Pid Eins

Photos from GUADEC

The few images with GNOME people (http://0pointer.de/public/guadec-2006-pics/) I made at GUADEC are now online, too.

Re: PulseAudio and GNOME

davidz (http://blog.fubar.dk/?p=71): Shams King is currently working on HAL support in PulseAudio (http://pulseaudio.org/). He's planning to extend our module-combine

PulseAudio Zeroconf support ported to Avahi

Diego (http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2006/07/11/black-out) and others who complained: PulseAudio in SVN now uses Avahi natively for ZeroConf. The old HOWL based code has been

GUADEC Sound BOF Slides

Marc-Andre was so kind to upload the improvised mini-slides (http://etudiant.epita.fr/~lureau_m/GUADEC06-Audio-BOF/) we had prepared for GUADEC's sound BOF. Unfortunately there is no recording of the

Announcing SECCURE

Yesterday my brother released his second Free Software package, the SECCURE Elliptic Curve Crypto Utility for Reliable Encryption (http://point-at-infinity.org/seccure/). (Recursive acronyms

ZeroConf in Ubuntu

(Disclaimer: I am not an Ubuntu user myself. But I happen to be the lead developer of Avahi (http://avahi.org).) It came to my attention that Ubuntu is

MSI S270 Laptop Linux Kernel Driver

Earlier this year I worked on reverse engineering (http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/s270ctrl) the brightness control of my MSI S270 laptop (http://0pointer.de/lennart/tchibo.html). Turning this work

Avahi 0.6.13 released

I am happy to bring you yet another release of Avahi (http://avahi.org/), everyone's favourite Zeroconf stack. • Add a new D-Bus method for changing the mDNS host name during runtime.

Cover image for Avahi 0.6.13 released

Avahi porter for Win32 needed!

Are you a Win32 hacker and looking for something worthwhile to do in Free Software? We're eagerly looking for someone to port Avahi (http://avahi.org/) to that platform. Now that D-Bus is available

Launchpad is Evil

I always think twice before entering my name in any web form or posting to a mailing list. Is the web site/list respectable? Do the owners of the web site have any commercial interest in my name

A few updates on PulseAudio

Thanks to Marc-Andre Lureau there's now a jhbuild file for PulseAudio (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348572). And there is this (little bit chaotic) Wiki page

Cover image for A few updates on PulseAudio

Updates

Various, unrelated news: Thanks to Marvin Stark (http://www.der-marv.de/) my project syrep (http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/syrep) is now available in Debian. As you might know all the

Conferences: UDS, FOMS and LCA

To my surprise I have been invited to the Ubuntu Developers Summit in Mountain View early next month (as a "ROCKSTAR", to quote Mark), to promote PulseAudio (http://pulseaudio.org/). And that

Cui Bono?

So, you thought that only Linux users (and other alternative OS zealots) would benefit from reverse engineered Windows drivers (http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/s270ctrl)? Ha! Far from the truth,

uds-mtv -> San Francisco

Is anyone who's attending the Ubuntu Developers Summit in Mountain View right now heading for San Francisco tomorrow? I plan to stay a few days in the city to do sight seeing and stuff. Please catch

Dear Lazyweb!

Let's see how well Lazyweb works for me! One of the nicest types of lamps I know is depicted on this photo: This lamp is built from a number (16 or so, it's so difficult to count) of identical

Cover image for Dear Lazyweb!

Ubuntu vs. Free Software

Everybody should read Roman Kennke's take on Mark Shuttleworth's OpenSUSE spam mail (http://kennke.org/blog/?p=31). It's constructive and sensible. I hope the Ubuntu people find the strength to

Chasing A Light

Last friday I posted a little Lazyweb experiment (http://0pointer.de/blog/mexico-lamp.html), a hunt for information about a certain kind of lamp sold by a street dealer in Mexico City. A quick

Cover image for Chasing A Light