Marcin Juszkiewicz

Today I started to work at home. Here I use amd64 system powered by Athlon64 3200+ (2GHz) with 1 GB of RAM (64M used by onboard graphics). But it looks like it is not enough to have working system and build in background:

11:11 hrw@home:~$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        962312     949312      13000          0      57664    295256
-/+ buffers/cache:     645772     316540
Swap:       987988       5724     982264

After getting first payment I will upgrade this machine to atleast 2GB of memory…

Planets are online feed aggregators. They fetch RSS from list of configured sources and present them in chronological order.

My website first appeared on Planet Handhelds. This service is nearly forgotten by anyone. I do not even know does it had to be made available as planet.handhelds.org or not.

Next planet was Planet Linux-to-go which was setup as one of services when Linux-to-go was created.

When month ago Planet OpenMoko was created I was asked for feed of my OpenMoko posts. After change in on of plugins used on my website I appeared there. Currently this planet is going to take 1st place in list of top referrers :)

And since yesterday this website is aggregated also on Planet Closed Fist which aggregates post from people from OpenedHand.

Now, when site is aggregated on such sites — how much time it will take to reach 1000 visits per day…

UPDATE: Lot of time passed since I wrote that post. Planet handhelds.org is long time dead (as rest of handhelds.org), Closed Fist just got shut down. In meantime this blog got added to Planet Maemo but today I do not even write about Maemo or Nokia so no new posts there from me. Planet Linaro or Planet Ubuntu are places where my current posts land.

And so far I did not managed to get one thousand visits per day - around two hundred daily is normal with up to 1000 if post is interesting and landed on few planets.

Today is last day of my work for Conecto. I decided to bake a cake for this occassion (to bake something other then bits which I usually bake with bitbake) but oven in our kitchen is hard to control so it got burnt and I decided to not take it to work.

Hopefully there are cake shops around so I will be able to buy something instead.

The OpenMoko Project to “Free Your Phone,” has selected you as one of the few Free and Open Source developers eligible for early access to FIC’s Neo1973.

This means, once we have your shipping details, you will receive a Neo1973 Developer Edition free of cost. Yes: No payment for either product or shipping!

YES!!!

As many of you know I am living in Poznań, Poland. This city has about 600 000 citizens but I will call it ”village”. Why?

We have international airport here (IATA: POZ, ICAO: EPPO) but this is emigration airport rather then travel — most of flights are to Ireland or England which are popular countries for those with emigrate to get better paid job. So if you want to flight to other part of Europe you have to use train/bus/car or other way of transport to get to other airport.

In February I go to Brussels, Belgium to participate in FOSDEM conference. After checking prices and times I chosen to get WizzAir from Warsaw, Poland to Charleroi and then train to Brussels. So it looks like I will go out from home at 12-13 in Friday to be in hotel on 23:30 probably… Return trip is not fun too..

I checked other possibilities. Train to Berlin, flight looks a bit better, also more expensive but return trip suxx too. Looks like next year I will go though London or other city which is reachable from Poznań…

Summary:

• Poznań 13:35 -> Warsaw 16:40 (Express train)
• public transport to airport
• Warsaw 19:20 -> Charleroi 21:20
• Charleroi airport -> Charleroi train -> Brussels — or Charleroi airport 22:30 -> Brussels directly
• fast shower at hotel
• FOSDEM beer party

Today I finally found some time and watched “Empire of Dreams: The Story of the ‘Star Wars’ Trilogy” movie about how original trilogy was filmed. It is a long (2.5 hours) but interesting document which show some funny episods — I like the one when Peter Mayhew was choosen to play Chewbacca.

Where to find this movie? It is on 4th DVD from “Star Wars: DVD edition”. I think that one day I will finally buy it for myself.

Finally we have a winter here — snowing all day, temperature below 0°C… Nice ;)

During weekend Sean Moss-Pultz from FIC/OpenMoko announced long awaited OpenMoko 2007 RoadMap. What this mean to us, developers/users?

1. We finally know when there will be release of phone for developers and when for users.
2. Build environment setup is known.
3. Neo1973 (first phone running OpenMoko) hardware specification is confirmed.

But what this mean to me?

I know about this project since OEDEM 2006 when Mickeyl told us few things about his Super Secret Project™: it will be phone without Irda but with Bluetooth (which was then unknown to be or not in Neo1973), with VGA screen and open source for nearly everything. And the nice part was: everything will be build using OpenEmbedded. About month later there was Open Source in Mobile” conference in Amsterdam where “Mystery Guest” introduced the Neo1973 phone and OpenMoko. First days were interesting — some of us were able to look at OpenMoko source before they discover that WebSVN is not closed ;)

Now I’m waiting for RoadMap Phase 0: Developer Preview. Why? I hope that I am one of those developers which will get Neo1973 phone for free ;D But I also want to look at their sources, look how it works, build it for checking stuff on my desktop or one of palmtops which are on my desk.

Anyway even if I will have to buy this phone during Phase 1: Official Developer Launch then I will gather needed funds and get one to hack, tweak, polish it.

I do not want to miss another popular gadget like I did with Nokia 770…

Wanna see Sean and Neo1973 phone?