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2016 started so it is a good moment for post about previous year. I did that every year except last one (for several reasons).

January

• After sorting out hardware issues I started X11 on AArch64. On old, crappy Matrox G550 card but it was a start. Now I use Radeon HD5450 and have 2D/3D acceleration ;D
• Became “proven packager” in Fedora which means that I can commit changes to any package there.
• One of my friends asked for Realtek 8029 (10Mbps Ethernet card) for his retro machine. I asked few people and ended with sending 20kg package to Piotr. Few computers, hard drives, optical drives, floppy drives, few GB of memory of different type etc. But no RLT8029…
• Managed to visit some strange places just because I drove with Google Maps in the night… It does not handle “turn around and drive back” method ;(

February

• Bought LG G3 phone as my Nexus 5 was driving me nuts. Few months later I got new N5 from Google (sold it to friend), replaced battery in broken one and gave it to my wife.
• Attended FOSDEM (again) and Devconf.cz conferences. Walked a lot thought Brno, visited Red Hat Czech office where I met few coworkers.
• Sold Wandboard Quad board.
• Linaro announced 96boards project and presented HiKey. I wrote few words about it and have to admit that I am still sceptical when it comes to this project.
• Ate burger in a doughnut on Fat Thursday. Interesting, tasty. Hope to repeat one day.

March

• Visited Hannover, Germany to play Ingress. Lot of fun and driving.
• Pinkiepie (APM Mustang, my AArch64 devmachine) needed 7 minutes to boot due to some PCI error ;D

April

• Attended Open Source Day conference in Warsaw. Nice hallway track talks — especially one with IBM guy about POWER8 and ppc64le.
• I was asked “How do you run VMS on AArch64???” few times after I wrote how to run virtual machines on Fedora/AArch64. All because of url ;D

May

• Started playing Resources game. After few days made page with some helpers ;D
• Bought new tablet — Lenovo S8 (Intel Atom powered, Android). Was good decision.
• Saw amazing demo called “8088 MPH” which requires real IBM 5160 PC with CGA. Now I have CGA at home but still not PC/XT machine.
• This month we got something more enterprise with AArch64 support — CentOS/AArch64. So I had to test and post about it.
• Fedora 22 got released with working AArch64 installer.

June

• Visited Poznań, Poland to play Ingress. Lot of fun and meetings with old friends.
• As Flock (Fedora conference) was in USA I started planning my US/CA vacations.
• Made use of Minnowboard Max board and finished “media player for my wife” project. Runs Ubuntu 15.10 with Kodi. Controlled with one of those wireless remotes.
• RHEL Server for ARM Development Preview was announced and my AArch64 work became available in yet another distribution.
• First set of leaks of Huskey board arrived so I wrote about it. It was officially announced some time later but even now it is not available.

July

• Vacations part I. Took my daughter for a trip. Visited dinosaurs park, some old castles and visited family. While we were in Olecko I added set of Ingress missions there. Doing them was fun 😉
• Visited one retro computing event.

August

• Vacations part II. First Reykjavík, Iceland for a day — met local Ingress players, visited what was possible in short amount of time. Then Boston/Cambridge/Salem, Massachusetts for nearly a week — again lot of walking. Met Jon Masters, drank some crazy “beer with ice cream shake” and had lot of fun.
• Next was Flock conference in Rochester, NY. Lot of Fedora people from USA/Canada who never went for European conferences. Played “Cards against humanity” — have to finally buy a set.
• Then Niagara Falls, Canada for 24 hours. Crazy trip, lot of photos, free flu ;D
• Toronto was fun as well. Went for few interesting walking trips, visited local hackerspace. Even had good beer!
• Created table with syscall number for different architectures — contact me if it needs updates.
• Found out why XServer does not start automatically on AArch64 with PCIe gfx card and digged into it again and again.

September

• Visited “Riverwash” demoscene party in Kraków, Poland.
• Week with AArch64 as a desktop machine: day one, day two, last day. We are not there yet.
• Few posts “from a diary of AArch64 porter”: POSIX.1, PAGE_SIZE, VFP precision.
• Google released Pixel C — first laptop-like device with AArch64. Too expensive for development machine.

October

• Visited “Retrokomp” event and “Load Error” demoscene party in Gdańsk, Poland. Saw next set of old Polish computers. Time to switch to computers from 50-70s as retro ;D
• Hacked broken USB cable to be power/reset buttons for APM Mustang.

