Video editing on Ubuntu/PPC
Yesterday tried to edit some personal .avi files using
Dapper. Unpleasant surprize – neither kino nor pitivi even
starts editing. Pitivi dies at startup (low level X Window
error “BadWindow”), kino – while reading media files
(trivial segmentaion fault). Too bad :/
N800 + GPS
Yesterday I got cheap BT77
Bluetooth GPS module (16 channels), charged overnight –
and drove to the office checking my way on N800. Sweet. Maemo
mapper is really nice piece of software, no kidding. I
just wish it to be a bit more stable – for example, not to
die when BT connection dies. Other than this –
it “just works” © for me.
Distro
Now that ESR is moving from FC to Ubuntu – is it another
reason (other than dropping official PPC support) for me to
move back from Ubuntu to FC?..
Ubuntu
Strongly disappointed by the
decision of Ubuntu board regarding
dropping of official support for PowerPC. If things progress
this way, in a couple of years I’ll have to install Gentoo :///
Nokia N800
Hardware Easter Eggs are much more exotics things than
Software Easter Eggs. Nokia did it. N800 happened to have FM
radio inside. Yesterday Nokia provided the application
(well, the applet) which wonderfully utilizes that
capability. Really nice touch. May be, a week later someone
finds 3G hardware in this wonderful (like in “full of
wonders”) device?