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Sessions about MySQL at the EuroOSCON 2006 conference

Posted by Lenz Grimmer on
On September 18th-21st, the second EuroOSCON will take place in Brussels, Belgium. I probably won't make it to this year's conference, but I really enjoyed the event in Amsterdam last year.

The session grid contains a number of talks related to MySQL:

In addition to these sessions which are directly related to MySQL, here is a selection of talks that most likely cover it as well:
All in all, the conference program looks very promising. I wish I could be there...

SAGE@GUUG Hamburg Meeting

Posted by Lenz Grimmer on
Yesterday I attended a local SAGE@GUUG Meeting. The topic was "zsh - the ubershell" and I tend to agree - I have switched to using zsh instead of bash more than four years ago, after Mads introduced me to it. However, I quickly discovered that there is much more to learn about it - thanks a lot to Julius for the nice demonstration.

After the presentation we walked over to a local turkish restaurant to have some dinner and chitchat. There I met with Lars, who moved to Hamburg recently. We had a good time and discussed a wide variety of subjects. Thanks to Dirk for arranging this meeting! I look forward to the next one, which will take place on September 14th and will cover the "Service Management Facility" from Sun Solaris 10.

More packages added to the openSUSE Build Service

Posted by Lenz Grimmer on
Encouraged by this flattering comment, I went through my full collection of SUSE RPMs, picked the ones worth updating to the latest versions and submitted them to my package repository at the openSUSE build service now:
  • bchunk 1.2.0 - A CD image format converter from .bin/.cue to .iso/.cdr/.wav.
  • kvdr 0.64 - A KDE Front-End for VDR (Video Disk Recorder)
  • samefile 2.12 - Find identical files on your file system
  • rss-glx 0.8.1 - Really Slick Screensavers
  • rzip 2.1 - A large-file compression program

I hope none of these are already maintained somewhere else, this is something I still haven't figured out - how can I search the existing projects for certain packages?

The Build Service totally rocks, especially since it can be conveniently used from the command line as well. I submitted my first two packages via the web frontend, but have now switched to using the osc command line tool exclusively. Kudos to the openSUSE Build Service Team, building packages on other platforms has never been that easy!

10.1 RPMs now on the openSUSE Build Service

Posted by Lenz Grimmer on
Thanks to Duncan Mac-Vicar for the friendly reminder: I finally bit the bullet and started using the openSUSE Build Service for building and hosting the RPMs that I build for SUSE Linux by myself. I've now moved the KeyJnote and mercurial RPMs for SUSE Linux 10.1 to my own repository there. Future RPMs will also be provided from there exclusively. Kudos to the openSUSE team for providing this service!
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