Michal Hrušecký

You probably already know from Pavols post, that we are going to work openSUSE Connect during Froscon. Anybody can join us. Only basic php knowledge and will to learn new things is required. Or maybe you can contribute somehow even without php, just with html and css. Anyway, what I was investigating lately was the Karma concept in new openSUSE Connect. We want some Karma. We want it to collect some karma point from all different aspect of openSUSE Contribution. So this post is about one little bit crazy idea that came to my mind. It's going to be about Connect and Karma and I'm NOT promising that any of this will come to the existence.

Last Friday, we had a openSUSE 11.3 Launch party at Prague. Why so late? Why not right after the release? Well, it takes some time to organize things but the main reason was that we wanted to have official promo media so we wouldn't need to give away home burned ones as last. Home burned were made with love, but manufactured ones looks better So what we did? We had some talks, gave away some DVDs, ate some Pizza, talk about openSUSE, give our visitors tour through the SUSE Offices in Prague and moved to the pub to continue talking about openSUSE.

So some other things happened with openSUSE Paste so I want to inform you about the current situation. We have http://susepaste.org address, right? So from yesterday, we also have http://paste.opensuse.org. Same computer, same IP, just different name if you prefer the other one. As it is the same thing as susepaste.org, links are interchangeable. So you can post something to susepaste.org and send link to paste.opensuse.org or vise versa. Just replace the first part of the url

Other interesting thing to report is that Pascal Bleser added support for susepaste to pastebinit, so if you don't like mine simple script, you can use more advanced tool But this is nothing new, he already blogged about that. Next steps on openSUSE Paste includes localization, documentation for the script and getting it to the common menu on all openSUSE sites. But I need to get back to other things for a moment so it has to wait a little bit

It's been some time since I started working on openSUSE pastebin clone with Bento theme. I had some other duties so it took some time to find some final resting place for that. Some of you asked me for a better URL. I finally found it and since today SUSE Paste is running again on new address and it is ready to serve you I also wrote a simple script to make it easier to use it. So you can start using it, promoting openSUSE and if you encounter any problems, don't hesitate to report them. If you are interested in details behind this paste, continue reading, otherwise start pasting

About a week ago I was at LinuxTag spreading a word about openSUSE. It was great event and I really liked it. And I was on of the four lucky guys that won Googles Nexus One. Hurray! And now what I want to write today about... I was migrating all my stuff from my Palm Centro to Nexus One. And one of the things I was using my Centro for was tracking how much petrol does my car consume. I was writing in plain text file and I was thinking about writing some script around that... But never had the time to actually do that. But now with Nexus One, my log is synchronized with Google Docs. So I don't have to take care of the synchronization part. So I sat down and wrote a simple script to compute my cars consumption and I want to share it with you. Originaly I wanted to use googlecl, which is available in openSUSE Contrib, but it had some problems with Google Apps, so I decided to use curl instead.

First of all how do I structure my log. I've got currently two types of things I'm tracking - petrol and maintenance. As we are talking about consumption, we are interested only in petrol ones These lines looks like this:

PET:97644:20100430:12.53l:394.4Kč

As you see, it's in semicolon separated values format First field means that it's petrol entry. Second one is kilometer counter. Third one is the date %Y%m%d and the fourth one is the number of liters. Fourth one is the price, but it's not really important. My document is named "Auto" but if you want to use the same script, you can name it however you want and just change the $TITLE variable in the script. You'll need to change email and password anyway And you might be also interested in changing $RECENT variable, which states how many entries are used in computation.

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