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Hardware Easter Eggs are much more exotics things than Software Easter Eggs. Nokia did it. N800 happened to have FM radio inside. Yesterday Nokia provided the application (well, the applet) which wonderfully utilizes that capability. Really nice touch. May be, a week later someone finds 3G hardware in this wonderful (like in "full of wonders") device?

It seems fd.o's bugzilla is broken. It neither sends mail notifications nor allows putting attachments ("The file you are attaching is empty"). Too sad:(

Some while ago I asked about plans of Nokia regarding giving away some N800 devices. They came up with the Developer Device Program - which is not exactly "give away" but very close to it; EUR99 for the device worth $399 is a lot better than just great bargain. And - HURRAY! - yesterday I got the promotion code. The device is on its way to my door.

Big thanks to Fernando Herrera for putting my name into the list, thanks to Nokia for not taking it out of the list, thus recognizing my humble contribution to OSS.

I spent some time trying to make LabVIEW/Win32 shipped with Mindstorm work under wine. Thanks to Daniel Skorka for some insightful tips (in comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine). So, finally LabVIEW started but ... now full stop, they are using special Windows device "LEGO MINDSTORM NXT" (they even care to create special device class "LEGO Devices"!) - so wine cannot help me after this point, since wine does not handle windows device drivers.

Yes, I know there are more powerful tools (like NBC, ICommand etc) - but I need some GUI-based IDE allowing to program without text editing. LabVIEW is a really nice tool, I must admit (and it seems to be based on the mozilla codebase BTW)

I know NI ships LabVIEW/Linux but AFAIK there is no linux driver for Mindstorm.

Sad...

.. 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:)

Thanks, Davyd! :)

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?

• ... 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.

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...

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