November

• Visited Hamburg, Germany to play Ingress. Lot of fun and driving. Met Alexander Sack under his house just after he left home for a smoke ;D
• Passed ten thousand of visited portals in Ingress. After two and half year of playing.
• Went for Microsoft Expert Summit conference and then for Jesień Linuksowa (“Linux Autumn”). Why me on MS one? Friend had a talk there and we were sharing a car 😉
• RHEL Server for ARM 7.2 Development Preview got released
• Wrote short note why Fedora 23 does not support several popular boards.
• Got Roseapple/Pi developer board. 3.10 kernel only, ancient U-Boot, no signs of any activity. Went to drawer.

December

• Bought myself a TV set. Then hacked it to work with my bluetooth headphones so I can watch movies when other people sleep ;D
• After few years switched theme on blog.

Another year so time for summary post. Mostly spent around AArch64. Changed job. But let go with usual month-by-month style.

January

• XTerm on AArch64 before anyone else got X11 working ;D Few months passed and we got that stuff merged and provided by other distributions.
• Samsung tried to hire me but I refused. Would feel bad working in a company which ignores external developers so often.
• Published my script to easy boot of AArch64 models. Current version supports also UEFI boot.

February

• FOSDEM 2013 of course. Had interesting chat with Peter Robinson from Fedora about ALSA UCM profiles. Took me few months but in May I finally sent them and got it merged. So now all distributions should be able to ship them.
• Retired my old Dell D400 — Ania got Acer netbook instead.
• Spent more time with Chromebook. From testing Chrubuntu install script to Ubuntu updates and real life usage.

March

• My blog is now EU cookie crap compliant.
• Visited Hong Kong again for Linaro Connect Asia. Nice city, good conference. Hint: if you go for street shopping wait for seller to give price and start from 20-40% of it.

April

• Spent Easter in alternative way — visited Revision demoscene party. Awesome it was and I plan to do it again.
• Wrote my last work on OpenGL ES for Chromebook. Do not ask again cause you will get that link anyway.
• Moved from Archos G9 80 Turbo to Nexus 7. Another upgrade probably during this year. Maybe LG Pad 8″ this time?
• BeagleBone got upgrade so I wrote a post about BeagleBone Black compared to R/Pi. Lot of hate from R/Pi community but also around four thousand visits on one day. This time my blog survived without problems 😉

May

• Left Linaro for good due to end of Canonical<>Linaro contract. This also meant leaving Canonical as I did not want to work there. You may want to read my post from start of May and my good bye Linaro one as well.
• First discussion with Red Hat about job opportunities.
• Visited UK for pleasure. London and Cambridge this time. I saw lot of interesting places, did several beers with local friends. Good spent time.
• Sent ALSA UCM profiles and got it merged. One thing less for distributions to carry.

June

• The “we pay you but do not require you to do any work” month at Canonical. Nice move from their side.
• Visited Pixel Heaven in Warsaw. There was lot of different old computers. One of them was Acorn Archimedes so I was able to play with really old ARM cpus 😉
• Started playing Ingress because I had 2 hours to return train…
• Spent some time on Arch Linux ARM forums and found some nice hints for Chromebook usage. Also U-Boot for SPI flash…
• Wrote post about ARM history which got shared in many places.

July

• Another set of calls with Red Hat. Then some paperwork needed to be done.
• Made to L8 in Ingress ;D
• Played with mainline kernels on Chromebook but went back to 3.4 one to get better hardware support.

August

• Got hired by Red Hat as Senior Software Engineer. My wife joked that next position would be Retired Software Engineer ;D
• Vacations continued.

September

• Started work at Red Hat by moving Chromebook to Fedora. Then moved main desktop to “rawhide”. After few months I can say that distribution is ok but there are many tools which I miss from Debian including packaging UI manager.
• Visited SmartDevCon conference. And won Samsung Galaxy S4 (GT-9505) cellphone. TouchWiz suxx very badly.
• Moved Chromebook to U-Boot -> NV U-Boot -> Kernel way of booting. This allows me to drop into bootloader and do whatever I need there. One day I will finally get rid of first U-Boot…
• Moved from Xen instance to raw hardware for hosting. Atom N2800 is not a rocket but more than enough for my needs.
• Suspended my consulting company as I am hired directly now.

October

• My father died.

November

• Got Python3 working on AArch64. There were many other packages as well but this one I remember ;D
• Wrote 2nd part of AArch64 porter diary to complain about some build/packaging issues. First part is also online.

December

• Started merging my stack of AArch64 related patches into Fedora. And into upstream of course. Lot of issues it gave.
• Got Qt5 nearly complete on AArch64. Still have to get QtWebKit part done but it is close. Good part is that all my patches do not require any contribution agreement papers.

