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  • Hubert Figuiere: Congrats Dodji #2

    Dodji, congrats on your new job. All I can say is that I'm very envious.


    Sun, 11 Feb 2007 04:02:16 +0000

  • Tuomas Kuosmanen: Some minor updates..

    I did some minor updates to the Plankton theme yesterday.

    • The topright corner’s black blob is gone from the “home” view - yes, it was a bug, not some weird artistic brain fart of mine. ;-)
    • The buttons are much lighter in appearance - I want to do a very clean, simple theme that works.
    • The theme is now dithered to 32000 colors, so it has less banding on the blue gradient in the task navigator and statusbar panels.
    • The virtual thumb keyboard is cleaner (in progress, I know it has some pixel glitches) - the goal is to make it very easy to type with - hence the very prominent pressed-state of buttons and the clean appearance. Let me know if it helps - I think it does.
    • Some other crap perhaps that I forgot.

    Grab it here. You need hildon-theme-cacher from here to install it. N800 only for now.


    Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:16:35 +0000

  • Philip Langdale: n800 MMC 4/SDHC enabled kernel

    Alright then. As promised earlier, I’ve got a pre-built replacement kernel for the n800 which adds support for MMC 4 and SDHC cards. I’ve been using this kernel for the last week, but I needed to find some time to make sure I’d included a self-consistent set of changes. My main concern was all the MMC/SD changes that went in between 2.6.18 and 2.6.19, but it turns out that Nokia have already backported this set into their kernel.

    So, without further ado: go here to download the kernel and/or the patches to the Nokia source.

    Building your own kernel is well documented at maemo.org, so if you want to combine these patches with some other kernel tweaks, it’s easy to do so.

    As mentioned before, some people have been having random reboot problems when just using the sdhc patch against the original Nokia source. I believe that this is because they are missing bug fixes that are included in my roll-up patch sets. I have not observed any reboots, so I’m pretty confident that that was the source of the problem.

    If you try the patches out, do let me know what your experience is - the more testing and feedback we get, the sooner Nokia will be able to roll these into their official kernel.


    Sat, 10 Feb 2007 22:00:15 +0000

  • Jono Bacon: LA, LA, LA, LA…LA LA…LA

    Over in LA right now for SCALE and having a good time. I got into LA at about 6pm last night, got to the hotel, dumped my bags, had a swift pint in the bar and met some of the organisers and familiar faces from last year. Then, the Rt Hon Ted Haeger and Erin ‘Ted’s Bitch’ Quill showed up and we went for dinner. A bit later Dave ‘Pig Lover’ Neary appeared and we went to a party in the conf organisers suite at the hotel. Drunk lots of beer, got virtually no sleep, but felt uncanny satisfaction at sleeping in the worlds singular largest bed that I have ever seen. In fact, I deliberately slept from left to right just because I could. Simple things…

    Its a good show, bigger than last year, and my talk is in an hour or so. Its been great to meet some of the same faces from last year, and particularly good to see Brother Ted, a kindred spirit. Its been way too long since we last met up, and so much has happened since then. Good to meet up, compare notes, reminisce over past experiences, joke about burning down certain restaurants…

    As I mentioned before, one of the great things about heading out to these shows is that I often get little gifts and keepsakes from people. I always find this quite touching. This has included:

    • A carrier bag given to me in Holland from a shop with the word Bollocks in the name.
    • A DVD of a self-made rock-chick flick given to me in LA at SCALE last year - apparently the guy is giving me the sequel this year. :)
    • A little boat and statue given to me in Sydney by Miguel Ruiz from Chile.
    • A small wooden instrument given to me by a community member in Holland.

    Well, added to the list is a chap who gave me a bottle of Arrogant Bastard, a local brew here in LA. On one hand an excellent gift, on the other hand, a swift kick in the nuts. Cheeky bugger… :P


    Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:53:25 +0000

  • James Willcox: Monster Truck Lloyd



    Monster Truck Lloyd

    Originally uploaded by snorp.


    Saw this while getting some food this morning. Only in Kansas…


    Sat, 10 Feb 2007 18:40:55 +0000

  • John Palmieri: Quick an easy Spinach and Tortellini Soup

    There have been requests for me to post some of my recipies. Here is a quick recipie that litterally takes 10 to 20 minutes to make.

    6 cups chicken broth (vegetable if you are vegetarian )
    6 ounces of dried tortellini - cheese or vegetable
    1/2 a bag of baby spinach or bundle of spinach
    salt and pepper to taste

    Bring broth up to a boil and add seasonings. Add in half the spinach and all the tortellini. Cook until tortellini is done. Add more broth if tortellini has soked up most of the liquid. You will have to experiment with the tortellini to liquid ratio depening on what kind of tortellini you use.

    To finish off add a bed of spinach to bowls and pour soup over top. Add a couple of leaves of baby spinach or chiffonade some spinach leaves for garnish.

    Makes about 4 to 6 servings.


