Tag Archives: Ubuntu

Daylight Saving in Western Australia

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 if we want [...]

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Building obex-method

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 [...]

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Playing Around With the Bluez D-BUS Interface

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 [...]

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OBEX in Nautilus

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 and [...]

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Ubuntu Bugzilla Migration Comment Cleanup

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 Launchpad [...]

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Ekiga

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 in one [...]

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Firefox Ligature Bug Followup

6 April, 2006 – 12:16 pm

Thought I’d post a followup on my previous post since it generated a bit of interest. First a quick summary: It is not an Ubuntu Dapper specific bug. With the appropriate combination of fonts and pango versions, it will exhibit itself on other Pango-enabled Firefox builds (it was verified on the Fedora build too). It [...]

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Annoying Firefox Bug

3 April, 2006 – 5:38 am

Ran into an annoying Firefox bug after upgrading to Ubuntu Dapper. It seems to affect rendering of ligatures. At this point, I am not sure if it is an Ubuntu specific bug. The current conditions I know of to trigger the bug are: Firefox 1.5 (I am using the 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.1-1ubuntu10 package). Pango rendering enabled (the [...]

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London

21 March, 2006 – 5:23 pm

I’ve been in London for a bit over a week now at the Launchpad sprint. We’ve been staying in a hotel near the Excel exhibition centre in Docklands, which has a nice view of the docs and you can see the planes landing at the airport out the windows of the conference rooms. I met [...]

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Launchpad featured on ELER

23 February, 2006 – 9:29 am

Launchpad got a mention in the latest Everybody Loves Eric Raymond comic. It is full of inaccuracies though — we use XML-RPC rather than SOAP.

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