It was quite good year. Changed job from interesting one at Linaro to also interesting one at Red Hat. Still work on AArch64 porting stuff but this time I have access to real hardware so it goes faster.

Another year passed. It was busy one with some job related turbulence… But let me start.

January

• Made short research to find out which Android tablet to buy. Month later I bought Archos 80 G9 Turbo.

February

• Linaro Connect in Redwood City (San Francisco area) was great event. The walk to Golden Gate was one of best parts of whole trip. Too bad that I decided to not stay for ELC which was few days after — most of US OpenEmbedded developers were there…
• Went to New York City on return trip. 36 hours is far too small amount of time to visit this town… Met guys from Bug Labs 😉
• Skipped FOSDEM for second time ;(
• I bought that Archos 80 G9 Turbo tablet. Most often self asked question during next months was “why???” — it feels slower than my Nexus S… But my daughter likes it as she has some games, books and films on it.
• My howto about flashing U-Boot on Efika MX Smartbook got re-used somewhere on Genesi website as many people found it useful.

March

• Joined MOTU team in Ubuntu. Not that I use that often…
• Due to amount of spam about Raspberry/Pi I wrote a post why I am not interested in R/Pi. I suggested BeagleBone instead.
• Published last version of cross compilers for ‘oneiric’ release of Ubuntu.
• Wrote post about cross compilation of ARM kernels under Ubuntu 12.04. It is still one of most popular posts.
• Went to AmiWawa meeting. Lot of friends from old Amiga times…

April

• Easter. Family etc.
• Attended local Ubuntu release party.

May

This was busy month — just one weekend for family ;(

• Ubuntu Developer Summit in Oakland (San Francisco area again). Did some sight-seeing, went to cinema — had good spent time. As usual did some shopping at Amazon 😉
• Attended Tizen Developers Conference as it was just 2 stops from UDS/Q hotel. And some friends from Maemo times were there. And there was great social event on Tuesday…
• Got Tizen Developer Platform device, played a bit with it and wrote few words about it. Few months later I sent this brick to some guy in Norway — maybe he will do something interesting with it.
• At end of month I went to Hong Kong…

June

• There was Linaro Connect q2.12 at Hong Kong. For me it was first visit in Asia. Did some sight-seeing but hope to see more in March 2013 when Linaro Connect Asia will take place at same hotel.
• ARMv8 related work started.

July

• New stuff, old tools. Or in other words: started using OpenEmbedded again. This time some preparations for ARMv8 work — created some images and Jenkins jobs to build them. Few months later we switched architecture and fun started.
• Also unbricked my SheevaPlug after my friend’s play. Now it is un-bootable again ;D

August

• Spend few weeks on holidays. Good time it was.
• Some people assigned by Canonical to work on Linaro went back and left our teams. I was on a list too, but convinced management that ARMv8 work may need my skills ;D

September

• Applied for Debian Maintainer. Got accepted some time later.
• Attended SmartDev Conference. I was member of programme committee. Nice event it was. Also met some old friends there 😉
• Started ARMv8 work in OpenEmbedded. First with some internal patches so I could not tell too much about progress. And there were sad moments due to that — like when I cross compiled first programs but had to wait 2 more weeks before could say that in public…
• Wrote two posts about ARM devices and why I am not interested in anything below Cortex-A9 ones. This time it was more polite than similar post from 2011.

October

• ARMv8 sprint in Cambridge. During that week Linaro published glibc patches for AArch64 so I was able to finally share my work with outside world. And as usual met some old friends 😉
• 3 weeks later everyone was able to run ARMv8 binaries.
• Also that month there was decision made that I will move to Canonical at beginning of December. Everything was setup so I sent farewell e-mail to everyone at Linaro. But later it got reverted and I will probably never know why and who made that decision.
• Went to Copenhagen for Canonical internal event to meet the team which I planned to join. Got lot of information about company plans which I am not allowed to talk about.
• Another Ubuntu Developers Summit took place.
• Also Linaro Connect q3.12 started.
• And Google + Samsung announced new, ARM based, Chromebook. So I bought one ;D

November

• During Linaro Connect Andrew Wafaa gave me my Chromebook and I managed to get Ubuntu running on it. Lot of help came from Olof Johansson — without him it would be much harder work. Managed to fry speakers ;(
• Then I went to Barcelona for ELC/E and Yocto developers day. Met friends, had lot of fun.
• Got BeagleBone and The Fish River Island 2 devices. Still did not booted second one.
• Spent few days at Palamos, Spain. Lovely time to relax after 3 weeks of conferences — thanks to Zygmunt Krynicki and his wife.
• Did last update of cross compilers for Ubuntu. Looks like Matthias Klose will take care of them now.