    Sat, 10 Feb 2007 15:00:23 +0000

  • Prashanth Mohan: aBaCUS OPC on 18th

    aBaCUS is an annual technical symposium conducted by the Computer Science Department of CEG. aBaCUS ‘07 itself is over.. but the OPC is scheduled for the 18th of February. Lots of Prizes to be won and the rules are pretty much similar to the Kurukshetra OPC. And oh yeah, We will once again be using the hackzor OPC judge. A gist of them:

    Team Size: Maximum 3
    Languages Allowed: C, C++, Java, Perl, Ruby and Python
    Date: 18th February, 2007
    Time: 14:00 IST - 20:00 IST
    Prize Money: 35000 INR

    A practise contest will be conducted shortly. Look out on this blog for more details…

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    Sat, 10 Feb 2007 13:44:01 +0000

  • Dodji Seketeli: getting paid to do what I'd love to do

    I will be quitting my current job at Business Objects soonish to start working for OpenedHand. Yeah, woot ! I spent 5+ exciting years working for Business Objects, doing neat hacks, debugging interesting crashes, working to solve real life customer problems, hanging around with smart folks, touching AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, GNU/Linux and, ahem, windows. I was lucky.

    Now, it's time to go open :-) I am really looking forward to learning new things, getting closer to hackers I really admire, and all in all, being able to take a breath one day and say: ''Damned, I am learning a lot with these guys".


    Sat, 10 Feb 2007 11:55:25 +0000

  • Davyd Madeley: something useful (maybe)
    Restarted German classes on Tuesday night. This year I have started my Associate Diploma in Applied Languages (in German). Because I'm lazy, or cheap, or something, I still don't own a German/English dictionary. I did once have a German/English dictionary for the Palm Pilot, but I dislike the idea of paying for software. Some time ago I discovered that there is a GPL German/English dictionary (Debian packages this as trans-de-en), but there doesn't appear to be a good program for interfacing with it, so this weekend I wrote something I'm currently calling gtrans.

    GTrans

    It's currently simplistic, very simplistic, but it's enough to vaguely search for words. When I first wrote it, I was using Python dictionaries to index my data, but it turns out this was an excellent way to consume 128MB of memory. Now it uses SQLite and will generate an SQLite DB the first time it is run (and if the text data gets updated). SQLite turns out to be almost as fast, and the program uses a lot less memory (perhaps enough that it could fit on a Maemo device?).

    What kinds of things could be added? Well, I suppose the sky is the limit here. The most obvious thing would be to implement the Levenshtein distance algorithm to detect common misspellings (for example forgetting the umlaut above a letter) and generally add some interface fruit. If anybody wants to help me tidy my application up, let me know.

    If you're interested, here is the source. It's Python, but there's not a lot of it. The file-parsing and SQLite work is abstracted from the UI code, so it should all be reusable in other places if desired. The license is GPLv2.

    Now I'll find someone has already written it (in Tk doesn't count).

    Update: I found out that in SQLite you can register new functions to use in your SQL statements, eg. as comparators in a WHERE statement. This means that you can provide something like a spellchecking comparator, I suppose. Unfortunately it may be a little slow using the Damerau-Levenshtein technique. Some more experimentation is required.
    Sat, 10 Feb 2007 10:23:10 +0000

  • Luis Villa: n800 notes

    Less than 24 hours after I blogged that I was glad I wasn’t getting an N800, I got the code for an N800. And of course I bought it, because I’m a sucker for toys, even ones that I predicted would become paperweights. ;)

    I used it extensively for the first time today. Some thoughts:

    • great battery life. Used it as an mp3 player, tromped around downtown new york for almost three hours, played some tetris while waiting for lunch… still reporting 5 hours of use time left when I got home.
    • mp3 player. Why no ogg by default? can’t be more than a handful of Kb of extra binary, no?
    • opera has improved; google maps mostly works now, ditto calendar. Still would prefer a working minimo (which was crashy and slow but handled google calendar on my 770.)
    • still miss my palm’s text entry; nothing has changed in that respect since my first impressions of the 770.
    • application installation has gotten much better than it was on the 770. Still needs some love, though- some application installs from the otherwise nifty applications repository fail mysteriously, which is irritating to me and probably hugely frustrating to a normal user.
    • was very, very disappointed to find out that canola is closed source. That dampens my excitement for it considerably.
    • when I import an opml file to the rss reader, it makes me manually check every feed that I want to import. Not going to bother with that with my feed list- too long. Should default to assuming that I want to import them all.
    • tigert’s theme is so much better than the overly dark default theme that it isn’t even funny. Really look forward to the tango port.
    • video is cool, though I was unable to use it reliably with tigert- bad connection. (generally I seem to lose connection to google talk very often, even though otherwise my wireless connection seems reliable. No idea what the problem is there.)
    • I really, really want the novell slab menu on the N800. Giant, deep hierarchical menus are bad enough on a full-size screen; on the N800 they are terrible. SLAB NOW! :)
    • the widgets metaphor on the micro-desktop is broken. I wrote a long email about this to tigert that I’ll spare everyone else, but suffice to say that having a ‘desktop’ on a device that small is a confusing waste of pixels.

