Author Archives: rbultje

Dear lazyweb, what library, that every decent GNU-loving person has installed (in the range of libm, libz, etc.), could do sha1 encoding for me? I hate to ship sha1.c or sha1sum.c in every single package I make. Reason is that … Continue reading →

As previously, the newly released 0.1.0-d update (patch, tarball) contains support for two more firmware versions, those with sha1sum c6c94dd77b864f8bd231abf3cb2de4c9d139e1bf and sha1sum 01e291d529e7c18deea2eba252d18114e096276e (provided in the latest OS X 10.4.8). This should make it work again for everyone. If your … Continue reading →

Dobey, you have some interesting remarks. However, in the end, you are wrong. You are saying that not DRM, but iTunes (or insert some other term here) prevents me from using my music the way I want it to. This … Continue reading →

(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. … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

A few weeks ago, I wrote that sound didn’t work on the new Macbook Pro. A helpful reader sent me in the remarkably simple solution: just show and unmute the “surround” channel in gnome-volume-control (and then file a bug). I … Continue reading →

As previously stated, I’ve been working on a Linux driver for the iSight built-in in the Macbook Pro. Today, at the DDC in Ottawa (Canada), I got it working in a good enough state to call it useful. I’ll test … Continue reading →

(See this blogpost for history.) After some trying out, some hangs (“do not write into NULL pointers in the kernel, Ronald, do not write into NULL pointers in the kernel *argh* too late“), some fixing and some more stuff, I … Continue reading →

Previously, I write about my Macbook Pro and Linux installation. Most of this works fine now, so time to get the hardware working. I decided to start with the iSight. Apparently, this is a USB device which shows up in … Continue reading →