Lunchtime Semaphore

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” Benjamin Franklin

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Finally I gave in to the netbook trend and got a Lenovo S10-2. I couldn’t get a linux version, but sure enough Debian was running on it few hours after unpacking.

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During my last trip to Australia (the first trip for my Android phone), I have been using the ‘mytracks’ application from google to record all the places where I was going. Mostly for two reasons: sending the data to open street map and geotagging my photos.

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I don’t usually follow the latest gadgets and tend to skip a few generations of products before getting a new one. That’s what happened recently when I switched from my Pocket PC staring Windows Mobile 2003 to the HTC Dream (aka G1) with Android. That’s a 6 years gap between technologies and involved some workaround to migrate the contact data.

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Web server are not easy beast to handle: you want to make the stuff work but at the same time for security, you want to have as little stuff as possible to be opened.

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Few months ago, I moved from Toulouse to Singapore. As I continue to play with satellite images, I wanted to keep an access to the OTB repository and still participate to this open source project. It was also a good opportunity to move to a distributed source control system: sometimes, when you’re stranded in a plane/train/meeting, you really wish to have access to a full repository to do some clean work. Also, if the repository is behind a triple firewall with no possible outside access, this is not a really good way to encourage contributions…

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The new OTB live CD is out! On the program is the brand new OTB 2.6 (which came out last week) with the new Xubuntu 8.10 (which came out also last week coincidentally). Read the rest of this entry »

Project history

Few weeks ago, there has been a story on slashdot about codeswarm: “stunning visualizations of open source software contributions”.

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Take a basic understanding of KML, notions of Python to go through the Internet, add a bit of regular expressions and there is basically no limit to what you can do in terms of geo-mash-up. Read the rest of this entry »

After updating my Debian yesterday, I needed to restart because of some kernel changes. At first, nothing unusual, vlc player was working fine, net surfing went without a glitch but… couldn’t start the amarok player : Segmentation fault. Read the rest of this entry »