Pong
Ok long time no post, the past few months were rather busy. In retrospect
it turns out that it wouldn't have been necessary to spend that much
time studying. Anyway I passed my exams quite comfortably.
Now I'm back working at a M$ centered company till November. By then I will have to
go to military service for basic training. Superfluous to say that I'm rather
sceptical and think it's a pointless and wasteful exercise. Anyway because of this
obligatory gap year, I 'lose' yet another year. Initially I wanted to study
computer science at the ETHZ but I'm no longer
so sure whether I am actually up to the task. Time will tell I guess.
Random project status updates
I finally had some time to hack on my projects, released a new version of
ciopfs which fixes some bugs. I was positively surprised (or scared?) that apparently perforce
links to ciopfs in one of their knowledge base articles.
Furthermore I gave my Freerunner some long deserved attention and released a new
version of qi-bootmenu. Sent some trivial patches upstream to the enlightenment folks
and lost some more hairs while dealing with the mystery that is called configure scripts.
There is also a new dvtm release, which brings some usability improvements.
Random rumblings
Stumbled over this hilarious diagram
which shows who is suing whom in the telecom business.
This just perfectly illustrates how stupid the whole patent system has become, I can only hope that
this is the beginning of a self-destruction process. Unfortunately what will likely happen is that
the big players settle with patent cross licensing deals instead.
Some more links which I found interesting/useful and relate to my last programming activities (albeit work related ones)
And yes VBA is a pain and it still hurts.
So long,
Marc
Comments (2)
state-of-the-art blogging
Your blog is highly useful and ambitious. By the end of your military service I hope you will be back as savvy as now. Keep on brain dumping!!
Sorry for my ignorance....
First, thank you for dtvm, it is exactly what I'm looking for. I tried screen and tmux and I found dtvm much easier to work with. However, there is something I'm not quite understanding and I'm sure it has to with my general lack of understanding of how unix shells work. Why when I create a new window in dvtm does it not execute my bash .profile? For instance, my aliases, prompt, etc are not available.
