Diego, el gnomo

The Istanbul Agenda

diegoe — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:44:54 +0000

FreeFA World Cup: All the fans of the most beautiful sport in the planet, deep lovers of the most important thing among unimportant matters. You are invited to come and join us in the fight for the supremacy, Tuesday 8th, at 17:00 in Ayazaga Spor Tesisleri (be ready at the university -the GUADEC venue- at 16:00, a bus will take us there).
PiscoParty: Those among you that last year had the chance of enjoying the fun of making and drinking Pisco Sour, this year it’s not different. The Pisco Crew will serve you the finest cocktail of all GNOME. This time, with a special guest cocktail: Algarrobina.
CheapBastardFoundation Annual Meeting: For the first year, we are getting together to discuss our world domination plans. You are free to join us, but be warned that you’ll have to prove your cheapness.
The Latin American Complot: we can’t let those gringos get away with all the fun!. Let’s get together and discuss some ideas for our tasty and sunny continent.

See you in Istanbul

diegoe — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:43:59 +0000

Yay!. I’ll be seeing all you hippies from Saturday 5th (11pm) till Wednesday 16th (6am)!. I’ll be at the sponsored hotel as the cheap bastard I am.

Can’t wait to ~~smell~~see you all!

Evolution templates plugin

diegoe — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:19:25 +0000

Like just published in evolution-hackers list:

I spent the last few days hacking a plugin to reply messages with
predefined replies, templates in my faulty english.

I don’t know what would be the ideal steps to follow now, should I try
to get it inside Evolution I guess? So far I have seen that I need to
anyway, given that it requires full evo source to build.

I didn’t want to import it in GNOME’s svn because I think I should get
it into Evolution rather than an independent module in svn, I
published it here:
https://launchpad.net/evolution-templates-plugin

Code is here:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~diegoe/evolution-templates-plugin/trunk/files

And I uploaded a .deb for Ubuntu hardy, i386 here:
http://www.gnome.org/~diegoe/stuff/evolution-plugins-templates_20080604-2_i386.deb
md5: a39118cd944032cbb844560b2a37b704

I’m anxious to get comments about it :).

Update: gunther asks for a screenshot.

How to know the return value of a command

diegoe — Sun, 18 May 2008 22:48:27 +0000

Just do:

$ echo $?

and that’s it.

Thinkpad R50e suspend and resume

diegoe — Thu, 15 May 2008 08:09:54 +0000

So I have a loyal R50e, thing is that resuming from suspend breaks graphics, I had that working back in the days but recent upgrades of drivers and stuff broke it for some months, I didn’t care to fix it since I didn’t have battery anyway.

But now I fixed it again, trick is to edit /usr/share/acpi-support/IBM.config:
# R50e 1834*|1842*|2670*) ACPI_SLEEP=true; SAVE_VIDEO_PCI_STATE=true; # toggled false ->; true SAVE_VBE_STATE=true; POST_VIDEO=true; ;;

There! You must make those two vars be true. Maybe some tweaking to /etc/defaults/acpi-support would be needed. Most of time this should be all you need to do.

SMTP and gmail

diegoe — Thu, 15 May 2008 08:02:07 +0000

Just for the records, gmail’s SMTP server uses port 465 for SSL and the 567 (or a similar number, too lazy to search for it) TLS, I had SSL + port 567 and I have been wondering why Evolution didn’t send my mails. Now I found out.

Fixing control+arrow in gnome-terminal

diegoe — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:19:30 +0000

I totally forgot how to fix this, so to not forget it again, here is it:

Add “$include /etc/inputrc” to your ~/.inputrc.

From lp #89235

Epiphany Extensions updated

diegoe — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:02:54 +0000

I updated my ephy extensions page.

Go ahead, try them and send some comments!. I set up bzr repos for them, you can find instructions and urls in the page.

Also I must say that bzr is quite nice and simple, I’m using it to manage some projects and files and it’s quite cool. The push_and_update plugin is highly recommended.

Summer of Code

diegoe — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:47:47 +0000

The results of this year soc has been published: GNOME SoC projects.

And I’ll be mentoring Johan Svedberg in his project: Modern download manager for GNOME.

My frog bro was selected for Mono: Visual XAML Editor.

It will be a great experience!

Slow X rendering with sis driver

diegoe — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:44:43 +0000

Everything slow when using X with the sis driver? Well, here it’s awfully slow, made me want to trash my old pc… but then I discovered this bug in Launchpad : lp #26637.

Turns out that vesafb and vga16fb modules are responsible for this chaos. They seem to be stealing the memory managemen and hence making sis driver impossible to use due to it’s lack of descent performance.

What’s the fix? Blacklist vesafb and vga16fb and add sisfb to /etc/modules. You can try to add video=sisfb in the boot line of the kernel (grub’s menu.lst) too.

Note that Fedora doesn’t have sisfb built and is forcing vesafb into the kernel for it’s graphical boot. Ubuntu is doing the same, but they also build sisfb as a module.

So if you are using Fedora, you are screwed unless you rebuild your kernel, if you are using Ubuntu or Debian, make sure vesafb is not loaded (nor vga16fb) and have sisfb loaded sometime before X starts.

How can you be sure it worked? Grep /var/log/Xorg.0.log for ‘memcpy’ and see if the MB/s rate is descent, you can try with and then without the sisfb module to check if it’s making a difference. Here it does.