Finally, my new notebook arrived yesterday. After being very upset about current payment arrangements of most of the web shops here in Germany I decided to order my new device at an electronics supermarket here in Hamburg. I'm not willing to modify my credit card contract nor I'm willing to sign a PayPal contract just to buy something within an online shop. The supermarket allowed me to order the device via their online shop by doing some kind of handshaking via email to verify the order. Then the shop called me on my mobile to notify me about the arrival of the notebook. Yesterday after working hour I drove to the shop to take the notebook with me (paying with my EC card).

This is what I selected to buy:

13" (1600x900 resolution) display
two graphic cards
2.8 Ghz dual core CPU
6 GB RAM
400 GB harddisk
3G card (HSDPA/UMTS)
a 64 bit operating system

btw. it's not heavy...just about 3 pounds

I just bought a 8 GB Micro SD SDHC card for my E90...and it works!
Now I have Wikipedia, maps of most areas of the world for the navigation system, Putty, several dictionaries and some other software installed on my mobile phone. I will have to wait some months before the 32 GB SDHC is out...hey...there's space for an OOo installation left on the device. Does anybody know about details about a StrongARM port ?

I have a really bad feeling about the signing process for Series 60 phones. If someone wants to create an OpenSource application for Sybian Series 60 mobile phones that is capable to make use of network access or using DRM functions then the signing process requires my IMEI address. The IMEI address is a unique product identifier.

I'm asking OpenSource developers to develop an alternative to this signature process eg. by using OpenSSL infrastucture to sign the binaries and to make the signature process easier for developers that do not want to pay a recurring fee to sign the own applications.

The contract with my mobile provider expired and I had the opportunity to get a new gadget. I selected the new Nokia E90 Communicator. I'm really impressed about this device as it contains most current technology like UMTS + HSDPA (connection speed up to 3.6 Mbit/s), WLAN (g standard), VoIP, PoC, Quad band, 3.2 MPixel camera, GPS receiver, integrated radio tuner, video telephony capability and Java (MIDP 2.0).

I'm asking myself when the iMobile fans will have such capabilities... :)

Last weekend I went to Jever to visit my family and to meet several friends. On saturday I took a look at a TV shop of a friend of mine and asked him if he has a satellite antenna that can be fixed at a window. He had such a gadget and then I asked him to add a digital sat receiver to it. I got all of the equipment for about 100 EUR. After returning back to Hamburg I had to try it out: I was fascinated to have now more than 760 tv channels and to have more than 150 radio channels. After sorting the favorites I came to a list of about 50 tv channels that is worth to be stored within the favorites list. All in all DVB terrestical has been disabled now within my home... One thing was a really good experience: After configuring the device I activated the online update service. Then I set that device to stand-by. After switching the ON button again the device told me that a new firmware has been downloaded via satellite and it has been installed....what a good service. This remembers me the product update service notification of OpenOffice.org that opens a landing page for releases like 2.2.1 but within the current developer build it triggers the download of the next version when available (currently SRC680_m231).

Release Candidate 1 (build OOE680_m5) has been uploaded to ftp master. The Linux build already has one known issue (that is caused by i71899 which will be fixed later in 2.2): the system integration doesn't work. As a workaround you can fix it by correcting the symlink in /usr/bin which points to a wrong location. The problem of the wrong path will be fixed in the next build.

Full localized builds and language packs can be found at

http://oootranslation.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/2.1.0rc1/

Currently Solarisx86 languagepacks and all Windows builds are not visible. The web server hasn't updated the content yet.

Please give the version a try and communicate show stoppers within the releases mailing list.

You will find the RC builds including a source tarball within the "contrib/rc/2.1.0rc1/" directory on the servers of our mirror network:

http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html

If JavaScript is activated then the link above will point to the 2.1.0rc1 directory automatically. For those who don't want to use Javascript there is

http://download.openoffice.org/680/index-nojs.html

the md5sums:

http://download.openoffice.org/680/md5sums.html

Developer snapshot build OOE680_m3 which installs as OOo-Dev 2.1 has been uploaded to ftp master. The rename of the productname to OOo-dev allows the installation of the OpenOffice.org snapshot parallel to an OpenOffice.org 2.0 'final' (released) version.

Release notes:

http://development.openoffice.org/releases/OOE680_m3_snapshot.html

You will find the snapshot builds including a source tarball within the "developer/OOE680_m3/" directory on the servers of our mirror network:

http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html

If JavaScript is activated then the link above will point to the OOE680_m3 directory automatically. For those who don't want to use Javascript there is

http://download.openoffice.org/680/index-nojs.html

the md5sums:

http://download.openoffice.org/680/md5sums.html

Developer snapshot build OOE680_m2 which installs as OOo-Dev 2.1 has been uploaded to ftp master. The rename of the productname to OOo-dev allows the installation of the OpenOffice.org snapshot parallel to an OpenOffice.org 2.0 'final' (released) version.

