By the end of 2009

Another year has soon passed away. Goodbye 2009, it was nice to know you! If there still are anyone following this blog, you of course know that there have been just a very small number of posts the last year. And that is not because nothing has happend - rather the opposite. Just not so much to write about here.

In the past, I have written about versions of qtpfsgui for Mac OSX. Unfortunately, I don't think I have compiled even a single version of the program the last year? Or, wait a minute, yes—I did a version back in March or something. After that, the program has even changed it's name. I am not sure if I will be the one compiling Luminance HDR in the future, but until someone else take on the task, I guess I will be listed as OSX maintainer.

Other things I have used this blog for in the past is writing reviews of gadgets and computers. Unfortunately, the last year has not been very interesting with respect to that. I am from time to time tinkering with Ubuntu on a Fujitsu tablet, but that is only occasionally. And the hard parts like sound and completely sans-keyboard operation right from the gdm log-on, still needs to be figured out. Besides that, I am using iMac, Macbook pro 13" and iPhone 3Gs. While these are nice devices, there are tons of other reviews of them out there—so nothing to write about.

Quite a bit of time was spent during 2009 on producing two big documents using LaTeX; a book about Simula Research Laboratory now published by Springer, and an self-evaluation report of the same Laboratory. I could have written about LaTeX and issues related to fonts, typography, and style. But I still feel I am catching up on this relative to where I was a few years ago. So, again not much to write about.

When it comes to my daily work, I am entering a new phase now. Since Simula Research Laboratory was established in 2001, I have been in charge of the IT systems, and the last few years I have been the IT Manager. But from 1 January 2010 I am leaving this position to take on the position as Director of Administration. My good friend and colleague Carelius will be the new IT Manager. This certainly mean that I will do less technical stuff, but I will still be interested and also provide IT guidance and advice when necessary. There are also some parts of our systems that no one else know sufficiently well and which I still will take care of. Maybe something to write about shows up related to my new position...

I have also asked one of my colleagues who are interested in gadgets and Linux and webprogramming to write something one this web. Maybe he actually does that—in that case the first entry will be a review of the Nokia N900, from a system administrators perspective.

Take care, and happy new year everyone.

Kristoffer

On Friday 13 November we got our sixth (or eigth) child, Kristoffer.

Qtpfsgui 1.9.3 for Mac

Hi,

finally I managed to upload the dmg of the qtpfsgui 1.9.3. I did it a bit in a rush, so I hope I got it right - just tell me about any problem with it!

Take care.

Qtpfsgui

It's been a while, but now a new version of qtpfsgui is in works. Just want to let you know. I have recreated the whole toolchain on my laptop, with new versions of exiv2, fftw, libtiff, ilmbase, andopenexr - and as usual everything is not smooth, but the progress is fine.

Stay tuned!

When are Google going to fix filters?

I enjoy a lot quite a few of the tools Google creates. But there is one thing I really can't belive they still have not fixed. Filters in Gmail. I really, really need some kind of regexp or wildcard filtering, and this is still not available. For instance, I like to be able to do stuff with mail from 'name-*@some.domain' or '*-dev-owner@some.domain' or even use the '*' in the domain-part. But this seems to be quite impossible.

It's a sad thing. Please fix it!

Happy new year!

Wow, it's three months since my last post - that's bad. I'm so busy with lots of stuff that I find very little time for ramblings over here.

On the tech-side, I up'ed the Fujitsu tablet to the latest Ubuntu, 8.10. That works quite fine, but not perfect.

These days, I work quite a lot on out Plone system, but mostly on the intranet side, so not much to show off here. Have a look at http://simula.no if you like to check out the place I work and (a part) of what I do at work.

Also, have a look at http://brunstad.org if you are concerned about the bigger issues of life, faith and eternity!

Take care.