December

• My sister gave birth to two daughters! So now I am uncle at my part of family as well 🙂
• Created project and team at Launchpad to unite people hacking on ARM Chromebook support. Mailing list is not so used but we got some bugs and first set of packages. So if you have such device and use Ubuntu on it… join us! If you use other distribution then also join us 😉
• Snapdragon S4 Plus APQ8060A based DragonBoard arrived on my desk. Waits in queue…
• Got own kernel working on Chromebook. It is now available in PPA.
• Went to Silly Venture demoscene party. It was Atari event. Awesome one!

What will 2013 bring? There will be some changes, new projects, devices… But I will write about them at proper time.

What did 2010 brought? Again new job — this time for Canonical as part of Linaro project. Visited few events, got some new devices…

January

• created first version of my BeagleBoard extension board – there were few versions later. Cheap USB hubs are essential part of such setup. With BeagleBoard xM such boards are not needed — but I never owned such board.
• complained about age of Maemo5 developer tools but in the end I used them cause MaemoSDK virtual image was easiest way for me
• tried to create repository with updates for Maemo5 but idea failed

February

• got e-mail from Christian Robottom ‘kiko’ Reis with offer of working for Canonical — it was second time when this company wanted to hire me and this time I accepted.
• FOSDEM as usual — will be there in 2011 as well
• created interesting video showing history of OpenEmbedded — few hours of rendering but result was nice
• Nokia and Intel started MeeGo — lot of time passed and still no phones with it (and just few other devices)…

March

• BUG 2.0 prototype arrived at my desk with set of modules — I did sent it back few months later
• had long discussion with Dave ‘prpplague’ Anders about some new OMAP based developer board. I gave some suggestions based on my experience and got added to early adopters list. Some months later this board got name: PandaBoard.
• tried to migrate Sheevaplug to Debian — SD card died ;(

April

• started working for Canonical — just to get informations on first days that I will work for Linaro directly
• wrote long post about features of good developer board — too many people asked me about it before…

May

• attended Ubuntu Developers Summit for first time. Thanks to Eyjafjallajökull volcano I became more familiar with German railway system ;D Event was good but I was a bit lost there.
• existence of PandaBoard was confirmed officially by Texas Instruments developers. We went for dinner later and I got added to early adopters list for second time ;D
• bought new laptop: ASUS UL30A to replace ageing Dell D400. Works nice, 8h on battery is good thing to have. During UDS-M I was able to work all day without having to use power supply.

June

• LinuxTag 2010 — never again going to just one day… Whole event or not at all — otherwise it is waste of time.
• switched from NVidia Geforce to AMD Radeon — Twinview was not comfortable for my dual monitor setup. HD5450 was mistake — XVideo and OpenGL started working few months later in experimental releases…

July

• attended Ubuntu/Linaro Platform Sprint in Prague. Nice event, interesting discussions — especially those with Nicolas Pitre about his previous work.
• Commodore Amiga ended 25 years — I did not celebrated it specially due to weekend in Prague with wife but otherwise I would attend some Amiga fans event.
• provided my first cross toolchain packages for Ubuntu
• had a bit of thoughts which resulted in “I am old fashioned” opinion 😉

August

• holidays
• due to ISP failure I played a bit with doing Internet access by GPRS with Nokia N900. Worked fine.

September

• my work on cross toolchain for Ubuntu got into next stage — bootstrapping
• started hacking ApMeFo (menu organizer for Maemo5) — UI was disaster but I got it to behave better. Some time later I decided to abandon it. But my version is available in Extras-devel repository.
• wrote funny letter to fsck

October

• attended Ubuntu Developers Summit — this time it was much better event from my perspective as I was prepared for it.
• switched to coreboot on Alix.1c — boot time difference is huge. This machine also replaced my old Linksys WRT54GS which I got several years ago.
• got Efika MX Smartbook from Genesi — interesting ARM netbook but just 512MB ram ;(
• PandaBoard started shipping to selected people which started discussion about PB being Beagleboard killer

November

• my own PandaBoard arrived and I started discussion which got deep into Texas Instruments teams: how to detect PB version. Board got 320GB SerialATA disk and is running Ubuntu 11.04. As this was rare hardware at that time few guys from Linaro got shell accounts there to do their tests.
• debug board for Efika MX Smartbook arrived — my blog post was edited a bit and posted somewhere on Genesi website (with my permission).

December

• decided about next cellphone operating system — I am going to Android. Especially after I read that Nokia abandoned Maemo5.

