Christian Schaller

Due to easter I have some extra time on my hands. Put it to
resonable good use with a full redesign of my
Linuxrising.com/org
website. Still lots to do , but at least
now it is at a level where I can beef it up a little bit at
a time.

I have also spent time writing articles for
Linuxpower.org, one is about a couple of the distributions
makers, it is bound to create a little storm, but I think it
is time
that somebody points the fingers at the destructive policies
of these
companies.
I also started a yet another update /cleanup of my
turbolinux
directories on ftp.gnome.org. I have deleted everything
which duplicates Helixcode and added things that Helix
doesn’t include yet. One of my plans are to add Bonobo
enabled applications to the unstable branch, but I am
currently having some problems with the apps compiling due
to some problem with bonobo.h hmmm
I also made an icon for gnome-breakout, which I think the
author is planning to use, and sent of a set of questions to
Micheal Meeks for the interview I am doing with him for
Linuxpower.

Hmm, got bitten by the package building bug and startet to
make packages for the OpenGL related GNOME stuff. The
result is that there are TurboLinux packages of gtkglarea,
gtkglareamm,
gtkmm and Terraform.

Made a package of xtraceroute
too, extremely cool app, but to unstable for me to publish
the package, at least since the current author AFAIK doesn’t
maintain it anymore. To bad, because if completed it could
become a gtk\gnome killer app.
Hmm, maybe completing it should be my ‘learning to code’
task.

Wrote an article for Linxupower about Webdownloader for
X.
Great app, to bad it isn’t GPL.
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Another day, another entry. Got my tickets and booking
recipets for my 16 day vacation on Guadalope and Barbados.
Was a brochure from one of the hotels which almost brought
tears of joy to my eyes. I am really going to Paradise in
about 11 days. Yippee.

Was a interesting article about
non-coding contributors on Advogato today. Personally,
it is my experience that coders are very grateful and good
at showing their appreciation when you do something usefull
for them, be it translations, RPM making or bug reporting.
(okay, maybe not bug reports

Tigert
had posted an comment about Ewing
doing Tux, which lead me to notice that Ewing and a lot of
other people had certified Tigert as Journeyer. Well it
could be correct that Tigert is a Journeyer when it comes to
coding, but he is definetly a Master when it comes to being
a graphical artist. The question that comes to mind then of
course is if Advogato is a place for coders or for free
software people in general?
My impression was that advogato was supposed to be a place
for all kinds of free software people, and that people would
be rated based upon their area of expertise in regard to
free software not just on their coding skills, but I could
very well be me making stupid assumptions. Well enough
ranting.

Telsa
and Alan has
now put up the pictures from the Oslo trip, you will find
them here
There is even a nice picture
of me in the batch.
I bought some small presentents today which I am shipping of
to Alan, Telsa and Michael as my way
of saying thanks for
them being such wonderful guests while here.

I started making RPMS of xmame and grustibus the
other day, which was a task I discovered was easier said
than done.
Grustibus was no problem in itself, but recompiling Xmame
was no easy task, at least not with the settings I wanted. I
almost got working solution now, but it is not as optimal as
I want it to be, luckily easter is coming up so I can waste
a lot more time on this issue

Slow day, work took most of it. Found Grustibus on
Freshmeat. Think I try to make some nice RPMS of it and
xmame.

In the real world I am currently drowning in bills, but
guess I deserve it, buying a new computer and a PalmVx isn’t
a smart thing to do when one has the bill for a 16 day trip
to the carribien coming up.

Well, I pay my debts when I am old. I have always subscribed
to the idea of living life to the maximum when young and
paying for it when ancient