Stationary Traveller - be

FOSDEM 2009

nospam@example.com (Jelmer Vernooij) — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 04:08:00 +0100

Back from another awesome FOSDEM weekend. Finding good food in the Brussels city center is still as hard as it ever was, but at least the beer was good. Only attended two talks, but met lots of nice people.

SambaXP and other travel

nospam@example.com (Jelmer Vernooij) — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:03:04 +0200

It's been a busy two weeks. Wilco and I drove up to Göttingen on Sunday two weeks ago to spend some days hacking and meeting up with the other developers before the start of SambaXP. It was really nice to see everybody again after more than 7 months.

SambaXP was a bit different this year. There were three tracks during the second part of the conference this year, one more than previously and of course, there were several engineers from Microsoft attending this time! Some of the interesting talks this year included Julien's update on OpenChange, Tridge's talk on PFIF, the talk from the likewise folks and of course the talk from Microsofts' Wolfgang Grieskamp on SMB2. We also had some other informal discussions with the Microsoft folks about specific topics - very useful!

There are some photos up on the SambaXP homepage. And just to be ahead of the comments: yes, I know I need a haircut.

I did some initial work on several bits and pieces of code that I hope to expand over the next few months. Volker has started working on ncacn_ip_tcp support and I have been working on making the Samba 3 DCE/RPC library compatible with Samba 4. This should allow OpenChange to use Samba 3 in the future.

Guenther, Wilco and I made some initial progress on the policy library, allowing client-side manipulation of (group) policies in Samba. I worked with Simo on trying to get rid of an evil hack in Samba4's event subsystem.

David Holder blogged about some of the IPv6 development that we did during the conference: http://www.ipv6consultancy.com/ipv6blog/?p=34

And lots of other things I can't remember at the moment...

After the conference Andrew, Wilco and I drove back to the Netherlands and I played tour guide for a bit showing Andrew around the country during the afternoon and hacking Samba together in the morning. Later this week we took the train to Brussels, Eurostar to London and visited Sam's company
in the UK Midlands for a couple of days.

And in the midst of all this, it seems Ubuntu Hardy was released. Congratulations to all those involved!

cp: Brandi Carlile - Turpentine

Nemiver and other random things

nospam@example.com (Jelmer Vernooij) — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:00:03 +0100

FOSDEM was once again a lot of fun, although (as many others have already blogged) it's starting to become a bit too big for the venue where's it currently held, the ULB. I think I only attended 3 actual talks this year because it was so hard to get into a room.

Every now and then I come across a brilliant package in Debian. Nemiver is one. It is a simple GTK+ frontend for gdb, much like kgdb or ddd.

In other news, Andrew was interviewed about Samba 4 last week; the interview is here.

cp: Mars Volta - Miranda That Ghost That Just Isn't Holy Anymore

Back from Ireland

nospam@example.com (Jelmer Vernooij) — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 16:53:03 +0200

After a short but very nice holiday in Ireland and a long journey back over Brussels, I'm back in the Netherlands. Renting a car turned out to be a very good idea, although it took some time to find a rental company that would rent a car to people under 25.

We spent the first two days sightseeing Dublin in traditional Irish weather (short bursts of rain every half hour or so) and made two small road trips in the week following in the best weather imaginable.

Kernel hacking

nospam@example.com (Jelmer Vernooij) — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:00:28 +0100

As part of work, I'm now doing some kernel hacking. The first thing I'll be looking at is Kerberos authentication support in the CIFS VFS. It's an interesting challenge, and I'm very much looking forward to it.

I very much enjoyed the tutorial on Linux kernel development by Rusty Russel and Robert Love gave at LCA two years ago (probably the best I've seen so far!).

In other news, the BIOS patch for my X60s that enables VT has finally been released. I was hoping it'd allow me to speed up my virtual machines by replacing qemu with KVM, but KVM turned out to be extremely unreliable. The only images I've managed to get booted were running DOS, while Windows and Linux crash big time.

From friday to sunday, I'll be attending FOSDEM in Brussels again. Ping me on IRC if you'd like to meet up.

cp: Porcupine Tree - The Joke's on You

Back from FOSDEM

nospam@example.com (Jelmer Vernooij) — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:39:06 +0100

We returned home yesterday night after another very nice visit to to Brussels, attending FOSDEM. The quality of the talks was significantly higher then last year. In particular, I liked David Roundy's talk on darcs, Julien Seward's talk on valgrind and the introduction to beagle by Jon Trowbridge.