Yay Ricky!
Here’s a pretty solid interview with Ricky Zhou on “How Software is Built”, which has interviewed the likes of Mike Shaver (VP of Engineering at Mozilla) and Dries Buytaert (guy who made the Drupal CMS). Go read it.
My hobby:
Using negatively connotative adverbs with positively connotative adjectives.
Books and statistics
First things first — and a very exciting thing indeed — we’re finally opening up submissions for the Fedora Picture Book! The instructions for submitting photos are available at [[Submitting images for the picture book]] on the wiki!
And now for something funny brought to you by Facebook’s “Lexicon” application, which charts words based on the amount those words get posted on people’s walls. First, we chart the word “hate”.
As you can notice, hate decreases dramatically on Christmas and New Year’s. But what’s that huge spike from?
Well. :)
A few short statements
Somebody fix this.
My sister came up to me with a Fedora predicament™ today. She was attempting to play this file (a .asx file) in a media player.
It wouldn’t work. What a surprise!
Since it looked like it might be something that would actually refer to another file, I threw it in curl just to see what would happen.
[ianweller@kupenblagster ~]$ curl http://realvideo.acinet.org/asxgen/Eng/27-1021.00.wmv.asx
<ASX Version = "3.0">
<ENTRY>
<REF HREF = "mms://64.94.25.81:1755/Eng/27-1021.00.wmv"/>
<REF HREF = "http://64.94.25.81:80/Eng/27-1021.00.wmv"/>
</ENTRY>
</ASX>
Also interesting: what happens when you try and curl the http:// url? You get a 404 not found error. However, when playing the file with MPlayer, the video plays. Hmm.
So, I decided I should run -dumpstream from MPlayer on my slice and allow her to download and watch the video from there. We click on the .wmv link, and a dialog asks us to search for some plugins to play this file. Hmm, OK, we find the plugins, it installs relatively quickly. How nice!
Totem’s Firefox plugin tells us that it can’t play the file. I don’t remember the error off-hand, but an updated install of Fedora 10 on that same file should yield the same error.
So I ask: why doesn’t this work, and what can I do (that’s within my realm of ability—read: not much) to help make this work?
Dear lazyweb…
What calendaring applications do you use when trying to organize what events are happening when?
Even fresher gwibber
Ah, the beauty of free software… r199 of gwibber has been pushed to stable in Fedora 9 and 10 thanks to the willingness of a few users to test the build, and the cooperation of upstream to fix a few bugs as soon as possible. :)
(For rawhide users, a pywebkitgtk bug is causing some issues in viewing updates. It’s a known bug to upstream.)
Fresh gwibber
Revision 196 of gwibber, fresh from the bazaar tree, will soon be available in updates-testing for F9 and F10 users after the next push. For the impatient, the builds (F9, F10) are available.
Please place your comments on the appropriate Bodhi pages (F9, F10) so that these get pushed to stable! Remember to be logged in so that your karma counts.
Photo of the day
(via random people in IRC)
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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