DMCA
Did you hear about the number
13256278887989457651018865901401704640? Or its hexadecimal
representation 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88
C0? If you put it on your site, you may be considered
violating DMCA, hehe. Because this number is used in HD-DVD
encryption. If you do not believe me – use Google..
xkeyboard-config
Yesterday I started keyboard
model compatibility page on fd.o. The idea is to have a
list of (all) real models compatible with existing
xkeyboard-config models. People who use (in X configuration)
a model different from the real keyboard name – I kindly ask
you to update that table (only if all keys on your keyboard
work as expected). Please keep the alphabetic order whenever
possible.
Also, from this table it is easy to see that most of the
keyboards do not have geometry descriptions (I know, it is
just a decorative thing but still …). Contributions are
mostly welcome, as always. I realize, creating geometry
description is not a picnic (and I cannot recommend any
tools) – but some people still manage it.
Thanks.
Just in case someone missed it, yesterday I published the text
explaining various libraries involved in the keyboard
handling in X and GNOME.
GNOME
A number of users complained that in 2.18 the keyboard
indicator does not show the short layout names properly
after the GNOME session restart – it shows internal XKB
identifiers instead. Now I know why.
DBUS session envvar avialable to bonobo-activation-server
points to the previous (non-existent) session. The bug is
half year old :///
GNOME
2.18 is out. Great. Finally, libgnomekbd has all GNOME
keyboard-related libraries consolidated and separately
managed – so supporting
stable series should be easier for me. I just wonder when
libgnomekdb is going to get its own bugzilla entry?
Now, with GSoC about to fire – any students who’d want to
improve keyboard capplet and make it usable?
Planetarium
Freedesktop.org won – they got my hackergotchi installed
first. p.g.o still does not have it.
Nouveau@Ubuntu
Ubuntu clams to support OSS nVidia driver. Is anybody
volunteering to provide snapshot debs for feisty? Or at
least some howto similar to this
one for Fedora.
Planetarium
… And I wonder, which of the two: planet.gnome.org or
planet.freedesktop.org would first put my (corresponding)
hackergotchi in place?..
Ubuntu
Upgrade of my laptop to Feisty (Herd 5, of course) passed
rather smoothly. I just wonder – is there any chance they
release PowerPC ISO? Or – is Ubuntu’s PPC support dropped to
the point where there will be no PPC ISOs any more?
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?..