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by Pid Eins Jan 27, 2009 · Edited

Pascal,

replacing integral parts of a system is always a bit of a dilemma. If we replace it only after all the other software/drivers that interface with it is known to work well with it then nobody will

by Pid Eins Feb 10, 2009 · Edited

Oh Nine Fifteen

Last week I've released a test version (https://tango.0pointer.de/pipermail/pulseaudio-discuss/2009-February/003068.html) for the upcoming 0.9.15 release of PulseAudio (http://pulseaudio.org/). It's

by Pid Eins Feb 10, 2009 · Edited

Writing Volume Control UIs is Hard

Writing modern volume control UIs (i.e. 'mixer tools') is much harder to get right than it might appear at first. Because that is the way it is I've put together a rough guide what to keep in mind

by Pid Eins Feb 11, 2009 · Edited

How to Version D-Bus Interfaces Properly and Why Using / as Service Entry Point Sucks

So you are designing a D-Bus interface and want to make it future-proof. Of course, you thought about versioning your stuff. But you wonder how to do that best. Here are a few things I learned about

by Pid Eins Feb 20, 2009 · Edited

Tagging Audio Streams

So you are hacking an audio application and the audio data you are generating might eventually end up in PulseAudio (http://pulseaudio.org/) before it is played. If that's the case then please make

by Pid Eins Feb 20, 2009 · Edited

Generating Copyright Headers from git History

Here's a little a little tool I wrote (http://0pointer.de/public/copyright.py) that automatically generates copyright headers for source files in a git repository based on the git history. Run it

by Pid Eins Feb 23, 2009 · Edited

This is funny

Uh? (http://userstyles.org/styles/6371) Some folks apparently don't have much respect for my web design skills -- and I always considered myself the Malevich of web design! Pfft!

by Pid Eins Feb 25, 2009 · Edited

Having fun with bzr

#nocomments y So I wanted to hack proper channel mapping query support into libsndfile (http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile), something I have had on my TODO list for years. The first step was to

by Pid Eins Feb 26, 2009 · Edited

Device Reservation Spec

The JACK (http://jackaudio.org/) folks and I have agreed on a little specification for device reservation (http://git.0pointer.de/?p=reserve.git;a=blob_plain;f=reserve.txt) that allows clean

by Pid Eins Apr 3, 2009 · Edited

What YOU need to know about Practical Real-Time Programming

Eduardo Lima (http://etrunko.blogspot.com/) just added a couple of more videos from one of the best conferences in existence (http://www.bossaconference.indt.org/) to the OpenBOSSA

by Pid Eins Apr 5, 2009 · Edited

GNOME now esound-free

Andre Klapper (http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/) just informed me that GNOME is now officially esound (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esound)-free: all modules have been ported over to libcanberra

by Pid Eins Apr 18, 2009 · Edited

All About Fragments

In my on-going series Writing Better Audio Applications (http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/guide-to-sound-apis) for Linux, here's another installment: a little explanation how fragments/periods and

by Pid Eins May 21, 2009 · Edited

The Sound of Fedora 11

I learned so much when I read this interview. (http://jaboutboul.blogspot.com/2009/05/sound-of-fedora-11.html) And so will you!

by Pid Eins May 28, 2009 · Edited

Living in Berlin? You are a GNOMEr?

If you live in Berlin and are a GNOMEr of some kind then please feel invited top drop by tomorrow (Fri 29) at 4 pm at the Prater Biergarten (http://www.pratergarten.de/d/biergarten.php4) (Weather

by Pid Eins Jun 12, 2009 · Edited

Linux Plumbers Conference 2009 CFP Ending Soon!

The Call for Papers (http://linuxplumbersconf.org/2009/submit/) for the Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) (http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/) in September in Portland, Oregon is ending soon

by Pid Eins Jun 20, 2009 · Edited

Yet Another Kit

A while back (http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/cgroups-and-rtwatch) I was celebrating that arrival of secure realtime scheduling for the desktop. As it appears this was a bit premature then, since

by Pid Eins Jul 29, 2009 · Edited

World Domination Accomplished

#nocomments y I hereby officially declare that I have reached my goal of world domination. Emacs 23 (apparently due today) ships with Avahi support out of the box.

by Pid Eins Aug 5, 2009 · Edited

Oh Nine Sixteen

#nocomments y As a followup to Oh Nine Fifteen (http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/oh-nine-fifteen.html) here's a little overview of the changes coming with PulseAudio 0.9.16 (http://pulseaudio.org/)

by Pid Eins Aug 9, 2009 · Edited

The Highest Man in Spain

Ever wanted to know what's the view like being the highest person in all of Spain? -- No? Hmm, can't help you then. -- Otherwise: That's on the summit of Pico del Teide

by Pid Eins Aug 10, 2009 · Edited

pthread_key_create() is dangerous

If you use pthread_key_create() with a non-NULL destructor parameter (or an equivalent TLS construct) in a library/shared object then you MUST link your library wth -z nodelete (or an equivalent