Hey! Before iphone was unlocked I was telling myself once and again what an iphone is for?! Just showing off!. Oh my god!. That could be but it pains.

That pain can become a big pleasure. And now and expensive device can be a bargain thanks to the dollar and much more to the hacker community.

Hacking opens your mind and makes you much more free. Don’t forget!

Some of the best router hackers of the world came to FON headquarters in Madrid last month.

Felix Fietkau aka nbd, a young Computer Science student based in Hamburg who is one of the big boys behind the openwrt, Sebastian Gottschall aka Brainslayer (seen in RedHerring), a fancy hacker that leads all alone the dd-wrt project with the help and back of some other developers and Imre Kaloz, a Hungarian hardware integration artist, also one of the pilars of openwrt, came to visit us at FON.

Felix has been helping us since february. He started supporting us from the OpenWrt side and now is very integrated and a crucial guy in our development. He is still a student, but works better, faster and more than any other guy I met previously.

Sebastian joined us also in the same time Felix did. Initially he made his very advanced firmware be FONready, but as time passed, we noticed one version ofthe firmware was enough work to cope with and now, we are all focused on the OpenWrt based firmware, including Sebastian himself. Of course, every bit of work he can reuse for his personal project, he is allowed to.

Imre is the newest incorporation. As Felix and Sebastian do, he works from home. Being an expert on hardware integration, he is doing the background work on the future fonera device. He works hard and even though he didn’t have that much time yet, he already demonstrated that getting him was a worthy movement.

Florian Fainelli, also developer member of the OpenWrt project was here to. He came from France (he is currently studying in Paris). He is very busy right now with his studies but is eager to help FON and join the great team we are building. He already did a very nice patch for our next firmware and will take more projects in the future.

As I said, they came to Madrid, to see what FON is like in the inside; to feel integrated with the team (everybody was very nice with them, even though the Spanish non-techies were thinking of them as crazy geeks); to see what the future plans are and what do we count with them for.

The encounter was a great success. we all enjoyed a lot and even went out for dinner on the second day. We took some brown tequila (Sebastian’s favorite) and Rhum. Imre and Sebastian, who were not very friendly to each other in the past (some geeks might know this), got on VERY well and ended up taking tequila altogether.

Teo (backrow in front of Felix) and Florian (front row rightside) also joined the dinner

FON is really gathering the best talents of the world in OpenSource firmwares. They enjoy the kind of work we offer them and they are happy because they get what they like: new drivers for bleeding edge devices, amazing routers, gadgets, support from manufacturers (atheros, accton, Linksys,…). It’s a great symbiosis. And me, personaly, I’m learning a great deal of things!We will, for sure, make another meeting like this. Hopefully, we’ll have an even better team with many more great hackers! (see http://www.flickr.com/photos/iurgi for some nice pics of the event)

Airbus uses Linux for their entertainment systems, at least, on some A-330, A-320 and A-340 series.

We can see it on this image taken on an Air Algeria A-330 flight. Wouter Liefting also reports on Linux Journal about the topic on a Northwest A-330

Airbus A-340-400 also uses linux for the entertaiment system. You can see it on this image.

The same seems to happen on an Iberia A-320 as you can see on this picture.

I don’t know the amount of emails I receive everyday, but they are quite. Time instead, is little.

What I have always wanted is having my emails ordered by priority. Read first what is first and read last what is last. The question is: how do I establish priority in the Inbox?.

Well…I will give you a simple idea. Just vote your email. Yes, make your email a digg-like utility or google email ranked utility. Ok… probably if your girlfriend realizes that she isn’t well ranked you could be in trouble, same with your boss. Well, in those cases you could change the ranking in the hypothetic program preferences.

You can teach a dog, you can teach a baby, you can teach your brother…why not email?. I WANT TO VOTE.

The Chief Connectivity Officer in the program One Laptop per Child (MIT), the Greek Michail Bletsas, has talked today in the Malaga Open Source World Conference. More or less he says: “Our option taking Linux in the 100$ laptop is not because of the price, it is a matter of quality, user freedom and future”.

No doubt, no question.