Archive for the 'general' Category

Free software on different platforms

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

J5’s post about how Gnome is about the people and their ideas made me again think about the same thing I’ve been pondering lately.
Free software is being used on new platforms: handheld tablets and other embedded systems etc.. Many times this requires a rewrite of at least the user interface parts, because a desktop is […]

Testing maemo-blogger…

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

This post comes from the N770 with the native tool. Hmm. (edit: Looks like it worked :)) Testing blog tools is kinda awkward when you are syndicated in at least two planets.. Sorry about that
Hmm.
I think I would like to see at least a few things implemented, here are some suggestions:

It’s nice that […]

Things to avoid when integrating Linux with hardware

Thursday, August 10th, 2006

We got the Samsung ultra-mobile PC (the “origami” device I think?) to play with at the office, and I thought of sharing my experience with you. Maybe this will help us, Novell, Ubuntu or someone else who might be thinking of bundling Linux with laptops or other hardware in the future.. But let’s move on. […]

Green!

Friday, August 4th, 2006

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Originally uploaded by TuomasKuosmanen
Nice row of trees in Pärnu, Estonia. We did a quick trip there last sunday.

Gnome website and CMS questions

Friday, July 28th, 2006

So, the Gnome website apparently needs a new engine.
Henri wrote a nice analysis and commentary of Midgard CMS and how it would work for this case. Check it out.
I think we should also think a bit deeper here: we could possibly have some CMS-like functionality on the desktop as a method of sharing information, perhaps […]

2002: A Barbican Odyssey

Saturday, July 22nd, 2006

2002: A Barbican Odyssey
Originally uploaded by docpi
Oh man. This photo, taken by Daniel, is really interesting in a strange way. It just captures you very strongly. Wow.

They made it!

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

The DeathMonkey race is over, two of three guys are in Gibraltar, and even the third got very close before having his vechicle stolen in Pamplona. Duh..
“Bob” aka “The guy I did the GUADEC talk with” used his Nokia 770 to blog from the trip, looks like it was a useful tool for that. Need […]

Quick maps

Monday, July 17th, 2006

Stumbled on this pretty nice site which lets you plot stuff on a map, using the google maps API and lets you either link to the map (like this) or embed it on your own site (let’s see how this works, below - and whether planet likes it or not..)

Edit: Ok, looks like planet […]

Bought a bike

Friday, July 14th, 2006

Bicycle speedometer / timer / calorimeter…
Originally uploaded by TuomasKuosmanen
So I bought a new bike for those home - train station journeys on work days. The Bike Store Guy gave me this speedometer/cyclocomputer for free as a gift. What a wonderful and fitting name it has!

Free web services

Thursday, July 6th, 2006

Luis, I agree with you - we need to have free alternatives too. But the small, open web service lacks one important aspect - the other people you know and love. I think the reason most people are excited about Flickr, for example, is because it is of course easy to use, but also that […]