As announced earlier there are a couple of half-marathon events I want to take part in. Newest addition will be the BIG 25 Berlin Half-Marathon on May, 6th. While this event, ending in the well-known Berlin Olympic Stadium, traditionally has been a 25km event, this year a half-marathon distance is offered as well.
wine-gecko coming to a fedora wine installation near you…
It is always a nice feeling when you can close a bug on your package which has been open for about two years. In this case I am talking about rhbz#573530 – titled “package gecko support”.
What does this mean? Wine implements its own version of the Internet Explorer. For this it uses a customized version of the Mozilla Gecko layout engine (see Wine Gecko). If wine creates a new wineprefix for a user or a version upgrade of wine wants a new version of wine gecko the user is asked to download a windows build of the gecko engine (~17M). On systems with 64bit & 32bit wine the download has to be done twice. This needs to be done per wineprefix, even if you need to start with a fresh prefix the files will have to be downloaded again.
What can be done about this? Wine has a search path for wine gecko which includes a central place on the system. This is done so distributions can bundle wine gecko. While wine gecko is licensed under OSS licenses we are talking about building a windows build of the gecko engine. For the past two years this was not possible in fedora due to the available mingw. With the inclusion of a new mingw stack for the upcoming fedora release 17 (see mingw-w64 cross compiler) wine gecko can be cross compiled on fedora out of the box.
Thus wine 1.5.0 will pull in one (or on 64bit installations two) new packages on upgrade – mingw{32,64}-wine-gecko – which contain a system managed version of the wine gecko engine. All users upgrading from an older wineprefix (before 1.5.0) or creating a new wineprefix will not have to download wine-gecko from an external source and will be automatically using the shipped version.
Running 2012
After making it to only one half-marathon event in 2011, for 2012 two events have already been booked and preparations are underway.
- 32. Berlin Halbmarathon, 01.04.2012
- St. Wendel Marathon, 29.04.2012
Also planned are
- 15. Saarschleife Marathon, 02.09.2012
- 3. Gourmet Marathon Saarbrücken, 16.09.2012
Half-Marathon Events 2011
The beginning of the new year is a good time to pick up where 2010 has finished. Regarding sports this means to choose some running events (half-marathon) to take part in. My list currently looks like this with a big gap in the summer:
1. Mai: Sankt Wendel Marathon
04. September: 14. Saarschleifen Marathon, Merzig
18. September: 2. Gourmet Marathon, Saarbrücken
23. Oktober: Dt. Feuerwehr Meisterschaft Halbmarathon, Dresden
rxvt-unicode 9.09 upgrade
I have taken some time last week to cleanup the rxvt-unicode package and upgrade it to 9.09. This cleanup features some nice new functionally (256 color support) and a package split which will be interesting for multi-language users. The package is now split into four parts (similar to debian) as a lot of options are set at compile time:
- rxvt-unicode: standard version
- rxvt-unicode-ml: version enhanced for multi-language support, including unicode3 support
- rxvt-unicode-256color: standard version with 256color support (TERM will be rxvt-unicode-256color)
- rxvt-unicode-256color-ml: version enhanced for multi-language support and 256colors
Builds for F13 and F14 are in updates-testing. If you want to try out the 256color support beware of #653081. As a workaround you can run
tic /usr/share/doc/rxvt-unicode-9.09/etc/rxvt-unicode.termcap
which will put the needed terminfo files in ~/.terminfo
Feedback as always welcome.
Taming the three headed monster…
… or running Fedora 14 with a triple head nouveau setup and Xinerama.
MSc Presentation
My master thesis presentation will be tomorrow, 29th, February from 13:15-14:30h at Maastricht University, MICC, Bou 8-10, room 0.009. Paper and presentation will be made available here shortly.
Posted in University
Comments Off
Master Thesis
Finally it is time to announce that I am nearly finished with my master thesis. I will give my presentation on the topic of “Rotation Invariant Pattern Matching and Rotation Estimation” on 29.02.2008 at MICC, UM. The exact room and location will be announced here shortly.
Posted in University
Comments Off
Bachelor Conference Schedule
For those that are interested: I will be giving my presentation at 1430h.
Posted in University
Comments Off
Bachelor Thesis
Finally after a couple of long, interesting and memorable weeks of work I finished my Bachelor Thesis on “Polynomial Optimization via Recursions and Parallel Computing”. The thesis can be found in the papers section. I will give a talk about it during the 2007 Bachelor Conference of Knowledge Engineering/Computer Science at the University of Maastricht on June 21st (room C-103, TS53). The conference starts at 1100h but I do not know yet which time slot will be allocated form me. I will put the slides up here sometime after the conference. Thanks again to my supervisors at the Department of Mathematics who really made this a great experience.
Posted in University
Comments Off