Es ist immer wieder erstaunlich wenn man einem Profi über die Schulter schaut. Wow! Halt! Wie hast Du DAS denn gemacht? Er zeigt es mir mal eben “schnell” wie es geht. Ich komm zuhause an und will das natürlich auch SOFORT ausprobieren… … …urgh! Wie hat er das denn nochmal gemacht? Leider habe ich es schon wieder vergessen und ach gezeigt hat er es mir eigentlich auch nicht richtig, da geht das halt nicht, dass ich es verstehen konnte.

Genau dieses Problem habe ich schon selbst oft erlebt. Ich habe nun diverse Workshops fertig gemacht für Mac OS X und diese auf hotodi bereitgestellt! Hier gibt es sicherlich einige Fragen zu

Was ist hotodi?

Weiterlesen "Wissen? Lernen? Schwer? NEEEEE!"

Nun nutze ich schon seit einigen Monaten ein MacBook und bin im Großen und Ganzen wirklich sehr zufrieden damit. Nur diese Probleme mit der deutschen Lokalisierung, die scheinen unsere Jungs aus Übersee bis heute nicht gebacken zu bekommen. Ein LocaleKit wie es in ZETA war wird man wohl nie mehr finden, es war anscheinend doch so einzigartig. Da haben Jopefan, Alan W., Ithamar und ich wohl doch etwas ganz besonderes “geschaffen”. 

Das wahre Problem scheint aber eher die QA zu sein. Amis interessiert der deutsche Markt halt nicht so sehr, sonst würden sie sich wesentlich mehr bemühen nicht immer wieder diesen eingedeutschten Mist abzuliefern, zum einen ist es oft ein sehr schlechtes Deutsch aber zum anderen sieht man sich anscheinend komplett ausser Stande einfach mal ein Auge auf das zu werfen, was man denn dem Kunden am Ende ausliefert. Derjenige, der die Übersetzung macht, sollte es auch wirklich auf Herz und Nieren testen. 

Weiterlesen "Lokalisierung und QA - Zwei Welten?"

The last days i worked with GIMP (yes i must admit i am really impressed by it!). Once i checked the “Info” i found out that i am still using 2.4.0 RC3, well kinda outdated - so to speak (thats the one you get with Ubuntu 7.1). I checked the Gimp homepage and saw, that there is the final 2.4.3 already. But as usual i did not find the binary for 64 Bit. Due the fact that i had already most of the development stuff installed i decide to make one on my own.

You can download it from here:
GIMP 2.4.3_amd64

This is NOT for 32Bit!! Use it on your own risc!

After some weeks playing around with Ubuntu i tested GNOME and liked it so far. Then i wanted testing the KDE4, well it was ok, just far overloaded. After some years with an OS which was always clean from its concept for the Desktop, the Tracker and the Deskbar i was kinda disapointed.

I went over to the internet and read on golem.de that there is a new version of Xfce. Xfce? what is that? well lets ask the Oracle. Ah cool nice and clean desktop, why not give it a try? Downloaded (man apt-get is a tool we should have had in the other OS also!) and installed and then just started it, it was realy easy.

I played again some days with it and started to read documentation and HowTo’s. Thx to my long time in building an OS i understood quite fast how to use the tools inside the Terminal. The cool thing is, that you can modify the look and feel very far. What was closer than make a skin for my beloved OS?

The result is here:

Unfortunatly you cannot get BUTTON|WINDOWTITLE|BUTTON i hope that this can get fixed asap so people can skin it even more.

Head over to their homepage: Xfce-Home

It is now some weeks i started to use Ubuntu. I decide to use the ubtuntu studio 64 Bit Version as i have an Intel Core2Duo machine running here.

One thing i found out quite soon was, that 64Bit is not that common still. So if you want to use apps you will see that there is more for 32 Bit than for 64 Bit.

Same thing was with some applications i started to use. One of these apps is called “Kino” there is the version 1.1.0 out for my system but in the same time you also can get kino 1.1.1, just -as usual in Linux - as sourcecode. Anyway i downloaded it and decide to install all dev tools i need to get it running.

So this is the first application i compiled for Ubtuntu. Feel free to download it from here.

Kino 1.1.1 amd64 (64Bit ONLY) for Ubuntu (debian)

Man man man I am not a friend of Microsoft, really not. But that is really hard cinema!

In the last 12 weeks i tried a bunch of different Linuxversions, most of them did not really work properly. Some were really bad and some were…well anyhow “usable”. Speedwise they were all better than Windows Vista on my Testlaptop. The worste were Freespire, followed from Ubuntu 7.04 and then Mandriva. Funny, that on Mandriva it was the only bootloader which did not break the Vista booting. But other than that it was not really well done and slow. The best one in the end was Ubuntu Studio 7.1 with Gnome, it works so far really well on this machine here.

Now what is to say about Mandriva? the CEO wrote an OpenLetter to Steve Ballmer. Both are working in a Softwarecompany and doing business to make money and not just for fun (at least this is my personal impression). Well the story is more or less written in the OpenLetter from Francois.

Here just my opinion about the letter itself:

1. Hey, if you write an open letter, let it do by one who know better how to do it than you
2. If you wanne do business do not get scared if you get into a competition, thats how business works
3. If you get into competition when it comes to an OS Vendor you hould not be surprise that someone like Microsoft also wants be a part of it, thats how business works
4. If you have to make things cheap enough to sell them, well again This is how business works

All in all i must admit that this openletter was a stupid thing in my opinion. You should not waste your time in writing things like this, you should concentrate on your OS and make it as good as possible and then start a real competition. And honestly: You are in the OS marked and that beside a lot of other Linux Distributions, you should know it better.

As usual… My 2 Cents

Two weeks ago Claus was in Vacation. I never liked his homepage. So what can one do then? Well sit down and take it as it is or sit down and do a new one. People who know me, know that i am not a person who just takes Option #1. I never did such a project before so i had to a) learn how to do it b) make the artwork and c) develop it. After 9 REALLY long days i got it uploaded and i must admit: I like it

Judge yourself and head over to it:

http://www.claus-eisenmann.de

::100:: What a number! I started about 6 weeks ago with the idea of my foundation for historical computers and today i reached a real milestone!I got my 100 Computer for the foundation. I am kinda proud as i think that in that short time i reached something really cool. Most of the computers i had to buy on my own but there are also people who started to help in that part. I want thank the people which donated stuff to the foundation.

Beside that i also got a cool donation today!

• 20″ SUN Bildschirm for SUN SparcStation (donated by Klaus Fischhaber)
• Sun SOlaris 7 + Sun Solaris 8 (donated by Klaus Fischhaber)
• Novell DOS 7 (donated by Klaus Fischhaber)
• GeoWorks Ensemlbe (donated by Klaus Fischhaber)
• SCO UnixWare 7 (donated by Klaus Fischhaber)

Beside all that i also started to clean up the house and moved all unnecessary stuff to the trash, once all is cleaned i will start to fix the roof and get new windows and doors in.

All in all, a really cool week!

Stay tuned.