As for the presentations I will surely go and see:

• Sylvain Beucler talk about GNU Savannah: 100% free software mass-hosting

a topic I find interesting for many reasons, more on that later

• Daniel Stenberg talk about Rockbox: open source firmware replacement for music players

since I missed Daniel talk about this at FSCONS. As a FSCONS organiser I can’t just sit

• Mirko Lindner, Jon Phillips talk about Copyleft Hardware and the Ben Nanonote

I missed Mirko’s presentation at FSCONS as well …. always on the move at FSCONS

And, of course I hope I will be able to do some business (Sandklef GNU Labs) down there. During some breaks I will prepare some presentations at “my” University next week and also prepare a Free Software presentation for a company later on in February (more on that later).

This year I’ll be traveling with Andreas Nilsson and Jeremiah Foster.  Same procedure as last year…

see you there

… did you see how I managed to mention FSCONS 6 times (including that very last)

hi all,

 fnoss.org has been running for a while now. For some of us it has been
the main source for news about the Free Software situation in the Nordic
countries.

 Here is some stuff that would be great to get some input on:

 * Language specific sections
 -------------------------------------------------------
   One plan is to make, for example, a Norwegian section with a bit
broader scope of bloggers.... and in the Norwegian languages only.

   Given that we have some languages that crosses national borders, e g
Sami, the country division may not be optimal so we propose language
specific.

   This also implies that the main site (fnoss.org) will be in english
only. Bloggers who blogs in english and another language may have to be
forced to use a "fnoss-en" tag of some kind to get to the main site.

   Example: http://itupw056.itu.chalmers.se/se-fnoss-rss/

 * Mailing lists, Twitter feeds
 -------------------------------------------------------

   We've added some software to scrape Mailing lists and include twitter
feeds and turn them into rss.

   Future plans: forum, ...... any ideas

 * New pages and a new interface
 -------------------------------------------------------

   The pages/new interface are
    1. Mailing lists  - from ML only
    2. Blogs - from blogs
    3. Twitter - from twitter
    4. All feeds in one  (1, 2 and 3)
    5. All feeds (as 4.) with a new layout

   Examples (beta versions (Swedish mainly)):
    1. http://itupw056.itu.chalmers.se/se-fnoss-ml/
    2. http://itupw056.itu.chalmers.se/se-fnoss-rss/
    3. http://itupw056.itu.chalmers.se/se-fnoss-twitter/
    4. http://itupw056.itu.chalmers.se/se-fnoss/
    5. http://itupw056.itu.chalmers.se/se-fnoss/template_test/

- Grand dad, is it really true that Sweden had a king and queen before I was born?

- Yes, it is true

- Just like in Cinderella and Snowy white ….

- Yup

- But what did they do all day long?

- I have no idea…. I have no idea

I heard that the marriage is going to cost at least 2 000 000 Euros. Can anyone think about better way to spend that money?

… I can. Indeed I can.

It seems to be a clear no, but before I dive into endless modelines settings I might as well ask.

I screwed things up

The email server wasn’t set up correctly so some of you have gotten bounces. Now the server is up and seems to be working again.

Here’s the set up:

Terminal 1: Xvfb -ac :22

Terminal 2: export DISPLAY=:22 ; while (true) ; do xterm -e sleep 2 ; done

After executing some five or six programs Xvfb crashed. After some purely non scientific investigations it turns out that

1. the bug happens less often when I run Xvfb through gdb (see below)
   
2. Xvfb goes down with a seg fault in FreeColormap

Hmmm, colormap….. How about if we lower the colors in Xvfb? Yes, that’s it. Now, let’s move forward. To stress Xvfb a bit more, I have a new setup to test before I go on with Xnee’s automated profile (and coverage of course) tests:

Terminal 1: Xvfb -ac -screen 0 640x480x16 :21


Terminal 2: export DISPLAY=:22 ; while (true) ; do xterm -e sleep 2 ; done

Terminal 2: export DISPLAY=:22 ; while (true) ; do xdpyinfo ; xwininfo -root ; xset r on; done

…. after 1743 program executions I feel I am beginning to see a good enough work around.

And for those interested in the gdb printout, enjoy:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0xb7c2fa10 (LWP 18983)]
0x08156e2b in FreeColormap ()


Stian (FSFE), hard at work during a break.

Johan Schiff (Wikimedia).

Oscar Swartz poped by  (see him at FSCONS)

Jonas Öberg drinking coffee

and me, writing this blog post

Should I’ve been busy with FSCONS instead? Well, to be honest I think we have it under control. And during the lectures/presentations up here Stian and I can write the missing documents for FSCONS.

Anyhow, here’s the Laptop setup team. The X team?

Patrik Willard eating Kebab … while I am working hard

Pontus Andersson

me ….. no further comments

Mattias ‘matmat’ Mattsson