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-The story continues at FebruaryBlog
-
-== Bernie's brain backup for January 2008 ==
-
-=== Sun 27th ===
-
-==== Down Under ====
-
-Yesterday I had to clear my room, pack my stuff at OneCambridgeCenter, and
-say goodbye to many, many good friends and colleges. I don't even know when
-I'll be able to see them again. Not exactly a happy day, you may have guessed.
-
-Today, after 22 hours of flight, I started to have visions. At the baggage reclaim,
-I thought I was talking with the kernel god LinusTorvalds. He said that userspace
-is easy and that he cannot exactly agree iwith some of the choices made in Python.
-We'd really get along if it wasn't just a dream :-)
-
-Later on, I reached the hotel and got into the elevator with a ginger guy
-that looked vaguely familiar. I asked if he was going at LCA.
-
- -- //Yes.//
-
- -- //Are you a software developer?//
-
- -- //Well... not primarily...//
-
-Blink!
-
- -- //Oh, you must be JonathanCorbet, the editor of LinuxWeeklyNews!//
-
- - //Indeed.//
-
-Today was a really exciting day! I needed something like this to compensate,
-at least partially, for leaving Boston.
-
-----
-
-Hi Bernie! Just stepped here looking for the photos of XOs hanging from the ceiling (i wanted to show them to my father) and found you leaving!
-
-So, have a nice journey, enjoy conf.au and see you soon!
-
--- PiroPiro
-
-=== Sat, 19th ===
-
-==== Another trip to NY ====
-
-I'm planning to go to NewYorkCity tomorrow with a bunch of friends.
-But this time I guess we'll catch a different transportation:
-we were booking the FungWah (aka ShittyBus), when ChrisBall came
-and looked at us funny. "Are you sure? Those buses have a habit
-of catching fire on the highway".
-
-Apparently, it is really true:
-
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fung_Wah_Bus_Transportation_Inc.#Safety
-
-=== Sun, 13th ===
-
-=== Bernie the rockstar ====
-
-If you were considering hiring me, or entrusting me to do anything serious, you'd better watch this first:
-
- * [[BernieIronMaiden.ogg]] - [1.8MB] if you have the free OggTheora codec
- * [[BernieIronMaiden.mov]] - [3.6MB] if you're stuck with proprietary QuickTime codecs
- * //nothing// - [0MB] if you're stuck with the proprietary MediaPlayer or RealPlayer codecs
-
-
-**Q:** why doesn't my browser play the link right away rather than asking me to download it? \\
-**A:** because my wiki doesn't support mime-magic yet
-
-**Q:** why don't you just let apache serve media files? \\
-**A:** because a CGI has no way to "handoff" a file to the web server once they've been invoked
-
-==== Food and Power ====
-
-Here's a stupid movie by SamuelKlein, ArjunSarwal and myself:
-
- * [[FoodAndPower/FoodAndPowerHigh.ogg]] - [62MB] OggTheora stream, quality 10
- * [[FoodAndPower/FoodAndPowerMed.ogg]] - [26MB] OggTheora stream, quality 7
- * [[FoodAndPower/FoodAndPowerLow.ogg]] - [16MB] OggTheora stream, quality 5
-
-If your computer cannot play the above links, you should really consider installing
-a free media player, or just switching to Linux which comes with all the free media
-players and codecs out of the box. Meanwhile, here's a workaround:
-
- * [[FoodAndPower/FoodAndPower.avi]] - [103MB] original AVI stream from our shitty camera
-
-These also prove the quality of the OggTheora codec. After seeing this, I think
-I'd recommend using it for its technical advantages in addition to its legal advantages.
-
-In producing these movies, I found out that:
-
- * mencoder has bad support for ogg-theora
- * transcode kinda sucks
- * ffmpeg seems the best command-line encoder of the three I tried
- * The easiest solution if all you need is encoding anything to Theora is ffmpeg2theora.
- All you have to do is:
- {{{
- ffmpeg2theora FoodAndPower.avi
- }}}
-
-
-=== Sat, 12th ===
-
-==== Cow power! ====
-
-My good friend ArjunSarwal recently made the [[http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/26/0541205 | Slashdot front page]]
-with his story about [[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Cow_Power| Cow Power]]!
-
-=== Fri, 11th ===
-
-==== Crank, Crank! ====
-
-Today we got this pleasant surprise.
-
-See the movie: [[OlpcCrank/StephenReillyCranking.mov]].
-The guy cranking is DanielDrake, Gentoo kernel maintainer
-and wireless guru.
-
-{{OlpcCrank/ArjunCrankingSmall.jpg | ArjunSarwal cranking}}
-{{OlpcCrank/ArjunCranking2Small.jpg | ArjunSarwal cranking}}
-{{OlpcCrank/StephenCrankingSmall.jpg | StephenReilly cranking}}
-{{OlpcCrank/StephenCranking2Small.jpg | StephenReilly cranking}}
-
-Larger versions of these pics are available at OlpcCrank.
-
-=== Sat 5th ===
-
-==== The little computer that just won't die! ====
-
-OneLaptopPerChild is not enough. There should definitely be
-{{OneAmigaPerChild/OneAmigaPerChild | OneAmigaPerChild}}!
-
-{{OneAmigaPerChild/OneAmigaPerChildSmaller.jpg}}
-
-Look [[OneAmigaPerChild/OneAmigaPerChild | here]] for additional details.
-A big thankyou to MicheleConsoleBattilana for providing a free copy of
-AmigaForever, a fine tribute to the coolest platform ever!
-
-=== Thu 3rd ===
-
-==== The XaoS strikes back! ====
-
-I enjoyed bundling this OldSkool activity for the XO:
-
-http://wiki.laptop.org/images/8/8c/XaoS-screenshot4.png
-
-See: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XaoS
-
-It certainly needs some more sugarization work for which I have no time.
-
-
-=== Wed 2st ===
-
-==== Haiku Laptop ====
-
-Today we shipped our machine affected by dlo#5575 (touchpad mostly unfunctional)
-to Japan for further inspection by ALPS. Just before closing up the plastic case,
-I've left inside a little fortune cookie for them:
-
-{{HaikuXoSmall.jpg}}
-
-If you're wondering what it means, it's a piece of japanese poetry called a HaikuPoem.
-Google for it.
-
-=== Tue 1st ===
-
-==== Trip to Walden Pond ====
-
-This really happened on Monday 31st Dec, but who'd go read last year's blog entry now?
-
-So, Adam, Arjun and myself went to this [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden_Pond|Walden Pond]]
-place, where the famous American poet [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau|Thoreau]]
-lived in complete isolation for 2 years in a cabin made of wood.
-
-{{WaldenPond1Small.jpg|Arjun (left) and Me (guess who?)}}
-
-On this very nice lake, I stupdily tried to run on the ice and fell badly, hitting my jaw
-and cheek on the hard ice. Little cut, big bump... no permanent consequences. Maybe I
-should consider a health insurance?
-
-{{WaldenPond2Small.jpg|Me (the really crazy one) and Adam (the really worried one)}}
-{{ThoreauCabinSmall.jpg|The three of us in the site of Thoreau's cabin}}
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