Older blog entries for jarashi (starting at number 10)

Planning for an article

I read Nat Friedman's blog entry on January 28th. His thoughts there make me think about a new GUI/Desktop philosophy: 'Unixing the Desktop', mainly distinguished by splitting up applications, generating message ports and connecting their inputs/outputs, and -in other side but extremely attached to this- generating, indexing, retrieving and encapsultaing lot of information about what user has (files) and does (applications behaviour).

Linux kernel 2.6

I'm planning to go back to 2.4 kernel, since I'm not used to about the managing of devices of 2.6. Im specially frustrated about (my lack of knowledge of) USB handling and CD burn. I also got the sensation that the apps in charge of doing this aren't ported yet. Any pointer would be interesting.

New PC at home

Monday I bought a brand new Asus Pundit Barebone, and hadn't got time to build it up and test it.
This morning I did it with a classmate -which is really pro in building PCs- and tested the software behaviour (I reused my 60GB HDD):

• M$ Windows XP: Didn't work. It even could not start up. My mate (a Windows user) told me that it was mandatory to reinstall it. Sucks. Really sucks.
• Debian GNU/Linux: It started up. I had to configure the network (load b44 module and restart the network subsystem), the soundcard (load i810_audio and restart sound system -alsamixer doesn't work, don't know why since GNOME volume control does) and X (used a config file from GNOPPIX). All works perfectly. I love it.

TODO Plan

Remove M$Windows XP from my PC. It sucks.

Linux 2.6.0

Finally got it working! Steve Kemp gave me the solution to my problem:

image=/vmlinuz
      label=Linux
      read-only
      initrd=/initrd.img
      append="root=/dev/hda2"

After putting this in Lilo, loading mousedev and psmouse modules made the /dev/psaux mouse (and the X) work:

> uname -r
2.6.0-1-686

Linux 2.6

VFS: Cannot open root device "302" o unknown-block(3,2)
please append a correct "root=" boot option
kernel panic: VFS:Unable to mount root fs on unknow-block(3,2)

That's what I get when I try to startup with my Linux kernel 2.6. I cannot understand it, as long as I installed it from the official Debian package.
Back to 2.4...

CSI

I've finished to see the first half of chapters of its first season. I love it. Reminds me the books I read by Sir Arthur about Mr. Holmes...

GNOME

Next milestones:

• gnome-hello
• Bugzilla's easy-fix
• Other bugs / BugDay

Techs to review:

• libGlade-xml
• gtkmm
• GConf
• Bonobo

Que es portin bé els Reis!

New Year

Happy and really FREE 2004 for everyone!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to all of you, Free Software devotees!

It rocks!

GNOME Blog
Totem

Finally, I got back to net-browsing, net-mailing, apt-get upgrading at home. At last!

Neuros Audio 20GB

Yesterday I recieved my brand new Neuros 20GB unit. It's is wider than I thought but I like it.

My problem is, after all, that I can't configure it with positron (after solving a little problem with positron itself). I'm thinking about using positron's code to do a GNOME front-end o GTK2 plugin, but I'm not sure...
Anyway, I still have to look for a jack-transformer for my AC/Adapter...

Two fronts in my personal war

Nowadays, I've got two fronts where I'm fighting to solve:
The first one is the reality that I haven't got inet connection at home since two months ago. I'm very angry with Telefonica's tech-support (who kicked my ass and treated me as an stupid), and I cannot use anything (no apt, no mail, no download, no readings...). My only contact with the web is at work. Really silly!
When this first has been solved (probably I'll end up buying a new DSLRouter), I'll try to get involved in some (or few or one) FS projects. I'm thinking wich ones. I prefer the ones related to GNOME, Debian and audio user applications. But I'm not constrained on these. I'll keep browsing...