Planet Vavai

• Istanbul looks great. Many cats. Helpful people. Lots of beatiful things everywhere. And I went to Asia for the first time in my life yesterday evening. Sure, it was only the asian side of Istanbul, but still, big event!

• Quite easy to spot GUADEC people when you walk around. And hard to eat somewhere and not find some of them :-)

• Lucas really is my evil twin. Proof: those two posts that also summarize my first two days. Lots of discussion with him. Hard to not fall in love with him ;-)

• Doctor Don is here. And it seems he's talking about pulse to lots of people because Shaun promised him eternal glory.

• Had a BoF about release notes. Hopefully, this has helped make people aware of the various issues we have when writing release notes. Important thing that most people seem to not know: the most consuming part of the release notes is doing research about what to put in there, not writing -- so no need to be a good writer to help! Oh, and if you're here in Istanbul, you should really go and talk to Davyd or Murray to get them excited about new 2.24 material that they should put in the release notes.

• Andreas still loves to tell this story about his ancestors, the woodmen. Explains a lot of things.

• Also had a talk/BoF about translation tools. I think we really have a good plan, and Dimtiris is so great. Good to see my beloved Danilo again and glad to see his positive feelings about all this.

• Couldn't attend many sessions so far because of meetings. That's a bit sad, but on the other hand, everything went well and there are some exciting stuff.

• I'm Silvia again this year. Still no progress in catalan.

• I also have two nametags, so I'm ready in case somebody starts stealing all nametags.

• Couldn't play the FreeFA tournament, but I heard Bastien lost. Don't know if I can go and ask him to check it's true :-)

• No Love/Hate wall yet? Any volunteer to set this up?

Sebetulnya sudah agak lama saya tahu aplikasi untuk backup driver yang sudah terinstall dikomputer. Tetapi baru tadi saya diingatkan kembali oleh seorang rekan tentang aplikasi ini.

Nama aplikasinya adalah DriverBackup!. Aplikasi freeware ini bertujuan untuk membackup semua driver ataupun driver tertentu. Tentunya driver yang dibackup adalah driver yang sudah terinstall di komputer.

Jadi, apabila suatu saat komputer Anda akan diinstall ulang tetapi tidak punya driver untuk peripheral yang ada, aplikasi ini bisa dipakai. Atau suatu saat Anda diminta oleh teman untuk format dan install ulang komputernya, dan teman Anda tidak tahu/tidak punya cd driver dari setiap peripheral, aplikasi ini cocok dipakai.

Aplikasi ini memberikan keleluasaan kepada pengguna untuk memilih driver yang akan dibackup. Selesai memilih driver yang akan dibackup, tentukan direktori tujuan untuk menyimpan driver-driver tersebut. Langkah terakhir, tekan tombol Backup Drivers, selesai deh…kemudian format & install ulang deh.

This week is entirely dedicated to getting the Triple Dragon started with some usable software - and it is going along quite well.
I feared that I would have to dig down into DirectFB to solve my original framebuffer problems (on the first try I was unable to set the transparency - the setting, which is done with a private ioctl(), was always ignored), since the original software uses DirectFB, but in the end this is fortunately not the case.
The solution was simple: I need to issue the transparency-ioctl() after setting the framebuffer parameters, not before.
Right now, enigma is pretty usable, the “normal” TV viewing stuff is already working. I’m now refining the build system, so that I can tell people what they need to do to build the software, then I’ll look at the init scripts etc, so that they can even boot it.
Next thing will be fixing the not yet working stuff - some hardware-dependent like the SCART switching stuff, some software like the media-player and record / timeshift features, but then I’ll hopefully have some more people working on the project

Thanks to Behdad and the organizers at GUADEC, I will be having a BOF/discussion session tomorrow at 4:30pm to discuss a new class of applications built on Silverlight or Flash and how they relate to the future of the Linux Desktop.

Some of the ideas are clearly derived from Alex and Chris thinking about the desktop; it is heavily influenced by our work on Moonlight; by the recent strides that Adobe has made on creating great looking applications on the web (Buzzword and Photoshop Express) and the future of Gnome.

Join me tomorrow for a discussion on how to launch an effort to create an open-source, RIA-based desktop applications.

I am very excited.

2 poin untuk digali lagi:

1. Detik bukan lagi portal iklan berberita, tapi menjadi portal berita beriklan. Coba anda bandingkan skrinsut yang dibuat om Momon. Layout Detik dahulu banyak “disetir” kepentingan pengiklan. Pada satu waktu malah pernah 1/3 bagian atas, yang konon merupakan bagian sakral menurut ilmu per-Zeldman-an, sepenuhnya terisi iklan.

Saya nggak menyalahkan pengiklan. Justru berterima kasih karenanya.
Online marketing adalah dimensi baru. Di Indonesia, komposisi budget online advertising rata-rata masih berada dibawah 5% dari total budget pengiklan. Wajar-wajar saja jika sektor ini, terutama tampilan dan tata letak iklan, masih kacau balau.

Dengan kondisi itu, mengakomodir kepentingan konten dan komersial lantas menyajikannya dalam paten yang ‘rapi’, jelas bukan hal gampang.

2. Blogdetik dan DetikMap itu hanya ‘appetizer’. Kita belum merilis main desert. Jika Detik berubah menjadi bukan hanya portal berita, apakah the-so-called kompetisi itu masih juga relevan?

Lantas apa saja main desert-nya?

Ada deh, hehe.

Banyak :)

ps. Saking banyaknya kita butuh 4 Java software engineer, 3 Ruby software engineer, dan 4 System Network engineer. Kalau anda suka humor, langganan TechCrunch/ReadWriteWeb, baca Wired secara reguler, dan penganut agama open source—itu artinya kita punya banyak hal untuk diobrolin.
Saya menunggu CV anda.

With all the smaller players in the Virtualization game suddenly feeling like extras on the set of a badly-animated Godzilla movie, VMWare has fired it’s visionary CEO and looks to lose one of it’s most valuable engineers (her husband) all at a time when Microsoft is spooling up it’s Hyperbole-V engine to take on VMWare directly.

Best article about this so far is from the Register: EMC CEO’s Ego Has Cost Investors Billions, where the situation is laid out along withe resulting consequences for VMWare.  Basically it looks like VMWare’s CEO was axed by EMC’s CEO over personality differences, with Paul Maritz (Yes, THAT Paul Maritz so recently of Microsoft) taking the helm.

It’s a good time to be XEN-based, I can tell you, the momentum is rolling along and customers are deploying very successfully, maybe we’ll have a more level playing field soon, what with all the furor amongst the giants of the industry.

RossB