Apart from a slightly strange dynamic linker and libc everything pretty much behaves like standard linux. There are couple of missing libc and libpthread functions that are easy enough to stub/implement and then away you go. I even got SDL up and running with very little trouble.

Also, it looks like I'm not the only one who thinks Android bares more than a passing resemblance to the software stack we build at Transvirtual back in 2000. Jim Pick also mentioned it on his blog.

The new version 0.6.0 is available in source form from here.

http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html

I was able to simple unzip the ironpython source, change CSC=csc to CSC=gmcs, type make, and run ipy.exe on my sid machine. Hurray. Soon we can say goodbye to the miriade of different interpreter engines we have and bow down the one true byte-code. For once MS have given something less that harmful.

Now that its working I need to find a way to easily trigger it. Perhaps in the lid closed event in /etc/acpid? For some reason gnome power manager still doesn't think that suspend is an option so I'm having to do it from the command line.

Next I'm planning a serious plugin to display photo galleries, based on my existing gallery but in the style of pyblosxom. I'm going to make it very simple for users to add entire tree's of images to their gallery just by putting them in the gallery folder. The same way pyblosxom works for blog entries. Comments and hitcounts will be maintained in a separate but parallel tree do the users images need to be apache-writable.

Last week i finally got hear Richard Stallman speaking in person. I saw him give his "Dangers of Software Patents" talk at UCL and then was in bristol the next day to hear him speak about copyright. Both very educational and enoyable. What a character. We even get to watch him eat his lunch on stage before and during the talk :)

I took a few photos which will be online in a day or so...

I have had my IPod for several months now. Its a G3 30Gb model and I use it with Linux and gtkpod. I've been using the new HFS+ driver and the 2.6 test series of kernel and had no problems at all. This means I can mount both Windows (FAT32) and Mac (HFS+) formatted IPods. gtkpod already has lots of great features that are missing from iTunes such as duplicate track detection using MD5 sums. I am working on a feature that will allow a 2 ways sync between the ipod and linux. This will allow to detection of exectly which tracks on the ipod are not present on the PC and to copy those tracks back accross. This feature is very usefull if you carry your IPod with you and use it collect tracks from other peoples iTunes.

Secondly, I have noticed that it is perfectly possible to use a FAT32 IPod with OS X and iTunes. It seems like Apple could have saved themselves some hassle and formatted all the IPods for Windows. That said, I sure there are serveral technial benifits to HFS+ especially on large IPods. However, the key point here is that if you want to use your IPod on Windows and OS X (and Linux or course :) then format it FAT32.

As soon as I'm done with my MSc thesis next week I'm going to be adding some features to the photo gallery. Lots of people want to be able to download whole albums so I am added a "download zip file" option to each album so you get the original images untainted or resized.

I'm also going to add a simple way to to set orientation without touching the original images (I like to make my image readonly to even the webserver).

Now who wants to help me write the Linux version! (litter?)