Older blog entries for leviramsey (starting at number 3)

I'm being more active in Mandrake Cooker development... at the moment, I'm hacking out something I'm surprised no one's done yet: an xmms output plugin for libao2. The main benefit for this is that libao2 supports (among other sound output systems) OSS, ALSA, EsounD, and aRts, automatically detecting which to use. This is nifty for use in distributions that support both KDE and GNOME as a default xmms output plugin. At the moment, it can play audio and in general behave like a nice xmms-plugin. Effect plugins are the only TODO before I release and upload it to contribs (which I should have write access to shortly... ;o) ).

Beyond that release, the only thing I can see me implementing is support for volume control... I may just do that in software; making hardware calls just seems yucky for a hardware-independent library. I've also noticed (of course, I could be wrong... I haven't checked code or anything...) that the EsounD output plugin doesn't support the xmms EQ, so that may be a TODO. I may add some rudimentary prebuffering support into the plugin, as it looks like effect support may add enough overhead to make that worthwhile.

Now that sawfish has been moved to Mandrake contribs, I have become its unofficial maintainer, starting with the newly released version 1.2.

It's been a while (nearly 6 months...) since my last entry. NotSlash is being rebuilt from the ground up, though the basic design is fairly similar to my original vision.

Today, my RPM of xmms-compress was accepted into Mandrake contribs. Woo hoo!

12 Mar 2002 (updated 14 Mar 2002 at 13:19 UTC) »

Continued working on my PHP/MySQL-based Slashdot clone. I'm nowhere near finished putting in every feature, but you can check it out in pre-alpha form. At this moment, I'm hacking a story queue system. I may eventually release the code as free software, but at this stage it's much to ugly and incomplete.

TODO (in no order)

  • Comments
  • Moderation
  • Meta-mod
  • Actual user logins
  • And much more stuff that I'm probably forgetting

I'm having a bitch of a time getting an XFree86 src rpm that checks out...

I'm finally listed by name for a patch in a changelog... check out the allegro rpms in Mandrake contribs....

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