PiscoParty at GUADEC2008

We will have our traditional PiscoParty at the reception party (at the university) Wednesday night. We’ll make PiscoSour and if lucky Algarrobina.

Drop by and grab a glass, there’s not much so… keep an eye on the Pisco Crew members.

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The Istanbul Agenda

  • 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.
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See you in Istanbul

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.

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Can’t wait to smellsee you all!

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Evolution templates plugin

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.

templates.png

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How to know the return value of a command

Just do:

$ echo $?

and that’s it.

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Summer of Code

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!

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Slow X rendering with sis driver

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.

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Coming soon to a browser near you

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Epiphany with match bolding, substring matching, unicode searching and above all, the geekiest thing for a location bar: regexp support.

Bug 517960 – Port the url bar completion func to GRegex

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My Christmas present: Notifications for Epiphany downloads

After some work, my patch for gnome bug #311209 was accepted by Christian. So now your download dialog will sport some bling!.

The notification will popup when you start downloading something while the download dialog is hidden (not minimized, but hidden). To hide it, just click the status icon. Watch for yourself:

New notifications for ephy’s downloads (click to skip wp’s ugly forced scaling).

Also, gnome bug #327734 has just been half fixed, meaning that you can now cancel more than one download at a time.

Merry Christmas!

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End of elections and some other things

Election is over!. It was quite an interesting ride to be a candidate, I got 52 votes which tells me that there are 52 foundation members crazy enough to trust me… you should go check your heads my friends.

Seriously, thanks to everyone who voted for me and encouraged me during the process. I feel happy to have received trust from 1/3 of the voters
And of course, good luck to the new Board members! you can count with my help.

Some hacking

Later today, after the electoral booze ran out, I scratched my own itch and filled gnome bug #503173. I run gnome-system-monitor by mistake everyday because I click on it by accident when trying to switch to other workspaces. Patch attached if you want to be able to turn that off!.
Also, days ago I attached some patches for adding some bling to Epiphany’s download manager: gnome bug #327734 and gnome bug #311209. One for adding notifications to new downloads when the window is hidden and one for being able to cancel more than one download at a time.
Technology that you can only dream of.

Earlier this cycle, I did a quick patch for adding previews for the file chooser, no more nautilus+epiphany when uploading images. Another self-scratching.

I hope to be able to get some more stuff done for 2.22, I suddenly feel hacky again :).

Events and kung-fu-rences

We are on the final days before DíaDebian2007, Rudy created a Facebook event but nobody has cared to join it… doesn’t surprise me, it’s not like people here care about Facebook. By the way, I can’t say how much the lack of default privacy of Facebook scares the midochlorians out of me.

The event will be at the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería this Saturday, from 3pm to 7pm (that’s 8pm to 2am UTC), you can check the schedule. It’s gonna kick ass.

Tomorrow or after-tomorrow we’ll go to our local underground provider to make some pins for giving away this Saturday.

I hope to take a good ammount of pictures, wish us luck.

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