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zeenix is currently certified at Journeyer level.

Name: Zeeshan Ali
Member since: 2004-07-21 01:47:02
Last Login: 2008-01-24 11:16:40

Notes:

I think therefore I am!

These are the voyages of Zeeshan Ali. His continuing mission to seek out new planets, new civilizations and to boldly go where no man or no one has gone before :)

Contact
E-mail: MYNICKNAME@gmail.com
Work E-mail: firstname.lastname@nokia.com

Projects

Lead Developer on GNU Robots
Contributor on GStreamer
Lead Developer on XChat-Guile
Lead Developer on Gabriel
Developer on GUPnP

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12 May 2008 »

A week of Xbox fun

While my MediaServer implementation is still in it's very infancy, I was already asked by more than two people if it will work with Xbox. I didn't have a clue since I don't have an Xbox so I asked Naba if i can visit him on some weekend to find some clues but he was kind enough to lend it for a week instead. For the past one week I had been having lots of fun with it. This nice page by Frank Scholz gave me headstart and I was able to get Xbox see my MediaServer rather sooner. The only other achievement I had in the whole week is that Xbox is able to see the videos but can't play it (most probably because I don't give it all the metadata it requests).

The good thing is that now i have a very good idea of what Xbox expects from my MediaServer and I am very hopeful on getting my MediaServer working with Xbox at some point. Here is the log of all the SOAP messages I get from Xbox for anyone interested.

Syndicated 2008-05-11 20:48:00 (Updated 2008-05-11 21:00:00) from zeenix

7 May 2008 »

Karl Lattimer is my hero

I just can't help but appreciate how this dude comes to my desk and solves my complicated problem within minutes. My python problems were all solved when he removed the link (/usr/bin/python) to absolute path (/usr/bin/python2.5) and recreated it, only this time using relative path. Either he is too smart or I am too stupid. :)

Syndicated 2008-05-07 20:58:00 (Updated 2008-05-07 21:13:20) from zeenix

4 May 2008 »

python strikes back

The joy of getting my python problems fixed on my debian testing were short lived. This time when i ran `apt-get dist-upgrade`, apt failed saying:

ValueError: /usr/bin/python does not match the python default version. It must be reset to point to python2.4 dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/python-uno_1%3a2.4.0-5_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/deskbar-applet_2.22.1-1_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/python-ctypes_1.0.2-4_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

So removed the link to python2.5 and recreated it but this time pointing to pythong2.4. It should fix the problem, right? No! here is what apt says now:

ValueError: /usr/bin/python does not match the python default version. It must be reset to point to python2.5 ...

Syndicated 2008-05-04 16:28:00 (Updated 2008-05-04 16:35:49) from zeenix

1 May 2008 »

GUPnP presentation at GUADEC

So my GUPnP presentation for GUADEC has been accepted and scheduled for 14:30 on 11 Jul 2008. It will be essentially the same talk I delivered at FOSDEM but this time I'll try to make sure the demos really do work. :) If you missed it at FOSDEM, don't commit the same mistake at GUADEC. :)

Syndicated 2008-05-01 21:31:00 (Updated 2008-05-01 21:40:01) from zeenix

28 Apr 2008 (updated 29 Apr 2008 at 15:14 UTC) »

whats wrong with my python setup?

Can any python guru out there explain whats going on here:

$ /usr/bin/gnome-about Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/gnome-about", line 35, in ? import gtk ImportError: No module named gtk $ head -n 1 /usr/bin/gnome-about #!/usr/bin/python $ head -n 36 /usr/bin/gnome-about|tail -n +29 import pygtk pygtk.require ('2.0') import gobject from gobject.option import OptionParser, make_option import gtk $ /usr/bin/python Python 2.4.5 (#2, Mar 12 2008, 00:15:51) [GCC 4.2.3 (Debian 4.2.3-2)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import pygtk >>> import gtk >>> $ /usr/bin/python Python 2.4.5 (#2, Mar 12 2008, 00:15:51) [GCC 4.2.3 (Debian 4.2.3-2)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import pygtk >>> pygtk.require ('2.0') >>> import gtk Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? ImportError: No module named gtk >>> UPDATE: Thanks to Karl-Lattimer, the problem was solved by: # rm /usr/bin/python # ln -s /usr/bin/python2.5 /usr/bin/python

Syndicated 2008-04-28 21:25:00 (Updated 2008-04-29 14:41:14) from zeenix

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