SVU's blog

13 Dec 2006

Rants about SIP

Deep in fight with SIP, using voipcheap.com service. Tried
ekiga/gaim/linphone/wengo (no x-lite for linux/ppc is
available). Among other things, found that no OSS SIP client
really supports presence, in my environment (well, at least
the way voipcheap understands it). Talked to Ekiga lads on
IRC – they are planning to introduce it next year (I sure
will pray for them).
Unfortunately, I am behind NAT which seems to really
complicate matters (yes, Skype folks got this thing right!).
For some reason even STUN with stun.ekiga.net does not help
– people still cannot call me (while I can call them, and I
can also call from one LAN machine to another). The last
idea to check – installing milkfish on my wrt54g and
using it as the outbound proxy. We’ll see…

10 Dec 2006

udev

I found the
blog posting containing udev rule for the palm pilot (in my
case – Handsping Visor Deluxe).

On my system, ttyUSB0 is taken by usb-to-serial converter,
so I had to change the rule to KERNEL=”ttyUSB[2468]” – which
is not nice. Then, after some discussion in livejournal and
looking at output of udevinfo, I found the difference:

<    SYSFS{dev}=="188:0"
---
>    SYSFS{dev}=="188:1"

So, the right rule is:

BUS=="usb", SYSFS{product}=="Handspring*",
SYSFS{dev}=="*:1", KERNEL=="ttyUSB[123456789]", SYMLINK+="pilot"

07 Dec 2006

rant

People are complaining about inability to run Flash on
x86-64. HA! HA! At least they have some hacks to try! What
about running Flash on PPC? I would like to watch YouTube
and play with other Flash toys on Ubuntu/PPC…

06 Dec 2006

jEdit, SQL plugin

After… about year and half(?), I finally managed to pull
myself together and make a release of SQL plugin for jEdit.
The real reason for it was some functionality I needed for
my full-time work: simple and rudimentary DDL and DML
generation.

GNOME

Finally, GNOME 2.17.3 is going to have updated g-a and g-c-c
(and g-ss BTW) which all depend on libgnomekdb. My mailbox
is eager to get loads of bug reports…

Misc

It seems half of p.g.o is now employed by Nokia – and I am
nearly getting envious:) It is a bit pity Nokia does not
have an office in Cork (and for some reason I do not think
they would be interested in me working remotely:).
Seriously, 2nd city in Ireland is not exactly overloaded by
companies developing OSS. I have always wondered why…

14 Nov 2006

Family

Got a second baby. So in foreseable future my spare time
(dedicated to Open Source) is going to be pretty scarce.
I’ll do my best for supporting existing code – but I do not
expect time for new development efforts. This affects GNOME,
xkeyboard-config, and jEdit.

13 Nov 2006

jedit

For more than year, my SQL plugin was without real
maintenance. Now, its time has come. Got access to jedit
subversion repo, committed some fixes. Heavily redesigned
SqlVFS during the weekend. I know, everyone is using Eclipse
these days – but I really find its data tools uncomfortable
(NIH?). Installed latest devel prerelease of jEdit – it is
really nice, stable and got a couple of sweet featurelets…

java (and gnome)

Sun Microsystems rock (I think you know by now what I am
talking about:). I would really love to see Java apps
in GNOME (and less Mono apps, especially in the light of
latest Novell “betrayal”).

12 Nov 2006

log4gnome?

In Java, there is a versatile framework log4j (eventually
downscaled and put into j2se). In C, there is log4c. Why
does GNOME not have logging infrastructure at all? The
glib/gmessage.h API could be considered as such – but it
does not have proper configuration part.

05 Nov 2006

This bug is a real champion for DUPs (9 so far, more to
come I bet). It seems every person installing FC6 is
immediately going to bugzilla to report it…
RedHat folks, please release official updated libxklavier rpm.

02 Nov 2006

XKB

Daniel really rocks
with his hotplug stuff.
I still do not know how much pain it is going to cause to
GNOME keyboard code (starting from libxklavier) – but it is
a secondary concern, indeed.

Daniel, now, if you could find time to look at the next
version of XKB extension…

30 Oct 2006

gswitchit-plugins

Made another release of plugins, for GNOME 2.16. The funny
thing is that the word “gswitchit” does not mean anything
anymore (from GNOME 2.17.2 onward) – but the plugins are
here to stay. One of the purposes is to be the simplest
answer on the eternal question “how to replace labels with
flags”. If not this, I might have already dropped this
subproject.

planet.gnome.org

Another attempt (again, thanks to Alexandre Prokoudine) to
propose my hackergotchi:

Jeff, could you use it please?