Release notes:

http://development.openoffice.org/releases/OOE680_m2_snapshot.html

You will find the snapshot builds including a source tarball within the "developer/OOE680_m2/" directory on the servers of our mirror network:

http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html

If JavaScript is activated then the link above will point to the OOE680_m2 directory automatically. For those who don't want to use Javascript there is

http://download.openoffice.org/680/index-nojs.html

the md5sums:

http://download.openoffice.org/680/md5sums.html

Developer snapshot build src680m188 which installs as OOo-Dev 2.1 has been uploaded to ftp master. The rename of the productname to OOo-dev allows the installation of the OpenOffice.org snapshot parallel to an OpenOffice.org 2.0 'final' (released) version.

You will find the snapshot builds including a source tarball within the "developer/680_m188/" directory on the servers of our mirror network:

http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html

If JavaScript is activated then the link above will point to the 680_m188 directory automatically. For those who don't want to use Javascript there is

http://download.openoffice.org/680/index-nojs.html

the md5sums:

http://download.openoffice.org/680/md5sums.html

Developers: For those who need to build a Windows version, please add sfx2/source/appl/shutdowniconw32.cxx from head. As this fix was too late for m188 it has been included for m189.

I've uploaded OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 Release Candidate 3 (build OOD680_m5) to the mirror network.

Binaries are available from here:
http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html

For those who don't use JavaScript there's another page:
http://download.openoffice.org/680/index-nojs.html

The release notes are available from here:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/2.0.4rc3.html

Languagepacks and localized builds with (containing the string wJRE) and without Java Runtime Environment are available from here:
http://oootranslation.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/2.0.4rc3/

Please take some time and test this version. If you think there is a showstopper issue for this version then please report the issue ID to the releases mailing list on OpenOffice.org.

The md5sums are available from here:
http://download.openoffice.org/680/md5sums.html

I've uploaded OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 Release Candidate 2 (build ood680_m4) to the mirror network.

Binaries are available from here:
http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html

For those who don't use JavaScript there's another page:
http://download.openoffice.org/680/index-nojs.html

The release notes are available from here:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/2.0.4rc2.html

Languagepacks and localized builds with (containing the string wJRE) and without Java Runtime Environment are available from here:
http://oootranslation.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/2.0.4rc2/

Please take some time and test this version. If you think there is a showstopper issue for this version then please report the issue ID either within the qa mailing list or within the releases mailing list on OpenOffice.org.

The md5sums are available from here:
http://download.openoffice.org/680/md5sums.html

I've uploaded OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 Release Candidate 1 (build ood680_m3) to the mirror network.

Binaries are available from here:
http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html

For those who don't use JavaScript there's another page:
http://download.openoffice.org/680/index-nojs.html

The release notes are available from here:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/2.0.4rc1.html

Languagepacks and localized builds with (containing the string wJRE) and without Java Runtime Environment are available from here:
http://oootranslation.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/2.0.4rc1/

Please take some time and test this version. If you think there is a showstopper issue for this version then please report the issue ID either within the qa mailing list or within the releases mailing list on OpenOffice.org.

The md5sums are available from here:
http://download.openoffice.org/680/md5sums.html

I'd like to make you aware that the OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 release is not so far away anymore and some new features have been integrated. Those who like to help can check the features posted into the feature list that has been created as a Wiki page on

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Feature_Freeze_Testing_204

against the current src680_m180 developer snapshot build.

en-US Builds for Solaris Sparc, Solaris X86, Linux and Windows can be downloaded from

http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html

and Mac OS X builds can be downloaded from

ftp://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/MacOSX

Please check if the implementation of the features are OK and report within the QA mailing list (dev@qa) if you find problems regarding the features within the Wiki page.

Developer snapshot build src680m180 which installs as OOo-Dev 2.0 has been uploaded to ftp master. The rename of the productname to OOo-dev allows the installation of the OpenOffice.org snapshot parallel to an OpenOffice.org 2.0 'final' (released) version.

You will find the snapshot builds including a source tarball within the "developer/680_m180/" directory on the servers of our mirror network:

http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html

If JavaScript is activated then the link above will point to the 680_m180 directory automatically. For those who don't want to use Javascript there is

http://download.openoffice.org/680/index-nojs.html

the md5sums:

http://download.openoffice.org/680/md5sums.html

Developer snapshot build src680m178 which installs as OOo-Dev 2.0 has been uploaded to ftp master. The rename of the productname to OOo-dev allows the installation of the OpenOffice.org snapshot parallel to an OpenOffice.org 2.0 'final' (released) version.

You will find the snapshot builds including a source tarball within the "developer/680_m178/" directory on the servers of our mirror network:

http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html

If JavaScript is activated then the link above will point to the 680_m178 directory automatically. For those who don't want to use Javascript there is

http://download.openoffice.org/680/index-nojs.html

the md5sums:

http://download.openoffice.org/680/md5sums.html

For developers: Additionally you can find the m178 SDK build at http://oootranslation.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/680_m178/