In 2011 I should try to write timeline month after month (but release at end of year). It is hard to remind all things which I did not blogged about. 2011 was also year of Twitter use for me — so follow me there if you want more informations then just blog 🙂 I also have FaceBook account but I select who I connect with.

The end of 2009 is ended. Was it good year? For me it is hard to tell…

January

• got Atmel AT91SAM9263-EK — my first own developer board. I used it to test most of my images during 2009.
• moved Zaurus to drawer — no need for it anymore as I have better platform to test stuff on (ok, VGA > QVGA but on-board ethernet is nicer then wifi)

February

• FOSDEM — this year I was there and as always it was worth to be there.
• got own branches on Poky Linux git server to get easier way to contribute
• Koala Nano PC joined my devices and started discussion “is hdparm good for testing devices”. Now I know that it was not good choice. Maybe one day I will run better set of benchmarks.
• offered serial cables for BUG device for free — sent few during year. Now new BUGbase uses iPod connector so Handylink cables are useful only for JTAG.
• played a bit with syncing mobile devices and failed. OpenSync really needs new stable release.

March

• celebrated 5 years of working with OpenEmbedded — quite long time since Zaurus SL-5500…
• new interesting devices appeared on a market. I was considering buying TouchBook but after playing with 8.9″ netbooks decided against — I need bigger keys.

April

This was month of getting new toys:

• bought Citroën C3 car. Small one this time.
• BeagleBoard B7 arrived and got small case. I never finished it because I have 3 BB now.
• AVR32 powered Atmel NGW100 was next.
• then I found Cirrus Logic EDB9301 covered by dust in my friend’s office. Crappy board but it gave me possibility to hack on toolchain a bit when I was merging EP93xx changes from Martin Guy. And due to that I got Sim.One board few months later.

And they forced me to do some hardware updates:

• replaced my multi I/O card with other one — lost parallel port, gained 4 additional serials.
• bought and adapted 200W ATX PSU to power all those devices

May

• sheevaplug arrived — now it is my BitTorrent, IRC, Samba, NFS server. And of course it runs Ångström not Ubuntu (which was preinstalled). Friend recently shown me his industrial adaptation of sheeva — amazing stuff.
• wrote my (rather negative) opinion on Nokia N900 — did not know that they will offer me discount.

June

• LinuxTAG — this year I won BeagleBoard from Texas Instruments.
• Palm Pre SDK has leaked and I took a look at it under Linux (by copying from MS Windows environment). Some time later they released newer version which worked better under Linux.
• played a bit with netbooks/laptops and tried to write some kind of summary of things which define good laptop. Still use my Dell D400 anyway.
• merged EP93xx toolchain updates into OE — prefer to not having to do toolchain adaptations

July

• got offer from ST-Ericsson company to give a talk during their workshop
• wrote summary of my thoughts about Contacts application — Maemo5 has is quite nicely done but still many things from my post are not there.
• updated my Atmel board to 2.6.30 kernel and got everything (except CAN bus) working. It was nice improvement.
• hacked Connman UI for QVGA as we use it on a BUG and original version was not usable. Whole work done by changing GTK+ application when I never spent time on learning how it works.

August

• NHK-15 board arrived from ST-Ericsson. It is nice board with interesting features. Too bad that there is no kernels newer then 2.6.20 for it (to make full use of it).
• T-Com W500V arrived — I bought it to have VoIP functionality with normal analog phone. Need to move it to my room probably as it is too unstable to be used over WiFi 🙁

September

• Finally we found time for some vacations and visited my parents. It was nicely spent time.
• new BUGbase available worldwide — this one has WiFi, Bluetooth inside so not need for BUGwifi module. And no more HandyLink as iPod connector took it place. Too bad that BUGdock is not possible to buy (FCC not certified etc).
• got third BeagleBoard — this time from Texas Instruments Germany. I think that I won it during LinuxTag.

