http://www.mput.de/blog Code, Circuits & Creativity Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:04:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'ts now been a while since I've finished my master thesis. Still I haven't posted it here. It describes how you can access different mobile phone functions and shows working example applications. There we go: Master Thesis on Open Moko (german). I am currently updating the text so it can ... http://www.mput.de/blog/?p=27 Happy New Year! This Year I've had the pleasure to celebrate New Year in Rome. What a city, I was really impressed by the number of historic buildings squeezed into a city that you can cross by foot in less than an hour. I went there with Jan and we've met ... http://www.mput.de/blog/?p=26 Hi there - long time no blogging. There is so much to tell; for now I'll just put some things in here that are really important to me. First of all I thank Lia for crafting the best bag I've ever had. The handmade Linatic II is a special Laptop-Version of ... http://www.mput.de/blog/?p=25 Today I build my first true GTK widget. Since written in Python, it’s not fitting in all GTK programs, but still I think some people might find it useful. The Idea is to have a widget that can change two values at the same time. This comes in handy whenever ... http://www.mput.de/blog/?p=24 After being told that Google understands the need for 3rd party access to Androids online services at Android Developer Session (Munich) in January 2008, I wonder about a statement in Ed Burnettes blog showing that Google is restricting access to the protocol API. A Google employee I talked to felt the ... http://www.mput.de/blog/?p=23 As there is no lstlisting class for patches in LaTeX today I've had the problem to define a working definition to highlight diff files. If anyone else is having that problem, here are those 11 Lines of Code. \definecolor{darkgreen}{cmyk}{0.7, 0, 1, 0.5} \lstdefinelanguage{diff} { morekeywords={+, -}, ... http://www.mput.de/blog/?p=22 Today I finally managed to get the E800 ExpressCard provided by BASE working with Linux. I installed the latest Version (0.8) of Klaas van Gends umtsmon, and configured it to use 3G instead of GPRS. The problem that kept me from bringing the configuration to work until today was that ... http://www.mput.de/blog/?p=21 Last night I could finally finish the 0.8 release of SettingsGUI. The touch based application for Openmoko does now feature a configuration interface for Bluetooth Personal Area Networks. After setting up such a Network (touching the "Connect" button on both ends) I could get two Neo1973 phones to communicate with ... http://www.mput.de/blog/?p=20 Since Monday I'm back from a fishing trip to Southern Norway. A few days there can be so relaxing. The landscape in Norway is just stunning. In the picture you can see the Lista Fjord on a foggy morning. On arrival in Berlin I found my server being down for several ... http://www.mput.de/blog/?p=19 During the last week I had the privilege to help a good friend to build the project homepage for oBiCo. The open Bicycle Computer project aims to build nothing less then an open source autonomous embedded system for your bike. Peer with whom I shared a flat while studying at ... http://www.mput.de/blog/?p=18 As I'll write my Master Thesis on OpenMoko, I bought a Neo1973 as soon as it was available in the OpenMoko Online Shop. OpenMoko is an open source distribution for mobile phones, and the Neo1973 the first publicly available Phone, using it. After it arrived, I managed to write some software ... http://www.mput.de/blog/?p=17 After the semester finished I finally found some time to publish the 3D STP Simulator that I've developed for my Diploma Thesis. The Python application features a GTK GUI (wxPython) to build and control a custom network topology and a VPython frontend to visualize virtual switches and network cables ... http://www.mput.de/blog/?p=16 In the recent weeks I have been quite busy. After finally finishing my degree at the TFH-Berlin I decided to continue studying to upgrade the Dipl.-Ing.(FH) to a Master Degree. As for new Projects I've got plenty finished and nearly finished to document now. Most projects I choose for University ... http://www.mput.de/blog/?p=15 Using iChat on a new MacBook Pro (a worthy replacement for my Pismo) to see some friends, we found out that the built in mic of the Laptop isn't usable if you intent to move your mouth more then 10 cm away from the screen. So I remembered an old ... http://www.mput.de/blog/?p=13 When I've had trubble using my iPod with amaroK for the second time, after a complete database reformat (using iTunes in Windows - to get a FAT filesystem) I had to fix things there. After copying files to the device amaroK seemed to be stuck so that it could not ... http://www.mput.de/blog/?p=11 As Poeloq points out in the Th!nkNerd Blog (german) to learn the chinese language seems to be more easy for geeks then some of our western languages. I think he has a good point and regret not to have lerned more about this language when I was there. He also ... http://www.mput.de/blog/?p=10 When thinking about chinese brands many western people do actually think about the brands they get to know from advertising campains for the western market. Interestingly some companies do have different names - with even different meaning - for the chinese market. For example Lenovo is not a chinese name ... http://www.mput.de/blog/?p=9 Some of you may have realized a downtime of mput.de in the last days. This is due to a relocation of the server powering this side for the last years. After a long and great time im Paris (exactly Aubervieller) I want to thank eliott-ness and Daniel ... http://www.mput.de/blog/?p=8 As it came up yesterday - I've lost the docmentation for my RS232 Signal refresher. Such a device is needed to refresh signals (from USB-converters or direct TTL implementations) to valid oldstile RS232 signals with 15 V and -15 V using a 9 battery - and yes it's kind of ... http://www.mput.de/blog/?p=7 Okay, so I found it out again - I'm such a lazy blogger. So to post something from time to time I'll start blogging just to blog from here on... ;) http://www.mput.de/blog/?p=6