One hell of a week

September 29th, 2008

Or rather “weeks”. The past two weeks went by like a crazy hurricane. So much to do, so little time. Luckily I was somewhat prepared so it didn’t really blew me away. And to top it all, those 2 weeks ended greatly.

1. KDE UserBase: Together with other members of the CWG, I almost spent a whole week working on the wiki. It was a sort of rush work since we wanted to have a “launching” Friday last week. So far, everything’s looking good. It’s far from complete, of course, specially since it is something that the KDE community would need to build up. I’ll blog about it in more detail next time.

2. UPOU: School’s over!! We finally had our final examinations for the first semester last Saturday. So I spent the whole week before that reviewing. Actually I was practically reviewing only one subject. But I’m tired of whining about the deficiencies of that one subject, so I’ll just be glad that it’s over. Now I can read the supplementary book that I read without pressure of deadlines. I’m looking forward to more interesting subjects next semester (”Computer Organization” and “Data Structures & Algorithms”) and hopefully better teachers. :D

3. KDE, Source Mage: I got too new e-mail redirects! One from kdemail and one from Source Mage, the latter basically meaning I’m a developer now, much like an ubuntu.com or kubuntu.org email redirect. I guess I have another set of stuff to keep me busy the coming days. :)

4. Software Freedom Day 2008: Last September 20, , some of my friends from Ubuntu-PH attended one of the SFD celebrations held in Metro Manila (there were other simultaneous gatherings), though not really representing Ubuntu Philippines (I wore my KDE shirt, again :P ). Two of the SFD celebrations on that day catered to IT students as their primary audiences. IMHO, it was wise to target this sector because these students would be the ones populating the IT industry soon. So it’s best to start them early with Free Software. Here are some pics from the event. Again my apologies for the quality. I am definitely not a photographer. On an unfortunate note, I think there is still some need for more education about free software, even (and probably especially) among those tasked to spread it. One speaker practically labeled “Yahoo! Messenger” as “Free Software”, equating “free software” with “freeware”. I’m just hoping the speaker meant otherwise (they were going back and forth between two groups of people).

5. N810 and Maemo 5: I finally found (thanks to jsgotangco) a local store that sells the device that I’ve been dying to have since last year (wow! it’s almost been a year now). Lo and behold, it costs Php 24,000!! That’s US$ 533, more or less. That is practically the price of a high-end Eee PC or an HP Mininote, basically a Netbook price. And then another blow came to my plans: Maemo 5. All the talk of Maemo 5 goodness and future Qt integration with it makes me want to think twice about getting a N810 now. Not that I have the money to buy one anyway. I still have to figure out a way to raise Php 24,000, hopefully within this lifetime… My sister recommended oDesk.com, but that brings in whole lot of different personal issues.

Long story short: Great past 2 weeks. Busy as hell, but was well worth it. Going to have another busy week or even month ahead. I’m Looking forward to it. :D

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4 Responses to “One hell of a week”

  1. mikmach Says:
    September 29th, 2008 at 1:50 am

    Buy used (or new if you can get) N800. You will get the hang of system. Sure not everything is there but IMO much better deal than N810 in your situation.

  2. Andy Says:
    September 29th, 2008 at 7:32 pm

    Also, when maemo 5 comes out, I would imagine you will be able to install it on an n8×0 (though the next tablet will have a faster processor, whereas with the n800 and n810, they both have the same processor thus performance is identical)

  3. Jucato Says:
    September 30th, 2008 at 7:57 am

    @mikmach: I couldn’t find any N800’s around anymore, whether used or brand new. So it’s really a N810 or nothing.

    @Andy: I’m not so sure. Maemo 5 is going to be made for a different kind of processor and all the features seem to point to a whole different device. But at this point there’s no telling what will happen. There’s no definite word from Nokia or Maemo whether they will backport it to the N810… So much uncertainty. :(

  4. Jared Says:
    October 9th, 2008 at 11:11 pm

    where did you find a N810?
    im also looking for almost a year now.
    i saw a N800 used for 9.5K at sulit.com

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