Stuff of Jiří Lebl (or George)

Simplicity is a virtue. And so there won't be much stuff here. If there will be, it will be mostly out of date. See also my UIUC page, which tends to be more current, but perhaps more boring. Or just see my CV. Also if you are looking to buy weird GEGL stuff (and to see what a GEGL looks like), see my cafepress store.

So I guess this should be about me. So ... I was born in Prague (CZ), lived in San Diego (US) for a long time and now live in Urbana Illinois. I am married to a chemist, Markéta, though I am a mathematician myself. I am a postdoc in the Math department at University of Illinois (UIUC). Here is my GPG key if you're into that kind of thing (though I'm not really, so it could have happened that I don't remember my passphrase anymore). Sometimes I write stuff on my advogato page but not too often.

I got my PhD from UCSD in spring of 2007. Here is the thesis. There's a pdf of the thing and a link to lulu if you really really must go kill some trees. If you really want something useless to read, see my masters thesis from SDSU, 2003. Better to check my published papers at my UIUC page or search arxiv for my name.

In a past life I've worked for Eazel, before it went horribly bancrupt. More recently I've even been an "intern" at Red Hat. I'm a big supporter of free software and if I do work on free software it is mostly on GNOME

At GUADEC 5 in Kristiansand, Norway (June 28th - 30th, 2004), I gave a talk on security and the desktop. The paper to accompany the talk was not finished for the proceeds so here it is. It's semi longish (10 pages), full of unsubstantiated claims and no bibliography. Hopefully the grammar is not too horrible and it's semi readable and useful. Enjoy...

Some other pages of interest are:

• Genius Mathematics Tool - Very capable free software mathematics tool. A cross between maple and matlab in some ways. I'm always looking for help with this.
• GDM - Gnome Desktop Manager, manages the login and your X sessions. Like xdm, but nicer.
• GOB - GObject Builder, a preprocessor that spits out GObject C code so you don't have to write 10 tons of boilerplate code for every class you wish to define, and thus avoids lots of bugs and headaches.
• Math hacks - A few math hacks for random things. Of interest could be the arithmetic operations written in sed. But there are many other things there.
• Pictures from Linux Expo '99
• Pictures from Linux World Expo and Conference '99
• Pictures from Linux World Expo and Conference 2000
• Pictures from Ottawa Linux Symposium 2000
• Pictures from the first GUADEC (2000)
• Talks I and Maciej Stachowiak gave at linux.conf.au 2001
• My brother's page with pictures from my wedding April 2003
• Sort of a private gallery with our sort of photo album (though most comments on there are in czech)
• Our newer gallery

Some old things maybe still of interest are on my very out of date Linux page

At one point I bought one of those Agenda VR3's because they seemed cool. It's kind of a piece of crap, but nowdays you can get them incredibly cheap from various surplus stores and some company even makes ones with more memory (which was one of the many reasons why they were crap). Setting up software on these is not easy. You can get my current romdisk root-1.2.6.2S-jirka.cramfs and try that. That's the last official 1.2.6 snow release (much faster then what originally shipped with the thing) updated with gnuchess, gnuplot, prescribble and goVRec (go recorder). The fltkChess gnuchess frontend is somewhat more fixed in this version (source). I'd recommend the newest kernel and pmon (if you need to) from AgendaWiki.

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