    Overall, I am guessing that this will end up not getting used too much- I already carry my laptop just about everywhere, so this won’t buy me much. But I think as of today I’ve already used it more than my 770- so who knows, maybe it’ll keep growing on me :)


    Fri, 09 Feb 2007 23:26:16 +0000

  • Christian Schaller: Greetings from Casablanca
    Thanks to a handy little device from Nokia I am sending this little message to the world from Ricks cafe in Casablanca! Yup, living that movie magic!
    Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:28:55 +0000

  • Glynn Foster: OGB Elections - I'm in!

    As a diversionary tactic to the current set of discussions on the OGB list, I've decided to run for the OGB elections this year and hopefully this will encourage other sane motivated people to put themselves forward or discuss the upcoming elections. OpenSolaris needs you more than ever .

    Why me? I believe I'm up to the job, willing to get my hands dirty, and hopefully take part in some positive direction that the OpenSolaris project needs to take over the coming year. I have many years experience being involved in the GNOME project, and while they are completely different projects, I think there's some benefit to be gained from that experience. I'm principally involved in the Desktop Community (being a community leader), currently GNOME Foundation board member and secretary, and paid by Sun for the last 6 years mostly involved in community building and relations rather than at a high technical level.

    I have never built my own kernel.


    Fri, 09 Feb 2007 20:11:00 +0000

  • Rich Burridge: Pygame Slidepuzzle - Update 9th February 2007

    Friday is hacking day.

    A followup to a previous post.

    I've created a new compressed tarball of the Pygame Slidepuzzle

    I've made the following changes:

    Added in support for various command line options and adjusted the code to handle them:
    • -?, --help - print out the usage message and exit.
    • -i, --image - path of the image file to use.
    • -s, --size - number of rows and columns to use. Range 2-6.
    • -m, --missing - square that should be empty Numbered from 1.

    Assuming you've got pygame (and its dependencies) installed -- and it's just a few clicks away via the Synaptic Package Manager on Ubuntu -- you can then download the Slidepuzzle compressed tarball, unpack it, and then turn your favorite image into a nice sliding puzzle.

    For example, I found a nice digital copy of the Mona Lisa on the web and resized it to half its original size, and saved it in the directory where I unpacked slidepuzzle-0.2.

    I can now turn it into a 4x4 sliding puzzle with the bottom right corner initially blank with: 

      % cd /path/to/slidepuzzle-0.2
  % python slidepuzzle.py --image mona_lisa.jpg --size 4 --missing 16

    Type "s" to randomly shuffle the tiles, then use the arrow keys or the mouse to try to solve the puzzle. "q" or Esc will quit the game.

    The next step is to try to adjust the code so that there are initial controls like "Play", "Options" and "Quit" and you don't have to set things via command line options. You know, like a real game. I'll probably be again stealing chunks of the public domain Magicor game to do this.

    Another update (and probably fairly simple) would be to allow a different number of rows and columns. The "-s", "--size" command line option would change to "-r", "--rows" and "-c", "--columns" and the Python code tweaked accordingly.

    But that's all for another day. Back to RealWork™

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    Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:59:57 +0000

  • Michael Meeks: 2007-02-09: Friday
    • Side-tracked by yast2 bits, brushed up my flaky shell a little. Lunch, interesting conf call.
    • Some wonderful news: Today, Sun released their proprietary VBA macro migration plugin as Free Software, and committed to working with Novell to integrate it with our code, to improve interoperability for all OO.o users. This is really good news, and (I think) part of Sun's increasing focus on OO.o vs. StarOffice. I'm looking forward to seeing the fruit of the collaboration, and getting this integrated up-stream quickly. Also VBA interop is an area where new hackers can quickly get involved, writing the mapping code is not only immediately rewarding, but is often easy particularly porting & integrating Sun's existing helper API. In conclusion: this is excellent news for users, and I'm extremly happy to welcome Sun to the OpenOffice.org VBA interop. project with Andreas Bregas set to join as co-lead. It's just great to work together on this. Thanks too to Juergen for all his work making this happen. Oh, and for those that care: as part of the up-streaming process, this piece will become fully pluggable.
    • Mike Fabian fixed my fontconfig crasher, tested it works beautifully; wonderful.
    • Got poked by two people internally asking about Sun's "announcement of OpenXML support" - it -appears- that they're mistaken and talking about the MS Office ODF Plugin - which of course is totally different. To re-emphasise our position: while I'm thrilled that Sun's MS Office plugin is re-using the OO.o code-base: the best way to get perfect interoperability is to use OO.o on both Win32 and Linux and exchange documents in ODF format. ie. if it's at all possible: abandon that MS beast, and move to a Free software alternative; don't just plug some ree-software into it to tame it slightly.

    Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:01:26 +0000

  • Ross Burton: Postr 0.5

    Postr 0.5 is out. This has a few fixes:

    • Catch errors throw by EXIF or IPTC parsing
    • New flickrpc (cleaner code, works with Python 2.5)

    You can follow the development in the Bazaar branch, or get the Postr 0.5 tarball.


    Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:30:00 +0000

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