Older blog entries for zeenix (starting at number 208)

Now a GNOME foundation member

I just received e-mail informing me about the successful processing of my application for GNOME foundation membership. Thanks to all the people who vouched for me. My agenda as a member will be to:

• continue contributing wherever/whenever possible.


• make sure GNOME has full-blown support/integration for UPnP.


• not let the people who think of Mango Lassi as an original desi drink and are agaisnt the idea of GUADEC in Finland, gain power in the foundation. :P

Syndicated 2008-07-29 09:05:00 (Updated 2008-07-29 09:12:46) from zeenix

back from finnish forest

I am back. Had a very relaxing one week in the Finnish summer cottage. Lots of fishing and plenty of nice food to eat. Yes! there was Sauna almost everyday and yes! 'swimming in the lake naked' breaks were included. I had a crappy GPRS connection so I did some twittering for the past few days.

Syndicated 2008-07-28 12:00:00 (Updated 2008-07-28 13:26:18) from zeenix

Out in the forest for a week

I am on a one week vacation starting from tomorrow afternoon. I'll be in a summer cottage in the middle of a forest and might not have any internet connection at all. I am taking my laptop with me, but I'll try to resist hacking. Lets see how successful I am. :)

Syndicated 2008-07-19 23:04:00 (Updated 2008-07-19 23:08:58) from zeenix

Trouble with gmail and o-hand.com

I hadn't been getting replies to any of my mails to o-hand dudes but I just thought they are either on vacation or just too busy doing more important stuff. Yesterday I caught Matthew on IRC and it turned out that he did reply to my mail(s). I became a bit worried and searched my "Spam" and "Trash" to see if it ended-up there for some reason but i didn't find them there. I got a bit worried and looked into the archives of o-hand hosted mailing lists that i am subscribed to. It turned out that I haven't been able to receive any mail after 10th of June from o-hand.com mail server.

Getting really worried, I hit the "Help" link in gmail. Turns out that I can either go through a stupid automated troubleshooting procedure that didn't help at all or I can post my problem to a discussion forum that is sometimes visited by the gmail admins but mostly they assume that your problem will be solved by a user. I did post about my problem there but since this morning I am unable to find that forum anymore. Err..

I don't know on which end the problem exists but if you are reading this mail and you work at either o-hand or google, kindly investigate this issue.

UPDATE: I figured out the issue. Eric created this cool looking "@gstreamer.net" alias for me once and I had been advertising that all around. Turns out that I even used this alias/redirection to subscribe to (o-hand) mailing lists. I subscribed to clutter ml using '@gmail.com' address and I instantly got the messages from the list. I'll write to Eric in hope of getting the lost mails but I must stop using this alias/redirection no matter how cool it is.

Syndicated 2008-07-19 22:26:00 (Updated 2008-07-20 00:07:37) from zeenix

The Istanbul story

Time flies and it's already been a few days that I am back from Istanbul. It was a lot of fun. Great presentations, discussions and hacks in the mornings and Shisha and beer in the evenings.

Had lots of discussion with a lot of people about GUPnP, how it can be used for UPnP integration in GNOME and what features they would like to see in gupnp-media-server. My talk went pretty well and this time the demo really did work on the wireless network available at that time. :) The only issue was that it was scheduled at the same time as the Lightning talks and because of that only a few (~10) people could attend.

Talking of talks, my favorite was Michael's talk about Moonlight. There were many other nice talks as well like Quim's BoF, where he nicely explained Nokia's relationship with Open Source world in general and GNOME in specific, and OH people's talk on Clutter and the cool new features in Clutter 0.8.

There was a big debate going around on git vs bazaar. Although I was on git's side myself, I couldn't help but appreciate how reasonable the bazaar advocates/developers were. I had a lot of discussion with them and bombarded them with lots of straight questions. Unfortunately, I felt that I failed to convey my concerns about bazaar and how they (my concerns) can not just go away by simply me trying out bazaar myself.

Regarding next year's GUADEC/Akademy on one hand, I am very sad about Tampere's bid to be rejected but on the other hand I am really glad that it'll be in Canaries. Before you get me wrong, I don't think Galicia would have been less than perfect spot either. One thing that many people don't know about Canaries is that it's "the" vacation spot for Finnish people. So if you look even a bit Finnish or hanging around with Finnish (looking) friends in there, don't be surprised if the locals start to talk to you in (very broken) Finnish. :) Seriously, I am speaking from experience. So much for keeping GUADEC away from Finland. :)

Syndicated 2008-07-13 20:26:00 (Updated 2008-07-17 22:15:33) from zeenix

Cute Lennart

Lennart enjoys Federico's talk.

UPDATED: I didn't repost this, I only update the older blog entry with a rotated by 90 degrees clockwise version of the same image. Blame planet GNOME if you don't like seeing this again. :)

Syndicated 2008-07-11 15:48:00 (Updated 2008-07-17 22:20:29) from zeenix

GUPnP MediaServer 0.1 released

GUPnP is an object-oriented open source framework for creating UPnP devices and control points, written in C using GObject and libsoup. The GUPnP API is intended to be easy to use, efficient and flexible.

GUPnP MediaServer is an implementation of the UPnP MediaServer V 2.0
specification based on GUPnP and tracker. It is written (mostly) in Vala language.

Download at http://gupnp.org/sources/gupnp-media-server/

Syndicated 2008-07-08 11:50:00 (Updated 2008-07-08 11:57:38) from zeenix

GUPnP Media Renderer 0.1 released

- Initial release. This is a reference implementation of the UPnP MediaRenderer version 1 device type, written in Vala. For rendering it uses the video widget from libowl-av. GUPnP Media Renderer can be downloaded here

Syndicated 2008-06-30 11:36:00 (Updated 2008-06-30 20:21:03) from zeenix

GUPnP Network Camera

This is the announcement of the GUPnP Network Camera project, an implementation of the UPnP Digital Security Camera specification, based on GUPnP.

The GUPnP Network Camera package contains applications that enables V4L cameras to be shared on the network as UPnP devices, and control point software for controlling and viewing images from such cameras.

The software can be downloaded at: http://www.kristell.se/network-camera/

Syndicated 2008-06-29 19:22:00 (Updated 2008-06-30 20:20:20) from zeenix

Some facts

Regarding my last blog entry, I thought I should get some things straight:

• I am not a native english speaker so sometimes it's hard to choose the right words and sometimes this leads to confusion. Fortunately! I try to learn from my mistakes and comments on my blog entries really help me in that.



• I've been a big fan of Ubuntu ever since the project started and have been (and still) am a very happy Ubuntu user. In fact I was having the usual Ubuntu is better than Fedxxx debate with him the other day when Karl told me of this. Also I am writing this blog entry using Ubuntu.



• Disregarding what someone said about Ubuntu, I truely appreciate their work and efforts for Free Software and especially GNOME in specific. The world would be a much worse place if Ubuntu hadn't existed.



• The motivation behind this blog entry was not 'anger' but 'disappointment' being an Ubuntu user and advocate myself.

Regarding the discussion between Mark Shuttleworth and Karl-Lattimer, I must agree with Karl that Mark having to defend the 'GNOME About dialog' in the menu doesn't reflect good things about Ubuntu developers (the ones who were against this). On the the hand, I must ask Karl not to resort to insulting language even though I feel he has the right to be angry here (Something Mark also recognized).

Syndicated 2008-06-29 18:49:00 (Updated 2008-06-29 19:22:15) from zeenix