http://blogs.gnome.org/amora Just another GNOME Blogs weblog Tue, 31 May 2005 20:59:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've got two questions about the new baby made by Nokia with the collaboration of some FOSS companies: Does it make calls? It seems that not. If the multimedia part has been done with Fluendo and the GStreamer, why the hell it does not play Ogg files? http://blogs.gnome.org/amora/2005/05/31/some-thoughts-about-the-baby/ Looking for a job I'm finishing my working contract with the Audiovisual Institute in June, so I need a new job by September. Just in the case that somebody could be looking for a computer scientist in Barcelona, interested and devoted fan of Free Soft, (s)he could drop me some lines...[more info ... http://blogs.gnome.org/amora/2004/05/21/18/ Linux 2.6 Now using the latest version of the kernel, 2.6.5, and found it really nice.The USB devices work OK, and the CD burner is correctly handled.I like it a lot... http://blogs.gnome.org/amora/2004/04/22/17/ JHBuild I'm now installing the JHBuild version of GNOME. This means, as you know, that I'd use the CVS version of this superb Desktop Environment. I hope that this step'll help me to starting contribute with it. I owe so much code to the community that I could never restore... http://blogs.gnome.org/amora/2004/03/23/16/ GNOME Evangelism Yesterday I changed my brother's PC (which was running GNOME 1.4) for my old one (which is running GNOME 2.4). He liked it very much, and he's now enjoying it a lot. Just with Sound-Juicer, CD-Player, Rhythmbox, Totem and OpenOffice, he's the happiest one in the world... Nice to see it... Article I'm ... http://blogs.gnome.org/amora/2004/03/10/15/ Tech incompatible I'm starting to think that I'm totally incompatible with technology (bad thing...): XFree 4.3 Recently, I apt-get upgraded my system (Debian Sid), which made me to upgrade my XFree version to 4.3. Everywhere I read that no changes where needed: the confile was the same. ... http://blogs.gnome.org/amora/2004/02/25/14/ User actions in a Mediateca Thinking in Mediateca as the whole of multimedia files the user has, I tried to classify all the actions that the user may want to do with his/her files. Here you have my sorting, done in two different ways. Sorted by the element pipe Incoming elements ... http://blogs.gnome.org/amora/2004/02/16/13/ Planning for an article I read Nat Friedman's blog entry on January 28th. His thoughts there make me think about a new GUI/Desktop philosophy: 'Unixing the Desktop', mainly distinguished by splitting up applications, generating message ports and connecting their inputs/outputs, and -in other side but extremely attached to this- generating, indexing, ... http://blogs.gnome.org/amora/2004/02/02/12/ New PC at home Monday I bought a brand new Asus Pundit Barebone, and hadn't got time to build it up and test it.This morning I did it with a classmate -which is really pro in building PCs- and tested the software behaviour (I reused my 60GB HDD): M$ Windows XP: Didn't ... http://blogs.gnome.org/amora/2004/01/24/11/ Linux 2.6.0 Finally got it working! Steve Kemp gave me the solution to my problem: image=/vmlinuz       label=Linux       read-only       initrd=/initrd.img       append="root=/dev/hda2" After putting this in Lilo, loading mousedev and psmouse modules made the /dev/psaux mouse (and the X) work: > uname -r 2.6.0-1-686 http://blogs.gnome.org/amora/2004/01/18/10/