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8 Jan 2007 (updated 8 Jan 2007 at 14:23 UTC) »
Nokia 800

.. looks really nifty. Does Nokia have plans to give away some of them to the GNOME crowd (like they did with the previous model)? If so - I am first in the waiting list:)

gnome-applets 2.17.1 are out

Thanks, Davyd! :)

GNOME

Recently I found out that there was no release (tarball/CVS tag) of gnome-applets for 2.17.x series. Shocking news. Taking that keyboard indicator in gnome-applets 2.16.x does not work with gnome-settings-daemon in 2.17.x (sorry, I really had to change DBus interface) - this leaves people who want to try 2.17 with the only option - using gnome-applets CVS HEAD (err, SVN Trunk I mean). Please, let's have gnome-applets 2.17.5 at least, huh?

Happy New...

  • ... Year! To everyone and everybody!
  • ... GNOME version control server! I liked the idea to switch to Subversion from the very start (and may God save me from git for as long as possible). Lads who performed the whole conversion operation - you just rock, no kidding. I know there are still some things to polish - but overall I think GNOME witnessed something really great.
Streaming media

In order to watch Russian TV over the internet, I am connecting to one streaming provider which (unfortunately) broadcasts as RTSP/UDP (well, there is also RTSP/TCP and RTSP/HTTP but they are unusable - constant buffering is all I see). So... I found out that neither VLC nor mplayer can deal with it.

VLC (as far as I can see in the sources) can only work with RTSP/TCP (I sure filed a ticket in their support system, let's see how long it will take to respond).

Mplayer (using live555.com library) supports RTSP/UDP (seems so), but cannot handle the format X-ASF-PF (which is MS format, with all fairness).

Gstreamer ... "RTSP streams cannot be played yet" - that's what I got from totem..

I have to boot to XP in order to use Media Player. Sad sad...

21 Dec 2006 (updated 21 Dec 2006 at 20:40 UTC) »
Re: Military usage of FOSS

My recent posting regarding the subject brought a lot of attention from p.g.o. Since advogato does not allow commenting, I created special English-only post in my (otherwise Russian) blog, so everyone is very welcome to express their opinion down there.

PS And thanks to the people who already took time to comment my idea in their blogs

Military usage of FOSS

Today, my RSS reader brought me the news about some US military satellite with Linux on board. Which once again raised in me one essential moral question: whether the ethics of FOSS approves this area of usage.

What I'd love to see (and use in my code) is some optional standard extension to GPL (other OSS licenses?) which would explicitly forbid any usage in military organizations (including military R&D). Any (FSF) lawyers around?

GNOME

I wish all the luck to the people converting GNOME to Subversion! CVS is really too 90-ish...;) BTW, as maintainer of two virtual modules (libkbdraw/libgswitchit) I can advise that these modules could be safely dropped from g-a and g-c-c - if Subversion is not going to be used for support of GNOME 2.14 and earlier. Otherwise, I'm afraid, they'll have to made svn:external or smth... (Sorry, I am not subscribed to gnome-hackers maillist, so I can just hope some person of the transition team reads this).

Wine + LEGO's LabView

Yesterday spent some time trying to make LEGO Mindstorm's software work in Wine/Ubuntu. Well, Wine has definitely made a great progress in configurability, since last time I tried it. But unfortunately I could not make it yet - for some reason wine could not load fantom.dll (Invalid ELF header???). I'll keep on trying...

SIP

It seems, voipcheap.com has some issues. Noone could call me through NAT when I used voipcheap.com account. Once I switched to sipnet.ru account - everything just works. Or is it just a combination of ekiga/voipcheap.com (with x-lite/win32 even voipcheap.com account works ok)? Or just ekiga?...;)

In a word, SIP is still not mature enough for people behind firewalls. I would not wholeheartedly recommend it to the people who want something working out of the box, in every situation.

13 Dec 2006 (updated 13 Dec 2006 at 09:44 UTC) »
Rants about SIP

Deep in fight with SIP, using voipcheap.com service. Tried ekiga/gaim/linphone/wengo (no x-lite for linux/ppc is available). Among other things, found that no OSS SIP client really supports presence, in my environment (well, at least the way voipcheap understands it). Talked to Ekiga lads on IRC - they are planning to introduce it next year (I sure will pray for them). Unfortunately, I am behind NAT which seems to really complicate matters (yes, Skype folks got this thing right!). For some reason even STUN with stun.ekiga.net does not help - people still cannot call me (while I can call them, and I can also call from one LAN machine to another). The last idea to check - installing milkfish on my wrt54g and using it as the outbound proxy. We'll see...

10 Dec 2006 (updated 10 Dec 2006 at 15:47 UTC) »
udev

I found the blog posting containing udev rule for the palm pilot (in my case - Handsping Visor Deluxe).

On my system, ttyUSB0 is taken by usb-to-serial converter, so I had to change the rule to KERNEL="ttyUSB[2468]" - which is not nice. Then, after some discussion in livejournal and looking at output of udevinfo, I found the difference:


<    SYSFS{dev}=="188:0"
---
>    SYSFS{dev}=="188:1"
So, the right rule is:

BUS=="usb", SYSFS{product}=="Handspring*",
SYSFS{dev}=="*:1", KERNEL=="ttyUSB[123456789]", SYMLINK+="pilot"

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