Thilo Bangert

Last weekends LinuxForum was really good - I especially enjoyed the PHK talk about varnish.

But also Brian Vinter's talk about the Cell CPU was awesome. The idea that current CPU designs only use 5% of their power to do actual computing, while the rest is spend on branch prediction and caching strategies... amazing.

On Saturday I manned the gentoo 'booth' - we definitively need be better prepared next time! I guess people could hardly recognize what we where representing. As a consequence we were asked a lot if IBM notebooks where any good - as the booth sported somewhere between two to five of those at any one time.

We also had a nice chat with an ubuntu guy - among others we dispelled the old myth of compiling from source, because the programs then will run faster. I guess there are still a lot of people out there spreading this BS. g2boojum fits it rather nicely into:

We're less rules-bound, we tend to favor pragmatism over ideological purity, and we favor flexibility and power over stability.

It was really cool to get to know dercorny and eroyf and jaervosz - i really need to meet more dev's more often. (Sorry Alexander for not being there on wednesday!)

On the otherhand have i gotten hold of a personal dev overlay. genstef outfitted me with the bangert overlay. Thanks a lot.

I have started working on an ebuild for red5 - as I have not done java ebuilds before, that is a bit a challange. I am using the jetty ebuild as a template. Check it out.

Hhm, guess I am starting to get a kick out of this blogging stuff - never expected this to be this long.

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson