Black Out

Less than last years, but I didn't get any badge or lanyard for speaking at Heise's Cebit booth.

Same procedure as every year.

If your browser doesn't return on a javascript (and you are possibly lucky enough to somewhere catch the error "Too many recursions") this may be due to the fact that most browsers (Firefox included) only allow a maximum limit of 1000 recursions.

Links:
Javascript Basics Part 12
Post in mozilla.dev.tech.js-engine

Dieses Jahr aus gegebenem Anlass am neuen Ort: Klick.

Und für uns mit Doppel-X-Chromosom: Admiezen-Trikots im Weltraumshop.

As always, I had a very nice time at Linuxtag.
It was my first time there without holding a talk, as both my submissions were turned down ("Migrating to Open Source Databases", "Collaborative Knowledge Management Tools"). That gave me more time for strolling the aisles, meeting people and listening to several interesting talks. (My pics are on the sofa.)

The "meeting people" part is always the nicest, Linuxtag is still very much a "friends and family" event. This warm and fuzzy atmosphere was not - IMHO, others thought differently - changed by the new venue at Wiesbaden's Rhein-Main-Hallen. Like in Karlsruhe, there was a park next to the congress center to keep you from "Messekoller" (trade show freak out). It was nice to have all the booths in one location (not in two halls like in Karlsruhe, one for the free projects and one for the companies). I only missed the barbecue outside and there definitely was a lack of sofas!

Some booths were missing, too - the whole LAMP section of last year had vanished (hosting some of the best booth parties!). MySQL not having a booth at Linuxtag was just sad and not sufficiently explained by fair fatigue after the MySQL UC or budgeting constraints.

A short list of the talks I visited:

I started with listening to Sonja Krause-Harder explain the openSUSE project, then switched over to the luckless database track. The organizing team blew the invitation of David Fetter (PostgreSQL), so his talk was cancelled.
David Axmark's classic "State of MySQL" was substituted by Kai Voigt talking about Clustering in MySQL (definitely the more interesting topic).

Bernd Helmle from Credativ presented interesting details on managing large databases with PostgreSQL 8.1 and beyond.

Then Kai took over again, comparing LDAP to SQL (with a *slight* bias towards the latter...).

Afterwards I listened to Wilhelm Dolle talk about Trusted Computing - a short wrap-up of the technical details and Open Source options.

I skipped the Friday program, missing the whole CMS track - but I had a sunnier place to go on that day.

On Saturday I started with the talk by Matthias Kretz and Michael Repplingeron Phonon and NMM (KDE multimedia architecture).

I then moved to the Free Software track, listening to Meike Richter talking about Free Software and the digital divide, Karsten Gerloff on Access to Knowledge, Georg Greve on GPL v3 and DRM and Federico Heinz on GPL v3 and Internationalization.
   
   
In between I visited the keynote on Ubuntu to see Mark Shuttleworth stripping down to a KDE shirt :-)

Mal wieder was aus der Kategorie: Leute die ich kenne machen krasse Sachen.

Nils ist wahrhaftig unterwegs und läuft nach München, zum WM-Eröffnungsspiel. Weil's Spass macht, weil er rein will, und für einen guten Zweck sowieso.

Virtuell begleiten kann man ihn hier, und reale Mitläufer sind willkommen!

Häääh??? -> Im Interview mit den 11 Freunden gibt's Details.

1 Jahr Weltraum-Bloggen!

(or a few days afterwards).