I upgraded to Feisty about a month or so ago, and it has been a nice improvement so far. One regression I noticed though was that my USB FM radio tuner had stopped working (or at least, Gnomeradio could no longer tune it).
It turns out that some time between the kernel release found in […]
Today we unveiled the Launchpad 1.0 User Interface, which has been in private beta for the last few months. As well as the improved visual appearance, there are a number of new features such as the ability to add your own branding to Launchpad pages associated with your project (for example, Ubuntu’s pages).
As mentioned […]
4 December, 2006 – 2:46 am
Daylight saving started yesterday: the first time since 1991/1992 summer for Western Australia. The legislation finally passed the upper house on 21st November (12 days before the transition date). The updated tzdata packages were released on 27th November (6 days before the transition). So far, there hasn’t been an updated package released […]
12 November, 2006 – 9:26 pm
I arrived in San Francisco today for the Canonical company conference. Seems like a nice place, and not too cold . So far I’ve just gone for a walk along Fisherman’s Wharf for a few hours. There look
On the plane trip, I had a chance to see Last Train […]
2 November, 2006 – 11:19 pm
Like a few other states, Western Australia does not do daylight saving. Recently the state parliament has been discussing a Daylight saving bill. The bill is now before the Legislative Council (the upper house). If the bill gets passed, there will be a 3 year trial followed by a referendum to see […]
20 October, 2006 – 11:11 pm
I published a Bazaar branch of the Nautilus obex method here:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~jamesh/+junk/gnome-vfs-obexftp
This version works with the hcid daemon included with Ubuntu Edgy, rather than requiring the btcond daemon from Maemo.
Some simple instructions on building it:
Download and build the osso-gwobex library:
svn checkout https://stage.maemo.org/svn/maemo/projects/connectivity/osso-gwobex/trunk osso-gwobex
The debian/ directory should work fine to build a package using debuild.
Download and build […]
19 October, 2006 – 4:13 am
In my previous entry about using the Maemo obex-module on the desktop, Johan Hedberg mentioned that bluez-utils 3.7 included equivalent interfaces to the osso-gwconnect daemon used by the method. Since then, the copy of bluez-utils in Edgy has been updated to 3.7, and the necessary interfaces are enabled in hcid by default.
Before trying to […]
5 October, 2006 – 1:22 am
When I got my new laptop, one of the features it had that my previous one didn’t was Bluetooth support. There are a few Bluetooth related utilities for Gnome that let you send and receive SMS messages and a few other things, but a big missing feature is the ability to transfer files to […]
4 September, 2006 – 11:07 pm
Earlier in the year, we migrated the bugs from bugzilla.ubuntu.com over to Launchpad. This process involved changes to the bug numbers, since the Launchpad is used for more than just Ubuntu and already had a number of bugs reported in the system.
People often refer to other bugs in comments, which both Bugzilla and […]
10 April, 2006 – 10:30 pm
I’ve been testing out Ekiga recently, and so far the experience has been a bit hit and miss.
Firewall traversal has been unreliable. Some numbers (like the SIPPhone echo test) work great. In some cases, no traffic has gotten through (where both parties were behind Linux firewalls). In other cases, voice gets through […]