October

• I am officially OpenEmbedded e.V. member now
• Embedded Linux Conference Europe took place in Grenoble, France. I was invited by ST-Ericsson company as their guest. Had a talk about “Hacking with OpenEmbedded” which had good audience and discussion.
• ST-Ericsson Community Workshop was one day before ELC-E. I had a long talk about Poky Linux and OpenEmbedded in relation to NHK-15 board.
• on last evening in Grenoble I got email from Quim Gil about Nokia N900 discount. Too bad that it was not day before as I met few people with this device during ELC-E.
• wrote small note about using packages on embedded systems — it is really easy and takes lot of things from todo lists.
• changed theme on blog to Carrington one

November

• OEDEM 2009 took place is Cambridge, UK. We had OpenEmbedded e.V. meeting, discussed many things and this time we sent summaries of it quite fast.
• Richard Purdie released new version of Poky ‘pinky’ which included all changes done by BugLabs company. Most of them were written by me or cherry-picked from development version of Poky or OpenEmbedded.
• Got new client and as they are using Poky I am back on Poky Linux development again.
• After 8 years of no new apps development I started Protracker module player using Qt. One source works on my desktop and under Maemo5 SDK. Still need to finish it and create new UI for tablet devices as normal one is not usable.
• Got Sim.One board — EDB9301 moved to deprecated.
• Ordered Nokia N900 from DDP — got it after 4 weeks.
• Played a bit with Maemo5 SDK to check how Maemo5 look and how people are supposed to develop for it. Scratchbox sucks totally.

December

• Nokia N900 arrived and I have to admit that it is quite nice device. Software is not so nice — already filled some bug reports.
• After few days of playing I sent N900 back to DDP — there were bad pixels on screen.

2008 is ending. As before it was very good year. I have very nice daughter, our family has new flat. My company has clients with interesting projects.

January

• Bought Nokia N810 tablet. Had to do this in UK store because Nokia does not sell them in Poland.
• Released “Hrw Big blue” — my version of “Big blue” WordPress theme. No support any more for it as I stopped using it.

February

• My daughter Mira was born — she is cute 😉
• I bought car — Opel Astra combi 1997 is more then enough for us.
• Donated my old collie to Thomas Kunze to help improving Linux 2.6 support on this small beast.
• Created Polish regional settings package for Maemo OS2008. It also shown some bugs in Maemo itself.
• Wrote my palmtops story which require updating as I have few devices more now.
• Offered Zaurus c7x0 leather case for free. No one wanted it ;(
• Wrote few WordPress plugins: Recent Comments and Meta — I still use them.

March

• Poky Linux 3.1 (codename ‘pinky’) was released. I am providing support for systems based on it.
• IPKG finally died so we switched to maintained OPKG tool to manage packages.
• Cursed a bit during testing of Maemo media players. Recently I tried few more and still use default one.

April

• First April post about moving to London got amazing response. But it was only joke.
• Got N800 emulation working. Too bad that I was not allowed to distribute “config.mtd” file which made it possible. Later I discovered which flag needs to be reset and added N810 emulation infos.
• Created Polish keymap for QWERTY keyboard of N810 — thanks goes to Jiri Benc for his “ukeyboard” package. No thanks goes to Nokia Maemo team for not making it easy.
• Wrote what do I think about Maemo closed components which makes this nice device not so nice.
• Wrote how to make BitBake based builds faster — handy on multi-core systems.

May

• I was on LinuxTag 2008 in Berlin. It was great to meet friends again. Thanks go to Zecke as he provided me free tickets and sleeping place. I still have working liquid powered clock which I got there.
• Replaced my desktop with new one — it is nice to have more CPU power especially when lot of builds needs to be done.
• Defined myself as developer not programmer
• Tried to use N810 for car navigation and failed. Bought TomTom One few months later (works great).

June

• Played with connecting USB devices to N810 tablet — all thanks to USB gender changer adapter which I got from Keesj during LinuxTag.
• Started wondering which phone to choose as next cellphone — now I know that next will be Symbian (Nokia E71 looks very interesting as phone).
• Again was hit by crappiness of ATI RS48x graphics chipset — now this is not my problem as I added NVidia Geforce 6600GT inside and gave whole machine to my youngest brother (it replaced 5 years old AthlonXP desktop).

July

• I had 0x20 birthday — got awesome present from friend — puzzle with C code which rendered picture with greetings.
• GUADEC 2008 was great event. Istanbul is nice city worth spending more time. But at least I visited some places 😉
• Wrote a bit about using Poky SDK to build software — this apply also to any OpenEmbedded based SDK of course.
• Also wrote about packaged staging and what it gives — generally it can speed up repeating builds. I used it to make “build each recipe from scratch” builds of Poky — lot of dependencies were added into recipes as result.

August

• Intel acquired OpenedHand — I got job offer in UK but decided to not move. It was nice to visit London again, too bad that I lacked time to see anything (as usual). The whole trip was crazy (have you ever travelled on the night bus standing for 4 hours straight?)
• We visited my parents and I was asked (again) what exactly I do for living. So I answered and my mother understood.
• I resolved problem with Nokia N8x0 tablets emulation — one flag needs to be unset to make Maemo boot in QEMU.

