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Conquering the N900

Last week just at the end of the last decade (happy new year everybody btw) I got a Nokia N900 with the Linux-based Maemo 5 operating system. I have had an N810 for more than a year and was very...

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Aldebaran Workshop 2010

I'm currently attending the Aldebaran RoboCup Workshop. It has its interesting points but obviously there is a lot of old stuff for new teams. You can follow me on twitter for fresh info on the new...

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Setup git tracking branch for existing branch (1 comment)

Something that I did many web searches is how to setup up tracking of a remote git branch for an existing local branch. That regularly happens for example if I start with a local topic branch, and then...

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Dead routers which did not die

In the last few months three routers I maintained died on me. All where little home routers. Two of them Asus WL-500GP, and recently a Fonera (first generation). The routers appeared to be live, but...

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To sleep or not to sleep

Today looked for a problem for about an hour which I thought might be worth sharing. The following (most likely common) scenario was to be implemented: one process wants to start another and be...

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Releases of Fawkes 0.4 and roslua

Yesterday I have released Fawkes 0.4, the robot software framework we have developed at RWTH Aachen University, with contributions from TU Graz and University of Cape Town. Various obstacles made it...

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Twitter annoyances (2 comments)

After Twitter disabled basic authentication yesterday, basically all Open Source Twitter clients ceased working (e.g. bug #629192). I tried some clients from the Fedora repositories, but none seems to...

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Fedora now includes Fawkes

Recently we proposed Fawkes for inclusion into Fedora. The review has completed and the package has been accepted! Fawkes and its development environment can now be installed out of the box, see the...

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Fawkes in Google Summer of Code 2011 with Fedora

Fawkes participates in the Google Summer of Code 2011 under the umbrella of the Fedora Project. The Fedora Robotics SIG has completed the Fedora Robotics Suite, a set of robotics related software...

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The long road to Kerberos/LDAP/NFSv4 and a shortcut (1 comment)

Recently we got a new server at university. It will replace the current file and authentication server which uses NIS and NFSv3. It provides us with a good opportunity to upgrade to something more...

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