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GSM Palm Pre on the horizon
As mentioned, the freesmartphone.org team and community has taken the challenge to put the FSO stack on the Palm Pre which is out next month. The goal is to manage a voice call with the FSO stack within four weeks. The idea behind this is a very important one. With only the Openmoko FreeRunner as a platform, the FSO stack is doomed into oblivion sooner or later, since its a very limited hardware platform -- in quantity, but considering the closed alternatives also in quality. Hence, we need to proof that FSO can run on current, competitive hardware -- to...
Vala gains support for server-side async dbus
Something wonderful has happened! Jürg Billeter -- mastermind of Vala -- pushed support for server-side async dbus into Vala. I hope I didn't annoy him too much (having continuesly pestered for almost a year now), but the net effect is that we can now continue working on fsogsmd, the Vala implementation of our dbus GSM server (see http://docs.freesmartphone.org for an overview of the API). Yay!
Too much broken hardware
Let me announce the 3rd piece of broken hardware in 3 months. This is definitely too much :( First my Dreambox 7025, then a Denon AV receiver, and now my Linux workstation decided to die. It looks like (hopefully) just the PSU is to blame though -- doesn't react to incoming power any more. As if I had time for such things *sigh* ... Update: It looks like there was a power surge during a thunderstorm. My Dreambox and AppleTV halted as well... aaargh Update 2: A new PSU brings the workstation back to live *phew*. Dreambox and AppleTV did...
Field Recording Again
As mentioned in a previous installment of this column, I'm spending more time with music (and related tasks) again. To get some raw material for new samples, I started recording in the field. The best device I can recommend in the mid-budget region is the Tascam DR100 recorder -- this device comes with an aura of "work, not play"; unlike the famous Zoom devices which I found to be very plastic and unreliable. The killer features of the Tascam DR100 for me are: Built-in rechargable Li battery 2 XLR inputs w/ 48V phantom power 4 built-in microphones, two uni-, two...
One week in Paris
Sabine and me spent a week in Paris to celebrate our 8th wedding anniversary. It's pretty amazing that the ICE train takes only 4h from Frankfurt/Main to Paris, Gare de l'est -- this is almost the same amount of time it takes me to get to Berlin... Besides walking all around the city and visiting some sites, I took the chance to visit the Bearstech office and chat a bit with the guys there. Unfortunately only few bears were there at that time, but with only 4h to Paris, I'll be surely coming back more often. On the last day,...
FSO founds BGB company
We just released the following statement to various mailing lists: Braunschweig, Germany, 2009-07-29. For immediate release. The freesmartphone.org core-team founds a BGB company to facilitate the further development of free and open source middleware for Linux-based mobile systems: "Lauer, Lübbe, Schmidt, Willmann, freesmartphone.org GbR". The core-team members of the freesmartphone.org project today announced the founding of a legal entity offering consulting, training, and implementation services around the freesmartphone.org middleware platform, also known as FSO. "We now have a single point of contact for both commercial and non-commercial parties who want to use our services to create compelling solutions. This is...
Updating the Recording Studio
Although I kept working on my instrument skills, I neglected my recording studio for about a decade now. I guess the root of the problem is that I never got the hang of the modern computer based sequencers. The moment when I sold my KORG 01/W workstation (almost a decade ago) was the moment I more or less quit recording anything. While I'm working with computers for a living, I don't like software instruments much -- with one exception which is the reason for this post. I just acquired a Native Instruments MASCHINE -- which is a dedicated hardware controller...
Dreambox 8000
After the sudden death of my Dreambox 7025, the new OE-based device in the living room is a Dreambox 8000 -- simply the best set top box money can buy these days. Yes, it's quite expensive, but the hardware is fully loaded (heck, there's even WiFi) and the freedom to install what you want is invaluable.
Openmoko Workshop in Munich
I'll be present at the first Openmoko Workshop in Munich, gracefully organized by Dr. N. Schaller (Goldelico) hosted at the University of applied science in Munich. Topics will be developer-oriented, but beginners are also invited. There are only few seats left, so please contact Dr. Schaller via the freeyourphone.de forum, if you want to be on board. I'll be talking mainly about freesmartphone.org -- the beginning (2002-2008, from handhelds.org to openmoko.org), the present (2009, how to program with FSO), the future (2010-, what the Vala rewrite will bring and how we get FSO to more hardware). This is just a...
Fluid speed issues!
Fluid v1.3 is too fast on 3GX iPhones ;( ! I will released a fix tonight !