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3D Desktop

Posted by muesli in Tech & Net
Sunday, June 29. 2003

Okay, now I'm getting insane. Some of those über-geeks have created a 3D Desktop switcher.

You might not be able to imagine right now, what this would look like?
Just click the image and you'll see. I love it!

You can circle around the Virtual Desktops with your mouse or navigate with the keyboard. Also different "themes" are available. Get this now, just be sure to have a powerful graphics adapter, since you will need OpenGL!

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Symbian Development. Which way to go?

Posted by muesli in Tech & Net
Sunday, June 29. 2003

Since I got a Nokia 3650 for some time now, it's just natural that developing software for this piece would attract me more and more. Now I'm convinced. I've been looking around the net for opensource / freeware Development Tools / Kits and this is what I found:

- gnuPoc

It's a gcc variante, which is able to produce Symbian binaries, but still there are few problems. First of all, you'll have to download the original Nokia SDK for S60 devices. This is (of course *sigh*) a Windows executable. So fire up VMWare or try your luck with Wine.

When the Windows installation completed, you have to take these files and get them back to your (e.g.) home dir. And now, we're in trouble. Those files have to be patched somehow to work with gnuPoc. I don't have a clue right now how to do it, but I'm still experementing. If anyone out there knows a solution, don't wait to contact me.

As soon as I made some steps forward I'll inform you.

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Transmeta Developer Kit

Posted by muesli in Tech & Net
Sunday, June 29. 2003

For some project I needed a processor with the following features:

- Cool temperature
- Horsepower (means MHz)
- but less power-consumption (only a few watts are avail)

I ended up with a Transmeta Crusoe SE. It's an x86 compatible processor, which runs an emulation layer (called Code Morphing) to achieve this goal.

The speed of the processor gets adapted automatically, which means: If you need power, the MHz will raise - and so will the power-consumption do. But if the CPU is actually bored and has nothing to do, it's going in a kind of standby mode. This makes the Crusoe consume not more than 250 mW.

Not enough! The "high"-peak is about 5.2 watts, which is still laughable (read lovable).

They are also offering some neat Developer Kits with 667 to 933 MHz processors and a daughterboard for embedded and mobile applications.

Shortly, the most impressive reasons for choosing a Transmeta:

http://www.transmeta.com/why/index.html

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Stressed out...

Posted by muesli in The third place
Wednesday, June 25. 2003

... I am. Working for nearly 13 hours now - and I will count some more this night.

And hey, guess what: Tomorrow I'll have to be up at 8am again. *Gnah*

Looking out for Friday, because hopefully I'll be able to get a holiday and make Friday a real Freeday. But for now: work, work, work.

Have a good night!

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sourceforge's cvs sucks.

Posted by muesli in Tech & Net
Tuesday, June 24. 2003

Not that it would be a bad service, IF it would work. But it simply doesn't.

This really sucks and influences my whole life. What to do if not compiling fresh-baked source code?

If they don't repair it quickly, I'll end up as a newspaper-reading nerd. *brrr*

Weather was tooo hot today. 35 centigrade in the office is just exaggerated. All the scared faces looking around for some drinks and ice, tough working on their project. 2 days to go till launching. Afterwards, I'm sure the weather will be cloudy and windy. At least this would fit in the masterplan of my current life.

*Hooray*

The sf.net checkout worked 5 secs ago. You just have to complain

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When it all comes down...

Posted by muesli in Music
Monday, June 23. 2003

...you might wanna listen to

Bush - Acoustic Comedown *or*
Lamb - Zero.

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Weekends make you sad

Posted by muesli in The third place
Monday, June 23. 2003

You know this feeling? Again it's a sunday evening (or even night) where you're sitting in front of your PC, finding out that again a weekend has passed, where you couldn't do all that stuff you just wanted to do. You did not have enough time, enough power or enough concentration.

Still I'm working for a project that's got to be launched this week and again I'm feeling like the earth-day should have some more hours than just 24... this combined with a human body not requesting so much sleep would really help a lot. (did I forget to mention free McDonald's food?)

Weird thought: Surely everyone of us noticed, that things you're doing more often become boring and feel more "time-expensive". For example the way home from the office. In my case, this is a distance of 100km. Each time I'm driving this road I'm feeling like in "bullet-mode". The second seems to become longer and longer and my car seems to be slower, too

I wondered what happens if you're getting older. There will be so many things you got "rid" off like driving home. Is every next year becoming a longer year than the one before? Could be a doom loop. Something like the last test before god accepts you in heaven.

Re-reading my text, I actually do think that I should go to bed *now*

good night.

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Internet scares

Posted by muesli in The third place
Sunday, June 22. 2003

Maybe it's just that I'm too long awake right now... or I'm just getting paranoid. Anyway... I noticed that the Internet takes notice of your being and doing. All the stuff I wrote on a sourceforge mailing of course gets archived by their database. But also by many other pages. Like this one.

I have to admit, they're actually doing a pretty good job. A neat user interface, which attracts me and it's performant, too. Just then I started googlin' for other stuff the net knows about me. Surprise: again gname.org, but then whohah google tells everyone on the world, which schools I attended. Cool, what about data protection?

I didn't click that checkbox (tm).

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Enemy Territory got game.

Posted by muesli in Video Games
Sunday, June 22. 2003

As you may have read in my last blog, I'm back on PC gaming since I have installed my new Geforce 4800. Luckily, there's a great new game out, named Enemy Territory. The best about it: It's a multiplayer-only game and totally free.

Setting all options to their highest values the game is running absolutely smooth. The Linux version offers an Install Anywhere assitant, which makes the installation as easy as possible.

Look out for a covert ops named "muesli"... might be standing right behind you

Here's a little review!

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Shiny new graphics adapter

Posted by muesli in Tech & Net
Saturday, June 21. 2003

Couldn't resist today. Just went out to buy a new fan for my old Thunderbird 1.4ghz cpu and came back with a Geforce 4800.

Never get me shopping. ;-(

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What's in your playlist?

Posted by muesli in Music
Tuesday, June 3. 2003

Reloaded!

Just wondered what old stuff bums around in my playlist... Decided to look around for some "fresh beats". It turned out, that there are some cool new songs you might wanna listen to, too

Continue reading "What's in your playlist?"

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