The Thing with Planet Fedora
A while ago (http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/fedora-planet.html) I posted a story on my blog which then appeared on Fedora Planet. In it I expressed my doubts on the usefulness of the planet, due to
Pid Eins
Conferences and Laptop Bags
Conference organizers! Be attentive to the signs of times! There's a trend towards smaller laptops. Don't hand out laptop bags where those newer laptops (such as the X60) fits in two or more times!
Topkapi
One of the cupolas in the Topkapı Sarayı in İstanbul, Turkey. In one of the inner rings is a certain asymmetry. I wonder why?
Topkapi Tiles
Tiles in the Topkapı Sarayı in İstanbul, Turkey. This time the symmetry is perfect. Thanks to Gimp.
Linux Plumbers Conference CFP Extended!
The Call for Papers (http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/cfp/) for the Linux Plumbers Conference (http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/) in September in Portland, Oregon has been extended
PulseAudio 0.9.11 released
I just relased PulseAudio 0.9.11 (https://tango.0pointer.de/pipermail/pulseaudio-discuss/2008-July/002083.html). It's an awesome release. To learn more about why, read the linked email, and this
String Pools
In part 2.4.3 of Ulrich Drepper's excellent How To Write Shared Libraries (http://people.redhat.com/drepper/dsohowto.pdf) (which unfortunately is a bit out-of-date these days) Ulrich suggests
Scott,
in contrast to what you say (http://www.netsplit.com/2008/08/11/development-platform/) the Apple audio stack (CoreAudio) is far less streamlined that it might appear on first sight. The different
PulseAudio on Transifex
Thanks to Dimitris Glezos (http://dimitris.glezos.com/weblog) PulseAudio (http://pulseaudio.org/) and its auxiliary tools are now available on Fedora's Transifex
New libcanberra backends
I released libcanberra 0.8 (http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libcanberra/) a few hours ago. Biggest changes are some portability fixes for Solaris/FreeBSD, inclusion of an OSS backend (contributed
Audio BoF
To whom it may concern: there'll be an Audio BoF tomorrow (Thu) at the Linux Plumbers Conference (http://linuxplumbersconf.org/), starting at 4 pm. Dont miss it.
My take on the Plumbers Conference
I just came back from the Linux Plumbers Conference (http://linuxplumbersconf.org/). As some of you might know I was doing an MC about Audio there. Don Marti attended the track and wrote up an
A Guide Through The Linux Sound API Jungle
At the Audio MC (http://lwn.net/Articles/299211/) at the Linux Plumbers Conference (http://linuxplumbersconf.org/) one thing became very clear: it is very difficult for programmers to figure out
Everybody Loves Pretty Graphics
As kind of a followup to my Guide to Linux Sound APIs (http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/guide-to-sound-apis.html) here're some pretty graphics I just drew. (At least "pretty" to the degree of my
Responses to my Audio API Guide
My Audio API guide (http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/guide-to-sound-apis.html) got quite a few responses. The Good Takashi likes it.
Berliners!
Berliners, you might want to attend this rally! (http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/static/demo_en.html) It's tomorrow (hmm, or actually today considering it's already past midnight), October 11th
People of the Free World [1]!
GNOME 2.24 supports XDG sound themes (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/sound-theme-spec). Unfortunately however right now there is only a single sound theme in existence: the
Automatic Backtrace Generation
Ubuntu has Apport (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Apport). Fedora has nothing. (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/CrashHandling) That sucks big time. Here's the result of a few minutes of hacking up
Brazil
In November I spent three weeks in Brazil, the country where I grew up two decades ago. Surprisingly little had changed since then. Except maybe that this time I had an DSLR:
India, Again
Right after my trip to Brazil in November (http://0pointer.de/blog/photos/brazil) I flew to Bangalore for FOSS.in 2008 (http://foss.in/). It was one amazing conference! After the bold changes
