JPNIC published The Internet Timeline (Japanese version is also there). My first contact with the Internet was about 20 years ago. I was a Universal student. The University had 64kbps bandwidth, it was really slow. Nowerday, I have 128kbps mobile network with 950 yen/month. It is usable for some use case, like text messaging.

I attended The 8th Kernel/VM Explorers(Japanese) in 13 Apr. The event focuses on OS kernels and/or Virtual Machines architecture. I think seeing figure or graph will be interesting.

I had attend to Debian Bug Squashing Party in Tokyo at 24th Nov. 2012. The place was provided by Plat Home Co., Ltd. The attendee was about 7 people, it s not so many men.

I attended Debian Packaging Dojo at 22 Aug. Dojo ( ) means a training hall for karate, judo, and/or kendo in Japanese. The event is a training for Debian packaging. Attendants were about 15 people. I could learn modern packaging methods. The place is Rakuten Tower in Shinagawa, thank you Rakuten company and Taku YASUI <tach at debian.org>.

We, FSIJ join to Software Freedom Day 2012. Japanese Wiki page had publishd by Nobuhiro Iwamatsu, a developer of Debian Project. I prepared to broadcast the event by 100% Free Software, I can get many suggestion by the last article comments, thank you. The following is my recipie:

ffmpeg -s 320 240 -f video4linux2 -i /dev/video0 -b 128k \
-f alsa -ac 2 -i hw:0,0 -acodec vorbis -vcodec libtheora -r 25 -f ogg -\
oggfwd host.example 8000 passwd /test.ogv

I, as a member of FSIJ, consider to broadcast a Software Freedome Day in Japan. In the past, I can do it with gstreamer and icecast2 in The 5th International GPLv3 Conference. Howerver, gstreamer command is very complex and the Interface had changed, so I can t re-do it by my old script. Usteram is easy to use, but it is not Free Software. I could find such packages in Debian repos:

• Transmageddon
• CamStream
• Ezstream

I ll try to use them and to find the good tool.

Unknown machine video (mp4) It seems the machine delivering some medicine.

It seems the machine delivering some medicine.

Hiroki Sato, a member of FreeBSD core team, reported to work FreeBSD on OpenBlocks A6, a ARM based machine with Debian. Here is the boot message. And NetBSD also works.

Shozo TAKEOKA had described to work RetroBSD on PIC32 1chip micro computer in 14th JNUG BOF. The board is Chipkit MAX32 with SD card socket. He bought it 5,900 JPY. More detail is http://ameblo.jp/takeoka/entry-11308169137.html (Japanese). RetroBSD is based on 2.2 BSD (!), and work without MMU. So it can work only one process in their ram, other processes are in swap space. It was really funny presentation.

In July 7, I attended to Japan NetBSD Users Group (JNUG) 14th annual meeting and BoF. There ware many technical sessions, and key-signing party. So I can connect between Debian developers and NetBSD developers with the web of trust.

In June 23, Grand Unification Debian seminar had held in Kyoto University. The participiants were about 70 people. And in July 21, The 90th Tokyo area Debian seminar had held in Ogikubo, Tokyo. It holds every month, so the participiants are not so many, but there ware about 15 people. There were good experience to me, especially key-signing party was good. But I forgot to bring my new 4096R key CurrentlyI use 1024D key and it is not so strtong, so I consider to switch the new key.

I had an old English blog with bloxsum, but it is hard to maintainance so I created a new site with wordpress.

I made a patch for pisa 3.0.10, to add Japanese support. pisa is a HTML to PDF converter written in Python. The patch is located to http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~knok/software/patches/pisa-3.0.10+jp1.diff .
The patch is very simple, add Japanese CID fonts and use them as default. The core part is following:

--- sx/pisa3/pisa_context.py    (revision 14)
+++ sx/pisa3/pisa_context.py    (working copy)
@@ -338,6 +339,10 @@
         self.debugLevel = debug
         self.text = u""
         self.uidctr = 0
+        # for Japanese
+        self.loadCIDFont(['HeiseiMin-W3', 'mincho'], 'HeiseiMin-W3')
+        self.loadCIDFont(['HeiseiKakuGo-W5', 'gothic'], 'HeiseiKakuGo-W5')
+        self.fontList['helvetica'] =  'HeiseiKakuGo-W5'
         self.pageSize = A4
         self.template = None

I tried to change to use another asian font, it seems work well however I need to change "font = UnicodeCIDFont(fontName, False, True) " on loadCIDFont() to "font = UnicodeCIDFont(fontName)". pisa uses html5lib and it supports charset infomation in HTML meta tag, so it is really easy to adopt major asian languages. Then I need to contribute it to the upstream.

