Yesterday, I lost many emails because of operation failure. I tried to remove mass spam in Maildir. Unfortunately, I misunderstood to chdir spam directory instead of inbox. So all of email from a month were removed... I need to make a script to prevent such failure.

The 5th International GPLv3 Conference will hold in Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan, Nov 21-22, 2006. I am a board member of FSIJ (The Free Software Initiative of Japan), and the organization is hosting the conference. I'm also working to prepare the conference. The most major usage of GNU/Linux is for embedded system in Japan. I think many people know "Zaurus", a linux-based PDA. And other many embedded systems are here and there in Japan. So we will discuss about embedded system and Free Software. I consider to broadcast the conference by Ogg/Vorbis and Theora, XCAST6 with vic and rat, and IRC. I hope that many people see the conference via network and directly. BTW, the blog's category is not match to the subject. I need to make other category...

Shun-ichi Goto, one of the elisp hackers, released an emacs major mode for Trac, trac-wiki.el. I had not tested it yet, but it would be useful for emacs users. It seems to require w3m, emacs-w3m, xml-rpc.el, and XmlRpcPlugin for Trac.

Junichi Uekawa(dancerj) arrenged a welcome party for Mattia Dngili and Matthew Wilcox tonight. Unfortunately, I couldn't attend it because I need to stay to get my large baggage from a transporter. However, the place of the party is really near from my home, so if I can, I'll attend it. By the way, I already met with Matthew Wilbox in linux.conf.au 2004, but he wouldn't remember me.

Now Warren Togami, the founder of the Fedora Project, is in Japan. And today I and some Japanese FLOSS developers (includes Kenshi Muto) are going to discuss with him. The last year, he has come to Japan and already discussed about i18n with many people, so today's addendants are a few people. Anyway, I hope the discussion will improve i18n environment in the FLOSS world.

Development Environment Conference(Japanese) was held in Akihabara, 8 Sep. The event was focused for that the famous geeks use what kind of tools, software configuration, or environment. Many people were using zsh, GNU screen, and vim or Emacs. In the event, I really surprised a man who use GNU screen with default prefix key!

In Xen Dom0/U environment, some optimized binaries for the prossessor type i686 work slower than standard Debian binaries. To discover the reason, now I am trying to use xenoprof, some patchsets for Xen 3.0.0. The latest unstable Xen have already merged the patch, but Debian sid's package is still not supported, so I need to use Xen 3.0.0... I hope xenoprof will be merged the Debian Xen related packages.

Recent my work is researching about virtualization technologies. So Xen is also my target. I can use it, but I need to evaluate their performance. So I am trying to compare with difference between gcc and icc on DomU. So I need to try to install gentoo. It requires really many time to compile, so I tired...

I uploaded the photos took in CodeFest 2006 Akihabara to Flicker.com. This machine is VAIO TypeU, a small PC with keyboard. I used it for realtime streaming. Unfortunately, my webcams are not satisfyed to use GStreammer because of poor v4l implementation. So I used Windows XP and Windows Media Encoder 9. I need a suitable webcam for GStreammer..

From 1st Jul, I joined with CodeFest 2006 Akihabara, a kind of events like Hackathon, Sprint, or something. It has been broadcasting via PeerCast, so if you want to see it, setting up PeerCast and play with the follow link: http://localhost:7144/pls/4345209C975F5665FA9308FDB163F249?tip=61.197.170.97:7144 . Unfurotunately, I couldn't setup Ogg/Vorbis, Theora, so it is using Windows Media Encoder 9. I regret it.

Today I uploaded File-MMagic-1.27.tar.gz to CPAN, tt has two minor bug fix.

Today, I joined with PyPy Sprint in Akihabara, Tokyo. It is an event like a Hackathon, CodeFest, or Bug Squash Party. I'v done to adopt wire-siwg with Python, so I released it as version 0.20 I also posted an announce to wire-crawler yahoo groups, but it is not reached yet.

Today I released wire-swig 0.10, multi language binding of libwire. libwire is a part of WIRE, an implementation of Web crawler. I can made my local search engine like google mini with it.

To make search engine with international support, languages are big problem. I maintain Namazu, it is focused to only Japanese and English, but I want to support more languages. In the past, I found TextCat, a perl implementation of language guesser. And yesterday, I can found a new implementation, libTextCat, a C implementation. So I packaged it and placed to:

deb http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~knok/debian ./
deb-src http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~knok/debian/source ./

I'll consider to ITP it.

In the past, I had sent a vote mail to debian-vote list. And I do it again... I need more attention.

I just saw the vote of NOKUBI Takatsugu who posted it by error on debian-vote. The vote ranked “Further discussion” second just after his preferred option. I find such a vote too strong. This vote really means “My option or none”, or in other words: I don’t want any compromise (which is quite strange given that his first option is the “compromise” option). I believe that we should vote with the aim to have a winner in the end and as such we should avoid putting something below “Further discussion”. IMO the only valid reason to put something below is if that option would hurt Debian in one’s own opinion. Just rank the options in your order of preference. I ranked “Further Discussion” last, it’s my way of accepting the diverging opinions within our project. (So there’s nothing personal against Takatsugu, I just took the opportunity of his little mistake to point out something I find important) BTW, if you haven’t voted, please do. Even if you don’t care about the outcome, vote and leave all the fields empty (or rank them equally), that way you’ll express that you’re happy whatever the outcome is and you won’t be part of a silent majority. And the outcome of the vote will be stronger. This leads me to the following question: I wonder if we shouldn’t require DD to vote and if they don’t participate in 2 or 3 consecutive votes, they shall be considered by the MIA team… it would be a kind of implicit “ping of maintainers”. Update: FYI, Takatsugu thanked me by private mail for the explanation and will recast another vote.

I'm trying to install Trac with NetBSD pkgsrc, but clearsilver is the big wall for me. cleasilver depends on GNU find and gcc, so I need to modifide some codes. GNU find is called from rules.mk, so I installed it and replaced "find" to "gfind". Then, util/neo_err.h uses __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ macro, it is a gcc extension, so sunpro compiler can't handle it. So i replaced it to __LINE__, it is not so good solution but better than nothing.

Today I released File::MMagic 1.26 and uploaded to CPAN. It would be appeared soon. And already uploaded it in the Debian unstable archives.

I made a w3m patch for mingw environment to use emacs-w3m on Meadow, an emacs variant for Windows. My patch is really ad-hoc because the purpose is for emacs-w3m only, so it only works with -dump option. It can't use fork() on Windows environment, and some functions like saving buffer, uncompressing network stream, handling local CGI depends on fork(), so such functions were disabled by my patch. Anyway, I submitted the patch to the mail list of w3m.

Last week, Binary 2.0 Conference (Japanese) was held. "Binary 2.0" is a new buzzword inspired from "Web 2.0", so the definition is not clear. But many peapole enjoyed the conference. In that time, there are two new presentation methods. The first one is SPS - SDL Presentation System (Japanese). It seems realy cool. The presentation had some beautiful effects, like wave of water on the mouse cursor. The second one is GDB presentation method (Japanese) . He made a MIPS compatible CPU on a FPGA board, and control it via GDB remote debug protocol. It is also cool. On the other hand, I tried to make my presentation by Macromedia flash. It is my challanging since 2003, however I can't beat the above methods. However my method has an advantage, portability. The SPS make an executable file, it is dangerous to execute, and not portable. My presentation file can play under many flash player, like rich mobile phone's browser.