Mars
More images from Mars.
Mail bombing
It wasn’t enough with all the virus mails and bounces I’ve been getting, but also
some weed smoked by the mail server at Barrapunto
made it send me around 3500 bounce messages during the night. That has nothing to do
with the bloody virus, it seems, just low quality weed.
SCO
Not only millions of lines on the Linux source code belong to SCO (from what they say), but now, Mr Bill
Gates says it also contains a lot of code from several different companies (as
read here
(translated here)),
included Microsoft. This means that they are saying Linux developers have
been copying code (and nothing else, just copying) for 12 years.
Wow, you have to have a big face and mouth to be able to say this.
Live365
I love Live365. It’s just
the place I was looking for, with thousands of radio stations of all kinds. Also, it’s
free, with ads, but if you pay $3.65/month, you get VIP access, which means you get
no ads while listening to the radios, and you also can listen to some VIP-only
stations. Also, one of the most interesting things I saw on their website, is that
they allow you to create
new radio stations. I wonder if that could be used by some Free Software projects
to have interviews, recorded talks, etc.
And if all that was not enough, they have a label service,
which allows music bands to have their music easily distributed worlwide. I’m gonna tell my
friend Pepe about this.
Linux at prime time on Spanish TV
Yeah, free software has its moment in Spain, it seems. Today, just a few minutes ago,
on the most watched public channel, a documentary about the Campus Party 2003,
where there was a short interview to Juantomas,
Hispalinux President.
India goes to Space
It seems India is also entering
the Space race, which I guess is a good thing for all. There are people
worrying about the Indian technology: fear not, Indians already have the
Vimanas,
which are flying machines described, with great detail, in ancient Indian literature. Some
of those texts, specially one found in Tibet, seem to be being used in the
Chinese Space program (Cannot find a link for that right now, but that’s what I’ve heard
on the radio, in La Rosa de los
Vientos).
GNOME-DB 1.0
I just sent
the plans for GNOME-DB 1.0 to the list. It might seem a bit urged, but
it’s not, since we’ve been having a stable API for the last several months,
with only minimal changes and bug fixes getting in. So, by the beginning of
September, GNOME-DB 1.0 will be a reality, along with GNOME Office 1.0!!!
Gonzalo has entered now bug fixing mode, so expect the
commit list
to grow a lot in these days. One of the things he will be doing is to integrate
the blob API Juan-Mariano sent us some weeks ago, which will be one of the few
new features we will have before 1.0. Go Gonzalo Go!
Photos
More images
from Mars.
Evolution
Things on the Evolution front continue to go smoothly. First, the creation
of the Evolution
blog page, a place which will help us involving the community in
the development, and the return of
Natzilla.
Apart from that, my work on the overlayed multiple calendars per view continues,
and now, at last, I have a screenshot to show:
This shows how the calendar will look like. It just displays one calendar, since there
is no support yet for showing multiple calendars, but you get the idea. Each calendar
will have an associated color, which will be used to colorize the events. The same thing
in the week view:
Novell Ximian Services
On day 3 of the Novell-Ximian experience, things in perspective are much
better than expected on the first day. First of all, as Nat
confirms
in this mail, he and Miguel are pretty much in charge
of all the Linux desktop and Open Source strategy at Novell, which means, as
you can imagine, just only good things, given the vision and skills of both of them.
Also, all client-side development made by Novell Ximian Services will be made,
since the beginning, in the public. This is to avoid situations like the printing
support in XD2, which couldn’t be integrated into the GNOME core, since it wasn’t
known outside Ximian.
On other things, libgda
& libgnomedb 0.91 have been released.
Novell Ximian Services
It’s now official: Novell
acquires Ximian. Ximian will become Novell Ximian Services, and all its employees
will continue to work on the same projects (Evolution, Ximian Desktop, Red Carpet, Mono).
This is big news for us, Ximian employees, since it means we will have much more
resources for all the projects we are working on right now and will give us the
possibility of working on new amazing projects.
As always, a lot of different reactions:
Evolution
Evolution 1.4.4 is
out. It includes a lot of changes from the Sun hackers to make
Evolution keyboard navigable, which is required for the accessibility
work they are also doing for Evolution.
Euskal Party 2003
I went this weekend to give a talk to the
11th Euskal Party.
It was the first time I go to this kind of party, where hundreds of
people stay, night and day, for 5 days, in a big arena, playing games,
downloading movies, demoing stuff (scene stuff, really nice), etc. There was
also this year a session of free software-related talks.
It was too hot there, but there were a lot of nice things to see, like
a USB-driven refrigerator, for having at any time cold drinks near you.
On Sunday, I went with my girlfriend to visit Bilbao (city where, BTW, the
party was held, in the north of Spain, in the Basque Country), which is
an industrial city. I’ve heard a lot of people talking bad things about
Bilbao (about its ugliness mainly), but I did really like the city though, all
surrounded by mountains.
The main tourist thing in the city is the Guggenheim museum, which is really impressive,
as seen on this photo.
See the other photos here.