September

• We moved to Szczecin, Poland — new flat == separate room for my work.
• Maemo Summit — nice event, lot of Maemo developers/users, met old friends, gave presentation about Maemo in QEMU emulation — people asked questions, I tried to answer.
• As my company ended second year I decided to drop “HaeRWu” part from it’s name (it was too hard to pronounce for people).

October

• End of my work for OpenedHand — it was good time and I miss atmosphere of that company.
• Started working as contractor for Bug Labs Inc. company – their device is interesting. They use Poky ‘pinky’ as base of their system.
• OpenEmbedded project migrated from Monotone to GIT so I started to merge interesting things from Poky (lot left still to merge).
• As one of good things in OpenedHand was buildbot I decided to start my own one on home machine.

November

• Unpacked Progear webpad to check how recent kernels work on it and update it’s configuration in OpenEmbedded a bit.

December

• Moved to juszkiewicz.com.pl domain — it was 2rd domain change since I started this blog. All old addresses redirect to proper one.
• Bought tickets and hotel reservation for FOSDEM 2009 event — I missed 2008 one due to birth of Mira.
• Got Koala MiniPC 2PCI case for Alix 1c board — need to buy proper PCI riser and it will be my new router.
• Got BUG device from Bug Labs Inc..
• My working space was invaded by Poky beavers.

2007 is ending. It was very good year for me. I am now married man, waiting for daughter birth. Have own company, working as contractor for one of biggest companies in OpenEmbedded world.

January

• Signed contract with OpenedHand — starting from February.
• Became one of 50 selected developers for OpenMoko Phase0 program. Each of us got offer to get Neo1973 GTA01 for free. First it was GTA01Bv3 with battery problem, then GTA01Bv4.
• I ended working for Conecto. Finally end of PHP programming.
• There was information that Sharp ended production of Zaurus palmtops. During next months they were still manufacturing them.

February

• FOSDEM — my first one. It was very nice event and good occasion to meet all those hackers from miscellaneous projects. I spoke with more people that was able to remember.
• Got Nokia 770 tablet donated. Interesting device but underpowered. It also became unsupported few months later.
• My first code entered Linux kernel. It was LCD backlight driver for Frontpath ProGear tablet.
• OpenMoko project released RoadMap.

March

• Vernier LabQuest got released. I was one of members of OpenedHand development team working on Poky for this device.
• Pingwinaria 2007 — I was there with one talk about OpenEmbedded. Then decided that it is time to buy laptop to be able to read mail, do some hacking etc.
• My Neo1973 GTA01Bv3 arrived. Added was Debug board, 128MB MicroSD card, pen/stylus and few other things.
• Three years of using OpenEmbedded.

April

• OpenZaurus project halted — all work is now done for Ångström distribution.
• My oldest Zaurus got SD/MMC driver for 2.6 kernel. Thanks goes to Thomas Kunze. I hope that he will update it to current kernels one day.
• Moved blog to current domain.
• Bought Dell D400 laptop. It is nice and fast machine — I use it as 32bit build machine.
• Nokia 770 which I got two months before became unsupported device.
• Bought 3rdparty Nokia charger to be able to charge Neo1973 battery.

May

• I got Neo1973 GTA01Bv4. As this was “developer update” only battery was added. I also got gllin in rootfs 🙂
• Bought Linksys NSLU2 — it was working as NFS server for my build machines.
• Played a bit with Vista on my friend 17″ laptop. It is not a system for me.

June

• After reading about trademark wars started by handhelds.org I decided to end using their services. It also means that I am no longer OPIE developer.
• With few friends took StarWars marathon. We were exhausted after five episodes so “Return Of The Jedi” was not displayed.
• Due to big amount of visits from Google search I wrote small information about how to buy Neo1973 phone.

July

• GUADEC — I was going there with thinking “what I would do at GNOME conference” but it was also occasion to meet OpenedHand gang and people from other projects. I still remember how badly I lost on first day… and I did it twice ;(

August

• I married my beloved Ania — it was big event with lot of people from our families, our friends…
• Poky Linux 3.0 released — after release we pushed all upgrades which came to our minds and it was still working.
• Got Alix.1c board which PC Engines company donated to OpenEmbedded project. It replaces NSLU2 as NFS server. It still lack case and other services are still not moved to it.

September

• Ania and I were on Zakynthos island (Greece) on honeymoon — nice place if you want to rest.
• I wrote post about my testing of OpenMoko 2007.2 system. It was most popular post ever.
• My blog got new theme.

