Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 by Marcin Juszkiewicz
During LinuxTag 2008 I got one funny gadget during visit on Sun microsystems stand. Nothing too fancy — just time, date, seconds like in watches from 80’s.
The whole fun is in power — any liquid. Instruction suggests beer, soft drinks, salt water, tea, coffee — standard liquids found anywhere. It can even use clean water but this will end very fast (I tried that first due to lack of other liquids). Currently it is powered with salted water which is electrolytic enough for few days (instruction suggests changing fuel once per week).
This is nothing new — back cover has “(c) 2004′ but that does not change situation that it is funny enough to take space on my monitor stand for some time.
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 by Marcin Juszkiewicz
Today we have 4th day of OEDEM. Discussed OE Foundation, BitBake development, OE development. Uli Luckas from ROAD company brought their ROAD S101 phone (running Qtopia 2.x as UI). After playing with it I can say that this is interesting device.
Today’s dinner will be sponsored by Tarent, a German company that uses OpenEmbedded. And this time it will be German restaurant not Mexican, Italian or Patagonian.
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 by Marcin Juszkiewicz
During GUADEC I decided that I need to buy new battery for my Dell D400 laptop. Current one is giving me 40-50 minutes of working only. According to ACPI informations it is really low charged:
11:44 hrw@maluch:BAT0$ cat info
present: yes
design capacity: 42000 mWh
last full capacity: 11530 mWh
battery technology: rechargeable
So it does not get even half of nominal charge. I wonder how much time I will be able to get from 4400mAh battery (current one is 3800mAh when most of available ones are 3600mAh).
And this time I really need to buy one.
UPDATE: bought one — will get it in few days.
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Monday, October 8th, 2007 by Marcin Juszkiewicz
Today we have 3rd day of OpenEmbedded Developers European Meeting. This year we have not only European developers but also Rodrigo Vivi from Brasil and Philip Balister from USA. After weekend with misc stuff (when most visible was Gumstix hacking) we finally started technical discussions.
There are many things on agenda and they are changing so better check them on OE wiki.
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Saturday, October 6th, 2007 by Marcin Juszkiewicz
After nearly 2 hours in a bus I managed to get into Berlin/Alexanderplatz and then two S-Bahns and some walking and I came to OEDEM place. Few people in place already, lots of laptops, Neo1973 phones and other toys/gadgets.
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Monday, August 6th, 2007 by Marcin Juszkiewicz
Yesterday during evening talk I found out one funny thing — all my trips related to OpenEmbedded was to cities which name starts with “B” letter.
First it was Berlin — first OEDEM (in 2006). Then it was FOSDEM 2007 in Brussels. Latest one was GUADEC 2007 in Birmingham. Next one will be OEDEM 2007 — Berlin again.
Before or after OEDEM I will probably also attend Bromley to visit OpenedHand office but this does not rather count as Bromley is part of London.
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