India, 360 Degrees at a Time, Part Five
Here's the fourth part of (http://0pointer.de/blog/photos/india-360-at-a-time-1.html) my (http://0pointer.de/blog/photos/india-360-at-a-time-2.html) ongoing
Pid Eins
India, 360 Degrees at a Time, Part Six
Here's the sixth part (http://0pointer.de/blog/photos/india-360-at-a-time-1.html) of (http://0pointer.de/blog/photos/india-360-at-a-time-2.html) my
India, 360 Degrees at a Time, Part Seven
Here's the seventh and final (http://0pointer.de/blog/photos/india-360-at-a-time-1.html) part (http://0pointer.de/blog/photos/india-360-at-a-time-2.html) of
Speaker Setup
While tracking down some surround sound related bugs I was missing a speaker setup and testing utility. So I decided to do something about it and I present you gnome-speaker-setup
Horizontal Panoramas Are So 2009!
Horizontal panoramas are so 2009 -- which is why I now give you the vertical panorama: Now if I wasn't too stupid to hold my camera steady shooting upwards, this could actually have been a really
Measure Your Sound Card!
#nocomments y In recent versions PulseAudio (http://pulseaudio.org/) integrates the numerous mixer elements ALSA exposes (http://people.redhat.com/alexl/files/why-alsa-sucks.png) into one single
Bossa 2010/Manaus Slides
The slides for my talk about the audio infrastructure of Linux mobile devices at BOSSA 2010 (http://bossaconference.indt.org/) in Manaus/Brazil are now available online
Public Service Announcement: Beware of rsvg_term()!
As a short followup on an older blog posting of mine (http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/beware-of-xmlCleanupParser): So you are using librsvg's rsvg_term() in your code? If so then you are probably
Down the Amazon
After BOSSA in Manaus/Brazil (http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/bossa2010.html) we took a very enjoyable boat trip down the Amazon, to Santarém and particularly Alter do Chão, a ridiculously amazing
Down the Amazon II
As a followup to this blog story (http://0pointer.de/blog/photos/amazon.html) here are a couple of non-panorama shots from the trip:
A Few Notes on Bloom Filters
For future reference (mostly for myself), here's a little summary of how to use Bloom filters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter) in real world applications. Most references are terse and
Rethinking PID 1
If you are well connected or good at reading between the lines you might already know what this blog post is about. But even then you may find this story interesting. So grab a cup of coffee,
systemd In The News
#nocomments yes A few news sites brought articles (some shorter, others longer) about last week's blog story on systemd (http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html): • Linux Weekly News
PulseAudio and Jack
#nocomments yes One thing became very clear to me during my trip to the Linux Audio Conference 2010 (http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2010/) in Utrecht: even many pro audio folks are not sure what Jack
LAC Video Streams Online
The great people from the Linux Audio Conference (http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2010/) uploaded the video streams from the event
systemd Now Has a Web Site
We now have a web site (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd), a mailing list (http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel), a bugzilla component and moved our git
Name Your Threads
Stefan Kost recently pointed me to the fact that the Linux system call prctl(PR_SET_NAME) does not in fact change the process name, but the task name (comm field) -- in contrast to what the man page
Mango Lassi is Back
Sven Herzberg (http://github.com/herzi/mango-lassi) has recently been doing a lot of work on Mango Lassi (http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/mango-lassi.html), a project deserving love but which I as
Change of Plans
The upcoming week I'll do two talks at LinuxTag 2010 at the Berlin Fair Grounds. One of them was only added to the schedule today, about systemd
Slides from LinuxTag 2010
On popular request, here are my (terse) slides (http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-presentation-linuxtag2010.pdf) from LinuxTag on systemd (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd).