Travel Itinerary for ITU-T FG Meeting Well, it’s off to Switzerland this time, with a trip of about 3100 Km, going through Porto -> Geneva -> Lisbon -> Porto. It’s more like 3250 kms, if I throw in the Kms of Aveiro->Porto->Aveiro I took the time of doing a little itinerary image, so i can start making a crow map of all my travels around the world. I hope to get a nice abstract drawing in the end, whenever that is (maybe I’ll do them yearly).

I’m heading to ITU-T in Geneva, to participate in the Focus Group on Identity Management meeting, a group dedicated to Identity Management part of ITU-T Study Group 17. I’m very excited to participate since Identity is a very hot topic, and bears some relevance on my PhD. And it’s actually a quite exciting time to work on Identity, specially with the recent buzz around the Microsoft <-> OpenID collaboration, which is meant to integrate Cardspace and OpenID 2.0. I’m looking forward to seeing the demos that will be shown (Higgings, OpenID, Cardspace), and to take part in the “real” work sessions that are scheduled. Hopefully I will be up to par, and can pitch in with some brain mass. Did i mention I’ll be wearing a suit ?

On a side note, I have another post on my mind - Feisty Fawn. But I’ll save that for later. For now it’s off to put my travel stuff together, load up my PSP, and pack some nice clean underwear.

Every other day I read about some new cool feature in Beryl. I tend to drool more at each demo video i watch. But, probably as a punishment for some wrong doing I must’ve done in another life, my laptop has an ATI card. Why do i curse my fate ? Because I have to use the AMD ATI closed source driver, with still no AIGLX support, forcing me to use XGL, which doesn’t seem to be getting the kinda love AIGLX receives from the Beryl folks. And to make this worse, the last update from the great Beryl project, broke XGL compatibility, and segfaults at load time. It’s not that I blame Beryl, I would also put my efforts into AIGLX, which good, clean drivers support, but I wanna run some composition magic on my laptop, leading me back to AMD ATI on XGL…

And the pain of living with Beryl, ATI and XGL, is that Beryl is currently broken on XGL, so it’s an apt-get update frenzy to see when Beryl 0.2.0 RC2 is released. And on the other hand, it’s a constant refresh policy on my feed reader, Liferea, to see when AMD ATI finally release the long awaited and overdue driver with AIGLX support

In few words: ATI, alright already, enough is enough, gimme my AIGLX support! Or please oh please, Beryl, fix my Beryl-XGL. Which ever comes first (although I would prefer the first).