October

• OEDEM 2007 took place. Nice event, lot of OpenEmbedded developers.
• Maemo started developer program for Nokia N810 tablet. Due to limitations I was unable to take part of it. ARGHH!

November

• Upgraded my desktop system a bit — new CPU and cooler.
• OpenMoko released Gllin with script which starts it using OABI libraries on EABI system.
• Thanks to work done by Dmitry Baryshkov 2.6.23 kernel works nice on Tosa. It pushed new life into this device.

December

• OpenedHand X-mas took place — lot of fun and occasion to meet new guys from OH. Also played with few interesting devices.
• Due to lack of ARMv6 hardware I was working on getting current QEmu working. Now I am using it to test my recent Poky changes.
• Due to flu (which I catch during OH X-mas) we had to spend Christmas at home. It was our first x-mas at home without family.

2006 year was good. I did few releases as OpenZaurus maintainer, created own company for my paid OpenEmbedded work, got some job offers from respected companies.

January

• Started OpenZaurus 3.5.4 testing cycle.

February

• Finally got rid of ReiserFS from all partitions (except the one which hold builds).

March

• Released OpenZaurus 3.5.4
• Moved hosting to kei.pl hosting centre.
• Tagged OpenZaurus 3.5.4 in OpenEmbedded repository (branch org.openembedded.oz354fam083). All next releases was done from org.openembedded.oz354x branch because Familiar team was not sure will they use OE or not for their work.
• Wrote small util to control CF-XGA card
• I got Ir keyboard donated but because Ir handling in 2.6 kernel was changed it is unused. Someone want to get it and work on getting it supported under 2.6?
• I got WE19 working on collie/OZ 3.5.4 but decided to not push it for users (no real benefits rather).

April

• Testing images of OpenZaurus 3.5.4.1 for clamshells were in test cycle.
• Tested how OPIE handle Unicode.
• Checked does Mileage application can be fixed to look good on VGA and larger resolutions. It was nightmare but can be done.
• Wrote small howto about grabbing movies from TV using mencoder.

May

• Thanks to one of OpenZaurus users I got original Sharp serial cable.
• Generated new (0x61FFDAAB) OpenPGP key.
• Changed website theme to Barthelme.

June

• OpenEmbedded project got two Zaurus models: SL-6000 (tosa) and SL-5600 (poodle). Both machines arrived to me, poodle is now in Mickeyl hands, tosa in mine. Thx goes to Trisoft for donating USB Host cables (one for me, second for Dirk Opfer — our Tosa kernel hacker).

July

• OpenZaurus 3.5.4.1 was released for clamshell models
• We (Ania and I) were on holidays in Olecko and then in Gdańsk.
• I decided to drop support of 2.4 kernel for Tosa — 2.6 is not yet perfect but works nicer then 2.4 did.

August

• OpenZaurus 3.5.4.2-rc1 released for Tosa, Poodle
• Feed browser provided for OpenZaurus distribution. It was started by Koen Kooi and then fixed & extended by me.
• I got job offer from Google. But I will not work for them.
• Published schematics of Sharp Zaurus JTAG cable. It probably needs vendor application but I think that I can get one if will need to.

September

• Started “HaeRWu” company — my own OpenEmbedded related business.
• 3rd release of test images of OpenZaurus 3.5.4.2 released for Tosa and Poodle.
• After 4 years of usage I switched from Nokia 6310i to Sony Ericsson k750i cellphone.

October

• I was on OEDEM 2006 in Berlin, Germany. It was nice to meet all those developers face to face finally.
• I got Sharp Zaurus SL-C3000 (spitz) from Mickeyl. It is OpenEmbedded project device. He got SL-5600 (poodle).
• Created Paypal account. Earlier it was not possible because they did not support Poland.
• I had public presentation of OpenEmbedded at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. PDF provided (in Polish language).

November

• Switched my home machine to AMD64.
• Wrote howto about flashing BIOS in PC machines without usage of floppy disk. It is one of most popular posts last months.
• I got Progear 1050HX+ webpad from one of OpenEmbedded users.
• Got 802.11g card from one company to provide 2.6 driver for it. I found few developers and we created project for it on LinuxToGo server.
• Bought Epson Stylus DX4000 multifunction device (printer, scanner, copier) — works very nice under Linux.

December

• Got job offer from one of OpenEmbedded related companies. Starting from February 🙂
• Wrote howto about usage of task-base way of building images in OpenEmbedded.
• Worked on self hosting of Ångström and other OE derived distros.
• Reflashed Progear with older BIOS to check for better ACPI support. Nothing changed — still no battery info.
• Started work on OpenZaurus 3.5.5 release.

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.