Category Archives: Banshee

Lesson in Programming: Why those /* (funny) */ comments are so important

Posted on November 3, 2007 by Trick

At work we always marvel about the comments we come across in our code. Indiana Jones stories that somehow get related back to the code by it, how tired the programmer was when writing the code, indications of the [lack … Continue reading →

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Death to the Zen Micro

Posted on August 20, 2007 by Trick

So yesterday I was quite convinced that I was going to make it down to see the Chicago Air and Water Show, hoping I could see the Thunderbirds.  Well lets just say that we got water alright.  I stood out … Continue reading →

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GUADEC followup

Posted on July 24, 2007 by Trick

Wowzers, what a great time! Was intending to write about each day individually, but that’s certainly out of the question now. GUADEC was a great experience and I’m hooked on the community! A big thanks to everyone who helped put … Continue reading →

Posted in Banshee, Free and Open Source, GNU/Linux, GUADEC 2007, Gnome, MTP, Nifty, Travel, Uncategorized, libgphoto2-sharp | 1 Comment

:w

Posted on June 18, 2007 by Trick

Yes, that’s a VIM :w (not some new fangled creation), as in, I’m actually writing something here! I haven’t written in three months, and haven’t committed any code in four…as I’ve been a bit distracted by a few things, notably: … Continue reading →

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Banshee Alarm Plugin v0.2

Posted on March 9, 2007 by Trick

Just as a quick update, Bertrand Lorentz has put together a second release of the alarm plugin, v0.2.  For those of you who love Banshee so much that you want to hear it first thing when you wake up in … Continue reading →

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Banshee MTP Guide Moved

Posted on December 27, 2006 by Trick

Howdy folks, The guide that used to be at http://tricky.vanstaveren.us/Projects/Open_Source/Banshee/MTP has now been moved to the Banshee wiki at http://www.banshee-project.org/Guide/DAPs/MTP.  All the subpages have been moved accordingly.  My site has all the pages set to forward to the Banshee site, … Continue reading →

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Banshee Alarm and Sleep Timer Plugin

Posted on September 17, 2006 by Trick

So…it’s been a while since I’ve worked on this one, but I figure with Banshee 0.11.0 right around the corner, and plugins making their way into the portage tree, it’s time for a release! So, without further adeiu, I give … Continue reading →

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Banshee knows the words, too!

Posted on June 24, 2006 by Trick

This morning I (very belatedly) committed a monster patch from David Schneider which extends the Wikipedia plugin to also be able to query autolyrics.com for the currently playing track. Building upon David’s awesome parsing backend, this makes it integrate well … Continue reading →

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Transfers in banshee with libgphoto2/MTP driver (ptp2)

Posted on April 3, 2006 by Trick

So, I finally got it working over the weekend :) Marcus is a genius, and it turns out that libgphoto2 has mass-storage device detection support which just so happens to touch HAL in just the right way that it screws … Continue reading →

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MTP Progress…

Posted on March 31, 2006 by Trick

…or lack thereof. I’ve hit a few walls with things, and been struggling to find the energy to debug them. libgphoto2 has proven to probably be the best choice for interfacing with MTP devices, but it’s holding a few issues … Continue reading →

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