trilogy.

Years ago it was “Highlander” at the cinema (later several times in TV) where all that started and at the end there was the only one. Eight years passed and “Highlander III: The Sorcerer” was released and again I watched it at cinema. And finally in 2000 they produced “Highlander: Endgame” movie which give some info why there is no Connor MacLeod in “HighLander” TV serie. Why I missed it before.. probably it was not popular at cinemas in this part of Europe..

Small note for those who think that I missed II part — I do not think that “Highlander II: The Quickening” is a movie about same guys — too much changed from good movie to useless crap.

My home desktop became a bit unstable in last time and I do not have an idea why. The most irritating things is that Linux does not help with it. For example I watch movie and system hangs so badly that even SysRq does not work so I have to reboot. But after reboot I do not have any way to get info what happened (kind of dmesg from hang would be great).

When I used Linux on Amiga there was a tool to search for dmesg in whole memory after reboot. I want it on my x86 box.

I decided to write 2005 timeline to remind what happen in 2005 year.

January

• We were on vacations in Gdańsk. It was cold, I got flu so had to stay at home.. Watched Star Wars Trilogy (DVD version)
• OPIE: patched SysInfo to not show tmpfs mountpoints in Storage tab

February

• Moved to new flat.
• Bought ergonomic Microsoft Natural Keyboard Elite and started using it at work.

March

• Furnished flat.

April

• Bought another ergonomic Microsoft Natural Keyboard Elite (one for home, one for work)
• Started to use wrist brace on my left hand for few weeks.
• Moved homepage to WordPress.
• Richard Jackson donated me Zaurus C760 with some extra stuff.
• Lardman donated me Socket Bluetooth CF card.
• moved OpenZaurus.org website to WordPress (previously it used own system, then Mambo)

May

• My grandmother died…
• We were on vacations in Budziszewo (small village near Poznań).
• Celebrated one year with OpenEmbedded
• StarWars III Episode was released — 00:01 is not best time to be in cinema but it was nice to be one of first who watched this movie in Poland.

June

• I officially became developer in OPIE project.
• [cc]smart donated me Linksys wrt54gs router/AP so I finally was able to use DLink CF WiFi card which I got with Zaurus C760
• Started using OpenWRT distribution on router. I planned to replace it with OpenEmbedded based distro but lack of time…
• OPIE: changed hardcoded fontsize in Checkbook into option.
• OPIE: fixed checking of birthdays and anniversaries in Today.

July

• I got engaged to Ania!
• We were on vacations at my parents in Olecko.
• Bought digital camera: Konica Minolta E500.
• OPIE: Made Security PIN plugin resizable.
• OPIE: Removed hardcoded fontsize from Date/Time prefs, Checkbook graphs.

August

• We (Ania & I) were in Slovakia (Liptovsky Mikulas) on holidays. We visited local caves as weather was not good to go into the mountains (foggy peaks). During those tours I got a flu again in the year.. I bought ‘Da Vinci Code’ book there — it was my first book in English which I read.
• OPIE: usability fixes for Light & Power prefs.

September

• Wrote OPIE Notes (based on NoteZ)
• Stylus which I used in Zaurus C760 fall from table and lost a tip. I had to buy new one — 3in1 from PDAir.
• OPIE: fixed hardcoded fontsize in Date popup selector.
• OPIE: removed hardcoded fontsize from Wellenreiter.

October

• Started work on CompactFlash database — project failed due to lack of time ;(
• OPIE: added option for switching scrollbar into OPIE Console.
• OPIE: added option for configure icon sizes into Appearance prefs.
• OPIE: fixed Button settings to apply changes without restart.
• OPIE: fixed Backup and Restore to show list of backups to restore on start.

November

• Moved bookmarks to del.icio.us service.
• OPIE: made ‘activate’ to be default choice in PCMCIA applet (instead of ‘suspend’) as it is less confusing that way

December

• Got 1G SecureDigital card from greentux — too bad that my main Zaurus cannot use it (nevermind which kernel I use).
• OPIE: made Bluetooth PIN dialog resizable.

HNY… 10 years ago I had Amiga 600 and got ‘Happy New Year 96’ virus with some software. It was simple virii but from time to time I had system crashes which was not there before. I remember how I disassembled it and wrote my first Amiga util.. It was simple ‘antivirus’ app which read infected file and replaced some viri code by jumps to not get it initialized. It was simple, slow, written in Pascal but it worked ;)

Happy New Year for all!

Po długich poszukiwaniach i oczekiwaniu wczoraj dotarło do nas zamówione łóżko. Trzeba przyznać, że 220 cm długości robi swoje — no ale w końcu normy ergonomii mówią, że łóżko powinno być 30 cm dłuższe od osoby nań leżącej.

Teraz muszę się przyzwyczaić do faktu, że nogi mi nie zwisają..

UPDATE: niestety łóżko było wykonane badziewnie więc nadal szukamy — te zwróciliśmy.

After upgrading Wordpress to current nightly I looked on older posts and remind post about getting Zaurus C760. Like teletubbie wrote:

Hmmm, when hrw gets the 760 device mentioned by Richard, then it will mean that it will be harder for me to resist a 7xx device in future, since this would mean really a value add to OZ support on these devices.

I did lot of changes to way how OPIE works on c7x0 (and other hires) devices. Version 1.2.1 (which will be released with OpenZaurus 3.5.4) has many size fixes and there are rumours that 1.2.2 will be released in spring due to my changes ;)

Foxylicious extension was lately updated to Firefox 1.5 so finally I have all my del.icio.us bookmarks integrated with browser.