Where maemo is coming from...

Image by teoruiz via FlickrI will try to tell the story as my friend mooch told me quite some time ago. It was the beginning of the internet tablets, it was so beginning that the tablets were just called "devices" and that the 770 was only a prototype. I wasn't there yet but mooch told me he was and he just received his brand new shiny desktop to start doing something. In the search for a new

The short service break that you just experienced…

Was performed to add another cpu to the SQL server, which was task switching like crazy. Lost lots of cycles for no good reason. Now the server should have an easier time, but I’ll wait for the statistics to arrive to see what and how much has changed.

Anyway this is again a step in the correct direction. I want to make the site feel fast.

And I am really happy to see the importance of simplicity in the discussion about the maemo.org redesign. Simple elegant design usually means that it is faster to run.

Meeting at FOSDEM, Bossa… where else?

Corporate budget planning is an interesting science that leads you to look at the future in a quite pragmatic way. First half of 2009: where is Maemo going to be? Where is the Maemo community willing to go and meet? The first Maemo Summit ever was a success! I was supposed to blog about that, but [...]

Maemo Bug Jar #25

A Quick Look at maemo Bugzilla
2008-09-29 through 2008-10-05

Using wired connections from you tablet.

This hack was originally needed mainly because I am usually under a proxied network at work, and for some security issues this connection can not be broadcast'ed by access points or routers, but I do want my tablet connected to the same wired network of my desktop.