Top posters in a few Debian-related Planets:

$ planet-scores.sh 
Planet Debian-FR :
     19 Rapha l Hertzog
      4 Roland Mas
      3 Jean-Christophe Dubacq
      2 Gr gory Colpart
      2 Alexis Sukrieh

Sometimes I think this should be renamed Planet Buxy.

Planet Debian-FR (utilisateurs) :
     10 Julien Candelier
      8 Emilien Macchi
      4 Guilhem Bonnefille
      3 Shams Fantar
      1 Rapha l Hertzog
      1 Olivier Berger (perso)
      1 Jean-Christophe Dubacq
      1 Jean-Baptiste H tier (djib)
      1 Eric Veiras Galisson

Newly added contributors to that planet have all their recent articles aggregated, not only the ones they wrote since they were added.

Planet Debian :
     40 Christian Perrier
      2 Russell Coker
      2 Raphael Geissert
      1 Wouter Verhelst
      1 Steve Kemp
      1 Romain Francoise
      1 NOKUBI Takatsugu
      1 Michal  iha 
      1 John Goerzen
      1 Joey Schulze
      1 Gerfried Fuchs
      1 Fathi Boudra
      1 Enrico Zini
      1 Emanuele Rocca
      1 Dirk Eddelbuettel
      1 David Welton
      1 Christine Spang
      1 Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
      1 Adam Rosi-Kessel

Planet "Christian loves rugby".

debian-community.org :
      4 Holger Levsen
      3 Andrew Donnellan
      2 Evgeni Golov
      1 Wolfgang Lonien
      1 Rapha l Hertzog
      1 Martin Albisetti
      1 Marcos Marado
      1 Jean-Christophe Dubacq
      1 Cord Beermann
      1 Benjamin A'Lee
      1 Andreas Putzo
$

I know I have an encoding problem on some planets, but that script is a very basic curl+shell+sed+grep+recode+sort+uniq pipeline, and I only use it for the amusement value. Maybe I'll recode it with a proper RSS parser some day if I feel utterly bored.

Yesterday, I went to a ceremony for Junichiro "itojun" Hagino, a famous hacker. He passed away on 29 October and he was 37 years old. The formal funeral is today(7 November). Anyway I can't realize it even now...

On last Saturday (17, Mar.), we Doc-ja Project had finished DocFest 2007 (Japanese), the first event for documentation and translation. My purpose was making all missing manpages, but I couldn't complete it. So I still get some lintian warnings. Also I could find some documentation bugs in namazu, and fixed. Anyway, the event was succeeded. Thank you all attendees, all upstream developers and Debian Project, especially Debian Policy and lintian(1).

On 21 Feb. 2007, I had met with Bdale, Junichi Uekawa, and some Debian users. It was really good experience. He seemed good guy, good father, and good president of SPI. I talked about many things like Debian, SPI, social issue related on IT, education, and so on. Especially, his children are very interesting for me. His daughter seems to have good computer knowledge. And I saw photo of his son he had made many small rockets. Then I said to him, "Your family looks like Kim Possible". Maybe his daughter will save the universe.

On the past Monday, Yoshinori TAKESAKO, the one of the developers of Namazu, talked about Plagger in FSIJ monthly seminar. Plagger is a very useful and powerful application, and I could make a planet site in my office. It is apt-gettable but not official. The apt-line is:

deb http://debian.hansode.org/ ./ 

and the package name is libplagger-perl. However, it has no "assets", the essential components for Plagger, so you need to get them from the svn repo.

svn co http://svn.bulknews.net/repos/plagger/trunk/plagger/assets/

The following is the example of YAML:

global:
  timezone: Asia/Tokyo
  assets_path: /home/knok/plagger/assets
plugins:
  - module: Subscription::Config
    config:
      feed:
        - http://internal.host/~knok/index.rdf
  - module: Bundle::Planet
    config:
      title: Planet Office
      dir: /home/knok/planet
      url: http://internal.host/planet/
      theme: sixapart-std
      duration: 30 days
      description: The internal RSS aggregation.

Last year, Binary 2.0 Conference had held, and it also held again. There is a book named Binary Hacks (Japanese) that contains many things focused for low-level stuff. Unfortunately, it is a Japanese book, but the English TOC is available. Anyway, Takeshi Yaegashi's presentation is spreading over the world. Engadget's article is a good brief summary.