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AdaCamp Saturday was the very first AdaCamp, an unconference set up by the Ada Initiative to talk about issues facing women in open stuff, here in Melbourne. The event was well attended by awesome feminists from a breadth of fields … Continue reading →

Since it’s annoyingly hard to work out what muxer to use for m4a files, and I don’t have a profile for encodebin, here’s the gst-launch command to make m4a or m4r (ringtone) files. gst-launch filesrc location=input.file ! decodebin2 ! audioconvert … Continue reading →

This is a neat trick, and so I thought worth reblogging. I was handed a corrupt SD memory card yesterday and asked if I could try and get some Christmas photos off it. Typically, the first thing I did was … Continue reading →

Happy new year, everyone! Once again my former employer, Fugro Seismic Imaging, is looking for two new R&D staff for their office in Perth, Western Australia (one to replace someone who’s moving on, and another to grow the team). The … Continue reading →

Daniel Stone recently wrote this amusing summary of why saying OMG I ABSOLUTELY MUST HAVE MY DPI CORRECT is rarely, if ever, correct. Since most people who say this aren’t considering the two monitor case, I thought I’d provide a … Continue reading →

I find it so amusing yet depressing how afraid your average engineer now is now afraid of a computer. My brother started his first real engineering job and rapidly found himself with a problem he needed to solve. He can’t … Continue reading →

But let us instead celebrate gobject-introspection. While there has been no official announcement, I think it’s probably time we declared telepathy-python to have passed away. Deprecated. In the great attic of the sky. The python-telepathy client-side bindings have been in … Continue reading →

In today’s PSA, mistakes with g_value_set_boxed(). A mistake that’s been made several times by yours truly, and only realised today thanks to Xavier. At some point in the GLib 2.22 cycle, types such as GArray, GPtrArray, GByteArray and GHashTable1 gained … Continue reading →

The GOPW application period is coming to a close soon, and so potential interns are currently getting their initial contribution in to qualify. Obviously the nicest way to submit your patch is as a commit, or series of commits using … Continue reading →

I upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10 today, which seems to have done a nice enough job of integrating GNOME 3.2, but I was instantly driven mad by all of my GNOME Terminals showing their menubars, in what appeared to be direct … Continue reading →