Robert Schusters Blog

Now this is cool! Yesterday I learned about a club in my city that exclusivly plays CreativeCommons-licensed music. According to their website they also make sure that only those variants of the CC-licenses are used that free software people would identify as 'free' :-) Tommorrow there will be a party where they ...

Thanks to TI and the drawing they did at LinuxTag 2008 I got a BeagleBoard Rev. B4. When the package arrived I started getting the necessary serial cable. This board is unbelievable small. You get in a small box together with a mini USB cable: And now on to my favorite: The ...

Looking carefully at the posts from GNU Classpath members you realize that a lot of them play an instrument. Years ago I took (acoustic) guitar lessons but did not continue this after moving.One thing that bothered me over the years is that when I heard a nice song and started ...

Last week was critical. Due to some problems with our Freifunk mesh network I was offline for some days. Well, not really offline. If I urgently needed Internet connection I had to take my girlfriend's laptop (mine is still unable to deal with ad-hoc mode), walk to the Traveplatz park ...

Yeah, its true. The OpenMoko gals & guys finally fixed manufacturing issues and the first free (as in Freedom) mobile phone hardware is produced as you read this sentence. Great isn't it? Just in time for this I finished the first bit of work to get PhoneME Advanced compiled in OpenEmbedded. ...

Like Roman I am very happy about where Wine is heading and welcome what I call the best Windows (implementation) ever. :-) I am wondering however how Wine will cope with the inherent disease that the proprietary software is suffering from: What I mean are API or even driver level ...

Today I am continuing my impressions of LinuxTag 2008 in Berlin. Besides Harald and Rob I met Marcus Brinkmann at the social event (= kind of aftershow party). When reading the name on his speaker badge it reminded me of something but I had no clue. We were already in a ...

Yeah, I am in a writing spree today. I just sent this to the Maemo mailing list. Basically I continue where I left of last year. Since comments are still not open for anyone at this site (Sorry, I cannot do something about this). Contact me via email (thebohemian _ at ...

Just before FOSDEM I have a nice batch of screenshots to show. What I am going to present today is a new Jalimo demo application which is available in binary form from the Maemo Jalimo repository (sourcecode is in SVN). It makes use of SWT 3.4's ability to switch to fullscreen ...