@Meierhans

Sort of. A more powerful guy than Santa. There are actually two Santas:

#1: the Nikola-Ugodnik, he should come to you on December 5/6 and bring the gifts. That's St. Nicolas; in areas like north Italy, Slovenia, Austria, Hungary he may have a companion called "Krampus" - not in Russia (where he is of course 13 days later). Krampus punishes the bad kids (spanking, at least symbolically). Since every kid was sometimes bad, sometimes good, both St. Nik and Krampus do the work. ;)

This is THE Santa the way Americans know him but they shifted him somehow to Christmas day.

#2: the Slavonic / Germanic "Old Wizard of Forest" (or: "Grandfather Frost"). In Russia since late 19th Century comes together with a sexy Sprite / Pixie / female Elf "snow maiden", so the men also have something to look at. Very popular all over exUSSR and exYU but the pixie comes only in exUSSR, exYU has only the Granpa coming.

#2 and #1 are obviously not the same, whom you posted is also obviously #2 so it is perfect.

alcomposer said:

>>> Now that would be good timing for VK!
>>> I wonder if he could stop himself from releasing the update on Christmas day... ! :D


There is a good hope for that because for many of us Christmas is after New Year Eve, on January 6.
And Santa is coming December 19 instead of December 5/6. That's the "old" calendar, still used all over pravoslav world in connection with religious holidays. For instance in Macedonia, Serbia, Ukraina, Belarus, Russia, Georgia and AFAIK Armenia there is no Christmas on Dec. 24/25.

So who knows - we may celebrate January 6 this time a very special way.... preparing my GH-2 for something like that but ultimately the microcode engineer (VK) sez the last word.

The hardest thing for people is to put them self in the situation of the driver or microcode guy. I am involved in very different project but the customers and managers always complain: "do it faster, faster". OK, either it's fast or will work. And it will be ready, when it's ready. ;)

@fatpig

Hot in other meaning :-)
If from -10 to -25 C is hot, then yes.

Cold and Dark here! Very DARK! Vitaliy thanks for your great effort!
Mery Christmas to All

don8ed =)

Thanks guys.
Generally, panasonic couldn't select worst timing :-)
As late of December is too hot and too small time is available.
I am trying to dedicate as much as I can.

i think VK's holidays would to be more relax and keep away for a little that forum.... if a fw for the 25 is coming it can be welcome .... Everybody just let's donate for those who can, minimum 5$ :D....
it is christmas ...

Tinker toys for the grown ups! Hoo hoo hooray.

I think VK will unleash it on Christmas day.

This one?

(Sorry for cluttering.. ;)

but @VK is not Santa..
LOL

@alcomposer Donated couple of days ago.

@DVANZ you can use a mac to apply the hack. Make sure you have X11 or XQuartz installed and run ptool.exe in wine. I use the Wine binary that comes packaged with WineBottler, but have never bothered with the 'bottling' part - probably only really useful for something you want to redistribute.