Monthly Archives: May 2006

Up and down like the Assyrian Empire

The building we work in is a bit crowded. Georg got some new offices assigned to. So we are to move… again… into new offices one floor upstairs. I find it only slightly ironic that the new office we get is exactly the one we were forced to move out just two months ago. Georg old us this would be permanent, I am slightly sceptical. Prof Fahrni confirmed that this will be permanent “at least for the next six months or so”. Haha, I am amused. Not.

VoiP Revisited

I just found out that my office phone is reachable as a Voice over IP address. So if you have a SIP compatible phone you can find out if I am in the office (sip:sspaeth@ethz.ch). Cool. Now I just have to find out if I can forward my office number to any SIP account as well, so I can take office calls when I’m at home.

I’d also like to reactivate my VoIP phone. One of the difficulties is still that different SIP providers are difficult to reach. So should I activate my German sip account (with a German landline number), my Swiss account, or my sipphone account (which includes a jabber account and works with google talk)? Or all of them together? Difficult questions…

Bonsai

jack pine

Almut got a Bonsai kit as a present. I couldn’t resist and started growing a jack pine bonsai. Of the fours seed two grew and they are ca 5cm high now. I still haven’t decided whether I want to be cruel and train it properly or let it just grow to its natural height (24-30m). I’ll repost in a year or two to show you new pictures 🙂

A fork resolved

http://www.advogato.org/person/cinamod/diary.html?start=113

I hooked up support for XInclude in librsvg today (without support for the XPointer attribute). I’ve also been talking with Peter Moulder from Inkscape team. It seems that they forked the libcroco CSS2 engine a while ago in order to improve its selection engine. Libcroco’s selector is sub-optimal now, in that it needs to operate on a libxml2 DOM tree rather than the DOM-like trees that Inkscape and Librsvg use internally. Inkscape’s version corrects this, and we’re working on getting the trees merged, thus eliminating the fork. Hopefully we’ll get this straightened out soon, so that librsvg 2.16 will have really good CSS2 support.