See you in Berlin!
I have a talk where I'll attempt to
See you in Berlin soon!
Syndicated 2011-08-02 20:25:00 (Updated 2011-08-02 20:25:07) from zeenix
See you in Berlin!
Syndicated 2011-08-02 20:25:00 (Updated 2011-08-02 20:25:07) from zeenix
Slightly more on virtual world..
Forgot to mention in my last blog post that SPICE is not just more efficient at network bandwidth utilization but is also much more faster/responsive. Also, Jon Nordby pointed out that the screenshots of virt-manager I copied from virt-manager website are several years outdated. Here is how the main UI looks like now a days.
P.S. I was going to inline this screenshot but blogger.com is not letting me do that. :(
Syndicated 2011-06-22 13:40:00 (Updated 2011-06-22 13:40:01) from zeenix
Welcome to the virtual world!
Syndicated 2011-06-22 01:03:00 (Updated 2011-06-22 01:27:14) from zeenix
Release logs are important!
Turns out that not many Free Software maintainers follow the practice of writing proper release logs targetted for packagers/end-users. To justify their laziness, they come-up with lame excuses like "Oh, the user never sees the release log" etc and at the very most copy&paste the (developer oriented) VCS changelog since the last release. Here is how it actually affects a user:
Syndicated 2011-06-20 16:00:00 (Updated 2011-06-20 18:18:28) from zeenix
Canon Pixma MP560 printer and Linux
When I bought this printer, I failed to find any Linux drivers for it. I must admit I didn't try hard to find them either since I was very much in a hurry at that time. Since then I had just assumed that drivers for Linux just don't exist.
But today I decided to search/try harder to get it working against my fedora laptop. The result was that I found the drivers very easily and after several minutes of efforts, I finally got it working! So I thought it blog about it and provide some pointers so process gets easier for others:
Syndicated 2011-05-30 19:50:00 (Updated 2011-05-30 19:50:44) from zeenix
Rygel 0.10 is here!
We just made our first stable releases of Rygel after many months of active development. I used to post a blog entry after each release with the full-log but I stopped doing that because some people didn't like it going to planet GNOME and I thought chances are high that other viewer might also be getting annoyed by it.
Anways, I would like to highlight some of the changes since 0.8.3:
Syndicated 2011-04-17 01:19:00 (Updated 2011-04-17 01:19:03) from zeenix
Future Perfect
Ever since I blogged about me looking for opportunities outside Nokia, I was contacted by quite some companies. Some of them ended-up giving me nice offers but in the end the offer that stood out amongst all was from Red Hat. So last evening, I accepted their offer to join the awesome Spice team.
The reasons I chose Red Hat over others were:
Syndicated 2011-04-05 18:59:00 (Updated 2011-04-05 19:08:24) from zeenix
Yet another git history visualization
Here is a decade of GStreamer hacking squeezed into 5 minute visualization using gource.gource -1280x720 -s 0.05 --stop-at-end --hide filenames --highlight-all-users \
--file-filter po -a 5 --camera-mode track --user-image-dir ~/hackergotchies \
--disable-progress --disable-bloom --output-ppm-stream - --output-framerate 30 \
| gst-launch-0.10 fdsrc fd=0 ! 'image/ppm,width=1280,height=720,framerate=(fraction)30/1' \
! ffdec_ppm ! ffmpegcolorspace ! x264enc speed-preset=10 ! avimux ! \
filesink location=gst-dev-history.avi
Syndicated 2011-03-17 01:18:00 (Updated 2011-03-17 01:18:01) from zeenix
Rygel Development History Visualization (part II)
Here is yet another version thats twice slower (and therefore longer), has the gloom off and filenames disabled and is in H264+AVI format. Oh and this time I managed to use GStreamer to record the video, rather than ffmpeg.gource -1280x720 -s 0.1 --stop-at-end --hide filenames \
--highlight-all-users --file-filter po -a 5 --camera-mode track \
--user-image-dir ~/hackergotchies --disable-progress \
--disable-bloom --output-ppm-stream - |gst-launch-0.10 fdsrc fd=0 \
! 'image/ppm,width=1280,height=720,framerate=(fraction)60/1' ! \
ffdec_ppm ! ffmpegcolorspace ! x264enc speed-preset=10 ! \
avimux ! filesink location=rygel-dev-history.avi
Syndicated 2011-03-16 02:18:00 (Updated 2011-03-16 02:18:05) from zeenix
Rygel Development History Visualization
I recently discovered this awesome tool called, gource. Using that I created a visualization of rygel's development history and uploaded here.
Note that translation commits are missing. That doesn't mean I do not acknowledge or value those contributions but I had to exclude them because otherwise the screen was too crowded for viewer to actually see anything at all.
Syndicated 2011-03-13 16:18:00 (Updated 2011-03-13 16:18:33) from zeenix
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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