(See here for the full story so far.) I’ve uploaded a new Apple iSight driver (0.1.0-c, patch) this morning.

• This new release supports the iMac20, and possibly other iMacs (please let me know!), thanks to a contribution by Sylvain Foret. Those devices use a slightly odd format identifier, which is different from the one on the Macbook cameras, even though the byte-format of the camera output is indistinguishably similar (both are UYVY).
• It also supports the firmware found on Leopard (sha1sum: a14c159b176d27a6e98dcb5dea5d78b81e15ad41), in addition to the firmware supported by previous versions (sha1sum: 86430c04f9b67c5c3d84409138a7679827025ec2).

The firmware loading could still use some work to be better integrated into the rest of the USB subsystem. Most importantly, firmware loading should be automatic for anyone installing a shiny new Ubuntu on his shiny new Macbook (of course, installing Fedora on your iMac20 should work also, but that’s not the point here). I hope to get some work done in that area at some point in the future, but have some other projects running also. If you’re interested in helping me with this, please contact me.

Edit: link updated (9/27/’06).

Today, in an electronic store, I ran into one of these PIX live mp3/wma players. The advertisement on the side of the box stated:

“Digital Rights Management - This device will play music from legal download sites“

This label is misleading: DRM is not required to play legal music from download sites. See this website for more information.

For all dutch readers (and anyone else), please copy this message in your blog (either in english or dutch) and have all your friends and family members know about it: DRM is defective by design
If they don’t get it, just buy them a decent mp3 player (possibly even one with Ogg/Vorbis support) without WMA/DRM support for their birthday and christmas, just so they don’t have the chance of accidently getting infected with one of those defectively designed right restriction devices. You, your friends and family deserve so much better.

To celebrate the release of the awesome GNOME 2.16, GNOME-NL is organizing a release party tomorrow, Tuesday 9/12, starting somewhere between 16:00 and 17:00 in Stairways to Heaven, Utrecht. Everyone interested is invited to come and have a drink.

Please let us know on the gnome-nl-list @at@ gnome .dot. org if you intend to show up. See you there! Many of the long-time GNOME contributors, many interested contributors and users will show up. If you are interested in GNOME, please come and join us in this happy celebration.

Vacation

In other news, I’m on vacation in the Netherlands for a few days. Good to see some friends and my family again. Next week, heavy labwork in Manhattan starts again.