wnd's weblog

When I first saw one of these remote controlled miniature helicopters on the Internet, I knew I had to get one. I started looking everywhere, but places such as play.com and amazon.co.uk, where the toys were affordable, wouldn’t ship electronics to Finland.

Later I somehow managed to convince myself that amazon.de didn’t ask too much – around 25 euro plus postage and other handling fees. That’s like less than two hours at work… :-)

There is also a new picture of clouds. What is wrong with me?

There it is. My first “real” contribution to Linux kernel. I know it’s not in mainstream, and hardly will be in time being, but it’s there nevertheless. I submitted a very early version of Datagram Congestion Control Protocol, Congestion Control ID 4 to dccp-exp list yesterday, and a new subtree was created.

Functionally this was a small step towards full implementation of CCID 4, but hopefully the subtree allows people to start cooperating.

Woclema, weblogging software for discriminating people like yourself. A wheel reinvented, an outcome of “not invented here”. Welcome to the future.

Compiler optimisations matter. However it’s not a silver bullet to fix the world. I ran a little experiment, and you can read more about it.

Adventure of running a system tray on a setup without actual desktop environment such as KDE, or GNOME. It is doable, but not necessarily a breeze. Give stalonetray a go.

Some photos from Lauttasaari, Helsinki.

fpgg is now capable of handing arbitrary image aspect ratio.

Photos from my recent trip to Eastern Finland.

Not all web browsers are created equal. Apart from different user interfaces, they may or may not share a common rendering engine. The engine matters. The engines differ in performance (as in rendering speed, or CPU resources), stadnard compliancy, features (e.g. CSS, JavaScript), and memory usage. This is short, subjective comparison of a few.